Jim Alfredson

Hey, I use eBay a lot! My IQ is 132, thank you very much. Actually, eBay has changed a lot since I first started using it in 1999. It's getting very hard to find a good deal there, but it is possible. For instance, I just used Buy It Now to get a Shure 330 ribbon mic for $150!!! I bought one about a month ago on eBay for $230 plus shipping and it's one of the best mics I've ever heard (a nice, 1960s ribbon mic). They are worth about $300. I've watched the seller for about a month now. He started the mic at $200. Then $180. Then $160. And now he finally listed it at $150 with Buy It Now and I snatched that baby!

Wow. They only teach you in school that peer pressure leads to teen pregnancies and drug use, not Nazareth concerts. If they had told me that....

Good God, woman. I would not admit to that in public, if I were you.

My older sis was the one that got me into Genesis. I was a total Genesis freak all the way through fourth and fifth grade, middle school and most of high school... until I started to get into jazz. Tony Banks was my hero. I never liked any of those hair-bands either. When all that shit was going down I was listening to Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, ELP, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and the like. People in school thought I was very weird. And I probably was!

Did you like Ratt, like my older sister?

That is true. Seems like I saw someone before that, too. Who knows?

Bev, you rule! Man, I would LOVE to have seen that. Unfortunately, I was -4 years old (negative four) at the time, so... Rachel, you are a true rocker babe. You've seen so many of the bands that Joe and I make fun off riding home after the gig and listening to the classic rock stations. How big was your hair? I can't remember my first concert. I think it was Genesis on the We Can't Dance tour. Completely lame compared to Bev's Genesis experience I'm sure, although they did rock out as a trio on a couple of tunes and even played Squonk. It ruled. That was, what... 1991? 1992? I don't remember. My parents we super protective. I was 14 or 15 at the time. I saw Peter Gabriel not long after that on the Us tour, which permanently damamged my hearing (tinnitus). Lovely, that. First jazz concert, I can't remember really either. Probably Roy Haynes with Joe G. No, Joe wasn't playing with Roy, he and I went to the concert together.

I love old pianos. My father restores pianos and specializes in the old uprights. We've had some uprights over the years that will give 9 foot grands a run for their money. But they have to be OLD! Like, 1910, 1920s. They made PIANOS back then. Piano is a great first instrument, but I plan on getting my child started young on the Hammond! He/she will be kickin' bass lines in no time! Child: Daddy, I hungy. Me: Have you learned Jimmy's solo from "Back At The Chicken Shack" yet? Child: No, I hungy. Me: Then hop to it, youngin'!!!

Bang & Olufsen have been around a long time and have made some real nice stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if they sound marvelous. $6500 marvelous? Probably not.

She still creeps me out. She looks too much like a "Jackson". I can't get over it.

Very nice floral pattern, Bev.

Can't decide whether to put this here or on the Ebay thread: Flux Capacitor

My organ sure doesn't sound like that.

I particularily like the phrase "copious dollops". Sounds latin.

She gives me the creeps.

Joe's got some deep shit waiting to come out. Hopefully we'll get to some of it on this next record. I wish he and I could just take a month off from everything and sit in my basement for 8 hours a day and just come up with shit. He's a fountain of ideas. Surprised no one has mentioned Kurt Rosenwinkle. Joe played some of his latest for me a few weeks ago and it was very very interesting. I need to get a copy and listen under headphones... if I ever get any time.

My condolences.

Yet another ego boost. Thank you! You're welcome. Those who want to know will have to use the given clues to find the answer. It's on this board, somewhere.

There was only one person on this board besides my brother who knew what mine was.

Stay away from Lexmark. The largest pieces of shit on the planet. I hate them with a passion. In fact, here's a true story that just happened this weekend. My sister called me yesterday in a panic. Her Lexmark stopped working... the computer couldn't find it. She said this has happened before so she usually uninstalls the drivers and re-installs them, right? So she goes into the Lexmark folder and chooses the uninstaller and runs it and... ... for some reason it deleted EVERYTHING in her My Documents folder. All her mp3s, all her documents, all her photoshop files, everything. Over 10gigs worth of stuff. She teaches a computer illustration course at the local community college and lost four years worth of hand-outs, illustrations, etc. Why did the Lexmark uninstaller do this? Who knows. But that data is gone. We tried to use a recovery program (at a cost of $130) to get the stuff back, but everything was corrupt, which usually happens when you delete large amounts of data at once. Lexmark is evil. Throw it away. I won't even go into my dad's trials and tribulations with Lexmark.

Thank you and thanks for coming out! We had a good time and it's always great to see you guys there! Next week will be FUN!

It'll be nice to see you and Ann again! My sister and her husband may be there... all the way from Howell (30 miles east of Lansing). They have family in GR though.

For all you west-siders. We're at Docker's again. Come on out if you can.

Where do you find this shit? That is some wacky stuff.

Batboy is a cutie.