Harold_Z

My 2 cents - Aretha is a singer I really loved at one point, but (and I wish it were otherwise) I've gotten bored with her over the years. Really bored. To my ears her "bag of licks" just got smaller and smaller and she became predictable. For me the Columbias and first few Atlantic lps were my favorites. Probably I lose interest somewhere after Live At the Fillmore. As Soul morphed in many respects into Disco or Dance Music Aretha went with it. I saw her live sometime around 1978. the rhythm section with her was ininspired and she was uninspired. I was really disappointed. It wasn't at all what I expected and nowhere's NEAR the fillmore lp in terms of feeling AND a smokin' band. For a long time I hoped that sometime in the 80s or 90s she would reunite with a good rhythm section (Rainey, Purdie, etc) and get some good tunes, let the musicians blow, and cut a great album, but there was never anything but the most commercial of efforts from her. Couldn't someone of her stature done ONE album not catering to the most commercial interest? Regarding the Rare 'Retha - it piques my interest. There IS a lot with the rhythm section I dug most with her, but that begs another question - are the alternates just Aretha over the same track that was released or are they alternate rhythm tracks as well?

Rock a Bye You're Baby

I don't rank my musical interests and/or don't recognize genre boundaries That's the one for me. I'm very eclectic and if I like something - I LIKE IT! I forget the exact quote, but Duke Ellington said something like there are only two kinds of music -good or bad. He also said something about not being held hostage by the word jazz. I'm with him on both points. Genre categories are too subjective anyway. Ray Charles...is he blues, R&B, or jazz? All of the above? Is Losing Hand blues? Is One Mint Julep jazz? Were both records meant to be pop? Pretty useless and/or meaningless questions in my book. The real questions are "do you dig it?" "Do you want to hear it again?" "Do you want to go to a keyboard and figure it out?" Things like that.

Happy Birthday Chris ! All the best!

the a sounds are both ah. The I is long. Ahvahkeean.

Steely Dan is very NYC in my book.

I'm not sure either. Musicians usually figured the record companies would screw them, but a big record would enable them to up their price on personal appearances, so either way they aren't making loot off of record sales. ....but without record company promotion, how does the artist get known beyond a local level in the first place? Would word of mouth suffice in today's environment to generate "popularity"? I don't see that in this era of generally rotten taste.

I like Checker's french fries.

Fuckin' A !!

I can't either.

Yucateca triple xxx. EEEEEOOOOOOWWWW!

Well...no one said the guy writing the dictionary was HIP ! For me a cover was when Little Richard came out with Tutti Frutti and Pat Boone covered it within weeks. LaVern Baker did Tweedlee Dee and Gail Storm had a record out almost immediately. Someone coming out with Tutti Frutti now would not be covering it. It would simply be a new version. Trane was one of many people recording a tune from a popular show.

My own definition is pretty much the same as Chris and MG's. Anything else and it's just another version, rendition, etc. Unfortunately It HAS become corrupted into meaning just that for many people. Riff is another word that suffered the same fate. A band used to play riffs behind a soloist. A repeated phrase was a riff. Now it seems to have the same meaning as lick or can even mean improvisation. Even comedians riff nowadays.

I have that Jobim dvd. It's GREAT !!

I have all 10 tracks on a Miles "Compact Jazz" (Phillips), along with the Miles led session with Bird, and 4 tracks from "LeGrand Jazz". It's out of print, but it's pretty easy to find in used shops and online. The audio is more than acceptable.

Thanks guys. I guess I'll make another try with Audacity and if I still can't get it, I'll try the GOLDWAVE.

I record a lot of vinyl onto cdr using a standalone burner. usually I record one side of an lp as one track. On the cdr, using audacity (or if there is an easier program let me know) how can I separate the recording into individual songs? i.e. One track = one song.

Couldn't afford it but i sure did miss it. I didn't dig paying, but I couldn't miss Krugman or Rich. What really bugged me, tho, was that the Crossword puzzle wasn't included in the price of the subscription.

Definitely good news! I paid for two years.......it was worth it for me.

:lol:

The master tapes are cut (physically, with a razor blade) and the tunes are spliced into lp sequence.

Happy New Year !

Hell yes. :tup :tup I always found DEEP incredibly entertaining. ABSOLUTELY! :tup

I was watching a dvd of The Good German the other night. About 40 minutes into the flick there's a bar scene with a band playing. The band plays an instrumental version of Ugly Chile aka Pretty Doll. It's a 2006 flick. I guess these tunes aren't as obscure as I think!

Sure thing. We usually get to River Street at least once while we're in the area.