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Power amp distortion (instead of pre-amp distortion). db

One thing to keep in mind is how Laswell released a bunch of albums that sort sound like Ekstasis, even if they don't have Skopelitis on 'em. db

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That's a great album! I guess this is also the album with Jaki Leibezeit from Can. As far as I know, Skopelitis is mostly on albums by bassist/producer Bill Laswell. I'm kinda out of touch on this stuff, but I have a ton of Laswell related releases I haven't listened to in ages. wiki db

She's going overboard in trying to protect the Zappa family's rights to the music. .

Frank Zappa: A 'Lumpy' Legacy .

I heard him at a workshop at Sam Ash, Edison, NJ sometime in 93-94. I've never heard any recordings. Also I heard Chuck Wayne at some bar in Sommerset country, NJ around the same time. db

I'm sorry to hear about this. Take care. db

I'm listening to a bit of the 1967/68 box in celebration now.

Thanks for stopping in Jon. I always find your posts interesting, no matter what forum they're on.

If you did hear that piece, Suite for Guitar Quintet, you would hear it immediately. Quartet #5. It's a nice performance, BTW. Jimmy in good shape. Strings were out of tune I thought (string players, not guitar strings) and I would've liked to hear it done over. But still it's a good piece and worth hearing. I had it on a Muse LP: Strings and Swings. The other side (that really dates me, I know) is a concert in Louisville with his friend Jack Brengle on bass and Bobby Jones on tenor. Yeah, that's it. I might buy a turntable this weekend just to hear it again.

Happy Birthday Evan!

I have a AEC box and a copy of Nonaah. I like having Chuck around here, he cracks me up.

It's OK, I did a lot of R&D with the drinking for years before stopping in '07. It probably would have killed me. Anyway...my automatic reaction when I first heard Raney was a combination of Bach 'n' Bird. I have a few albums on vinyl I haven't heard in years. He was high on Bartok, too. Wouldn't stop talking about him... I know about that, but I never heard it in his music. Almost never - if I had turntable, I could check my copy of the album he did with a string qt. I vaguely remember something special about that one, maybe a Bartok influence. He should, he's shown up on USNET and AAJ. I think I posted his web site in another Jimmy thread. I hope nobody chases him off!

Yeah, whatever....lemme take this opportunity to do a bit of character assassination about someone I used to work with and maybe drag it out for years and years. It's all about me, of course.

Sweet! .

It's OK, I did a lot of R&D with the drinking for years before stopping in '07. It probably would have killed me. Anyway...my automatic reaction when I first heard Raney was a combination of Bach 'n' Bird. I have a few albums on vinyl I haven't heard in years.

He's not that obscure. Guitar players of taste know him and love him. well yeah, we know that! He went into retirement for a while and didn't record. He also had Meniere's Disease and went deaf (maybe this helped push him into alcoholism). For ever value it might have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Raney

IN THE LAND OF THE SEVEN MOONS an interview with JACK BRUCE and ROBIN TROWER

from todays NYTimes: "Apple Corps and EMI announced on Tuesday that the much-postponed remasters would be released on individual stereo CDs and in two boxed sets — one stereo, the other mono — on Sept. 9, the same day the Beatles edition of Rock Band, the music video game, is scheduled for release."

I say no, but maybe if he had a note from his parents. yep.

Apparently his nerves were really shot.

Thanks for bringing up the master...when I was first checking out more "traditional" jazz, I found a bunch of his albums at the Princeton Record Exchange. I loved them immediately, never understood why he's ended up so obscure - even among guitar players. dB

I hear you, although there may be a lot you never really got to hear more than once (if that). Around here - being NYC and Philly - in the early '80s the local radio stations had A-Z weekends where they would play everything.

Yeah...like evil clowny.