Jim Alfredson

If you do, Soul Stream, make sure when CDBaby asks where you heard about the record you say, "Organissimo Forums, man! That place is HIP!"

Wouldn't this be true for just about anything immoral? I'm sure 60%+ people would say that they'd kill somebody if they could get away with it. Or steal $100,000. Or rip off a nice car.

Hey y'all! Has anyone been using the "My Assistant" feature in the upper right hand corner? Click on that baby and check it out! It's pretty freakin' cool!!!!! This software is the BOMB!

organissimo may soon be coming to emusic thanks to CDBaby!

I just ordered this one for Joe G.... Gotta hear what he does with "Bright Size Life"!!!

CDBaby has been very very good to us, unlike CDStreet who still owes us $300+. We've been doing decent sales thru them and they always pay on time. I recently noticed that they have a "review" section. If anyone here on the board would like to write a review, that would be very helpful! Here's the link: Write A Review For Organissimo!!! Thanks!

Thank you, Jim.

It is about connecting to an audience. Sometimes this is impossible due to any number of circumstances, but I'm trying to learn how to do it myself. All I know is when I feel like people aren't listening and don't care, it's hard to play well. But when I connect to the audience I feel like I can play anything and they'll dig it because I'm digging it.

It's the mentality that if the music doesn't have words, it's not important and thus you can talk over it, read a book over it, think about watering your garden over it, anything but actually really listen to it. A guitarist friend of mine calls it the "AM Radio Syndrome" because he believes it started back in the days of pop AM stations. They would talk over all the instrumental intros to the tunes, right up until the lead vocal comes in and then talk again at any instrumental end of the tune. Subconsciously people begin to think, "Hey... that part of the music must not be important." I mean, think about it: What was the last instrumental hit? Would any one in their right mind release an instrumental ROCK tune? Or soul/R&B tune like "Hip Hug Her"? The shit just doesn't happen anymore. Also, we are constantly surrounded by music. In the mall, on a plane, in the grocery store, at the hair-dressers, etc etc. People usually have no idea that music is even playing. I go to dinner with friends who are not musicians, nor necessarily into music as much as I am, and I'll hear something over the restaurant sound system that will make me laugh or want to sing along or whatever and the usual response is, "Oh... I didn't even notice there's music on..." We're so inundated by it, we don't even realize it's there. It's a true shame, really.

The problem is that jazz fans and critics need to stop worshipping dead idols and support the new breed of musicians. Stop buying re-issues. How many copies of Blue Train do you need? Buy some new music for Pete's sake!!!

What, does it show 1/4 of a nipple or something? Lord knows we can't have our children looking at the human body. But gunshots, explosions, people getting their face kicked in... that's all fine and dandy.

Rabbit Proof Fence is Austrailian... about the Aborigenies (sp?). With music by Peter Gabriel!!!

Thank you John! Those are very helpful!

Dude... ( had to say that again ) check out the "tones" description via AMG of Tomita's "Kosmos" album... Wintry?!? WTF? As in "Edgar Wintry" or "George Wintry"?

Dude, Tomita is a bad dude....

All I know is Head Hunters be funky as hell. That's good enough for me!

So they're going to tie up a 639 year old organ for the next 639 years playing one piece of music? That's really silly and incredibly ego-tistical.

Thank you, jacknife! Any venues you'd suggest in Madison?

It's up to you, Ed. We get more per CD through Ebay, but if you want the convenience of using a credit card, go ahead and use CDBaby. I really like them and have no qualms supporting them by giving them a cut of the sales. And hey, here's something cool, too... CDBaby is getting into the online distribution business with hookups to Apple's I-Tunes, Emusic, and more. We're thinking about taking part in that as well.

For those that are interested, we are now accepting submissions for the 2004 "Men of the Organissimo Forums" swimsuit calender. All entries must be postmarked by August 31st for consideration.

Thank you for the suggestion, Chaney. So far we've sold 2 CDs through Ebay which pays for the listing cost! I've decided to extend the auction for another week.

Adam Scone's new disc which is offered on CDBaby sounds nice. I'll be ordering a copy soon. It's an organ trio but they do some neat original material and it has the great Ben Dixon on drums!!!

C'mon Rooster, you're just baiting the poor guy... It's funny as hell, too!

"No, no, no, honey! It's not that... listen... a recent study by the Austrailian...."

Congrats, Tony! My wife and I will hopefully be trying to start a family soon! Have fun and keep us informed!