JSngry

I have seen the future of streaming music and it is patriotic drinking songs about mothers! Nashville uber alles!

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So do I.

Proud Mary Humble Pie The Esso Trinidad Steel Brand

Maybe, maybe not...there's something to be said for genuinely not giving a fuck if you see a dime when it comes to music-making. Otherwise, not so much, but at least for that, maybe.

What kind of cocktails are we talking about?

You know I loveoratleastverymuchlike Dave Grohl, but that formula only works if you can get a gig and/or a venue can get people out of the house can do this often enough to make enough money to keep going can do this for enough people at one time so you can keep going etc Certainly love the spirit of Grohl's attitude, always have, but if that's how it's going to work, then local bands playing alternative music with limited "popular" appeal are only going to get more local and even less appealing. Hopefully getting back into this lunacy in a few months, and dreams of anything past being extremely local and totally unappealing are virtually non-existent. But so are expectations of ever again doing a strictly-for-sale record/document/whatever. So...I'll give it away, put on a show, maybe 5-10 people will show up, and I'll not quit my day job. Big thanks for small favors, eh? Which of course begs the question, well, if I were better, more people would come. And maybe they would. But there's any numbers of adjectives you could use instead of "better", and believe me, people have been using them for centuries, and would things be better or worse if they accepted the reality, or is it denial that keeps things going for better and worse? So consumers of the world, relax - there are always going to be people to make noise of some sort for you to put in your ear. Always.

Old Mother Hubbard Ray Wylie Hubbard Freddie Keppard

Tomorrow (Saturday night), Plano Symphony Orchestra http://planosymphony.org/concerts/14-15/3-rite.asp Stravinsky: Rite of Spring Brahms: Violin Concerto HECTOR GUZMAN, CONDUCTOR Emanuel Borok, violin One way or another, this is going to be interesting. Hopefully it will be interesting in the good (enough) way.

Oh yeah, do not forget about Thad on Heiner Stadler's A Tribute To Monk and Bird. For that matter, do not forget about that album, period, although it's pretty easy to so do.

...pig's feet would be chicken wings?

Jane Kean Sheila MacRae ART CARNEY!!!!!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/qa-with-sam-tanenhaus-on-william-f-buckley/?_r=0 Monk's boat, baby. Nobody falls asleep on Monk's ark.

That's why it needs to go offshore, to international waters, like William F. Buckley did when he decided to try pot. Monk got the boat!

Yeah, but Monk owns the boat. Quiet as it's kept, Monk was a big arksman.

Oh, I like Keith too, not as devotional about it as some of the more ardent folks, but definitely more than the auto-haters either. But in this scenario, it's all about only room for one more, so you got to think overall group comfort. Evans couldn't sit up straight, the attendants would be having to work around him and all that, he'd always be at a 90 degree angle, but the wrong way, and Jarrett would be whining/groaning all the time. The choices are between the Proner, the Moaner, or Paul Bley. On my boat, for my passengers' comfort and pleasure, Bley gets the seat. Anchors away!

Once I decided to start getting out of the house again, I just assumed that there would be chamber music offered with the financial oomph that the Symphony gets, but sad to say, no. But there are several series/societies that are funded by a combination of private and corporate input that appear to be doing excellent work. What I'm still trying to get a handle on is where d the local groups play, or even if they do? Quite teh talent pool here, and with UNT just up the road, there;'s always recitals and things going on, but you know, I don't want to drive an hour just to hear some students playing because its a requirement, i you know what Imean. Been trying to cultivate some sources inside the school to kinda point out the interesting things, but between their natural demands on their time and the real ethical concerns of going outside the home turf with objective rating of their own students, haven't had much luck. No matter, though. It's just good to know that there are things going on besides the "Big Show" of the DSO, worthy things, affordable worthy things. Seek and ye shall find, apparently.

I bought that CD in the lobby on the way out last night, btw. Paid $20 freakin' dollars cash for it, didn't get a receipt. Some skinny girl standing around with a lost look on her face and one of those payboxes in her hand. The table was swarming with old people trying to decipher what she had just played and which CDs it was on, so there was much...chatting & browsing. Me, I just walked up took a copy of the Carter (which as you know also has the Elgar, which is what she's playing with the DSO this weekend, we don't get no Elliot Carter out of the DSO, at least not yet), and handed it to her like, ok, she would want to scan this or something, but she just smiled and said "yes" and started to look away, but then I handed her a 20 and with the same blank stare she again said "yes thank you" and went back to blankstaring at all the browsers. I have no idea what kind of transaction that was, it felt like I was stealing it, except that the $20 changed hands. But otherwise, I felt like that lady was just standing there and was going to let anybody walk off with anything if they didn't say something to her. I've had online transactions take on more personal engagement than this one did! Pretty funny, really.

A solo cello recital by a bold cellist...in an intimate setting, can't say I've ever had an experience quite like that before. Nowhere for the music to go but straight to you, and nowhere for it to come from except that one person and that one instrument. Pretty damn ballsy endeavor, come to think of it!

If there was, like, a Noah's Ark of post-bop/pre-Cecil pianists, and this ark had one seat left on it, and the rain was stating to come down pretty good, and the two people left at the boarding ramp were Bill Evans & Keith Jarrett,, I'd round up a posse to find Paul Bley in five minutes or less, get him on the boat in a bigass hurry, close it on up, and tell Evans and Jarrett to head for high ground ASAP, sorry, nothing personal,, but we got all that now, plus a little somethin-somethin extra. See ya'll after this whole thing blows over and dries out!

And Eddie Preston, Martin Banks, Wade Marcus, Danny Turner, and Pee Wee Moore...damn. Are there any trumpet solos? There's not enough Preston or Banks out there. I'm asking about trumpet solos on a record with Red Holloway on it. Must be the last days of something....

James Booker? http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.it/2004/10/looks-like-we-have-audio.html Slide Hampton? http://www.ebay.com/itm/LLOYD-PRICE-This-Is-My-Band-Slide-Hampton-stereo-LP-/220689241122 Where have you found this have you?