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That's because Daddy spent all the money on whiskey.

Tommy Campbell is a good drummer who was not always up to the demands of playing with Sonny. I've got a concert recording of a night where Sonny's on, just letting it flow, and Campell audibly runs out of energy about halfway through Sonny's solo, just falls away. But Sonny keeps going, bumps it up a notch, actually, as if to say, "hey, if you can't hang there, how you gonna get HERE?". A lesson learned for the young man, one would hope (and one would also hope that that's why Campbell was hired in the first place, to be taught some lessons).

Which bad drummer might that be?

Implied dots made specific, albeit it ain't less symmetrically so (said Gershwin) musically.

Sunshine.........................everybody loves the sunshine!

Rainbow!

They are, since it allows Sonny to walk around the studio while he plays. Better playing results, as does weirder sound. Again, I can handle the necessary negotiations.

Yeah, I don't either. It depends on where you are. If you're on the consumer end of history, hell, it's easy to play The Emperor Of History and be Pleased or Displeased. or You were great, you live, or you were a hack, you die. A delightfully irresponsibly game of caprice, that is, and one that encourages ignorance just as much as the Circus Of Everything's Great. Otherwise, it's seldom that cut and dried, unless the object of the game is to cut off the peak of a mountain to put on display somewhere where people have never seen mountains and tell them that this was the only part that ever mattered, which in time leased to the poor saps believing that this was the mountain.

Wrong. Rouse brought a very distinct timbre and phrasing to the heads that did "make" Monk's performances of the time quite identifiable ((it was the first and only real band sound that Monk ever had) and fun (especial w/Dunlap, and if you don't look at Rouse/Dunlap vs Rouse/Riley, you're not looking at band sound & chemistry and how it all works together, you're just harping on one guy for the sake of harping on one guy). That Rouse didn't sustain that identity fun into the 8th or 12th or 54th chorus is equally true, but if you acknowledge one, you really should acknowledge the other if your goal is any sort of objective realization.

I've discovered that I've got a fairly deep rangege at my disposal, but after a certain point, it's there, but not really strong, not naturally without a mike. Is the voice something that can be built up and stretched out to be stronger and deeper with exercises (the Extenze jokes have already been made, thanks), or is it something that, within a step or so, pretty much is what it is, and the best you can do is polish what you already got? Don't really have any professional ambitions here, just it's fun as hell to go walking around the house singing loud, booming bass parts. But it's a drag when the larynx drops to the right place and the volume drops accordingly. Thanks in advance for any and all serious answers.

A few more "thoughts" - Rouse was damn near always good for a solid-or-(often)better two, sometimes three choruses. After that (and there almost always was), well... Two of the most intuitively brilliant solo-graspings of Monk's logic is on the original "Jackie-ing". Thad Jones and...Charlie Rouse. That tune quirks out in the second eight, especially in bar 11, but they both sail and/or roll right through it. So say what you want about Rouse's "wearing well", one strength that he did have is a grasp of the fundamental logic of the music. Maybe not the most inspired...expounder of that logic, but one could do far worse than to study his melodic statements and first chorus or two on pretty much any Monk side he's on. Far worse. So credit where it's due, and all that.

A lot of "energy" being spent on Rouse, when the real "problem" with later Monk was Ben Riley. In my opinion. Rouse + Frankie Dunlop = a neat little wind-up toy. You can't watch it for long, but you can definitely watch it often, and never get tired of it. Rouse + Ben Riley = uh...yeah. That. Exceptions to both exist aplenty, but really, Rouse had charms and skills as well as annoyances, and at this point, it's over and done with, so...proceed accordingly.

Baboonage!

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Infinite bonus points if you can name what TV show that clip was from in10 seconds or less.

Carlos Zambrano hit in face by line drive, appears to be ok?!?!?! http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/11/19/2573421/carlos-zambrano-hit-in-face-line-drive-venezuela

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Yep. Mea Culpa - Catholic Examination of Conscience for Confession http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mea-culpa-catholic-examination/id381215150?mt=8 http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/08/smartphone-sins-catholic-church-approves-confession-by-iphone/

They really do have an app for that... iShrine Virtual Buddhist Shrine for iPhone http://download.cnet.com/iShrine-Virtual-Buddhist-Shrine/3000-2135_4-10972367.html

They've got an app for that!

Did they offer you jam?

Alone Together Come Together Happy Together Back Together Again (Flack/Hathaway) Together http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbS99utiV3o Next up = HARD

Standards all: Lady, Be Good The Lady Is A Tramp Luck Be A Lady Tonight The Lady's In Love With You Lady Of Spain Next up = WORK