Brad

I think either Buster's or Board's son posted here a few years ago looking for information about his father. We gave all the help we could. I think it was in the Artists section.

Lon, Thanks. Have you ever played a Schecter and, if so, what do you think of those?

Someone I know is selling this guitar for $450. I think it's a S 500. Are these guitars good? Good deal?

I'm impressed. Sounds like business is taking off.

Sometimes they have (or had) interesting used Cds. You just never knew what you were going to find there.

Which mall?

Wonder how many Jim got?

No, they're still around but when I got the email Saturday night, I thought the same. However, on Sunday I talked to one of the people who works there who I knew a little, little bit and she told me it was a rent thing. Near me, they have one near Wayne on Route 46 and one in the Willowbrook Mall.

Same here. Will be watching. Thanks.

For those who live in northwestern New Jersey, the F.Y.E. in the Rockaway Mall (off of Exit 35 on Route 80) is closing and they are having sales (20 to 40 percent). Apparently F.Y.E. and the landlord couldn't agree on the rent so they're closing the store. As they have a great selection of music and DVDs, it's a bit of a bummer.

I don't know if this answers any questions (and if it's repetitous, sorry) but when I create a playlist and drag what I want in there, I only bring in what I want. If I bring in a whole album but don't want all its songs, I will delete those. I also think when you create a playlist, everything is automatically checked so it gets uploaded into your ipod or itouch. Others have already answered the question but when you uncheck a song, it doesn't get uploaded into the ipod. A few years ago, when my son got his ipod, I had to go and uncheck over 1,000 songs (at least) so they wouldn't get uploaded into his. It took awhile to say the least.

I need a remedial course

I knew it was something like that, yeah. Still, Ringo was the last one out of the room, and Long & Winding turned out the lights on the charts. Anybody know why/how Ob-La-Di got issued as a single in the late 70s? WTF was that? I mean, I bought one just to have it, but was there some secret publicity move that I missed that necessitated a "new" Beatles single made of two old songs? Couldn't really find anything. Macdonald notes that McCartney wanted to release it in 68 as a single but the others opposed it. Maybe he got his way and the compromise was to have Julia on the B side. Just a uninformed guess.

My thoughts exactly. I actually prefer it the other way around but I too am happy to have both. Perhaps not so odd as, for better or worse, that is the version that most fans know.

Actually that honor belongs to I Me Mine, finished on April 2, 1970 whereas LAWR was finished the day before.

I was looking at Macdonald's book about this and the essence of what he says about Let it Be (focusing on the Long and Winding Road) is as follows: the original take of LAWR was basically a demo with some bad playing by Lennon on bass and that as a result Lennon brought in Spector, whose solution to the song was tasteless but that he had no choice but to do something since it was basically a demo. Macdonald asks why, when they did the overdub, why not call McCartney to redo the bass parts since he was only minutes away? Lennon knew, according to Macdonald, that if his song was being worked on, he would have stopped the Let it Be project or had the session produced properly. He finds Lennon's indifference to the maintenance of Beatles production standards indefensible and that although his bad bass playing was accidental, it amounted to sabotage when presented as a finished work. Neither Paul nor George Martin knew the Get Back session were being prepared for release and, of course, McCartney had a fit when he heard Spector's rendition of LAWR, unsuccessfully tried to block it and having assured himself that his solo album would be released before the Spector session, quit the group. Macdonald concludes that while McCartney is no angel, Lennon's conduct was appalling.

I haven't participated in awhile so I'm in too.

I have an Edge through work and it's very handy. You can look at documents on it, although those can be a bit hard to read.

I bought it. How can you beat $2.99? With $1.99. Heck of a price. I guess registering with the Beatles web site does produce a benefit here and there

Have some of these in Japanese mini lp format; very nice sound. I think Dusty Groove also had them in some kind so sampler once.

Some of us (maybe most of us?) sync manually, not automatically. There are things I want to keep in iTunes, but don't want on my ipod. Not only that, but those of us who have multiple ipods want to sync different material from the iTunes library to different ipods. I do it too for my nano or that is I check only the categories I want the Ipod to snyc so I don't get my son's (heavy metal; ugh) collection on there.

I'm not sure what you're doing but everything in your library, assuming the song is checked, when you sync up should show up on your ipod. You can also create a playlist (check the plus sign at the bottom left of the iTunes screen, call it what you want, and then drag in whatever you want. Since my son mostly uses iTunes, for what I want on my nano (although I'm thinking of getting an iTouch) I create separate play lists. Just easier to manage, plus he has about 9,000 songs so I have to control what I want inputted into the Nano or what I want won't make it in.

I don't know if this is your speed but the metal drummers are really good technically.

On Xanadu, there is a CD called Shaw Nuff, which has three tracks from 1945: Reverse the Charges, The Man I Love and September in the Rain, featuring Freddy Webster (tp), Frank Socolow (ts), Bud, Leonard Gaskin (b) and Irv Krueger (ds). Regarding the Bebop Boys, you may able to somewhere find Blues in Bebop under Kenny Dorham's name issued by Savoy a few years ago, which features eight songs (plus two alternate takes) from 1946.

Johns, from what I've read, prepared a couple of versions, which were both rejected, which to what you are probably referring. The point I'm trying to make and I think Alexander made is that this wasn't really a finished album so that there are no definitive Get Back sessions, whatever you call it. However, I doubt the Beatles, Applie or EMI are going to do anythiing about it; Let it Be was issued the way it was and there it's going to rest for some time, maybe all time.