Joe G

Was that Carla's favorite Saturday morning show? :rsmile:

What do you mean by "cover"?

Ha! You may not like squirrels, but they do have awesome climbing abilities!

It is a good one. "I Wish It Would Rain" being the most moving track for me as well.

We didn't need this thread at all!

Just recently came across that one myself. I'm still puzzling over "A laugable instance of linguistic ignorance..." Time to have a drink, perhaps?

The term I would like to see make a comeback is flutterby. There's nothing buttery about a butterfly. It's a flutterby!

Not as common as death, though. MG Death and music are equally common, but while murder hasn't decreased, stealing sales with a cover version has.

Except that murder is still common.

Dan wrote what I was thinking, pretty much. For people of my generation, doing covers is simply playing "other people's music", perhaps with an emphasis on sticking pretty closely to your favorite recorded version (an imaginative reworking of the original might be something more than "just a cover"). The intent has nothing to do with stealing sales, but with 1) playing music that the musicians enjoy, and 2) playing stuff that will go over in a club. A cover band is one that goes into bars and does just that almost exclusively. This is mostly a pop/rock usage, I would say. Jazz standards are viewed a little differently: it's The Great American Songbook, so we're simply playing tunes "out of the book". And if we're going to play a composition by Wayne Shorter, for example, then that's how we term it: "Let's do this Wayne Shorter tune." So in organissimo's repertoire, we have our covers, our standards, and our originals. Really, I have not put any thought into the term "cover" and no musician I've ever worked with even so much as batted an eye when it was used. It's just understood what is meant by that, and the concept of stealing sales isn't even on the radar at this level. You could accuse me/us of being historically ignorant, which I don't have a problem copping to personally, given the company here, but this is the language I inherited.

HA!

Bring it along tonight!

Thought for a sec you meant that guy who used to post here under that name!

That is a Rather Strange Description, I Must Say.

I like a lot of that last LMO album, Not In Our Name. Nicely recorded, too. On her website there is a book available containing her charts for solo piano. Does anyone know what album or albums might feature those pieces?

That's just asking for it.

Those wacky "friends at Universal"...

Or... I usually wait for the 65% + free S&H, personally. That's the thing about BMG - you have to not mind waiting for one reason or another.

Still $2.79, special rates for multi-disc sets.

Thanks, Jim.

Just add Dancerchick.

The chicks dig it. Actually, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Stopped off at the farmer's market for some fresh produce, rode home and made: Picnic Rice Salad: 4 cups cooked brown rice 1 2.5-ounce can sliced black olives, drained 6 scallions sliced thin, with 3 inches green 1 cup cooked green peas 2 large tomatoes, chopped not peeled 1/3 cup shelled sunflower seeds 1/4 cup shredded basil leaves 4 tbs. olive oil 1 1/2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar salt & pepper to taste Combine rice, olives, veggies, sunflower seeds and basil. Whisk together oil, viegar, salt and pepper. Add to rice mixtrure and toss. Turned out great! Drinking: Samuel Smith Old Brewery Pale Ale On the stereo: Sky Blue, Maria Schneider Orchestra.

Oh fer cryin' out LOUD!

Some great phrases, like, “a generally tight cheese market” .