JSngry

Is there anything sadder than a mother having to bury her child?

I want to know if there's ANY tapes of him playing with The Mothers Of Invention.

I'm sure there have been alternates. The question is what has/did the label do with them?

I have it on LP, onthe American Zim version of this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-jaap-van-zweden-the-new-maestro-of-the-new-york-philharmonic-60-minutes/ missing him already. this season's "guest conductors" have not been particularly impressive, some less impressive so than others. Can't wait for Fabio Luisi to move/settle in here, let's see what happens then.

Is poutine out of the question?

wow, that's fucked up.

I looked for it for a while, but could never find it at a sensible price (I didn't go "all in" on Sinatra until 15 or so years ago, so it had come and gone as a real-time market item by then). Same thing for Songs For Swingin' Lovers, somehow the "normal" Capitol CD has an azymuth problem, or something, there's a "swishy" sound on some of it. The Mobile Fidelity Labs issue of THAT one was and is out of my range. So, no, I don't know how to compare the new stereo mix to that one. But I can tell you that the new Stereo mix beats the living crap out of the old one, and I was never disgruntl;ed about that one! Here's what they say the did: http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/frank-sinatra-only-the-lonely-60th-anniversary-deluxe-edition/ The new 60th anniversary edition is reissued across various formats. The two-CD edition features the original 1958 mono mix and a brand new 2018 stereo mix by Larry Walsh. ‘Only The Lonely’ was recorded as both a mono and stereo presentation,” explains Larry Walsh in the sleeve notes for this release. “The mono was the focus as that was the chief format of the day. The stereo was recorded with two microphones suspended high over the studio orchestra. Frank Sinatra’s voice was recorded onto a third track. With the stereo recording being mid-side decoded, the depth of the studio is revealed.”

Yeah, I know, immediacy and authenticity. Immediate and authentic what, though...I'm not impressed. I hear everything that was happening and/or about to happen around that time, and see who was "chosen", and I am not impressed, then, now, and probably never. People were in too big a hurry to break out/away and they took the first tingly thing that they could bring home (at least to the door) that was offered them. As far as Hooker goes, different universe. He might have been "eccentric" in his choices, to put it mildly, but he knew exactly where he was. The Presley/Sun group, at best they knew where they thought they wanted to be. And apparently a lot of other people thought they wanted to think they were there too. But in this case, money talked and bullshit didn't walk, it ran, ran all the way to the bank. We! We! We! all the way (back) home. Anyway...I've had the "Elvis debate" on here more than once, and have no real energy to delve back into it. I'll just say that then as now, "white Southerners" keep getting played because "they" are as big a group of suckers as people think they are.

Any word on what they're planning for the 75th anniversary? I hope to be around for it and don't want to settle now.

Yeah, there's an entire industry/empire built on that stuff. I get why, but I doubt it's why they think why.

The specifics of my experiences will remain anonymous, as they should. Suffice it to say that your assumptions are just that.

It's a Road Runner thing where the coyote runs off the cliff and keeps going until he realizes that there's nothing underneath him, and even ther, he's ok until he looks down. That Presley group with no drummer was sloppy beyond belief. No pocket, not even a concept of what a pocket might be, Adding a drummer - especially one who could actually play - to that mess would have likely had the effect of everybody "looking down" and realizing they had nothing going on other than collective obliviousness. Listen to the drummer on "Hound Dog" and listen to the flailing about going on around him. It's pathetic. Finally, somebody looked down and they started tightening that shit up somewhat, but lord, what a mess. What a mess.

Yes, Paul's Boutique. One of the most fun records ever made.

I will speak. As somebody who has been deeply wounded by the effects of an addiction not owned - or more properly, recovery possibilities not even casually attempted, denial not only just embraced but flaunted - for far too long, I will speak. I do not condemn Roy Hargrove, nor do I blame an addict for being an addict. I simply - yes, simply - say that the sustained behaviors of addiction damages more than just the addict. It's not just the addict who has to recover. When all chance at a restored wholeness is denied...

It'll be in here a few times: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20me30

https://sandiegotroubadour.com/2018/11/the-revolution-of-mark-dresser/ I've always dug this guy as somebody who could hang with anybody, at any time, doing anything. Glad to read an article that only strengthens that impression.

PM sent on The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings (listed as one of an edition 10,000 albums) $110

The big boxes are all CDs?

I get that the addiction itself is not a choice, and I get that coming to a place where you can own it is a journey fraught with peril before the destination is reached (if it ever is). No it's not simple. This I know. But there is a point where choices are made, not about whether or not to self-destruct, that is not really a choice, but about whether or not your own pain is so goddamned important that you don't care whether or not you inflict on those around you. That's the decision that has consequences beyond yourself, and that's the decision it takes honesty and courage to finally make, rather than avoid. Those consequences are simple. Painful as hell for all concerned, but ultimately simple.