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John Scott Trotter Leon Trotsky Leon Breeden

Is there any indication that Ace/BGP is looking at the Mainstream catalog in general, or are they targeting this album in particular because of it's underground/DJ/cratedigger appeal?

You're no doubt correct, but I could never get past the corny-creepiness. I never heard any music compelling enough to care. The whole "it takes a worried man to sing a worried song" thing...eh, yeah, right, I sing a worried song, therefore I am a worried man, well, ok, furrow your brow then, worried man, furrow your brow and let's get busy killing fascists with banjos and guitars and songs. BOOM!!! BANG!!! STRUM!!!!! Here's how you kill a Fascist: Everything else just throws them off balance for a little while. Get to the bank while you can! That was Woody Guthrie that wrote "this machine kills fascists" on his guitar- not Pete Seeger. Yes, I know. But everybody in that world, it seemed, reflected off of Guthrie, often quite ostentatiously, and even more often with less of everything else...except "righteousness".

Currency (and music is certainly currency) in general is in a, shall we say, "period of transition". There's so much value (everywhere is valuable, and so is everybody!) that nobody can decide what it's worth, It's overwhelming, and nobody, it seems, really wants to take that gig except for the Fascists, who I would have thought would all have been killed by, what with all the decades of strumming and picking and such. Appearances to the contrary, I am a worried man. But my worried song, hey...no sense in veering any further into the "political". Let's all celebrate the life and and picking of Pete Seeger, who was ALWAYS a worried man, worried enough for us all!

I marvel at a time when a man so often didn't leave home without a tie, or a jacket, or, even, a hat. Just to go make a jazz record. Hell, adults routinely go to the grocery store in their "sleep pants" now, at all hours, too. They're just pajama bottoms with better flies and looser cuts. Totally different mindset. Totally. Seriously.

You're no doubt correct, but I could never get past the corny-creepiness. I never heard any music compelling enough to care. The whole "it takes a worried man to sing a worried song" thing...eh, yeah, right, I sing a worried song, therefore I am a worried man, well, ok, furrow your brow then, worried man, furrow your brow and let's get busy killing fascists with banjos and guitars and songs. BOOM!!! BANG!!! STRUM!!!!! Here's how you kill a Fascist: Everything else just throws them off balance for a little while. Get to the bank while you can!

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Are there power outages? Sure hope not. Not many - only in a few scattered areas. That's not much comfort to the people who are affected, I suppose. No...but if things aren't nearly as bad as they could be... Heavy unfamiliar weather is bad enough a whammy on its own...add a loss of power....ugh. Here's hoping that things only get better, and soon.

Are there power outages? Sure hope not.

Yep. I like it just fine.

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As an actual Desired Outcome, it's pretty stupid. But as an opening gambit/bargaining chip, hey, well-played if they got the guts to play it till it bleeds. Does the NCAA really want that whole "they're not employees, they don't get paid" thing to gain traction? Like they want that can of worms getting opened. I can never tell how smart and/or sane people really are when they open like this until it comes time to make a deal.

Once again, Ringo. Do you even need guitars on this, except as ambient tone color? No, not really. Just Ringo and Paul, locked-up all kinds of tightways.

Were, please? And...does anybody know how long this San Antonino thing has been going on? Or are those three events being promoted separately of each other? The DFW area's inability to get something going to give the groups that play Houston and/or Austin (and now, possibly, San Antonio) an area venue (which would no doubt increase booking opportunities for all...many people are more willing to make two or three gigs in an area for a little less per gig guarantee in return for a little larger gross for the overall trip) is very discouraging....but not surprising, not really.

Right -- he never sold out unless (and this was the case for a good many years) he was following the then-current dictates of the CPUSA. See for example the song "Plow Under" ("Don’t you…plow under/Every fourth American boy"), the isolationist anti-war song written by Seeger and Lee Hays in early 1941 when it was CPUSA policy that the US must stay out of the war (this because Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were still allies): http://peteseeger.net/wp/?page_id=1446 Then the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, CPUSA policy turned 180 degrees overnight, and so did Seeger, who with Woody Guthrie, and Millard Lampell wrote the rousing pro-intervention, pro-war song "Reuben James," about the sinking of the US destroyer of that name by a Nazi submarine in Oct. 1941, two months before Pearl Harbor ("Now tonight there are lights in our country so bright/In the farms and in the cities they're telling of the fight./And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main/And remember the name of that good Reuben James"): http://www.oocities.org/folkfred/reuben.html I came to know of him in the late 1960s, and I found (and still do find) him to be entirely correct in his opposition to the usual things to be opposed to of the time, but still creepy in a somewhat corny way. Then I heard and saw The Weavers, after which I decided that being correct in one's position does not eliminate, or even reduce the odds of, being creepy in a corny type way. There was just something about that whole (or at least a big part of it) leftist/folksong/singalong thing that creeped me out, and still does. Can't say for sure exactly what, but maybe it's the sense that the whole thing is agenda first, music second, always. That means that no matter how great the music might be (and god help me if I ever hear that shitpile "Goodnight Irene" ever again, that music is so NOT great), the propaganda will always be greater. And if you can't justify your music as being even greater than whatever propaganda it holds, then fuck you, tool. This guitar (or in his case, banjo) kills fascists, eh? Not in the real world it doesn't. But if that's what it takes to make you and your crew think you're all heroes, then, hey, have fun with that, that...Fascism of Anti-Fascism thingamadoodle. Apart from that stuff, he seemed to be a nice and sincere person, and to his credit, he didn't kill Bob Seeger. R.I.P.

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This one is definitely filed under Your Mileage Will Vary, but as a good buddy, great tenor player, and total Trane adherent once said to me, the point of hearing all the live tapes (and I do believe this guy had heard a lot more them all than he had not, he had some crazymad connections that way) is not to look for something new or even better in them, it's just a chance to hear one more night of them doing it, because that's how it really happened, one night at a time. Ultimately, he said, you gain perspective and realize how great it was, not how GREAT the high points were, but how great it all was, just as human accomplishment. Ain't everybody got that time and/or that inclination (and there's also the fact that experiencing any kind of history is a different way of processing information than is dealing with it as it happens, right there in front of you. For one thing, you already know what comes next!) But some do have that time and that inclination, and I can't say that I don't understand at least the impulse (no pun intended) to go that way. I go through spells with certain players where I get that same way. It was a lot easier before the internet, though, because, paradoxically, it was harder, not unlike, perhaps, 78s vs LPs, a whole helluva lot more information at your disposal all at once.

Actually...not...there's the band returned to the US with Sam Morrison replacing Sonny Fortune. That is starting to evolve into another direction yet, although since it ended the way it did, it could easily be heard as the sound of a band running out of breath. But either way, that stuff shows that when people talked about The Man With The Horn showing Miles picking up where he had left off, that might be truer than many of them realized at the time.

I hope so. That Japan tour yielded some amazing concerts. I suspect they will do the 1971 European tour with Jarrett and Bartz next. October 1970 @ Fillmore West would be my preference. DeJohnette was still on board, and the music was incendiary. Ndudu Leon Chancelor made that 71 Euro tour, and while playing fine, was also by his own admission not quite yet ready to bring it all the way. The Japan tour, yeah, the band was tight as hell by then, some amazing shows indeed. The best recorded that I've heard came out on a boot as Black Satin, from Tokyo 6/19/73 (and w/Liebman still on the band, so it's pre-Fortune), but jeez, that's the best recorded example I've ever heard (including Columbia/Sony albums) of how that band was constantly bouncing off the time back and forth, like an Acid Technicolor Muhammad Ali/James Brown/Miles Davis band. I've really never heard another Miles performance quite like that one in terms of recorded balance between all elements.

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Does #12 give us Dick Wilson with Andy Kirk?