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Pete Rose Sneaky Pete Tricky Dick

Stump Evans Pete Gray Rodney Peete

OMG I HAVE DIED AND GONE TO THE MOVIES!!! LOL!!!

Ron Howard Ron Hunt Howard Hunter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_W._Hunter

Elton Dean Dizzy Dean John Dean.

The first time I heard them was in fall of 1974, when they were promoting Mysterious Traveler. Alphonso Johnson had replaced Miroslav by then. They got into a thing on "Boogie Woogie Waltz" that had people standing up and screaming like they had been possessed. Zawinul had, and Wayne still has, that mojo thing that can go a-conjurin'. Look out!

Having a listen to Body Electric from this box now, and if it's true that Cecil Taylor approaches the piano as 88 tuned drums, then it's true that this half of an album side shows Weather Report treating their band as a drum ensemble...remarkably percussive music. Everything stems and grows from and out of that. If it's also true that a drum is a woman, then this, dear friends, is a harem!

Thunderclap Newman Tom Slick, who drove the Thunderbolt Grease-Slapper Grassella Oliphant

Looks like Bartolo Colon will be pitching batting practice to Melky Cabrera for a while now... http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8292935/rhp-bartolo-colon-oakland-athletics-suspended-50-games-violating-mlb-drug-policy

Bud Wilkinson Ed Wilkerson Wendell Wilkie

Zawinul over the top? About anything? I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! But seriously, as time goes by, Zawinul's "world vision" or whatever you want to call it, has really proven valid, I think. If you don't have it and think you might want to hear it, there;s a 2-CD set of live Zawinul Syndicate material that is about as outstanding as it can be. Totally origianl and organic. While the "jazz world" was militantly resisting the influx of too much of anything outsideits immediate self, Zawinul was in heat looking for exactly that. There were a lot of bumps along the way, but this live stuff shows him eventually getting it right, and splendidly so. As for Vitous, hell he had the gig with Herbie Mann, played on "Philly Dog", locked in with Bruno Carr. So he could if he wanted, but I guess he didn't want to. His prerogative, for sure. ECM called, and he answered. And the digital/sampling age has not passed him by http://miroslavvitous.com/orchestraSamples.shtml If you want to sample traditional orchestral sounds, he's your guy!

...whoa...dude...

A Blue Lady (who gets red roses) Blue Mitchell Joni Mitchell

Adrian Beltre is one of the best day-in day-out baseball players I've ever had the privilege of watching.

Live in Tokyo is just uninhibited electric-blowing, like a Miles-less Lost Quintet that kept going to its next logical destination. Very high-energy, but if you don't dig it, you don't dig it. I saw WR about 6-7 times over the years, and the live shows were always and significantly higher energy & more open than the studio albums, so the Tokyo thing is just another example of that, really. There was a taste of it on Body Electric, and that's a concentrated blast if ever there was one, but the whole thing spread out is more "like it was". The two I found myself most "reevaluating" were Sweetnighter & Tale Spinnin', both of which I've always really dug, but have seemed kind of "transitional" in the group's arc. They're still that, but now that it's box set time rather than real time, I find myself enjoying them even more "as is". Looking forward (hoping, that is) to more live compilations along the lines of Live & Unreleased (or whatever it was called), and from the pre- and post- Jaco years. People at the time wondering where Wayne had disappeared to and all that weren't going to the live shows, I'll tell you that for sure. Those guys were always on fire, and Wayne was at the peak of the flames.

Gerald's momma done hit it big! Another link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/madeleine-albright-ready-to-play-drums-at-monk-institute-gala-honoring-her-jazz-diplomacy/2012/08/21/2ea2be74-ebd2-11e1-866f-60a00f604425_story.html I found this at once perplexing, uplifting, ironic, and more or less funny: So much for Fire Music! :g

Even in a losing effort like tonight, it's a treat to watch Ian Kinsler, Elvis Andrus ,& Adrian Beltre in the field. A real treat, it is, damn near every game, win or lose. Hardly a game goes by where that leather don't smile.

You're right - except...In this area, anyway, AM is where you can hear most of the Arabic & Asian "immigrant" musics presented in a non-spectator fashion. Even though I'm a spectator to the listening, it's still one less degree of separation, even though in one way it's yet another (the people on the air don't know if "I'm" listening, and they really don't care, I'm sure). And so it goes... And every so often there's a rare AM surprise, like the time I was driving south on 35; caught a low-wattage AM station playing nothing but Western Swing & honky-tonk music, all of it newish, and all of it very good. Only pulled the signal in for about 20 minutes, but it was a good 20 minutes. Unfortunately, those are the exceptions.

I very much like gumbo (My mom had people in and around Houma & Grand Isle, so I got the taste early on). So, yeah. I don't like the way everybody fixes it, though. So, yeah. Especially when they claim "authentic recipe" and then charge you out the ass for bullshit. So, yeah. And I especially don't like it when people mindlessly mispronounce "jalapeno". Especially on TV where somebody should, and probably does, know better, but figures that more people speak English than Spanish, so fuck it, we getting this money, let'em worry about in Mexico HAHAHA buuuUUUURRRRRPPPppppp. In such ways does the world go even more wrong. So, yeah.

That's all I'm saying. We can go anywhere once that basic gets solidified, but...it ain't happening. It just ain't happening. As for who to blame, I can and will blame anybody and everybody for overeaching, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons (and vice-versa), etcetcetc but g**damn it, ingredients can & do come from anywhere & everywhere, but when it comes time to bake the pie, you don't let a committee do that, and the pie don't bake itself, and it ain't no accident what comes out of the oven. Mmmmm.....pie!

Tim Foley Tom Foley Dave foley

There have been discussions in the past, in other threads, that devolve into the whole "can't call it 'African' and 'it's not REALLY 'African-American', there's all this other stuff too" thing, and...I've had enough of it myself. It's like everybody gets to claim something as being "their own" except African-America (in any way you break that hybird apart), which is without question the overwhelming reason why any of this happened in the first place. I mean, really.

John Von Ohlen Maria Von Trapp Earl Lavon "Von" Freeman