Jim Alfredson

Such beautiful children in this thread. We are very lucky, aren't we?

God damn. Is it just me or does the low end on vinyl just kick serious ass? CDs suck.

Listening to it now. God, I love vinyl. It sounds much better than I remember. I'm probably a little more ready for it now than I was when I was 16.

That is definately true. Genesis is very composed and Tony, or anyone else for that matter, never strayed from what they played on the record when playing live. Maybe rather than "funky" I should've said "R&B" influenced. There are some serious grooves going on in some of that stuff. For instance, I don't think Genesis ever used a shuffle beat. Hackett was not only a huge part of their sound (the contrast between Trespass and Nursery Crime is staggering) but he was also a very influential guitarist. He was doing hammer-ons and appeggios long before anyone ever heard of Eddie Van Halen. It's pretty obvious that he became less and less of a factor and it's understandable why he left. Tony's synths just took over. That said, they were able to make some nice albums post-Gabriel. I'm going to dig out my vinyl copy and give it a listen before plunking down the cash for the CD.

They keep replaying Kobe's dunk on SportsCenter. Yeah, it was cool.... but they still lost.

In this one, she looks so much like my older sister as a baby, it's frightening. I can see various members of my family and my wife's family in her. It's very interesting. After bathy-time!

I didn't get it at the time, that's what I said. I wasn't ready for it. I haven't tried to listen to it since, which is why I'm going to pull out the ol' vinyl.

So... I recently picked up the remaster of Fragile, which I've never heard and today I got Relayer. I was a HUGE Genesis fan in middle/high school and once I emptied out their catalog I was trying to find new stuff. I got into ELP, Gentle Giant, Marillion (meh) and someone also suggested Yes. I remember going to my local used record store and getting Tales From Topographic Oceans on LP. I was into Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway really heavy at this time and thought, "Cool! Another double album!" I hated it. Listened to it once and never put it on again. That turned me off from Yes the whole time. I realize now why I didn't like them at the time. They are much more "funky" than Genesis. I wasn't ready for it, since I was not into jazz at the time. There is a certain harmonic sense they were exploring that has more to do with jazz and avant classical than other prog bands. Anyway, Fragile is pretty cool, but I'm really digging Relayer! I'll have to dig out my LP copy of Tales again and give it a spin.

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And then there's her scary BEAR outfit!!! We have too much fun!

Then there's this one: Daddy's making her laugh!

Weird... I couldn't tell what that was. It looked like a cartoon ninja beaver super-imposed onto the real picture.

What the fuck is that?

Well, I guess Lon deleted the thread (probably due to Aric's brilliant commentary) but I wanted to post this picture of our little punkin: No, we didn't pose her like that. She just does that. She's already a little diva. Those who participated in the original thread, please repost your pics. The Scooby Doo costume was adorable!

It's called "You Voted For WHO??!" No, it's called "Timless" on Savoy Jazz Classics.

UP, because I just discovered this series. I was browsing in my local Schuler's (think Borders) tonight with the wife and child and ran across a Groove Holmes re-issue I'd never seen. Leary that it might be some Sonny Lester crap, I looked at the personnel and the track listing: Cecil Bridgewater, Houston Person, Jimmy Ponder and Cecil Brooks III? Sounds like a Muse date! And with a tune called "Ode To Larry Young" how could I go wrong? Popped that baby in a minute ago and fer sure this is Muse. Then I found this thread. I agree, the artwork is pretty atrocious. But the soundz is good!

Well, what got me thinking about this was a documentary I saw on Starz when I was playing a casino gig a couple weekends ago. I thought it was just a regular documentary, but it was an actual movie and the cinametography was breathtaking. It was about the migration of several different species of birds. It was really beautiful. I remember while growing up, I watched documentaries like that constantly... one reason was because they were fascinating, the other being that out in the country all we could get was the local PBS station!

Remember on PBS, before there was Animal Planet and The Discovery Channel, when they had nature documentaries? Lots of beautiful cinematography interspersed with mellow commentary by George Page. I loved those. Now all you see is Crocodile Hunter-inspired stupidness. What happened to the nature documentaries?

I posted this in the Creole Gallery thread, but thought I should put it here as well. I'll transfer this over to the website soon. NOISE interview with Organissimo They got a couple facts wrong, but over-all a good article. If Randy looks a little out of it, it's because just 30 minutes prior to taking that photo, his car was stolen from a gas station three blocks from my house. God Bless America!

The NOISE article came out today, boyz. NOISE on Organissimo They got a couple facts wrong (we didn't actually OPEN for Herbie, we just played the same festival) but overall, it's a nice article.

I think she really like the Ozone Quartet, but that's just a guess.

Not much... BLING BLING!!!!

Too bad McDyess got booted. That was a fun game to watch. The Rockets really don't have a PG. The Wallace Twins were killing! GO PISTONS!!!

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