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Remembering Ian Kinsler, Texas Ranger: http://www.lonestarball.com/2013/11/22/5132242/some-thoughts-and-some-things-about-ian-kinslers-career-with-texas

I'll always go to war for and with the men (and women) of the people. But these guys are the People Of The Man. Fundamental difference there! New faces, but the same tired old game - manufacturing heroes. Don't be fooled by nobility/rightness of cause. Any cause is only as noble/right as the people who bring it about, not the people whom it is purported to benefit. At one level, I get, I really do, the visceral satisfaction that one of "our" fuckheads is better than one of "their" fuckheads, just because it's refreshing and new and the "tone" will be different, and yes, all that does matter. But at the end of the day (or week, month, year, whatever) you still got fuckheads doing what it is that fuckheads do. So the question of who do you want being the fuckhead is just a diversionary tactic designed to keep all the fuckheads in the game. And fuckheads love nothing more than having themselves a game to be in, you can sure believe that! How about this question - kill (figuratively, of course) ALL the fuckheads, and let's see what happens then. Just let people be. This notion that replacing colonialism with "xenophobia" (perhaps not the best word, sorry, but I'm in a hurry) is neither enlightened nor practical, nor, truthfully, humane, not in the least. It's just shoveling the bullshit from one field to another.

Wasted opportunity for them not to do a Gene & Debbe tribute. Or at least a bonus hidden cut. Probably for the best, though. easier (and safer) to replicate iconography than to dance with lightening, bottled or otherwise. At least these days it does, and these are these days, aren't they now, now.

1. When I was 14. 2. Yes, the first (at least by choice, coming up in a public school band program, you had no choices as to what the very first music you actually "played" was), but not the last or only, so even if I was still a proactive musician in terms of career and/or lifestyle, I'd not be so bold as to consider myself a "true" jazz musician...or a true any one kind, period, not least because I've been around plenty of those who were (a "true" "one kind" of musician), and I know I'm not that. Thank god for those who are, thank god for those who aren't and especially thank god for those who know the difference and don't be weird about it one way or the other.

Of course not. But the ones who are fuck it up so much for the ones who aren't, not the least because they do what they do with who they do it, sleeping with the enemy and making the babies for each other to play with, and all that.

Hastings. Order from them and then take bets about where it'll ship from. Could be anywhere they've got a store!

I hope Herbie Mann died rich. If he didn't, there's have to be a good reason.

Here's a list of the board of JALC: http://jalc.org/about/leadership/board Find me one of those motherfuckers - just one - that you'd care to fight a war with, or, especially, for. So, like, yeah, fuck that war. They're givin' it and I ain't comin'.

Oh, that's love (sweet love). Love is not always beautiful. Love is sometimes blue.

As long as they make blank CD-Rs and drives to burn music to them, "download only" is just a figure of speech. Or at least, literal only relevant to the point of method of media transfer. Same thing with color printers and album arts.

Maybe the world doesn't need beauty, Maybe that's just a want.

Tigers send $30 million cash along. So now, wither Mitch Moreland, Nelson Cruz, and long-term DH? Prince kinda renders all that irrelevant, just not at the same time. I sure will miss Ian, though, watching him and Elvis was like never growing old. So, c'mon Jurickson, it's your time now.

So...Kinsler for Fielder...ripe with all sorts of further implications and/or questions, but - watching the Andrus/Kinsler DPs over the last few years has been a treat, a fine, fine treat.

Petula Clark Glenn Gould Cornelia Foss

Here's some fun, and maybe my most favorite Jaws solo, ever.

You don't have to convince me!

At some point I need to go back to the Geffen stuff. At the time, I remember thinking "good songs, not good production", which was more of a swing factor for me then than it's likely to be now. I was wanting more of the "loose" Joni, and this seemed more...sheeny or something. Again, likely to not matter so much to me now. But it might? Anybody here really check that stuff out, like, in-depth?

Greg Tate was also, IIRC, one of the first guys to "reevaluate" electric Miles, with a two-part article in Down Beat ca. very late-70s, during the retirement period. For myself, it was beyond refreshing to read somebody who was hearing that music much the same way I was. It was quite uncommon at the time to read something like that, believe me. Again, I think this is the same guy, not 100% certain.

That's pretty much what making a living doing anything sounds like to me.

William Penn Edward Teller Mandrake The Magician

What you make from your work is not nearly as important as what you do with it after you make it.

What i would really want would be unedited Cannonball Capitol live sessions , if they in fact exist )or if in fact they ever did)... But - can you imagine a box set that starts with the Nancy Wilson album, ends with Lovers, and literally has all kinds of things in between? Zodiacs! Strings! Charles Lloyds! Big Mans! Joe Williamss! Mike Deasys! Experience In Es! GREAT things! HORRIBLE things! Literally damn near everything. Never mind listening through it - imagine living through it as a musician. The kind of world that allows for a "jazz musician" to be that free (and yes, "commercialism" is freedom when it's by choice) and still maintain a loyal and sustainable "jazz audience"...that kind of world does not exist any more. Not even remotely. So it's not just musical history that such a set would document, it's social history as well, moreso than a lot of things. And perhaps that's why it will never happen...because "jazz" today is nowhere near that free...but don't tell it that, it will become indignant and call you names and accuse you of just not getting it and/or attempting to impose impurity, and besides, Fathead Newman was not a jazz musician, so what do YOU know about it? If they ever do come out with that kind of a Cannonball set, I'm liable to buy two, one to keep out in the open, and another to hide up in the attic to protect from when the Jazz Police come searching and seizing.