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Shots don't drink people. People drink shots.

Some of the very best drivers I've known have been some of the very best drinkers. That's why there's lawyers, for if you have a taillight out and shit goes bad or something like that. It's all about reaction time, and somebody who really knows how to drink also knows how to get into that "don't fuck up zone". Seen it more than a few times, and will not be convinced otherwise by statistics that It Can't Ever Possibly Be So. But you can't make a law based on catching people who know - really know - how to break it. You should make a law on the Most Likely Stupid Behavior. Should... Again, that's why there's lawyers, that's why life is not fair, and that's why there ain't no perfect world. Drink up, drive friendly, and don't be stupid!

It is a Landers, and not Ann. Don't think she ever sang with Ray Charles, but she might have auditioned. Lots of people did.

Guess who?

Sorry, my bad - "Billy C." as heard on Strata-East (and elsewhere) = Billy Campbell, not Carney. Still a quirky-fun kind of singer, though:

A distinct act of non-Generosity on his part!

Carney also sang, and might have been fronting the group as such?

"Generous"...first the ArtistShare thing (disingenuously presented as an opportunity for fans instead of a plea to them ), now this, this "Hey Music Fans, we're GIVING YOU something! Hey Artists, be prepared to GIVE US something"..I ain't buying that, because it's still Who's Your Buddy, Who's Your Pal?. Which again, ok, that's how it works. But just...shut the fuck up, and just do it. Don't go all Benevolent Huckster on my ass, please.

Ok, Don Was Blue Note, where's my Ursula Rucker? Where's my Monday Michiru? Where's my Shafiq Husayn? Where's my Henry Threadgill (no need, really, Pi got that one just fine, thanks)? Where's my Georgia Anne Muldrow? Where's my Mike Ladd? For that matter, put out Nicholas Payton's Bitches. See if you can clean that mess up, becuase there's some good stuff there if you dig for it. Or at least offer him a do-over. Robert Glasper was good (enough) for me, but do you really know where you're going with that? There's a whole 'nother door there, and I'm not sure that Joe Walsh is what's waiting on the other side... C'mon mf-ers, be GENEROUS!

To be honest, I just don't like the sound of Porter's voice, period. Sounds kinda like, you remember how after the buzz over New Jack City had fizzled out & Mario Van Peebles was still getting booked on late-night shows and didn't really have anything further to talk about but put up this really..."engaged" energy to make it feel like he did, just trying too hard to convince about mattering at this time but you need to get people to believe that you do, that's what Porter's voice conveys to me. It's that primal a response for me...the voice just does not generate any positive reflexive responses. I can tell he's a talent, but...I still haven't learned to like liver, and pretty much won't try to. And there's enough interesting stuff under that general umbrella that I'm not feeling a compulsion to keep trying.

WTF, Ian?!?!?!?!?!?!

This album (from 2009) is not like that, though: And either way, Gregory Porter does not do it for me. I had to stop listening to his latest album, it was so grating on my nerves. Different strokes, and all that, but on this one, that is mine.

I find Porter's stuff to be shallow and boring, Glasper's to be shallow yet engaging, and Wayne to be Wayne, which is to say, hey Wayne Shorter, what else needs to be said? I really don't get Gregory Porter though. I'd much rather hear Saunders Sermons...but what does that guy have to do to get some profile? But Gregory Porter? Nooooo....not for me anyway. I played Archie Whitewater for the block, and it worked. Glasper, otoh, found a way to get both Saunders Sermons and Shafiq Husayn in on his record, so much props to Robert Glasper.

Here, at least/apparently. but a bif Who cAres? from me.

Did Duke Jordan ever do a JALC thing?

I should live so long so well. As you say, all the best!

I will agree that different body sizes and chemestrys affect the way an individual can proceed drinking (or any other thing, really). But I also agree that if we all know what the rules are and get caught in violation of them, then what's your excuse? I know what the rules are but I chose not to follow them because the don't apply to me the same way that they do some other people? Tell you what, then - let's have everybody get a DWD license, where they're field-tested to establish their own personal level of actually being impaired. Comes up for renewal the same time your regular divers license does. Then you really have no excuse, and can beat any rap you think you can beat. And if you're wrong, OOPS! Or, everybody could just be smart about the rules and proceed accordingly. Debates on ideals are fine, but Life In A Civilization means that there will be rules, and that they will not be 100% fair to all people at all times. If there's a way around, that, let's have the details, please. What I'm not in favor of, in any way, in any case, for any crime is all this "mandatory minimum sentence" bullshit. But we're not discussing that, are we?

hmmmmm....yes, but as head of a record company, what are you trying to say, exactly? Who are you trying to get to be "generous" and to whom? I'd like to think that I'd give Mr. Was a generous "fuck you" if I was sincerely trying to reach an audience of my own and he pulled that shit on me becasue I wasn't interested in trying to reach him. OTOH, I do know what he means. I just don't know who he means it about and why. Just shut (the fuck) up and make good records that speak for themselves. That would be generous.

Since David Lee doesn't seem to be around anymore, get Tony Allen, get Sheila E., & bring back "The Cutting Edge" I'd tap (into) it. Again.

So, everybody's tired of Wagner now, is that what it is?

Yeah, they keyed in on that zone in Levi Stubb & played to it for a while with some pretty intense results. "Bernadette" is the most intense, but "Reach Out" comes pretty close. Pretty benign lyrics, but in Stubbs' reading it turns about as far away from The Original Lean On Me as you can turn...

It's an aggressive thing to do!

Roy Haynes hit w/Luis Russell, remember. Also in 1945.

It's the altitude, that's what it is.