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Thanks Chuck, for explaining yourself a bit more on the Murray topic, much appreciated. Murray is one of those guys I maybe ought to like more than I do - but, for some reason, he just doesn't speak to me all that much. I concur with Chuck, that he often does hire very good sidemen, and his releases are usually 'good', but rarely (for me anyway) not a lot better than just 'good'. Then again, (and again, speaking just for myself), they're not ever much worse than 'good' either. I guess that's what's so strange about him. I usually really like somebody's output, or it just doesn't do very much for me at all. And Murray's weird, for me, in that he falls somewhere in the middle.
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"Scary Albums" or "Scary Album Covers" corner...
Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
By the way, I found these all from one seller on eBay, and all are currently open auctions. (Click HERE for general search on the words "Blue Note Spain" in the description.) His lists these blue and orange BN's as all being from "Special issue The BLUE NOTE COLLECTION Series for Spain". Anybody know how many of these (and which ones) are being released in Spain?? (Wish the BNBB was up, I'd ask Tom about this.) I checked, and the Larry Young does have the alternate take, but the Sam Rivers doesn't have any alternates. What a weird series, to redo the colors of the classic covers like that!! Hard to believe that BN would approve of such a thing, but maybe they've had some weird success with people buying music by color over there. Certainly the covers would be even more visually linked this way - although the choice of colors is really ugly (IMHO), and how can you change history like that?? (Harkens back to those "Applause" reissues on BN titles, with the piss-poor monochrome versions of a few of the classic covers.) -
"Scary Albums" or "Scary Album Covers" corner...
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Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Is this that super rare Tyrone Washington LP?
Rooster_Ties replied to Dan Gould's topic in Miscellaneous Music
I think the total I paid on eBay for the one I got (and gave to Jim) was about $53 (including shipping). I think the final bidding topped-out around $48 or $49 or so. Previously, I had seen it go in the low $70's, once, and then twice (in the same two week period) it went with "buy it now" prices in the range of $90-$110. -
The "Complete Don Wilkerson" isn't anything I'd go to much effort (or expense) to get --- but for the $12 I paid for mine (used), I thought it was a pretty decent deal. Nothing exciting, but not the worst BN release I've ever heard either...
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Sound samples here: Olympus: The String Quartet Tribute To Yanni Be afraid - be very afraid!!
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Yes, Chuck, (sincerely) please do share your thoughts on Murray with the group. I'm no big fan of Murray, but I have heard him play live a couple times - and although he's not real high on my list of favorite tenor players (not by a long shot), I also didn't get the feeling that he was trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, musically speaking. (I heard him with a piano trio once, and once with a just bass and drums as a trio. The trio date was heavier, and I will admit to somewhat liking Murray's work on bass clarinet (in any context) - in fact, quite a bit better than on tenor. His "Ballads for Bass Clarinet" disc is probably my favorite Murray disc, with John Hicks. I like it quite a bit, but don't love it.) Then again, perhaps your "I think Murray is a fake" comment is somehow related to him in some non-Musical way???? I did speak with Murray on two occasions, and found him to be very aloof, and very off-putting. And not "aloof" in the way that I found Wayne Shorter to be (Shorter might be a little spacy to talk with, but you can tell he just thinks about the world in different ways, and that somehow comes across as 'strange' in conversation with him.) But, rather, Murray just struck me as being a bit of a jerk, or at least he seemed like someone that had a chip on his shoulder. I think I've owned about 6 or 8 Murray CD's over the years, but have since traded away all but 2 or 3 of them. PS: One Murray CD that I've thought about trading away, several times in fact, is his disc with all Grateful Dead tunes, arranged for octet. But every time I listen to it, to confirm my not really wanting it any more - I somehow find something to redeem it. (And I'm absolutely *NO* fan of the Dead, so that's NOT the reason.) Yes, Chuck - I'd be really interested if your thoughts somehow jive with some vague but real 'uneasiness' that I've had with Murray's music for several years now. Thanks in advance!!
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Your Favorite Not-Originally Issued Blue Note
Rooster_Ties replied to Dan Gould's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Oddly enough, I'm not sure I ever knew (at least until now) that "Solid" didn't come out around the time it was recorded. (Or maybe I knew at one time, but then promptly forgot it.) "Solid" is such an *incredible* album, how could it have not come out at the time?????!!!!!!!!! Joe Henderson and James Spaulding - what an *incredible* front line!!!! And so, then, is this cover... one of those by Patrick Roques?? I don't have my "Solid" CD handy (buried in a box somewhere), or I'd check myself. (AMG doesn't list Partrick in the credits for "Solid", but not all of his efforts have been included in every AGM entry, where they could/should be.) -
As a side note, haven't I seen the title of this movie frequently translated into English a couple different ways?? My memory tells me "Lift to the Scaffold", or something like that - but I vaguely remember some other "English" title floating around often, as well. Heck, I probably don't even have "Lift to the Scaffold" right, and lord knows I don't a word of French besides a few cuss words!!! PS: Maybe "Elevator to the Gallows"?? or something like that??
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FRANK ZAPPA, on-line radio documentary, fantastic!
Rooster_Ties replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Artists
Been a while since I've listened to any of Zappa's really complicated Synclavier work. Right now I'm listening to... -
Just listened to the "200 Motels" soundtrack for the first time in probably 3 years. (The first time I ever heard it is when it came out on CD in about 1998 or so.) I had forgotten what a huge trip it was. I've still never seen the movie, but the soundtrack is such a mix of amazing, and amazingly weird music - it's hard for even a one and former Zappa nut (and I'm still somewhat of a Zappa nut) like me, to even know where to begin. For instance, I had forgotten about all the wacky lyrics set to such incredibly modern (and often complex) melodies. I'd forgotten that there was a version of Strickly Genteel that even had lyrics at all!! I'd forgotten about the various choral numbers on the soundtrack (here and there), with orchestra. For those who have seen the movie, how is it?? (I know - that's a question that's probably impossible to answer.)
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I'm already through disc 1, and most of disc 2. Hope to get through the whole set, maybe even twice, before the week even begins!! I'll go ahead and say, right off, several tunes I've heard so far, are just drippin' with that whole Strata East vibe!!! Yeowww!!!!!!! GREAT selection for an album-of-the-week!!!!!!!!!!
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With the open question about whether Roy Williams is leaving for NC, or not - there's not way she's going to do a total media blackout at this time. (I didn't even have the guts to suggest it to her.) Maybe, in a different year, without the "is the coach staying, is he leaving??", but not this year...
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"American Pie" on FX Last Night
Rooster_Ties replied to Dan Gould's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
God help us, what isn't on the Internet????? The show with the very brief topless women (in the late 80's) was called "Bizarre", and the host/star was named John Byner. -
The release with all the extra tracks (that are without the echo) is way more significant. Haven't heard the shorter one, with supposedly improved sound - but I can't imagine the improvement being so great as to overweigh the significance of the extra material - and particularly how it's presended (without the echo). Not sure which I prefer (echo vs. no echo), but it's good to be able to hear both.
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Well, today my wife is still pretty much in a big funk about her team. What does it say about our society, where it's that much of a dissappointment to finish 2nd out of a field of 64 teams (not to mention the ones that didn't get in, so really it's out of maybe a couple hundred teams). It's not that my wife (or most Jayhawk fans, I gather) are dissappointed with the team, or the coach. But, rather, that the team is so dissappointed that they didn't win. (Not "mad" dissappointed, but "sad" dissapointed".) If it were me, I'd just be happy to have even finished in the top-10. And heck, the Jayhawks almost alway finish in the top-10 most years, so I still don't see what the big "heart-wrenching" deal is. Maybe it's cuz I'm not an incredibly competitive person. I think it's important to do well, but to do better than everybody else is way more than I have any energy for. Life's too short to worry about being #1 at anything.
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"American Pie" on FX Last Night
Rooster_Ties replied to Dan Gould's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Every once in a while you hear the word "shit" on broadcast TV. Not very often, but I know I heard it two or three times in that big "9-11" documentary on CBS, about the one fire-station that responded to the tragedies in NYC. I know I've heard it a time or two in other contexts, even dramatic (on broadcast TV). I know this was many years ago, but wasn't there some verbal line crossed in the very last episode of M*A*S*H?? Maybe the difference is that those were all dramatic contexts, and "American Pie" was comedy - which is kind of a different thing, so maybe different standards apply. And, don't forget, FX isn't broadcast TV either. Heck, I remember being in high-school (mid-80's), or maybe my early, early college years (late 80's) - and there was some zany "Benny Hill"-type comedy show on a non-Network affiliated station, back in St. Louis (channel 11, if any of you lived there back then). It was only on after 11pm, and usually once per episode, there'd be a very, very quick flash of a topless woman, in some comedy sketch. I can't remember who's show it was, but his first name was "John", and he had a round face. I think it was on this show the "Super Dave Osborn" character first appeared. Anyway, this was broadcast TV, I'm 100% for sure, cuz I was at my folks house, still, at the time - and they've never had cable TV (and still don't to this day). Now whether this (the dialog in "American Pie") is atypical for the FX cable network station, or not atypical - is entirely the question. But it wouldn't suprise me at all to hear the dialog described above on a station that was part some sort of "extended cable" package, meaning everything you'd get without getting the "premium" chanels. ===== Now, is this a good thing, or bad thing - is entirely a different question. Bad taste is everywhere, so I'm not much suprised by anything these days. Heck, in some ways, I'm just as offended by some of the semi-"squeaky clean" shows on during primetime (standard sitcom fare) that show the absolute most gender-stereotypical roles and behavior imaginable. But then that's just me, and America (apparently) seems to eat this stuff up. My wife and I not only didn't have cable for most of the last 8 months (just got re-hooked about a month ago), but the TV upstairs (where we do most of our viewing) only got VHF stations, which (in Kansas City), limited us only to ABC, CBS, and FOX. During those 6 months, I (still only occasionally) saw more "prime time" TV than I ever have in years. In particular, I saw more CBS stuff than ever - which is a network I almost never watch. "Everybody Loves Raymond" always had three or four jokes/gags per show that caused my jaw to drop. Not because it was offensive in any traditional way, but because of the way it depicted stereotypes about gender, and age, and the like. Can't think of a good example right off, but it was like every episode, as I recall - at least from the few episodes I saw.