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If I ask for $2 and they offer .50, asking for $3 next as a way of saying $2 is a minimum. It’s still negotiating. Negotiating does not require a reduction of request on $2. Especially if you want to cut jobs at the MiLB level.
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2 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
This.
But some dicks are worse than others - and I see that yesterday after PA increased demand on minimum salary, owners increased their offer. Who is making an effort here? I continue to stand by my prior assertions.
I’m of the mindset if you believe your labor is worth more than you don’t just bend over and take whatever is given. The turn on unionized labor in America is fascinating and sad to me. So many people in the work force are the labor and the sentiment that you should just take what you can get astounds me.
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Not sure why the players should make the biggest concessions, they are the reason there is a product, but I am a union man. With that being said I think it was expected that this would eat into the regular season on both sides and a reduced schedule is unspoken but welcome.
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1 hour ago, EveryMann said:
Ha ha!
Here is the rest of the room, incidentally...
Nice. I sense a theme
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Woof! 3.5g of tracking? Is that cart from the 60’s? That seems crazy high if it’s a modern cart. I think my ortofon is set to 1.75. I’d think about getting a new table or at minimum a new cartridge.
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4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
I was also a big hip hop fan before becoming a jazz fan. That's one of the main reasons I took against OH. To my ears, the hip hop elements on that record are a complete joke. The problem is jazz / hip hop cross over attempts is that you need to attract decent talent from the hip hop end too. Otherwise you just get a wretched semi-jazz mess, with C level talent.
Perhaps I am missing something.
That’s interesting. I have 0 expectation when rap is added to a jazz album which allowed me to be pleasantly surprised by the rap.
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I love Origami Harvest but I was immersed in hip hop the first 27 years of my life before ever getting into Jazz so I connected. As a reference, my true introduction to discovering jazz was Christian Scott’s album Anthem.
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RSD is nothing but flippers these days which is why it’s frustrating if you want to get a specific title. I’ve managed to get most of what I want afterwards online usually with no or minimal markup. I think the Dr.John Herbs release last year was the most I’ve paid over retail and it was about 15% which is worth it to avoid the masses to me.
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1 hour ago, Dmitry said:
I went to my local shop, and paid them for the set. The man said he will be ordering it, but if it falls through, he will give my money back. I haven't bought any RSD titles before. Does this sound kosher to you?
My guess is your local shop is now going to order an additional copy and if it comes they’ll sell it, if it doesn’t their copy will sell immediately to you. This is the benefit of having a good relationship with your local shop.
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Thanks. I'll see what I can find with that lead.
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Nice! I’m still looking for it
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Maybe just buy clothing or physical media
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Going to see Gregory Porter tomorrow night.
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Damn. An under appreciated musician
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Bill Withers - Naked & Warm
Other than Live at Carnegie Hall this is my favorite Bill release. It's right there with Live. I don't know if it's because I have memories of listening to both as a kid or it's how funky the first half is. Plus City of Angels is in my opinion his finest song.
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Horace Silver - The Jody Grind
got this as a filler in an order to take up space I guess. Its an original mono copy, assuming since they threw it in its not too valuable, but it is a Horace I don't have and after a spin on the record doctor it sound pretty darn good!
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On the first Friday of the month since March of 2020, we’ve waived our revenue shareto help support the many artists who have seen their livelihoods disrupted by the pandemic. Over the course of 17 days, fans paid artists and labels more than $70 million dollars, helping cover rents, mortgages, groceries, medications, and much more. If you’re among the nearly 800,000 fans who participated, thank you.
It will likely be several months before live performance revenue returns in full. So we’re going to continue doing Bandcamp Fridays in 2022, on February 4th, March 4th, April 1st, and May 6th. As always, isitbandcampfriday.com has the details.
If you’ve started to feel guilty about buying music on any day other than Bandcamp Friday, here’s something to keep in mind: on Bandcamp Fridays, an average of 93% of your money reaches the artist/label (after payment processor fees). When you make a purchase on any other day of the month (as 2.5 million of you have since March, buying an additional $190 million worth of music and merch) an average of 82% reaches the artist/label. Every day is a good day to directly support artists on Bandcamp!
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Rick Countryman - The First Bird (solo alto saxophone album)
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3 hours ago, BeBop said:
Are you ready? My collection, about 10,000 items, is cataloged on 3x5 cards. Every person appearing on any recording (leader, sideman) has a card. On that card, I've listed every recording that that individual plays on. I've color-coded things: LPs are written in black; 78s in green, 10" and other less-common (in my collection) formats in red; CDs in blue (just so I know what part of the house to search).
That’s insanely impressive. I could see doing that if I started from the beginning of collecting. I liked collectorz because I could add studio/venue, musicians and it was searchable. I also added the from and rear images to releases. The search for a new database has begun.
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I’m well versed in Excel. That is not what I want in a database.
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1 hour ago, JSngry said:
The only way to really do this is to make your own file on your own database, save, and then back it up on a cloud drive.
Anything else and you will be, as you are discovering, at the mercy of a 3rd party, which is really convenient, until its not.
I feel your pain, but with data, you can step up to the table and roll the dice until you lose, or keep your cash in your pocket. And even then...
Yeah and if i teach myself to drill for oil and refine it into gas and I can stop going to the pump. Thanks for the insight
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Wonderful album by Masabumi Kikuchi, Ben Street and Thomas Morgan on bass and Krestin Osgood on drums
followed by one of the best releasees I've heard in a while.
Ming Bau Set - Yakut's Gallop which is Vera Baumann on vocals, Florestan Berset on Electric Guitar and Gerry Hemingway on Harmonica, Vocals and Drums.
Absolutely captivating music.
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2 hours ago, John L said:
I just visited the Collectorz online service. Wow, does it suck! It is just a list of of albums and songs by artist like iTunes. All of the useful information from my database - musicians on albums, listening notes, etc. - vanished when I supposedly transferred by database there. Now I am stuck in a dilemma and stand to lose what I have built.
I just got a generic response from them when I inquired about comparability. Really disappointed. They didn’t even answer my question. The lack of full transfer to the cloud from the desktop platform is cause for me to stop using them. If the cloud platform was the same as the desktop I would stick with them.
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36 minutes ago, John L said:
Yea, I am really pissed about that. I bought Music Collector for my Mac and invested a bit of time into it. Now they are saying that they will no longer update it. So when Apple changes its operating system, it will probably vanish. The online thing does not look great and there does not appear to be an easy way to transfer a lot of the info from my database there. This is deja vu. I had Cattrax and lost that when the company vanished.
I’ve got over a decade investing in my collectorz. I knew I should have bailed when they started referring to it as the old transfer option. It had become spotty for a couple years and now just doesn’t work. It’s a real shame because it was such a good product before they wanted to find ways to milk people endlessly.
MLB 2021 Hot Stove League
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I expect the owners to share profits fairly. The payroll tax is a negotiation of 1% to 3% which was a difference of 50 million. The revenue for MLB in 2021 was estimated at 4 billion. It seems to me like the pie is getting bigger and the slice for the players is getting smaller. Similar to what the NFL did last negations. I’m pro-labor so I am always about the labor getting their fair share. The numbers are so big a lot of people think the players are getting a fair cut because to those outside the league its more than we make.