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I signed the e-petition for George Coleman, why not? Is anybody doing similar lobbying for Ira Sullivan or Roscoe Mitchell? I'll sign those petitions too if/when they come my way. I don't think that things like these awards just happen all of sudden in a moment of collective clarity-based whimsy...

Linda Wertheimer Louis Rukeyser Larry Mizell

Yeah, I don't like the word "journeyman" in today's world. Sounds like a wanderer who 's good enough to get a job as a temp but doesn't ever get hired on as a full-timer. I think Eli Wallach was certainly better than that, by a long shot!

Well, ho ho ho! I picked this up cheap at Berkshire, and have listened to it twice today. It starts out sounding kinda wallpaper-y, but as it goes on, I realize that I like wallpaper if it's well-textured and subtly detailed enough to hold my prolonged stare, and this certainly does. Milton Nascimento's all up in it too, so fans, take note.

I guess he screeches like Maynard becasue it IS Maynard. http://www.allmusic.com/album/uncle-joe-shannon-mw0000893422

Yeah, no complaints or reservations here.

He was in 1999...

Well, how does that feel?

Mueller Electric Don Quixote Borough President

I've never eaten possum (much less possum head), but my mom did as a kid, and she said it was good, but just ridiculously greasy. So against my personal tastes, I would advise vinegar dressing for the coleslaw instead of creamy.

Any company that is alright with John Madden is alright with me.

Is Ropeadope the label that Hunter owns or curates or whatever it is they do with labels these days?

Here is is with horn in hand: My only reasons for wild-guessing Quill were hairstyle and the more downward-angled alto neck. Not that many people played those. Or it looks like one of those, I can't see those fine details too well any more, not without enlarging the picture. Anyway, in this picture, Johnson's got one.

Yeah, I always dug Keith Moon,especially early on..seemed like a parallel concept to Elvin's, just kick that shit along and KEEP kickin' it. Sloppy, yeah, hell Elvin got sloppy too. But never WRONG, dig? Used to work (in the early 2000s) in a successful-enough local R&B/Pop cover band with a drummer, a really good drummer, who played the gig like a cover band, and was getting really drug with it. So I told the guy, hey, tonight, play it like Keith Moon, see what happens. Well, he was a child of the late-70s/early 80s and didn't really know Keith Moon or The Who from too much before Who's Next and the radio hits from Tommy. So I gave him a copy of The Who Sell Out and told him here's your Ketih Moon lesson right here, go home with this and come back with it tomorrow. So he came back the next night with a big grin on his face, and sure enough, all night long he was just kicking that shit along and KEPT kickin't it, cymbals all splashy and shit, fills every two bars, shit like that, still playing the grooves of each tune, but Keith Mooning the fuck out of them. It was freakin' GREAT, only the singers didn't dig it because they were like, hey, I'M the spotlight here, why you so ANGRY about it. But you know how singers in most cover bands are. Fuck 'em. Take the money and keep the gig, but fuck 'em. Never really heard Mitch Mitchell away from Hendrix, but did enjoy him there, very much. Maybe a case of him being raised up by Hendrix rather than a meeting of equals, but Mitch Mitchell seemed to always swing with Hendrix. Not like Buddy Miles, but lots of different swings, ya' know? Hell, even Baker swung with Cream. He was just cloddy about it!

Everybody takes different paths, so looking back will be different for everybody...I transitioned from Beatles to Hendrix to Zappa to late Trane/Ayler/Shepp/etc all in the space of about a year. By 1971, I was gone all the way off into jazz. So the whole Euro/Prog Rock thing is soemthng that really had no relevance for me at the time, and appreciation has only been in retrospect, and even then, in parts. Did take a little detour into the Cantebury/Krautrock thing for a quick minute there in 1976-77, but also was opening up to Punk/Beach Boys (and deepening into AACM/BAG) at the same time. That was an interesting time...lots of records got bought... Point just being, there will be some things that I will never really "get", and I'm ok with that. Don't need everything, just need to not be irrational and go hatin' on it when all it is is nothing more than a lack of personal resonance. Still working on the consistentization of that, but it's coming along! One thing I have noticed, thoguh, is that peoples who came to rock/etc in the 70s seem to have a different sense of groove than those who did before. Different sense of backbeat & its placements and nuances, even in the proggy stuff where backbeat is not really the point...it still comes through that ok, this is a different place. Suppose that's as it should be, but still, there's a certain "thing" to even the most abstracted some things that isn't there in others, and me, that thing is what I either feel or don't, and my personal affection proceeds accordingly. Oh well, big world, room for all!

Oh, don't get me wrong, I loved Cream when I was a kid, still find it very appealing as time/place material, and a little bit beyond, actually (but just a little). The Blind Faith album went nonstop at home for a few weeks when it came out, too, and Baker's drumming on "Can't Find My Way Home" still affects me. But - it's still cloddy. Not in an awkward uncoordinated type way, just...cloddy. It's like, as I grew up and realized that there were a lot of different ways to move about in space, Baker seemed less and less relevant to the way I wanted to move. I mean, Jesus, Hal Blaine swung a Ronettes record, a freakin' bubblegum piece of megalomaniac psychodrama. It still danced with a certain grace. Baker's just too...sorry, can't think of a better word than "cloddy" for it for me to fall in line with. Like that Garry Glitter beat that everybody gets into at ball games. Yeah, I can move to it, and will, but will I live there? Uh...probably not. Definitely not, who are we kidding? And that's what Ginger Baker feels like at root to me - a more limb-independent version of that Gary Glitter beat. No, it's the other way around - that's what Garry Glittter sounds like to me - a greatly simplified Ginger Baker feel. But they move the same fundamental way in their space, they really do. So, it's not really dislike, it's definitely not disrespect, it's just...can't hold on to everything in equal measure, and that whole thing is one I let go of a large part of without any great difficulty. Gald to see he's playing with Pee Wee Ellis, though. There's a guy...

Well, with You Gotta Take A Little Love, you do get Maupin & Cobham for an entire LP, but not Tolliver. No living in a perfect world, I guess...

I thought that the documented association with Hefti might be relevant.

What about Wally Richardson? Found this little tidbit: http://wallyrichardson.com/about/

Here's the picture for all to ponder. That's not Gene Quill on alto, is it?

re: Baker "vs" Blakey - I thought that Baker was effectively (and probably well-intentioned enough) cloddy, but while he was struggling to walk upright (or celebrating being graceful while not quite doing so), Blakey was dancing. Not so much anything to do with "ability" as concept, feel, basic body-mind connection. Then again, the world where I really cared how Ginger Baker played is not one I've visited since 1970 or so. Too many/So many other drummers in too many/so many other musics, including "rock". Bought a used copy of the Atlantic album with Frisell & Haden just becuase it was there and cheap, and had a nice long appreciative yawn, like, ok, if ECM really sounded like a lot of people think it does, it would sound like this, then, so I understand. Yes, effective, sincere, not without skill, but the cloddiness, I just can't get past the cloddiness. If that's the point, then I get it, and if it's not, then I can't get past it.

Emma Frost Jean Gray Kiddy Pryde

Do they still got some crazy little wimmen there?

Rescued?

Well shit, I just realized that I've been confusing this guy with Lionel Loueke and responding accordingly. So all of you who think I'm an idiot, here's some bonus points, on me.