Jim Alfredson

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Very cool!

Ok after watching the video for "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"... these guys are joking, right? Kinda like Spinal Tap but 20 years too late?

The band name is lame. If they really wanna do the 80's big hair thing they should've called themselves something cheesy like Sojourner or Paramour. You know... something cool like Journey or Loverboy, Poison, Whitesnake. C'mon, get with it!

I don't feel this way (I think she's a find actress) but here's an interesting webpage.

What about that Savoy date by Doug Carn? That's a nice one.

Livin' For The City - Stevie Wonder HELL YEAH!

Smooth!

WEMU in Ypsilanti, MI (outside Ann Arbor) has a show called "The Outside Within" on Thursdays I believe. WEMU

Oh yeah, he's the man.

Hey maybe Ed did win a million bucks. Haven't seen him around lately.

Ah, that was my mistake. You're right, of course. Both engineered by Jim Anderson, correct?

Lonnie is always better live than on record it seems. Someone should just follow him around and record his gigs for a month. I bet you would get some seriously hip shit that way. I've seen him twice live and have been utterly blown away by what he does on the organ. His records never seem to capture that.

Sounds like 508 000 000 with third percussion on, normal (instead of the usual "soft"), with fast decay. I gotta get that set.

There is obviously a problem with multiple people accessing the site at the same time. It's a MySql problem and Ken is looking into it (the guy who hosts my site). I forwarded the error message to him, so that should help.

Chuck, I better get the chance to meet you in person before you go, dammit!

In fact I'm listening to that right now (I happen to have it as an MP3 on my computer for some reason) and Pat Martino is swingin' his nuts off!!!

I've been thinking of putting up live mp3s but we haven't recorded live in about a year and we've improved vastly since then. I wouldn't want to embarass myself (or my fellow members!) I'm going to try and record the Clearwater hit. We're also looking into buying our own sound system which would make on the fly recording much easier. But back to Don: One tune I've always loved that he recorded is "These Are Soulful Days" from the Muse record of the same name. That's a funky tune!!!!

Best. Will. Farrell. Sketch. Ever.

Yeah, I haven't even attempted it due to that very reason. Have you heard Joey's version on his Patterson tribute disc? Or the live one for that matter from the Incredible! disc with Jimmy Smith? He's almost there, but it doesn't quite have the soul that Don's does. Speaking of that tribute disc, I was a little disappointed they didn't do "Dem New York Dues" on that!

We pulled out "Dem New York Dues" on the gig last night. Haven't played that tune in awhile. A friend who plays tenor was in the audience and was asking about it afterwards. It's a great tune... nice changes. I'm surprised it was never picked up as a standard. I re-read this entire thread and realized that mikeweil asked about Don's newer version of "The Good Life" on Muse. That one is nice, but I absolutely LOVE the earlier version on Prestige. I had my friend Duncan learn and play that at my wedding! More props for the Don! Soul Stream, have you heard that wonderful David Ware record with Don Pullen (Shakill's II, I think)? It has a tune of Pullen's called "One For The Don" which is just a duet between organ and tenor. Beautiful tune that the liner notes say he wrote for himself, but when I first heard it I thought maybe he wrote it for Patterson. I could hear Patterson in there. It actually brought tears to my eyes the first time I heard. Beautiful tune.

Yeah, this is getting annoying. I'll try to track down the problem. As I said in another thread, the site recently got moved over onto another server. Obviously something is wacky... the board really isn't responding well at all. The rest of the Organissimo website works great. I'll get to the bottom of it...

What, no mention that MP3s sound like shit? Give me vinyl, baby!