A Lark Ascending

If I recall Princess Di's musical taste correctly she would have been more likely to make Duran Duran PM than Yes. God she must have hated those nights at Covent Garden with Charlie Boy.

Given the way the current PM and Chancellor of Exchequer are in a state of only barely disguised warfare, the thought of five members of Yes running the country makes the mind boggle! Quintrophenia? ["Well I'm buggered if I'm going to listen to all this crap about economic performance, fetch me a curry!"]

I think I've cracked it. Here's a recent photo of Aric... And here he is engaging in humanitarian activities:

I have 1999 reissue from the brief Columbia British reissue series. Just played it again - not one worth worrying about, to my mind. The guitar sounds very tinny.

'Dragon Hill' I've just put it on to see if it makes more sense!

The fourth stucke from Webern's Funf Stucke fur Orchester Op 10. Damned catchy.

Listen to him on Gil Evans 'The British Orchestra' from the early 80s. A very nice 'Little Wing'. I only have one of his own recordings which does not stand out for me.

I don't see Tubby the Tuba, one of my formative influences.

I thought the USA had crossed Spain off its Xmas card list. Surely you should be renaming all things Spanish in the mother tongue of your one, true ally in recent tribulations? [please take the latter with a pinch of cilantro!]

Oh, the limitless possibilities of misunderstanding the English language! ************* Everyone I knows puts butter in mashed potatoes. I hate butter but always liked the idea of a creamier mash. Solution? Olive Oil. Delicious. I wonder if the Scots will start deep frying their Mars Bars in olive oil? One way to get offthe top of the European bad diet league.

I swear by the following curry puree as a base for other curries. Make a huge batch, freeze, stink the kitchen out for weeks. CORIANDER is a major part of its success.

I'm astonished you call it olive oil, given the American habit of misnaming fine foods! Cilantro indeed!

Did I ever tell you about my favourite washing machine detergent?

I think you'll find that's my job. Quit now or I call in my union!

A related question. I've had this Pioneer PDR 609 for a couple of years and have been very happy with it: Now I'm fully aware you can't use data CDRs on it. But the other day I bought some Sony CDRs which were labelled in the shop as for Audio. When I load them I just get a 'Monitor' signal. They work fine burning from the PC, but seem not to work in the stand alone. Is there any way to get round this? CDR-Audio discs are getting harder to find in the high street shops. I suspect they will be on sale mainly in HiFi shops and online from now on.

He stormed off from there too last summer. Outraged at some of the jazz magazines that 'silly' members like myself were defending. He gave the impression he was writing a scholarly tome.

I'm on exactly the same plane as everyone else. A Ryanair one, I suspect.

Looks like Diana Krall making a bid for the multi-instrumentalist thread.

Hermeto Pascoal: flutes, saxes, tuba, guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, organ, accordion, percussion from trap set to hand drums and seemingly random objects like tea kettles, hubcaps, and the sounds of live animals. http://www.sfjazz.com/concerts/fall04/fall...s/hpascoal.html

Banjo face in interwar Lancashire. Aye, it's grim up't North.

One night Miles put the vodoo on him and directed a nasty little power surge through his Rhodes. He never touched an electric keyboard again. The memory haunted him. Each time his fingers came close to the keys of a piano he uttered a little whimper...

And did Jan pinch some...

What did Sri Chimnoy put in his carrot juice...

Don't you mean in the front rows...

Here's Alvin being emasculated...