Jazzmoose

I don't habe the Django set yet, although it'll probably be my next purchase. I've only heard part of it thanks to a fellow board member, but it's fantastic stuff! Since it's likely to disappear much quicker than the other two, I'd certainly think about getting it instead.

What? Huh? What do you mean?

Well...I guess it depends on how you define the beast. I remember seeing artists like Pat Metheny and Russell Malone called smooth jazz on one jazz board or another, and both are on my shelf. On the other hand, most of what I think of as smooth jazz is really boring. You know what gets me? The drumming. Might as well be a machine...

A discussion of interest...

Hmm..guess I missed the discussion, but for what it's worth, I don't care for most jazz guitar either. And if I'm reading Allen's comments correctly, for similar reasons: it amazes me that an music (jazz) that started out blurring the line between human voice and instruments can't stand it now when a guitarist does anything they consider odd to the instrument. Rock guitarists can do all kind of interesting things with the instrument and it's cool, but if a jazz guitarist does anything other than emulate Wes Montgomery, it's 'just not jazz'. But then I guess I don't understand what Allen's talking about, because that's just the reason that Pat Metheny is my favorite jazz guitarist: he ignores those rules.

Well, for starters, there's the culture on this very board...

Yep; Pat is the anti-Wynton!!

Well...if you ask it that way...who filled John Holmes' shoes, anyway?

You're wrong, Soul Stream. At Target, it's no big thing to be able to qualify for company sponsored health insurance. At Wal-mart? Forget it. They'd rather have the rest of us pay more taxes so they can force their employees to get their medical care through Medical (or whatever your state has as their program for the poor to obtain medical care). There's a big difference, at least between those two.

Why is that hypocritical?

Yeah, that one could have been written today.

Um...just out of curiosity of course, which Target do your wives frequent?

And of course, walmart.com and the brick-and-mortar Walmarts are two distinct and separate entities...

...why are they dipshits? No one knows; it's probably genetic...

Yeah, that's the bastard that stole Soul Stream's guitarist!

I wouldn't mind seeing that myself, but I can't see Aaron doing that.

It is too!

A disturbing development., from BBC: Thompson 'shot himself on phone' Thompson had talked about killing himself, his widow said The widow of US writer Hunter S Thompson has said her husband killed himself while they were speaking to one another on the telephone. Thompson - best-known for his 1972 account of a drug-addled Nevada trip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - shot himself on Sunday at his Colorado home. His widow, Anita Thompson, 32, told the Aspen Daily News she heard the "clicking of the gun". She said: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and did it." He wanted to leave on top of his game Anita Thompson, widow Mrs Thompson said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly column, but instead of saying goodbye, he shot himself. She added that she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said. Supportive Thompson, who was a leading political journalist and one of the most important US authors of the 20th century, was found dead by his son, Juan. The 67-year-old shot himself in the head in the kitchen while his son, daughter-in-law and six-year-old grandson were in the house. Mrs Thompson told the newspaper her husband had repeatedly talked about killing himself in the months running up to his death. He had also left verbal and written instructions about what he wanted done with his body, his unpublished works and his assets. "He wanted to leave on top of his game. I wish I could have been more supportive of his decision," she added.

Hey, I knew he was male from the first few posts I read on that forgotten board (no, it wasn't the BNBB); that's why the name stood out for me. That and he posted a lot...

Hell, at the moment country is probably second only to jazz in my listening, so I can't slam you for that. Putting money in the hands of these greedy bastards who are forcing our jobs overseas into China is another thing...

In that case, I've never heard of you...

For me, it's a combination of it's treatment of music in general, combined with it's sucking the blood out of the countries economic engine along with the union thing. So I guess it's just...stuff.

Ah. Now I see...

Not even close. Too much else out there!

You couldn't pay me to let the ghost of Sam Walton kiss my ass, so no...