Rooster_Ties

How about Lee Morgan on a Joe Henderson album in about 1971??

http://www.norahjones.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1132 They really do run a tight ship over there... Amazing... I posted this (was at the link above) in the "What We'd Like Norah To Cover" forum, and it got nuked in less than 15 minutes... I registered under the name "Rooster_Ties", and the "orgainissimo" bit was in my signature, and I set up an Avatar that was an image of the cover of "Blue Train". Notice, the content of my message was as pure as the driven snow...

I saw the newly restored Metropolis on the big screen (here in Kansas City) back in January on this year. I can't say enough good things about it. I had seen Metropolis before, a couple times actually, but only in earlier "chopped up" versions, that clocked in with nearly 1/3rd of the original footage missing or cut-out. I always loved Metropolis, but seeing this newly restored print cleared up lingering questions about the plot-line that I never understood before (and with good reason, if that much of the movie was missing). Run, don't walk, to TCM - or rent it. "Must see" viewing, IMHO...

Excellent...

Yup, that's me!!!!!!!!

If I had an extra, it'd already have your name on it...

I'm fairly neutral about Van. He's OK, and I have a fairly high level of respect for him. But he also isn't my cup of tea either. Still, I can imagine Van Morrison on BN more easily than I can Wynton.

Wow, judging from the threads and posts I've just glaced at, for only like the last 15 minutes, Norah's primary fan base must skew REALLY female, and REALLY young, like high-school and college age. And housewives too, seemingly of the young variety. Like this NorahBB thread: Soo, I was wondering what you all do for a living...

A telling thread on the 'new BNBB'...

As many others did (or at least as many as any other Shorter disc), I voted for "Etcetera", and I also voted it as my all-time-favorite Conn title (in the "list your top-5 Conns thread). Amazing to think "Etcetera" sat in the vaults for a number of years. In many ways, it seems a more easy 'sell' than "All Seeing Eye", and certainly Wayne's last three BN albums (the ones without piano). How "Etcetera" got left in the vaults is beyond me. Three cheers for "Etcetera"!!!!!

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Tones on Tail: Night Music - and most importantly...

Guilty as charged. Actually, I go back and forth between being obsessed about jazz in the 60's, and more interested in recent stuff. Then this board first opened up, I happened to be in a strong BN-60's phase, but I find myself (lately) being interested in going back to recordings from the 80's and 90's, which I own but often overlook. I'll start some non-"60's jazz" threads over the next couple weeks, and see if that helps any.

I'd love to hear/have the early concert (I think from 1973) from this box, but the rest is more 80's Miles than I really need. There was a time, when I was back in college when I was still a rabid Miles fan ('90-'92) --- that I bought every videotape concert of Miles that I could find (there were some ads in the back of Goldmine, and one guy had a couple hundred jazz videos that he was selling copies of for $20 a pop). There wasn't much Miles on video from the 60's and 70's, so I started getting tapes of Miles in the 80's. Somewhere (buried in a box) I probably have video tapes with just as much live 80's Miles as this box set has, maybe more. Same degree of tune repitition. Every concert seemed to have a "Time After Time" and "Human Nature". There's a concert from Poland in about '88, two compete shows (afternoon and evening), 160 minutes total, and he plays "TAT" and "HN" twice, each!!!! - meaning each one once on each concert. (I know, the music wasn't ever meant to be released that way.) It's not bad music (or at least not entirely), but my tastes have gone different directions since then. I've got that one live Miles disc (the legit one on Warner Bros, "Live Around The World" I think it's called), and that's enough live Miles in 80's for me. ( Maybe, just maybe, would I consider buying it if I could get one used for $100, but even then - I'd think twice about it, and probably spend the $100 on other stuff. )

No, afraid I've never heard that earlier live Cure album. I own nearly everything they recorded after (and including) "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)", but my Cure collection is hit and miss before that.

I was on a big Rooster necktie buying spree (on eBay) when I first discovered the BNBB, and so when I had to pick a handle, that came to mind. I never intended to keep it that for long, it was just a temporary name I picked until I could think of something better. Then, somehow, the name stuck. When I register at other boards, I've always used the same "Rooster Ties" handle, just in case somebody there knows me from the BNBB.

Here's a good golf themed one...

Here's a kinda ugly one with lobsters on it...

Oh, found one more. Wish I had this one, but it got a little pricier than I was willing to pay...

"Rooster" brand neckties were only big in the late 50's and 60's, and the vast majority of them had square bottoms. Actually, I'm not sure how big they ever got - I think they were kinda obscure even back then. The best ones had really incredible designs on them, with lots of iconography. I've got a collection of about 100 of them, and maybe 40 are of really high quality (in terms of the design). I don't any photos of mine to share, but I found this picture from one on eBay right now. It just happens to have roosters on the front of the tie too, but most had other icons, or abstract designs. The best ones were the narrow ones, from the late 50's and early 60's, usually only 2 inches wide at most. Then, in the late 60's and/or the early 70's, Rooster ties got wide (like they all did), up to 3 or 4 inches wide. Other than job interviews, I haven't worn a normal 'pointy' tie in over 9 years. I've seen pictures (from the late 50's or early 60's) of both Gil Evans and Gunther Schuller wearing 'Rooster' ties (or at least narrow square-bottom ties that probably were made by Rooster). I'll post some more pictures when I find some good ones... (again, this one is from eBay)

I don't have very many good examples to show, but here's a couple...

I got a couple good buddies at Music Exchange. If you like, I could seriously ask if an Andrew Hill box showed up misteriously. When (approximate date) were you there, when the Hill box went bye-bye??? Man, I'd retrace your steps. What McDonalds?? Call them (any and all McDonald's you were at) in the mid-afternoon, when they're not so damn busy, and ask for the manager. Do it ASAP. Six soccer games?? That's tougher to follow-up on, for sure. Man, that suck so bad. The Hill box is like the best one of all!!! (Pretend I didn't just say that.)

"Brilliant Circles".... The very best "music's incredible!!!" to "sound quality sucks" ratio of any CD I've ever heard, including a whole bunch of bootlegs..... A trick I learned. The worse the stereo system is that you listen to "Brilliant Circles" on, the better it sounds. It sounds totally sweet on my $10 night-stand combo "boom box / clock-radio" with the cheapest CD player known to mankind. (Seriously, $10, made my Memorex, as a close-out at Target. They had 'em in hot pink, and cool 'ice' blue. Yeah, I went for the ice blue. I mostly use it to listen in the kitchen.)

Hey, Eric, I see you live in Leawood, and I'm in Midtown K.C. -- if you need burns of the Hill set, and photocopies of the linernotes, just say the word. And we oughta hook up anyway, even if you don't. Geeze, where could the Hill set have gotten to??? Was your car broken into?? Did the kid take it out with him, when you were out of the car somewhere?? Any chance you might check at that Starbucks, or wherever you were, and see if it got left behind by chance??? Man, that sucks. Sure hoping you find it, somehow. Is it around the house somewhere?? Basement?? Garage?? Driveway?? Probably not telling you nothing you haven't already thought of..... Good luck!!!!!! :)

Not very much, cuz I'm on a self-imposed spending freeze, but I did finally get a disc I've been searching for, for years. Got it on eBay for a decent price ($15 plus postage), cuz it was mis-listed under 'classical'. (I've seen it go for $25+ or occasionally more.) The Cure - "Entreat", which is a rare but legit live recording from 1989, made up of all live versions of tunes from "Disintegration". Here's a review: AMG review I think it's far better than either of the Cure's live albums from 1992 or so (which are called "Paris" and "Show").