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Beach volleyball? You dog. Oh yes.

There's been a lot of excelent articles in Guitar World over the years.

Not really. But I did pick up Dan Brown's Angels & Demons and PK Dick's Lies, Inc at B&N yesterday. Maybe I'll take a ook at the Brown this evening.

Let me guess: And then you happily sat together on the couch, breaking wind together. You're such a classy guy Dan.

I know I have the CD, I think the raga playing now is on a record I haven't heard in years.

Hmmm...well, I know which of those two categories the Moose fell into... Moose the Jazz cat.

And this raga program that came on afterwards is amazing.

Then it must have been the Knitting Factory tape. Now I'll have to go back and listen to all his material in my collection. I've always enjoyed Ask The Ages, but the rest of the material never got more than an occasional listen. There's a VCR tape of an old WKCR birthday broadcast that I haven't heard since I recorded it. It was interesting to hear the narrative on the NPR segment about how Santana gave Sonny credit. I heard him play at NYC Summerstage a year or two before he died. Him, two drummers, and a bass player. Maybe a keyboard player? I don't remember. What I do remember is how he would do these burning chromatic runs with reitterated notes and then toss the pick away. I tried it when I got home with my Jim Dunlap Stubby 3.0 picks and they would just fall apart. White dust all over the guitar. He was playing a wine red Les Paul and a Marshall half stack. Probably a 50 watt head and a 4x12 cab. Sounds like an interesting guy. Died on a treadmill from a heart attack.

It sure did. Faith Moves album? The Bill Cosby interview cracked me up. He said something about Sonny playing chords...he mostly played single note lines.

I saw this group at the 55 Bar (NYC) right before they left for England. Tim Berne - alto sax Tom Rainey - drums Craig Taborn - keyboard (I think) David Torn - guitar, samplers, and electronics I only caught the first set, but it was amazing. It was cool to hear them in such a small room and chat a bit with David. I'd never met him in person and he was nice enough to put me on the guest list. Torn won a Grammy last year for his production/remix work on the last Jeff Beck album.

I've been putting it off, but now I'll have to buy the Jack Johnson box!

I thought it was an Olympic sport.

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You shock too easy.

This year's Sonny Sharrock Birthday Broadcast is Sunday August 22nd, from 2 to 7PM, on WKCR-FM, 89.9 NYC, and online at www.wkcr.org. Members of Sonny's bands and family will attend. For background on the late Sonny Sharrock, free jazz guitarist extraordinaire, visit http://www.sonnysharrock.com. Said Robert Palmer about Sharrock, in Rolling Stone, Sept. 1991: “... without warning, he’d burst into a paroxysm of six-string mayhem – thumb-screwing distortion, glass-shattering tone clusters that sounded like someone was ripping the pickups out of the guitar without having bothered to unplug it from its overdriven amplifier.... Like a freight train roaring through a darkened station not just hours but weeks ahead of schedule.”

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Only if they had a diet version.

Son?

That makes me happy too. Why? Did you notice some sort of agenda?

MILES DOESN'T PLAY WITH YES ANYMORE. HE'S DEAD.

Eric Clapton with Mayall and Cream!

My Daddys side is No. Carolina/English and my Mother 's side is German. I should think not.

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...and of course women.