Brad

There's a site that coordinates online auctions; I think its called onlineauctioneers.com or something like that. Auction houses usually charge a twenty percent buyers fee on top of the final price.

Maybe that's the update.

I can't speak for the other stores here in Jersey but at Rockaway, there was a customer who used to trade in a lot of his jazz cds and I picked quite a few good things at cheap prices.

Just got an email saying they're increasing the discounts to 50%!

Agreed. Wouldn't these look good in your collection

No excuse this time. Only 3 teams of formation dustbins would be easier.. That's not very nice. Are you saying we can't play football worth a darn . I went and looked at the FIFA rankings and I have to agree: Group B looks tough.

I wonder if the seller realistically thinks anyone will bid or he's just taking a shot in the dark.

I don't know about Group G being the Group of Death; I think Group B could be very tough. The Group of laughter (for lack of a better term) looks to be Group H; Spain look to have it easy (fortunately). As the Number 1 ranked team, I guess you're supposed to get a few bennies.

I listened to some of the music samples. Nice playing. Interesting titles to some of the songs

That was and has been a sticking point.

You didn't write that did you Allen Very nice, seriously.

What a voice. Not too effete, right Jim I had major crushes on her when I was a teenager in the 60s in those Muriel ads.

Summer of 1949 was a wonderful book, a good read (as just about anything Halberstam did). Bill James is not one of my favorites so I wouldn't give much credence to what a statistic obsessed person like him had to say about one of our great journalists.

Didn't know we took 'em that seriously.

For those in the know, is this stuff super rare, justifying a hefty price (not necessarily this price)?

Thought this article about Guitar Apps for the iphone in today's New York Times might be of interest. Here's the first couple of paragraphs: **** To Strike Just the Right Chord, Pick the Right Guitar App By BOB TEDESCHI Smartphones loaded with Guitar Hero have emerged as critical tools for aspiring rock stars. Now comes the second wave. Call it Guitar Hero: the Real Deal. For a growing number of actual guitarists, their smartphones — O.K., their iPhones — are suddenly as important as tuners, metronomes or recording equipment, because an iPhone can now do everything these other devices can do, for less money and with less hassle. “I’m amazed at the quality of some of the apps out there,” said Mike Mueller, contributing editor at Guitar Edge magazine and manager of GuitarInstructor.com. “At this point it’s kind of ‘buyer beware,’ because everybody’s looking to get in on it, but this certainly has legs.” ***

I had read that Yoko cooperated with the Norman book but then also heard that she then withdrew any cooperation. Don't know if the latter is true or not.

Cool Lon. That sounds great

.... in one!

"Oh, Ma!"

The kid is very opinionated so chalk it up to the experience of youth. I've only been playing about nine months and obviously have a long, long, long way to go but I'm curious as to what you mean it clicked one day for you?

He's apparently admitted that he was doing something. I guess everything is never perfect, despite it outwardly seeming so on the surface.

We were looking at a variety of guitars, with my son helping me and he liked PRS. He told me to shy away from Epiphone because he didn't think they were very good; thought the strings were too stiff. Another brand he doesn't like and has never seemed to is Fender. I pointed out that the likes of Clapton and Beck play them and his comment is that the real expensive ones are probably ok but that's about it. He plays a Schecter himself.

According to their web site, it's been "discontinued." Sam Ash had a Custom 24 on sale for $389 on Black Friday, which Guitar Center matched so I purchased it. Well, actually my wife got it for me as a Xmas present so it's under wraps until then. My first real guitar.

Let's tie Jim down and pour Jeri Southern into his ears. He better watch out that the Jazz singers union don't picket his house. If they do, I will hose them down with Shirley Horn, Jimmy Scott, Joe Lee Wilson, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Jeanne Lee, Ivie Anderson, and who knows how many others and then ask them wtf their problem is. I guess that group are not mannered and effete