Eric

As compared to spending billions invaiding a country that had nothing to do with slamming airplanes into US buildings? Thus saving bin laden-- a sworn enemy of Saddam-- the trouble of toppling him. ← Thanks for setting that Bush-level rationale straight, medjuck. ← Please go play in another forum.

I don't know if Atomic Kitten mean anything in the US - they are a high-gloss pop band with very attractive members. I expect we'll be waiting a while for another XTC album! Andy is probably quite distracted. ← Not sure if I should be disappointed or envious ...

from another site: A pretty fair pitcher who came to the 1962 Mets too late; he had little left to offer at that point. Prior to that, he had won in double figures six different years. After his baseball career ended, he became a successful politician, holding a seat with the House of Representatives, and serving important roles in the Ford and Reagan administrations. His nickname was "Vinegar Bend".

They pretty mcuh are that today, aren't they? Here is something to ponder ... not Mosaic-specific, but to follow your thinking. What will happen to the 2nd hand market, the ebay market if you will, if entire catalogs become downloadable? I am sure the vinyl folks will always be there, maybe vinyl continues to have a solid (2nd hand) market. Personally, I like having the "hard copy" - be it the CD or the vinyl. I like being able to read the notes, look at the artwork, etc. Plus I can always "trade it in" at my local shop or put it on ebay if I don't like it (or want to raise cash for new purchases). The iTunes (more braodly, downloadable) solution completely ignores this issue today. Still, not sure I will want a e-version of the Mosaic booklet that I can view on my screen. Nor am I sure that I want to jack with a printer to make copies myself - I would much rather pay the pros for this. As to the material they will be releasing, who knows? One could argue that most of the "major" stuff has been taken care of (either by Mosaic or the majors). Having said that, Mosaic seems to have built a very loyal, trusting following. Point being, they could get into even more obscure stuff and many folks would follow them, "sight unseen (or unheard)" so to speak. Still, don't we have a thread around here about labels that have yet to be re-issued to any great extent on CD? The Complete Beehive Records Recordings The Complete Mainstream Records Recordings The Complete Xanadu Recordings And so on. Or, maybe some entrepreneur will get ahold of these catalogs and release them in e-versions only. Or perhaps Mosaic will. I damn sure hope I am here and in good health 20 years from now to find out

I like pretty much everything they did - definitely one of my all-time favorite bands. One of those bands that has an amazingly high number of quality songs. If Andy Partridge had had a "prettier" voice, these guys would have been huge in the US ... although personally I think his voice is a perfect fit for the music.

Following is an email update from the friend of a very trusted friend. I changed the names, but that's it. Amazing ... Gang - In regard to us and our immediate future, I offer the following updates: -We filed claims with our home owner's insurance, flood insurance, and with FEMA today to be one step ahead of the game -We are heading to Michigan to my parent's home for an indefinite period of time- Jennifer and the kids will be there at least 3 weeks to a couple of months -I might be called back to NOLA in my role as UNO's Critical Incident Stress Response team director to assist the university with its emergency response to the post-hurricane needs of students and faculty. At this point, the fall semester has been postponed until further notice, and it’s pretty likely the entire term will be cancelled. As of this afternoon, the www.uno.edu Web site was down, so there’s no “official” communication from the school because the entire campus was evacuated on Sunday. -If I am not called back for that role, I will likely head down as a volunteer for the Red Cross to help out with the clean-up and relief efforts in a week or so - The last report from the NOLA mayor predicts that more than 1,000 people in the city have died as a result of Katrina, and we haven’t even reached the point where water-based diseases are spreading broadly. Based on current images and reports, our home is likely under 10-20 feet of water and will remain so for a few days or weeks. We will probably have to completely rebuild completely because the water is transferring infectious diseases through building materials , and I am hopeful that we will be able to do so. The house we were supposed to close on today is likely 20-30 feet under water...so I don’t think we’ll be moving there any time soon. I truly appreciate your offers and comments and want to thank you guys for everything. Who knows!? Maybe Jennifer and I will turn the whole thing into a vacation and see some of you guys during our unexpected 'time off'! -Randy

I am probably around 80, the majority of which are post-1967. Generally speaking, I am an acoustic guy, although with Miles, I find his electric stuff particularly compelling.

Gag, I hate to admit it, but the cover art at Wal-Mart consistently has the highest resolution I have seen ...

Just grabbed the Jimmy Smith "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" session. WOW - it is kicking my ass all over the room

I noticed they are now up to 173 titles. This really is a very cool idea, IMHO.

It is back in at CD Baby

Agree - these really are gems, which frankly, I had very little knowledge of 3 weeks ago. Life is good!

a cleaned-up version of all (4?) of these CDs would make a hell of a Select!!

Oh, you know it will be! ← I am waiting on this--so I'll lose out on the nice pre-order discount--because if it is copy-controlled I do not think I can get it. I rip MP3s for my portable and do 99 percent of my listening to actual CDs at work--where I cannot load programs onto my computer, meaning I can't load the little dedicated CD player for the copy-controlled disc, which means I couldn't play the #$@$ing thing. Gaaaaaaahhh Is there any way to find out beforehand for sure, one way or the other? ← Didn't someone mention that the timing of the CDs is a factor? In other words, if the CD is greater than (maybe) 70 minutes, it cannot be copy protected due to limitations in the software? This is apparently why the Shaw LP is not copy protected.

Completely agree!!!

yeah, my kids have one, so it worked out for me ... otherwise, I am still very pissed at Sony

Everything works fine with a Mac, including the "loading to an iPod process..."

They need to allow extra time to copy-protect those suckers ...

(apologze n advance for the typos, my keybard s jacked) Dmnaton has been n heavy rotatn - really a tasty date!!!

Cary, I am in Sacramento all week ... you'd think the KC contingent could actually be in town while you are! BTW, just got back from Emerald Isle, just up the road from you! Eric

Found a way to get the Horace Silver CD into iTunes on my PC (although you need a Mac to accomplish it). 1. Using a Mac, import songs into iTunes (apparently Macs are not impacted by the copy-protection BS) 2. Once the songs are loaded, burn a CD using iTunes on the Mac 3. You can then import the newly-burned CD into iTunes on your PC Simple enough, if you are fortunate enough to have easy access to a Mac (my son has one). Still an extraordinarily stupid move on the part of Sony.

The only "advantage" I can see if this were to happen would be increased publicity of what a pain in the ass this is. Everyone and their dog (at least in the jazz community) will publish reviews on Cellar Door and doubtless many reviewers will plop it into their computers and try to load it into iTunes. For that matter, I wonder what pop titles Sony has subjected to this BS?

Gaaaah, even worse. The computers where I work won't allow the users to add applications, so I couldn't install the little CD player application; I wouldn't be able to listen to the CDs at all. ← I expect a lot of poeple will have similar problems and/or they simply won't want to jack with the hassle of it. This is such an ill-advised move on their part. The concept of "limited burns" is OK with me ... but it is obvious that the technology has not yet arrived to make this seamless/painless for the consumer.

The Ammons in question was issued as an lp in 1967 but is a reissue of 78S. You will kick yourself and curse Verve when you go to their site and examine the contents of an Ammons disc called Young Jug. It contains 8 of the 10 tunes you downloaded plus 12 more. I can't believe they did this. ← They just did the same thing with "Cannonball Enroute". These 8 tracks are also on "Sophisticated Swing", which has *28* tracks in addition to "Enroute". I guess they are giving you the "option" to get the 8 tracks off "Enroute" for $7.92 versus all 36 for the exorbitant sum of $19.98. There is a job at Sony/BMG waiting for these guys ...

That is good news on the Shaw. The Silver is copy-protected.