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Also, Neon!!!, please see this thread ("Is it over? We'll see...") that Musicboy started here, telling us to all be on our best behavior (presumably here on our board, as well as on yours), cuz he'll be watching. Personally, if I were you, I'd bust your board-mod Musicboy back down to being a regular member on your board. Not telling you what to do, it's your board, do what you like. But he's really stirring the hornets' nest here 1,000 times more than anything any of us are doing, and we've all long stopped posting on your board. I mean did any of us post anything even 1/10th as vile on your board, as Musicboy has on our board???

With all due respect, Musicboy, a few of us have had a tiny bit of harmless fun on your board (and I mean really harmless). You come over here, and start throwing threats around all over the place. No one here asked you to take it upon yourself to moderate the Organissimo board. And yet, that appears to be what you'd like to do, one way or another. A few four-letter words, and suddenly we're all Internet pornographers (or at least potential pornographers). If you want to take on the entire Internet, and try to rid it of dirty words (or at least put 'warning signs' up everywhere where somebody cusses now and then), then I hope you live a long life. You've got lots of work to do.... ----- Hey Neon!!! - you wanna put a muzzle on your pit bull, meaning Musicboy. He's undoing all the damage control that you did a pretty decent job of doing in your post up above. Thank you. If not, perhaps it might be productive for one of us to post some of Musicboy's rantings (from this thread) on your board, as an example of his supposedly "Christian" behavior. Pretty disgusting behavior, and far, far worse than anything any of us ever did on your board. This is getting really ugly (mostly on Musicboy's part), and I sincerely think we are the ones who are due some sort of apology, if not from Musicboy directly, then from you Neon, for the actions (and threats!!!) of not just anyone on your board, but by one of your own board moderators. No one here did anything on your board that even remotely warrants this kind of behavior. I believe that several of us here are genuinely offended more than anyone on your board could have possible been by what few little 'funny' posts we put on your board. I don't offend easily, and part of me does realize how ridiculous this all is - but all kidding aside, I do think Musicboy has gone WAY overboard. The easy thing for us to do would be to simply ban him from our board, and delete his posts. But we believe in a free exchange of ideas - something that Musicboy clearly does not believe in.

Never have we (collectively) been accused of so much, and done so little to deserve it. This is hilarious!!!!! Hey, Musicboy, care to defend why my first posting to your Norah board was deleted??? Here's a link (your other board, who calls himself Neon here, restored it later, see above). Here's that link: http://www.norahjones.info/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1132 Seem like I posted a reasonably valid post that was in no way offensive, or anti-Norah. Seems also like I was censored simply because I was also a board member over here at Organissimo. I think you see evil behind every door, unless and until proven otherwise. Neon, your other Norah Board mod had actually gone a long way to cooling things off, but you and your accusitory language just heats it all back up again. Was I being an "ignorant trouble maker" when my first post on your board got nuked?? Sheesh....

FYI, last night I posted a half-a-dozen times to the Norah 'bored', and they were all the most bland, boring, non-offensive posts that this self-acclaimed "real elitist (psuedo-intellectual) trouble maker" could muster... I figured that I'd just keep posting stuff like this, until I got banned (or to see if my posts kept getting deleted), or until their board-mod backed off from considering us the evil, vile vermin that he cast us to be in his original e-mail to b3-er. Geez, how crazy was that??? Hey Neon!!! - Collectively, how much 'trouble' did we really cause??? Judging from the examples I've seen here, and the few posts I found from our guys over on your board, I think our 'little fun' at your board's expense was pretty damn harmless. No vulgarity, minimal Norah bashing (and when done so, it was couched in incredibly subtle ways). And for that, (initially) it appears you feared the absolute worst.

And thank you, Christiern, for posting in this thread - and espcially for such an interesting story. This thread is probably going nearly as well as I could have ever hoped -- which is to say that I think it is going pretty well. No easy answers (and I never thought there would be), but I'm really enjoying such an honest exchange of ideas, without all the fighting we usually find in many of the political threads. Thanks!! -- Rooster T.

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)