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At what point will preorders begin to be accepted?

I remember my dad's friends all saying this same thing back in the day, but they were all, like, you know, old.

When Byas comes back in after Tunney (and hey holyshit Norris TUNNEY ok?). at first it ounds like he's just drunk and out of the time, and I've no doubt that he's not drunk, but the way his notes move across the time create a not-unconvincing suggesting that he's playng exactly what he's hearing, and that what he's hearing is a line of pretty advanced harmonic extrapolations. And his time, not his attack, but his time, kinda weirdly reminds me of Hank, who if my memory serves was along with these two on the midnigh (and beyond) creep...would it have been possible for Hank to have shown up here along with Byas & Shepp (possible as in is this gig from when they had that hang)?

Easy Guideline- Use the whole "i only stole the can of tunafish because my baby was crying at 3 AM and there was NO OTHER WAY" as your baseline. If that's really how it is, then ok, you get a pass in my book. If you can prove that, you'll want me on your jury, believe it. Anything past that, not so much. especially if the following questions are not self-directed: What the hell am I doing feeding my baby tunafish? Why did I wait until 3AM to steal a can of tunafish? Don't my neighbors got no tunafish I can steal and/or borrow? Did I check the expiration date on the tunafish to make sure I wasn't gonna give my baby no tainted ass tunafish before or after I stole it? Did I check the expiration date on the tunafish to make sure I wasn't gonna give my baby no tainted ass tunafish AT ALL? Am I really thinking this through, any of it, all of it or is this shit gonna continue to be the deal EVERY damn night at 3AM in the morning? Can I get a better job? Can my old lady get a better job? Can my 3AM In The Morning Cryingass BABY get a job, or at least work up less of an appetite? Why tunafish in the first place, huh? The less of these questions that are self-directed and/or the longer it takes for them to come, the less you gonna want me on your jury. Hope this helps.

I dunno, man, I'm kinda pumped by a future were a box set is a light bulb and a table lamp is a concert hall. I may never live to see it, but...I never thought I'd live to see a Double Decker Taco either, I mean, a fried corn tortilla AND an analog flour tortilla? At once? In my mouth, chewed and sallowed AT THE SAME TIME? Never again will I think anything to be unthinkable, unnecessary, or undoable. There's no stopping The Immutable Laws Of Bad Taste! Fiberoptics, man, Fiberoptics and Taco Bell, Hello, Dickens, Hello Fenster!

Only one way to settle this debate once and for all.

Ripping of an analog master to a lossless digital file does not involve sampling it? That's what I was wondering about, a recreation of an analog master into an analog form that would not require furher running of the master tape. Like, could you read the tape's magnetic patterns with a laser and then do a perfect replica of it in some format that would reduce/eliminate the need to sample the original master tapes, and still keep the continuous analog wave uninterrupted/undisturbed?. Almost like a direct-to-disc thing, only...why would it have to be to a disc per se? Right now, the only(?) way to preserve the analog waveform without disrupting it into sampled digital is to run those tapes either onto more tapes, or mothers/stampers/etc Does the transfer medium of light offer other options? Never mind if it's practical, is it theoretically possible, that's the only question I have at this time. And then, getting Sci-Fi abut it...once you have the un-sampled/analog data captured as light, what would the physics be to store it and then recreate it for sending out over fiber-optic lines or some such? ADA conversion minus the D part! Light as data storage/transmission medium all in one...would it work with analog audio as we don't yet know it? Strictly hypothetical, of course. And to get really out there, what happened to the notion of DNA as a data storage medium? That was in the news a while back..I'd like to go to the record store and buy a Beatles record on DNA, please. And then, have that DNA implanted into me semen is such a way that my next ejaculation would result in my whole body, not just my hearing, but every ounce of my physical being (and including all senses stemming therefrom) becoming "Tomorrow Never Knows"...that would beat the hell out of a CD, and be more legal than LSD.

Ok...could a variant of laser technology be used in such a way as to prevent further degradation of master tapes? Or would the use of a laser just go a head burn holes in The Eyes of Laura Mylars?

Or at least watching it from the stands!

Well, if you really want to play the If Babe Ruth Today game...he'd have been born in or about 1985, and does he even play baseball at all?

There was something very simialr to this that was starting to surface at least 30 years ago, but the industry rush to digital/CD pretty much killed it before it began. In theory, I still prefer the idea of a continuous analog stream of sound to that of repeated bursts of sampled data, and historically, I'd like to have seen how the evolution of this technology would have gone, seen if it would have affected recording as well as software (the notion of a groove existing to hold data independent of what a pressure-tracking stylus could physically extract from it is still intriguing, I mean, taking it from stylus/magnetic cartridge to light beam,,,...Just all kinds of parallel universe things spring to mind...and still listening to an analog stream rather than digital spurtyness. But 30 years is a long time, and really, good luck on it being otherwise, especially at the price of a small new car.

Well, the other side of that equation is that the great Negro League pitchers never got to face the great MLB hitters on a full-season basis either. There's an extremely small sample size available to look at, and although we know there was some badass talent in the Negro Leagues, players who would undoubtedly had a true impact on MLB history if they had been allowed in, that doesn't auto-translate to White Guys Got Off Easy. Easier That They Would Have, yes, true to a degree, but unless every Negro League Player was at a talent level such that Babe Ruth would never have to face a mediocre-or-worse White pitcher, that EVERY AL team would have been able to eliminate all their weaknesses, AND that all these new pitchers would've had their best stuff every time out AND that their best stuff was so overpowering that the cream of the crop would have never been able to figure ANY of them out at least every once in a while, then...what are we talking about, then? That Babe Ruth wouldn't have hit 714 home runs, well, maybe not, but would somebody else have? Maybe he'd have hit 419 (to pick a random number), and Mel Ott 384. An Buck Leonard ends up with 450 (or 418) Or would talent will out, as it generally tends to do in any given place and time. Rankings stay about where they are, with additional talent added and taking their rankings as well. I don't think we'd be looking at really negating a whole era's (several eras, really) of ability, nearly as much as seeing it with more clarity.. Skills is skills and even if the game's names changes, skills in general translate well. Roles, now, maybe not so much. Roles can come and go (and only sometimes come back again). But skills is skill. Objectively, I should think that the only real conclusions, rather than speculations, to be drawn are that The stats don't lie about anybody's greatness relative to the environment in which they performed. One cannot pretend otherwise. Those Pre-42 (or even the immediately Post-42) environments were deliberately not dependent upon drawing along the largest available culturally-neutral talent pool. One cannot pretend otherwise. The end of racial segregation in MLB was a start towards (a start still not yet completed) the ability to create an environment of drawing upon the largest available culturally-neutral talent pool. As the game continues to be played (and developed) internationally, this is going to be an ongoing evolution.

And, possibly, sold more records!

I need test results. And a sense of humor.

I wasn't around in the 1910's to verify your statement, so I'll have to take your word for it. But do take my word for this - Rangers not having fun right now.

With a local rhythm section, no less.

The RCA stuff seems very "flat" to me...like he's there but not there, if you know what i mean. The 50s Blue Note stuff is exponentially more engaged, fluent, and interesting. I heard an interesting story from Marchel Ivery about Bud. Marchel was stationed in Paris with the Army and got to be around Bud a little bit. He said that whenever Donald Byrd would play with Bud and Bud would get a little wavery, Byrd would go overtly Fats Navarro and Bud would snap back into it, like, BAM, almost Pavlovian, like his wiring had a "safe place" reserved for Fats.

No sense in buying the whole record for these two cuts, which by any count are more "interesting" than anything else. OTOH, any Gerald Wilson records with Harold Land on them would be all kinds of goods pickups.

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