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And that's the kind of Old School Lovable Analog World Screw-Up that will have your business on the Last Chance List if it happens too often...like when they sent me a Pendulum Select instead of an Akioshi/Tabackin. They told me to keep the Pendulum at no charge, but I think I insisted on paying for it, because, you know, shit ain't free, and I'm not somebody in the promotional/distributional lane/chain, so that's not my prerogative. But I was like, geez, guys take my money in return for merchandise, please, and they were like, no, no it's ok, and now we're all like, yeah, well, nice while it lasted, etc. shame that had to happen. I mean, I know I need to get paid, I don't know about anybody else, but I need to get paid. #niceworkifyoucanavoidit

It's already out in the world, you played it! Now you just look at giving it a tangible physical form.

That all-Beatlemusic FM station signed off with a 20+ minute version of "Hey Jude" that looped the ending over and over and over and etc. This was at, like 2 AM on a Saturday night or some such, and I've talked to a few people who were also listening, and they were hoping/praying that it was a cruel joke, that the station was going to resume thier regular programmiong after all (they gave a couple of weeks lead tim, advertised that this was the end, all that). But no. More like Tough Love, we'll make you GLAD we're stopping, and it worked for a day or two. When the dead air followed, it was like, yeah, you killed it alright.But god, that was a neat thing to be able to turn on at random intervals, especially in the car with the kids, we all live in a can of pork and beans!

Maybe, not sure...but it's been noted that Goodman would often rehearse the band on new material without a drummer, the theory being that if you can swing well without a drummer, you can sure as hell swing well with a good one, and even better with a great one. Point just being, playing drummerless was not a new concept for that band. If anybody's keeping score at home, here's a different clip that imo has cleaner highs, so you can really hear the absent drummer, if you know what I mean.

I'd not necessarily avoid Live In Japan, but I would definitely not make it my entry point into this particular world. And even then, go for the LP if you can do that. Scott calls it "bloated", I call it "dense", but either way...you know? Might be an instructive back-to-back to do First Meditations For Quartet followed by the "actual" Meditations. Or not, ymmv.

Really apologize for not getting to this one this month, not intentional, I assure you...became a grandfather on the 19th, and the weeks leading to and those following the blessed event have been quite time/thought-occupying! From what I can see here, it was a good set, a good mix of things familiar and less-familiar and a few unknowns, perfect!

Not enough attention has been paid to Womack World, imo. RIP

How much of a road band was the Wynton Kelly Trio? Did any of those three record a lot on BN once that band went official?

So, what, is she transmitting solar secrets to Nazis like Webern did during the Vietnam War, I don't trust codes, like that Codey guy who played for the Giants, came out of nowhere and messed up my rangers.#bobbuhlface

I will gladly/proudly/militantly buy new if I want to support a particular endeavor (artist/label/dealer/producer/whatever/etc) for any reason. Otherwise, I look for used/remaindered stock and am merciless about it. Unless artwork is trashed or jewelbox/digipack functionally useless, I go for the lowest price I don't know if I'm typical of what's left of the CD market, but the lower the price, the more I buy.

Yeah, exactly. And soon enough the used prices will be lower than that, although right now, they're not. Go figure that one.

The Bull Moose Music price on the item under discussion has been brought to light before, as has the fact that it's an unusually high price for this item. The other/lower prices you see on Amazon and elsewhere are the norm. shaZAM! https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01CQ2RPRK/ref=tmm_acd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr

This guy http://obituaries.tylerpaper.com/obituaries/tylerpaper/obituary.aspx?pid=141402008

Maybe this? HAve not read this one, but did read his Sinatra bio, and was both pleased and frustrated, happy and miffed. But it sure sounds like something you might be interested in?

Now, see, we had an all-Beatles FM station here that lasted less than a year. But there was a catch - it was all Beatles, but not JUST Beatles Records. If it was a Beatles record, they played it. If it was by an ex-Beatle, they played it. If it was a cover of a Beatles song- by ANYBODY - they played it. If it was a cover of an ex-Beatle's song, they played that too. If it was a Beatles bootlegs, they played it. I kinda dialed in for grins at first, but the longer it went on, and I realized that at any point in a 24/7/365 airplay world, you could quite easily hear any beatles-connected song played by anybody in the world who had ever recorded one, then it got to be listening for fun at least as much as nostalgia. Because they had no DJs, but the also had not set lists, no rotations...it was car radio nirvana is what it was. http://www.salon.com/1997/02/26/media_138/ I have a case of Maxells here somewhere, just a whole case of random airshots off that station. No plan in rcording them, no plan in ever listening to them.

Yeah, the only one that did not have a real "compulsion of relevance" to me was the Stereo Box, because as an American Of A Certain Age, the UK LPs didn't come into my consciousness until the middle 1970s, when we got a Peaches here. Then I glommed onto Revolver & Pepper, which was enough for a good long while. I was long since past the initial crush and wanted to hear those for esthetic, not sentimental, reasons. Should probably have gotten Rubber Soul too, but, you know...there's these Gong records I'd like to hear alos, right? Can't buy it all! Have since bought the earlier UK LPs on their now-standard CD issue, but the Stereo Box still does not seem compulsory for me. Too much other stuff out there, and I only revisit the world of Beatlemusic every few years now. I think it's been five since the last time. Besides, after Purple Chick... This is a very specific chrono-geo decision, so I'm not advocating one way or the other. And probably someday some raggedyass copy of the Stereo box will turn up for 20 bucks or less somewhere and I'll be like, aw, fuck it. But right now, I'm good.

I never really got bit by the Allman bug, but there were enough moments along the way that I never quibble with those who did. RIP, and on an unrelated note, Bird & Diz were born, but I believe that if they weren't, Dick Clark would have bought Gene Krupa lunch and put it on Louis Armstrong's tab.

I grew up with the stereo albums/LPs (Capitol) too (except for The Beatles Second Album which for some reason was for sale in the Gibson's as mono for $3.98 + tax, and all I had was a five dollar bill, so...), which is why I bought the mono box. Glad I did, truthfully. The impact is different, and on the later qalbums, there's things in one mix that aren't in the other, little details, nothing profound. But if you're as imprinted on that shit as I am, it makes for somw real WTF!?!?!?! moments or two.

Real/Reel tape? No matter, y'all go bring it!

I have all three of those, as well as a few other MMOs of equal vintage. For whatever reason, our high school band department had them. So yeah, I borrowed them and have yet to return them. FWIW, I could read the melodies, they came on lead sheets for C (bass and treble clefs, iirc), Bb, & Eb instruments, but didn't know shit about chords, And the MMO lead sheets had ALL the chords of a song, not just the standard lead sheet chords, they had the chords the cats on the record were actually playing. So, my young sense of harmony came about by learning to make the ear hit the right notes and THEN figuring how how that matched up to what the printed chords were. Our band director knew all this shit already, but he wasn't about to give it to u, he was just gonna let us figure it out as best as we could, or couldn't. Cost me years off my development, but gave me years on my "esthetic" Those MMO records area ll pretty tame, but there's at least one tune on each where everybody gets a chorus. So you could learn from that too. I recently found Vol. 4 in a Hal-Price, now look who's on here? https://www.discogs.com/Music-Minus-One-Volume-4-A-Rhythm-Background-Record-For-Any-Musician-Or-Vocalist/release/4361948

Have I mentioned that I have played with Osie Johnson innumerable times, on countless occasions?

"titty-boom" is not a term of disparagement. It's what Lester Young wanted out of his drummers.

You only hire redheads?