Jim Alfredson

Here's someone who deserves the money...

Office is an absolutely infuriating program. I really wish Adobe would make a word processor that was fully compatable with Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

Again, beautiful work, Mark! Are you coming up to Grand Rapids and the Intersection tonight?! I'm starting to get excited!!!

Mark, you are one talented photographer, that is for sure! Excellant work! It was great to meet everyone and hang! We had a great time and I'm looking forward to the Hot House!

Sorry to hear this, Paul. These things rarely make sense. I wish I could say more, but I'm at as much of a loss to explain it as you.

I'm speechless. Thank you, Larry, for the wonderful words. I wish we could've talked more, too. I will say one thing: The comment on the sound of my rig makes me feel great. I lucked into that particular organ (a 1958 B3) and it has always had a great sound on it's own, but I've also worked hard on that Leslie speaker, changing tubes, amps, speakers, etc. to get the kind of tone that I want. A lot of organists want their Leslies very dirty or very clean... I like mine somewhere inbetween. Plus, major props to the soundman. He did a fantastic job. I'm looking forward to our next hit in the Windy City!!! Nov. 30th at the Hot House! I hope we can get back into Martyr's as well. Great sounding room, great people. Oh, and I personally thought the opening act kicked ass!!!

Take it off the board, please.

They can record it. I don't mind.

Ah... I see... I couldn't see the other titles on my small laptop screen. I now see "New Jersey" and "Chicago", etc.

So what's the deal with the New Yorker cover with the Hudson going into the Pacific?

I don't think it's greed, I think that Amazon is selling the CD for the suggest list price (which is $15.98). As we all know, things rarely sell for the SLP. I'm awaiting to hear from our distributor.

It won't be "released" until Nov. 8th, but you can now order our latest CD "This Is The Place" from Amazon, CDUniverse, CDNow, Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc. Just go to your favorite retailer and order away! ps. I have a note to our distributor regarding the pricing discrepency between Amazon and the other retailers. I'm not sure why they are selling it for so much. CDUniverse - This Is The Place Amazon - This Is The Place Barnes & Noble - This Is The Place

Didn't Oprah have a big to-do about this record LAST YEAR on her show? It was supposed to come out last year, if I remember correctly. Well, it appears the wait it worthwhile. I'll be picking it up. I think Conversation Piece wasn't all that bad, but this seems much better.

See, that's just silly. If the show or album or whatever was made BEFORE such laws came into existence, it should be exempt from those laws. To use the Genesis example above, is Atlantic not going to be able to re-issue "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" anymore due to the quote in the first song without paying for it?

There's lots of them on the internet (according to the deluge of spam I get everyday).

People, the solution is simple... just buy multiple iPods. One for your BN's, one for your Prestige/Milestones/Riversides, one for your Verve's, and one for me.

Track 3: There's A Rat Loose In My House Bobby Blue Bland

Then again, if I want to make some quick and dirty money, I should write a tune with every bebop cliche in the book as the melody and then start suing modern horn players left and right for copyright infringement. Some stupid judge would probably rule in my favor.

That is a good point and goes hand in hand with the discussions we've had on here about sampling. To me, sampling is no different than quoting melodies or the art of collage in the visual arts. To regulate it the way that they have is completely idiotic.

Well, when it comes to music, you cannot copyright chords or chord changes, you can only copyright melodies and lyrics. That said, when a jazz musician (or other musician for that matter) "quotes" a tune in his/her solo, doesn't that constitute copyright infringement?

We do a lot of "covers". A new one that we just added and debuted at Billy's this week is Jethro Tull's "Living In The Past". An apt tune for an organ trio in many ways. The one you didn't recognize from Kenny's was probably "Why Not?", a Houston Person tune that Don Patterson did on his album of the same name for Muse in the 70s. We also do "Dem New York Dues" by Patterson with regularity and "Little Shannon" (also a DP original) now and then. Last night we pulled out a lot of old tunes that we haven't done in ages for this wedding reception we played. "Little Green Men", "The Grinning Song", and "Whatever It Takes" by Larry Goldings, standards like "Days Of Wine & Roses" and "Here's That Rainy Day". "This Could Be The Start of Something New", "Naima", etc. Larry Young tunes like "Ritha", "Paris Eyes", and "Back Up". "Bright Sized Life" by Metheny, "Let The Cat Out" and "Big Top" by Scofield, "Full House", "Gino", "Cariba", "West Coast Blues" by Wes Montgomery, etc. We play a lot of stuff, but we've been focusing on our original materials lately since we've got over two albums worth now!

That's exactly what I would've done. It seems the important part of that scene is the child's reaction, not the particular tune playing on the phone.

Alan, sorry to hear about all your troubles. It's never easy to lose a parent, no matter the age. The lead singer in my r&b band just lost his mom this week. She was about the same age as your mom. It's just hard, there's no way around it. Don't know what to say about the rest of it... just that I'm sorry and I hope things start getting better (and they will).

I don't think it was because was a siamese that he didn't mouse. It was just the way he was. Cats are pretty amazing creatures... they definitely have personalities.

My cat is a good mouser. He also catches bats. We're still fixing up this old house and there are some holes in the ceiling (covered by drop ceilings) where bats can come down from the attic. Herman has caught a few by jumping up in the air higher than I thought his fat ass could. The ultimate mouser cat we ever had was when I was growing up on the farm. My sister's cat, Tigger (yes, he was an orange tabby... she was very young when she named him) was a part of a litter of barn cats from my great-grandmother's farm and he had HUGE paws. We called them mega-paws. His claws were gigantic, too. He kept our house out in the country completely clean of mice. My other sister's cat, on the other hand, who was a siamese/persian mix, wouldn't touch a mouse to save his life. So when getting a cat, make sure you get a mouser!!!