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Except when they live upstairs.

I know a couple of people that were on that fest. Damm Xenakis lovers!

The Academy Awards, certainly, were created really to help promote movies. Rewarding perceived accomplishment is a useful way to do it. Most presenters are people with upcoming films, etc. I'm sure the Grammys are the same. So if you win one and don't promote, then really you are failing the Academy. ;-) Of course, Harry Smith won one for lifetime achievement for the Anthology of American Folk Music and died soon thereafter, so occasinally some good things happen. So you're saying it's a good thing Harry Smith is dead?

I don't know about that. They certainly can be analyzed differently: http://www.zappateers.com/diapo.php?cat=17&expand=15 Rhythmically complex!

I don't have any particular problem with it. What do you not like about it?

I believe the organization that votes is NARAS (Natl. Academy of Recording Arts and Science). Exactly how one becomes a member of that august body, I'm sure I don't know. Pay dues?

Good example. Any others?

Ho...ly....shit....... How 'bout Ed's introduction: "Now here for the youngsters, who undoubtedly by now are oldsters, is Sly and the Family Stone." Think Ed somehow knew that 37 years from then we youngsters-turned-oldsters would be watching this on the internet? Cosmic Ed. He knew the future.

ECM has - in recent years - had distribution problems in the US and releases, even if they're new, can be hard to find.

I'm looking forward to checking it out. Who's carrying it in NYC? Virgin? DMG?

I wouldn't describe him as a Jazz musican, more of a Prog Rock musican. And dey ain't Jazz.

The woman who sang with Herbie. Gwen Stefani from the band No Doubt, now on a solo thing. She used to sing in a high alto/soprano, now she's singing with this r&b voice. I was not watching since I was working but heard it and it's Christina Aguamalaria that was singing w/ HH - since she's on his newer album ... Stefani is preggers now ... she was in "The Aviator" and has legs that you shoulod all know about!!!! I think she might have an inseam of about five feet. and her shit is bananas ... B.A.N.A.N.A.YES.! my daughter loves her so the room posters are just fine! oops! Yes, nice legs! I was wondering about that... I also have never heard it.

Didn't realize we were in a cross-examination mode. I guess I lost the trial. If there's an example of Zappa playing a solo over a chord progression of more than two chords I wouldn't mind hearing it. Playing a melody along with the band doesn't count. Zappa wasn't a Giant Steps sort of player.

I know my way around NYC, but I don't claim to live there. I never said I give Bruce rides to work, he takes the train, NJ Transit. I have however given him rides to pickup grocerys.

And we thought you live in Oslo.

The woman who sang with Herbie. Gwen Stefani from the band No Doubt, now on a solo thing. She used to sing in a high alto/soprano, now she's singing with this r&b voice.

Oh man...

I like Gwen better when she sounds like a chipmonk.

Which? A chiropractor or a lap dance? Chiropractor.

never used one.

I had one about 9 years ago. I was quite medicated at the time so I kept falling asleep. I remember it was kinda tight, but also...they asked me if I wanted to listen to the radio. So it's fundraiser time on WNYC (NPR) and there's all this crazy clanking noise coming from the MRI, yet I'm still falling asleep. I don't think I can have another one, I have a metal plate in my leg now.

The Stones crowd was definitely a prop. they advertised for locals to rush in at halftime, show some love, and then get the hell out of there at the end of it. the ads stated "no one over 45 please" Then what the hell were the Stones doing there? Reminds me of the time I saw a MTV special with Aerosmith. I think they were twice the age of anyone in the audience.

Sly and the Family Stone Tribute - Eventually Sly comes out with a platnum mohawk and there's two microphones up there. One is for singing and the other is for a talk box (you know...like Peter Framton or Jeff Beck). He starts singing through the talk box mike, which of course is turned down...by the time the sound man notices, Sly is singing through the other mike and keeps switching back and forth. As for the band, I think they could have used another guitar player and a few more singers.

Yeah...screw the Grammys. Guess who won Jammies!

There was a time when I was heavily into disorganised sound and I thought it was music.