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Not seeing anything in that batch that wouldn't already be Universal-owned anyway, so how would it be boot and/or illegal here? More like beat the boots, take that Geogy Pulledpork!

The soloists don't sound like that, the writing itself is a little too unconvoluted to be Thad, but the drummer sure profiles like Mel, and the way the band roars really reminds me of Jones and/or Lewis. No matter, soloists a bit non-descript, but outstanding ensemble and really enjoyable Mellish drumming.

Indeed. But age of consent and actual consent are not the same thing.

A Thad band with or without Mel? It's got that vintage aggressiveness.

I highly recommend both of the novels. It takes a lot to get me to finish a novel these days, and both of these had that thing. One, I literally read from cover to cover. at one extended sitting.

8 sounds like a Mel Lewis band after Thad left? .

I think so, yeah? So will this make it easier or more difficult for Mosaic to get together that Bill Barron set that I'm everybody is clamoring for?

If you can find it, you have it. If you can't find it, you don't have it. Simple as that.

I got my share - or more - of licks back in the day, and I saw plenty of paddles, but never any "clubs". Also, I was usually deserving of some kind of disciplinary action, I was not particularly respectful of the notion that a teacher deserves respect just because they were a teacher (thankfully, my kids did not get this attitude passed on to them, or if they did, they knew better when it came time to act). Point just being, the enforcement of corporal punishment was insanely inconsistent, there was no standard other than the teacher was supposed to have a witness, but that was it. Some teachers obviously got off on it, had custome made paddles, it was a fetish, obviously. But...discipline in a classroom is essential, and if this method of maintaining it was somewhat, uh...un-evolved, it was also pretty effective, if only as a threat, a possibility. And the teacher whose licks I did not want to get past the first - and only time I got them - was from Emma Sue Bennett, a spinsterish near-midget of a reading teacher who loved, you, make no mistake, but if she was going to have to give you licks, she made sure you were going to regret it, also make no mistake. That woman know how to aim and how to land...wrists like Ted Williams, I'm thinking. Like so many things, corporal punishment generally worked in its own time and in its own way, that time and that way now being outmoded. I believe by the time my son began kindergarten, 1991, it was banned, if not in Texas, at least in the PISD. And more the better, if for no other reason that the inconsistency and potential - too often realized - for real abuse masquerading as "policy". Looking back as an adult, I realized how many different life stories were at play in the assembling of small town schools, more that I could have realized at the time were not particularly...healthy. Ok, "healthy". But make no mistake, kids can get a little too chesty for anybody's good, and once those hormones start kicking in...a teacher has to be able to establish and keep the upper hand, kids smell weakness and kids can be cannibalistic little fuckers sometimes, they'll gang up on you and eat you alive. They will, sometimes. But true power, true control, comes from knowing that you have the ability to neutralize, to inflict discipline that is impactful. That does not, should not, equate to licks, or even slapping, or even verbal abuse, Hino is, what, 78? He's old enough to have heard how, "hey boy, you're lucky you didn't get an atom bomb dropped on your ass, now go practice" and have it resonate, because...that's some heavy shit, ok? Random classroom paddling kinda pales in comparison to getting an atom bomb dropped on your ass, right?. So, a little perspective please, because between chesty teenagers and untasteful drum solos and some random (hopefully) slapping, my score card is reading 2-1, in the bottom of the 7th.

If a corporation sits on a pile of music that the general public neither knows or cares exists, what will incentivize them to stand up and look what they got? Nothing? I was trying to explain this to a guy at work a few weeks ago, why "people" want to own mountains of shit they have no intention of using, and the best I could put it was that it's not really a bet on the bulk gaining value through intrinsic worth of some other antiquated notion, but more like a hedge that one day, one hipster with beaucoup money is going to for whatever reason want to pull something out of of their ass for a film or a commercial or something and then they can say here's your ass right here, pull away big boy, here's what it'll cost you, you gotta pay to pull, and then they'll get some money. Cigars will be lit, whores will be screwed, satan gets paid, and then, they all laughed when I sat down to pay, well, who's got the last laugh now. Or, like some hipster with a buttload of money and even more of a mission is going to want to pay those big bucks to own it so they can give it away in perpetuity, egotism via philanthropy and/or vice versa. But no, they're not buying it to use it, what is this, the 20th century? No, they're buying it so when somebody else wants it, they'll be the ones who can sell it.

UPDATE!!!! VIOLENCE BEGTETS VIOLENCE!!!! Hino has now been given a slap on the wrist by the ward’s board of education, which organized the show. The board described Hino's attack as "excessive instruction" and requested to the musician's office that the internationally acclaimed trumpeter refrain from any violent acts, meaning "don't do it again." The junior high school student suffered no permanent injuries from the roughing up.

A Bill Barron set would prime my pump. Otherwise, all the things that they are offering that I want, I have. Can't pump turnips from a pig's ear!

Somebody needs to tell the boy's parents that. They thanked Hino, so...maybe Hino did what they had been wanting to do. Which is pretty cop-outty of the parents. Are we talking a full-on pimp-slap or just a Harpo Marx type silly-slap. There's all kinds of "slaps". In Japan, "junior high school" covers grades 7-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education_in_Japan so....puberty and hormones and all that shit. If I'm/we're being called to "condemn physical abuse against children", well, yeah. Duh. But if all I know is that some teenage drum solo got "slapped" by Terumasa Hino, then I'm gonna need more details, because of all the lined potentially being crossed, teenagers and drum solos don't automatically make it across, I need more information. And oh btw, I went on record here as finding that band-director-slapping-the-kid scene in "Whiplash" totally repugnant. That scene auto-disqualified be from ever watching that movie. Ever. If only because that was a work of fiction, and there was more than enough abuse going on in the story already. To me, that counts as gratuitous violence. I will not watch that. So yeah, it's easy to think adult slapping a teenage drummer as auto-equating to that scene in that movie, but...again I gotta ask - what kind of "slap" are we talking about here? As well as what kind of a teenager, and, bottom line - what kind of a drum solo?

But I already have Charlie Parker CD-Rs!

Just how old of a children was the guy? Also, how much of a slapping was this? I'm reminded of the NFL-er of a few years ago who talked about how his grammaw used a switch on him when he was a kid, and the next thing I know, I'm hearing that the man had been beaten by a tree limb. If it's too small a kid or too hard a slapping, yeah, that's horrible. But if it's a 16 year old with too much attitude, and if it's just a bit of an ear boxing or some such, hey, not all "physical abuse" is equal. I went upside one guy's head once because he put my family in jeopardy by his self-indulgent carelessness. I didn't whoop him, but I did get into his space and I did put the palm of my hand upside his head, not to hurt, but just to get his attention. So, if the kid was innocent and Hino beat him up, no, not acceptable. But if the kid was an arrogant fuck and Hino just got his attention, hey. The boy's parents thanked him for that.

LOL HAHAHA, one of the greatest fake-out intros I've ever heard! Where'd that minor go, B? Minor, what minor?, ain't been no minor here. Callin' bullshit B, I can still smell that minor. Because it's in the chart? Who's the arranger on this anyway?