7/4

Whew!

Just a few things here and there. More devoted to the Schulze recordings. Are you able to keep up with the FAX releases? I gave up years ago, but I do own a nice shelf of FAX.

I should read that again...and New Musical Figurations...and Blutopia...and all those liner notes. Great stuff, but there's a lot too read.

Have a good un...

I like it. Real edgy heads, Braxton takes the standards to Mars. That's why it's fun. Tuning issues...I tend to think that's what Braxton is going for. As a composer/performer working with microtonal music for many years, I find it strange when someone tears into an artist's tuning. I don't see anybody ripping into Robert Johnson. On a related note, over the years I've noticed critics on the net (no one here at the big O) going after Ron Carter on Dolphy's Out There. Carter and Dolphy were using quarter tones, get over it. ← Totally agree with David on this! You wanna slap the critics upside their heads and scream, "It's called character, folks!" --- Now playing: Iancu Dumitrescu - Monades (gamma & epsilon) ← Thanks. I noticed you on the cage list, we're on the same team.

I live a half hour outside of NYC. Last night it took me 1 1/2 hours to get home. Things like the Olympics and stadiums in NYC are a real bad idea.

I like it. Real edgy heads, Braxton takes the standards to Mars. That's why it's fun. Tuning issues...I tend to think that's what Braxton is going for. As a composer/performer working with microtonal music for many years, I find it strange when someone tears into an artist's tuning. I don't see anybody ripping into Robert Johnson. On a related note, over the years I've noticed critics on the net (no one here at the big O) going after Ron Carter on Dolphy's Out There. Carter and Dolphy were using quarter tones, get over it.

I only have 9. But how big is your FAX collection?

Same here. But they lost me after WYWH, even more after Animals. I did like the Live 8 performance.

Have a safe trip!

Watered down beer!

from WKCR:

He has been known to take breaks from the board, my guess is this is another one. I hope all is well.

...and beer.

Man, you're dedicated! Looks cool.

July 3, 2005 N.J. Governor Comes to Shields' Defense By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:47 p.m. ET TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Actress Brooke Shields has an ally in her war of words with Tom Cruise over her use of prescriptions drugs to treat postpartum depression: New Jersey's acting governor. ''Tom Cruise knows as much about postpartum depression as I do about acting, and he should stick to acting and not talk about women who need help,'' said Richard J. Codey, whose wife, Mary Jo, has struggled with the illness. Cruise criticized Shields for taking antidepressants, and became particularly passionate about the issue in an interview on ''Today.'' Cruise is a follower of Scientology, which teaches that psychiatry is a destructive pseudo-science. Cruise said there was no such thing as chemical imbalances that need to be corrected with drugs, and that depression could be treated with exercise and vitamins. Shields has called that ''a disservice to mothers everywhere.'' Mary Jo Codey, 49, a kindergarten teacher, has openly discussed her struggles with postpartum depression, speaking about the ordeal that started when she was diagnosed 28 years ago. During a public appearance last fall, Mary Jo Codey told of driving to a pharmacy four towns away from her home to fill a prescription for antidepressants. She said she ''wore dark sunglasses and prayed really hard to God that no one would see me.'' Oh, and by the way...screw Tom Cruise. Wack job.

Good luck with your first archtop. I've got 3. Started off with an Ibanez GB-10 (Japan), got a Gibson ES175, then got the beauty to the left of the screen, a Gibson Super V CES (L5 with Super400 neck). It's not fair that jazz instruments cost so damn much, when the rewards are pitiful compared to rock and ©rap charlatans. Be it a Selmer Tenor Sax, a B3, a Steinway, an archtop like the venerable Gibson L5........, jazz instruments cost big $$$. Side note: I've had alot of good luck recording archtop guitar with a Boogie Formula preamp. Nice mix of a tube front end (in full stereo with a stereo effects processor) and digital recording backend. Also does well for jazz-rock fusion as well, great for Carlton-Ford-Ritenour-Santana type stuff. ← Thanks. The Epiphone is in limbo for now. If there isn't something wrong with the pickups, there's something loose in the top. I would have been better off buying a new cheap archtop. I went back to playing a '93 Strat Plus, then a few weeks ago I got a '52 Telecaster reissue on semi-permanent loan that's great. I never really played a Tele, it's so much different than a Strat and I used to think think that the Tele was all about twang. It works for me now. Maybe I'll get the Epi fixed up this Fall.

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Bjork in Japan

I saw parts of it. Pink Floyd was exciting. I taped the whole think, I'll probably be fast fowarding though most of it. I wouldn't mind seeing just the music, MTV cut in with the hosts in the middle of Wish You Were Here.

Thanks Guy. Dig this one. It's real.

It looks like it needs a very large room.

Not too far from here.

That's some intense visual art. I'll have to look for more.