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Yeah, you catch somebody talking to themselves like that...they're crazy, and/or a simp. Singing to themselves like that, it's ok. I was born in 1955, so here's my huckleberry friend, for better or worse. I wonder what he's singing!

Any relation?

I tend to agree, at least not in the traditional "Western" pop song format. The needs are different.

For real, until ISIL/S gets an air force or some other kind of mass-strike capacity, they're going to be easily mobile, easily hid, and limited to spot attacks, which of course is ugly, but dispassionately, and barring any nuclear devices, the damages will be limited to the locations of the attacks. Old-school analog gangster shit, you either kill them where they stand or else they get away until they decide to come out to play again. We can all play that game, but really...it's really antiquated, and may very well be a diversion from the real offensive to come. A cyber attack by them is potentially much broader in scope and destructiveness, and a cyber offensive against them is potentially more effective than dropping bombs on places they've already split from. Why blow up the theatre when you can destroy the script? You just hope that we got the better geeks. Evolve or die, as they say. And here we have a chance to maybe do both!

Ah, most lyrics...if you tried to have an intelligent conversation strictly in song lyrics, you would be trying harder to have an intelligent conversation that you needed to. A great lyric is a great lyric, but by definition, a lyric is part of a song. Stripped of the song, you seldom have "great" anything, except a lyric that needs to be put back into the song.

Sure, why not! Anonymous Declares War On ISIS After Paris Attacks http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/anonymous-declares-war-on-isis-after-paris-attacks/ar-BBn3FZy?ocid=ansmsnnews11

The most natural sounding recordings - EVER!!!!

I'm the type of guy who will go out to the mailbox and greet the carrier personally when possible, offer some good words and thank yous, just because, you know, I like to be on good terms with people, they make me happy, I like to do likewise. We used to have more or less the same carriers, and after a while, you know, you get a vibe thing going and it's all good. Perhaps coincidentally or not, this erratic hours thing has been accompanied by a rotation of carriers, never see the same guy two days in a row, or at the same-ish time two days in a row. One guy's really nice, another one's cool (sorta) but obviously green (majorly), and another guy is just an asshole, period. And those are the ones I've seen more than once. I mean, c'mon America, it's ok for not everything to turn a profit. Quality of life and all that, even with its hiccups, used to be that to US Mail was one of the best deals in the world, period. Now it's turning into some sloppyass devolving muck of malignant mediocrity (not unlike the rest of the world). Either charge more and keep the quality, or else accept the losses and be proud of your work. Just don't be so piddly-diddly damn triflin' about it, ok? Case in point, minor, but symbolic - you put the flag out on your mailbox when you have a letter in there to go out, then it gets picked up, the carrier puts it back, hey, the courtesy of communication through consensual mutual silent gesture, right? You can look out your window and say, oh, mail's come? When was the last time I had my flag put back, by even the good guys? Hell if I know, I'm getting too old to count that far back. Motherfuckers got NO class these days, it costs too much, I guess.

I'm sure he is (very small sample size for me, I heard his early recordings, waited, and then stopped), but it took a lot of people a lot of time to figure out how to make digital recording sound real. This recording sounds as "un-real" to me as does the Mapleshade, just in the other direction. So maybe between that and it being a car, his true germs of originality have not yet been adequately heard here. All I know is that from the first notes of "Be My Love", I was thinking charles McPherson, which is really funny, because McPherson's version sounds nothing like this one. So maybe I'm having that associative disconnective thing that's going around. Very possible. Apart from that, did McPherson & Davis ever play together?

Goosebump stuff, for real. The way the time stands still and keeps moving at the same time, to say nothing of the perfect melodic development of "just" 16 bars...damn, Lester Young, there you have it.

Been playing the Illumination in my car for a few days now, and the difference in piano sounds between it and the Mapleshade are polar opposites, I guess you could say, if that doesn't come down to some statistically provable metric. However, as nicely as Bob Mover plays, he sounds close enough to Charles McPherson that I find myself wishing for McPherson instead of Mover. Not in life, just on this record. But those Davis originals,the tune selection overall, actually, but those originals in particular, hell yeah!

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Apparently not.

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I'm in!

Most lyrics really aren't very good once you take them out of the song. I guess that's why they're song lyrics.

Did he sing the vocalese too, or just the lyrics to the song itself? I really don't care for Manhattan Transfer, and they did a version of this same song that I also don't really care for, but in spite of all that, whichever one of thems it was, the vocalese on the Thad Jones & Frank Wess solos weas very well done. Would that the rest of the tune has been like that.

I think it's the ad agency who pays the residuals. They would be the producers of the spots, not the sponsor. The sponsor is the one who buys the time, and I think the ad agency gets paid based on how many times the spot airs? Not really sure about this, haven't done it myself, but back in the days when Dallas was Jingle City, I'd hear talk about it. Here's a primer (I guess) if you want to know more...I don't. http://www.rmaweb.org/?p=356

Ok, strategy time - going forth, should all performance venues have a policy that if some knuckleheads come in and start bustin' up the joint, to get to the light box/booth/whatever and just take the whole place dark, like, ASAP? OTOH, pandemonium enuses, bot OTOH, pandemonium already ensued, and as anybody who has had it happen to them will attest, disorientation in a totally dark room comes on pretty quickly. How these dumbasses gonna shoot what they can't see? And to sweeten the pot, maybe they shoot each other in their zealotish glee. I think we would all laugh if that happened, correct? I know I sure would.

I know what "stopping it" looks like. I might feel better about that if somebody/anybody could tell me what "stopped it" looks like.

Mouse and them was from Tyler. Same neck of the woods, but a world apart, as Tyler was in Smith County, Longview in Gregg County. Smith County was dry, Gregg County was anything but. You can imagine what just the other side of the Smith County line was like everywhere there was a road...

My experiences with Monteux have usually been outstanding, and I don't yet have a recording of this piece, so...Bingo! And thank you.

If you don't care too much about seeing the perfrmance in any real detail, the best seats in the Meyerson sound-wise are waaaaaay up at the top, what for a sports ticket would be called the "nosebleed seats". I sat up there once, for Beethoven 9, and during the third movement, there as a really magical moment where the sound came togeteher in this what I can only describe as an all enveloping cloud..."place" ceased to exist, including mine in the seat. It was literally like floating in music. Can't say that I would sit there often, at least not until I have a better familiarity with the music. I still enjoy watching the conductor and the player's reactions, all that visual stuff that's a part of any live gig. But, yeah, that uppermost section, magic lives there too. These are fun: What is the best seat in the house..and What is special about the Meyerson's sound: http://stories.kera.org/meyerson_features/interviews/ Elements of hype aside, nobody's telling any lies hear, not that I've found out about yet, anyway.