Jazzmoose

Sorry...I'm still trying to get over the way the software listed this topic... "Interviewing Hoagy Carmichael....ghost of miles"

I've been carless in California (special permit required! ) since 1994, when I realized I was a shitty driver, and it really was my fault that I kept getting all those speeding tickets! The negatives: it really cuts down on the social stuff; no trips to Yoshi's for me, no quick runs to the music store. Positives: No quick runs to the music store! Impulse shopping is pretty much eliminated as and trips have to be coordinated with the wife. Of course, there's the catch: she still drives. And if and when we move down South (as in really down south, not this California version that means LA or something...), I'll be joining the ranks of the motorized again.

Hmph. He's still dead? Thought maybe he'd won on appeal...

Get in the car Barb; it's burrito night!!!

Thanks for posting that, Tony; good read. As for me, I'm forced by my late coming to jazz into the "I'll take what I can get" camp, unfortunately... (Plus, it's been far too long since I read that site; thanks! )

Wow...all I remember from playing as a kid in band is that no one trusted us enough to sit in front of us. They thought we would purposely try to knock their heads with our slides. Okay, we would, but they didn't really know that...

Sure hope so!

Funny, I couldn't care less...

Oh, duh.... (insert embarrassed smilie here)

only we old fogeys know it! Hell, I'm older than you, and I don't have a clue...

Haven't watched a whole game since Cosell left...

"Electric Avenue" never sounded fresher than when played after using this thing. I can't believe the nuance revealed in even my favorite Kenny G. track. And to say this made a difference in Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" has to be the understatement of the century!

...or maybe I don't drink enough!

I was on hundreds of records back in the seventies and eighties, but I take better care of my shit now and put everything back on the shelf...

Now why did I read that? Sigh....headed for the shelves...

A bigger help would have been noticing this thread a year ago...

That's the first one that came to mind.

illogical....illogical....drink Budweiser...but enjoy....illogical...

Without a doubt. I would imagine most only use them for times that are incovenient. There's nothing as satisfying as a sucessful manual snipe on eBay. Snatching that puppy away with three seconds left to go and imagining the look on Conn's face is priceless...

So...I guess this means I'm the only one in the bunch with Cugat LPs under his roof...

Just seeing if Wolff gets blamed for this...

Yeah, 68 feedbacks seems odd, but in the end, I don't think this is extraordinarily "fishy" at all. I think a lot of sellers do their feedback all at once, and it appears this guy won auctions that ended Feb. 17 and earlier. Maybe this seller had a bunch of albums the guy was interested in and willing to pay for, and it just so happens that on March 28 was when the seller went back and submitted feedback? Furthermore, if this were some sort of "fishy" transactions, like an attempt to pump up feedback numbers, what's the point? As several people have pointed out, no one really cares what a buyer's feedback is, and that's what this guy is: a buyer. And in addition to that, if it was a conspiracy to pump up feedback, why do it in a way that apparently makes people think its "fishy"? And if you guys can take just one more added point, why would someone try to pump up their feedback by some scam of getting 68 feedbacks from the same seller? If your feedback is 10, and you get 68 from the same person, it only goes to 11...

Wait a minute; so I was pronouncing Jacquet correctly after all? I'm getting mighty confused here. signed, Jassmeusse

Exactly. The sealed bid auction comparison is apt. By the way, about a sniper swooping out of nowhere, that's the way it's supposed to work. I rarely, rarely, RARELY bid more than once on an item. If you bid more than once, you weren't doing your homework. In an eBay type auction, you need to determine what the max is you're willing to pay and bid it. If you're making more than one bid, you aren't disciplined enough to play the game. Bid once, bid accurately, and make it count.