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Serious question - is this the same Cepeda family that produced the great baseball player Orlando Cepeda? Orlando was a very enthusiastic amateur salsero.

Is Garduno's still there? The Cooperage? Bob Farley Music? Or was that all last century? Either way, Happy Birthday!

I rather enjoyed that game.

Yes, and in doing so, it actually raises the bar, not lowers it. People will at first think it's better to go under the bar, but once motherfuckers start getting ahead by going over the bar because its soo damn crowded under it, things will get back to forward. Period of transition, that's all this is. Comes with every paradigm shift, and it might take a generation or century or so before it happens. But happen it will, because happen it does.

And yet, back in the day, the difference between Herbie, Chick, & Zawinul was obvious no matter what machines they were using. Same with Bernard Worrell. Same with a totally plugged-in Miles, or even Don Ellis. And especially Eddie Harris. I'll recount a story told to me by Dave Liebman. He was talking to Miles and expressed his frustration that he couldn't find anything new to say on "My Funny Valentine". Liebman said that Miles fixed him with a look and said, "Don't blame the tune.". By the same token, the new technology has made it easier for everybody to get the same basic sounds, and since most people ahve the same basic ideas, well, there you have it - nothing has really changed as far as "individuality", what's changed has just been taht it's easier for the uninspired to present the impression of basic competency. This in turn simply reinforces people's basic urge to identify with themselves and not have to be challenged with their own "averageness". It was different a while ago, because if you had nothing to say and/or couldn't really play, it would be obvious soon enough. People don't want to identify with "bad". But they will gladly identify with "good enough". You think that most people can tell the difference between competency and inspiration, between style and substance? Not only not now, no, but not ever. So AFAIC, all that technology is doing today is exposing a mass lack of individuality that has always been there. I don't think it's contributing to it at all, not in the sense of turning people from creative to zombie. They were already zombies, there was just more stigma to admitting it. The individual's basic direction is still their own choice to make. Plus, a big thing is that a lot of players who "come to" electronics/digital don't always feel the need to get fully immersed in it, often because it's not their voice, they jsut want to "experiment" with it. Whereas, you get these young folk that digital is more or less all they know, hey, they're not experimenting, they're doing. A lot of "under the radar" stuff going on that might sound all the same to us old folks who will never be able to fully "hear" that way, but...it's not meant for us, nor should it be. Everything is a tool. Everything. Your single coil P90 pickup is no less nor no more a tool than is the laptop that one kid is using to "battle" another one with with their "beats".

Always enjoyed his work, all of it. Very sorry to hear that he's left us.

I had not really seen Cincinnati until last night. That's a strong looking team, in terms of both tools and attitude.Lose your ace after one batter. Oh well, let's play ball! Looking forward to seeing the Nationals for the first real time too. Somebody needs to stop the Satan Louis Cardinals!

I wonder if people said the same thing about the printing press, and how people were getting all self-absorbed with their books now. I know that television made people stay at home more and socialize less. So, cell phones and such, not so much a new trend as the continuation of a long arc of a trend. Meaning that iof people need an excuse to be self-absorbed and disinterested, they'll use whatever means the technology of the time allows to so be, But back to the music - That Paula Morlenbaum record is really good. Insidiously good. Check it out!

I just reflexively look for the original cover http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Jones-Lewis-featuring-Brown/dp/B0000658GK/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_21 But hey...

A bit more than I care to pay at this time, unfortunately... Apparently there's different lsitings for this CD on Amazon, found one with much better prices here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000005HBD/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1CCNT5P0H5WTXRX0XMS7&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846 Gracias beaucoup, Paul!

"Machines and gadgets" got nothing to do with anything. They're just tools, means to an end. If you got nothing to put in, that's what will come out - nothing. OTOH: Different in the morning, yet by the end of the day, still the same.

This is good stuff. FWIW, I don't think of it as "Disco" nearly as much as I do just one type of "dance music". Maybe takes away the stigma that might interfere with experiencing it for what it really is, same as with any "label" we put on any music. But yeah, good stuff. Them Philly cats was doin' it.

Dewey Terry Terry Riley Riley Keough

SS1 gotta be happy today!

Yeah, I don't know if an invitation to hang in a "Social Dugout" is one I would accept w/o ensuring various protections were in place first...

Fan poll question on the TBS ALDS "Social Dugout" - Who will commit the most hits? Has anybody ever "committed" a hit? That's a new one on me.

Lefty Gomez Jonny Gomes Jhonny Peralta

Well, if opera could give me an Adrian Beltre 162 days out of the year instead of All That Same Old Same Old whenever they come a-passin' through, they might get some of my money and time. As far as energy, good luck getting blood outta that turnip!

Good thing his drunk ex-girlfriend didn't catch it....

I don't see how a digital file is a "material good" any more than I can see how a smell is a flavor.

There is improvisation and unpredictability in sports, so...nope, don't think do. American sports is more like the actions of jazz presented on the stage of Stadium Rock (is there still such a thing?), with all the advantages & disadvantages & refinements & corruptions that you might imagine from combining those two things. Reality TV, that's the American opera.

His craft is not acting/line-reading/etc. His craft is simply Being William Shatner. Don't ask me how or why it works, but it does.

The lesson here is simple - don't try to direct somebody who knows their craft if you don't know how to direct somebody who knows their craft .

For the most part, it's really just Pop Music from a long time ago. When I hear something I like, I take note, but I don't go looking for it. Life just isn't that long.