Holy Ghost

+ Heaviest record, period.

That's what the Witch Doctor told me. Now, that's the Jazzzzz Messengers I know.

I was asked if I could drive Sam from Cleveland Int'l Airport to Cleveland for a show back in 2006 I think? which I would've done for free, but I was at a conference, so I couldn't do it. To talk to that dude in my car for an hour or so? WOW!

Document is a masterpiece. Even the scraps are brilliant. Their cover of Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic is amazing! I think the same thing about The Replacement's Pleased to Meet Me, the lost Twin Tone album.

So glad I grabbed this CD when it was out there:

Yeah!!! IMO, this label to me is what Blue Note was to jazz. REM, Fine Young Cannibals. Brilliant independent label. Oh Yeah!

LOVE R.E.M. Always thought Green was a lost IRS album

Glad to see some love for The Clash. Great Record! Broke out this deluxe set for Ozzy. My favorite Sabbath record.

Glad to see someone else loves The Clash. Great Record! This is pretty, like wow!

Yeah, still one of my favorite Sabbath records.

Tom, You're in for a treat, wait until Sabotage makes it in to your mailbox. Personally, these are the best Sabbath records. Enjoy! (William) HG

Like this song. I've really grown to like Johnny Cash. Unusual country (whatever) dude, but he's cool in my book. Neglect to mention he covered Nine Inch Nails, Hurt!! Levels me more than NIN:

Revisiting:

Yeah, it's nice, not 7 c's nice.

I was the only one watching shark week?

I'm in. Powerful record.

Still unraveling everything inside this record. Deeeeeep album. The music is just the surface, just the segue of what was bubbling underneath. Incredible document of where "intellectual" jazz was heading in 1970. PS: No slip to Miles as "New Directions" needed to go in it's direction (a direction I like too!)

Like it. Cool Spaces.

Still love this record up to this very moment.

Of course!! Love this one simply for Billy Higgins making a simple trap and snare sound like a huge drum kit!

@Niko This gets to me, "... my late dad had a lifelong struggle with the obscure language that's still commonly used in the humanities in Germany... I have many childhood memories of him complaining about the way people said things in faculty meetings etc... and, somehow, that preference for a simple and clear style in scientific writing has stayed with me... to the point where my tolerance for convoluted sentences and fancy words is pretty low... certainly far too low to appreciate Heidegger... " Niko, this story really upsets me too. I don't know where to start. I have had my fair share of pompous asshole professors acting like they know everything, and we students are a bunch of dolts and ninnys. No matter how hard I tried, I was never excepted into exclusive clubs that spoke fluent German (mine was still broken (I had to think) and could never roll my r's). I don't want to think Heidegger was one of them, but I am not German and even after taking four years of German plus two graduate years of German research, would want to believe Heidegger would not make fun of anybody because they're not fluent enough to speak nor write in his way, but now I think he does. If so, then Heidegger is a pompous asshole too and that pompous-ass tradition carried on and look how it affected your father is a complete shame. The idea Heidegger wrecked lives like that, your dad saying basically Heidegger set the bar, wow. And your Dad cites Heidegger as the reason. Agree. Wow! For what it's worth, I couldn't even translate page one of "What is a Thing." I made so many mistakes, all I could say was, I gave it my best. This account just paints a new picture of Heidegger for me. I have some reevaluating to do...

Wow Niko, thank you for sharing these amazing stories. How rare you get a glimpse into Heideggers's "real" classroom, which sounds like you dig him or you don't. This is rare and insightful. Wow!

Read it (the Oxford edition, if I recall, it was reprinted as a Harper Torch paperback, I don't have it handy, and he assisted in some of the translations) and it was a huge assist. Very much admire his contribution to the Hegelian canon.

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On this Night, yeah! Historically and great music, love Fire Music and Four for Trane, but I like the Shepp Impulse!'s that fly under the radar, like For Losers, Live in San Francisco, Attica Blues, and Mama Too Tight. The Savoy material with Bill Dixon should be made more readily available (have the Atlantic/Savoy issue of Shepp/Dixon 7tette/Cont 5, but not the quartet issue , which is some gray-area issue).