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It's not exactly the same thing. Stipulated. But the rush to claim Jordi Pujol's from-jump "legitimacy" based on face-value swallowing of one puff-ball interview (in which there are holes big enough to drive J-Lo's ass and an 18-wheeler through...) is truly, truly funny and does remind me of other defenders of other "legitimate businessmen".

Just don't come to Fort Worth...especially to play in parks...I say this as a friend.

You're still hung up on the PD thing...man, I'm gonna laugh for the rest of the night!

<br><br> No, I don't think you do...the point here ;is not legal vs illegal, PD vs copyright, etc. The point here is that this Pujiolo guy steps up and fields UBER-softball questions and says, ah yes, I am a legitimate businessman yada-yada-yada- and then people here step in and say YES! SEE? WE TOLD YOU SO!!! In the meantime, they got the tapes and y'all get needledrops. I used to play in a lot of clubs in Fort Worth owned by a drug kingpin named Billy Ray Maddox. This guy would occasionally build parks and such in the neighborhoods that he poisoned, and not particularly good ones at that. But the people who lived in those neighborhoods loved him because he built them parks for their kids to play in while they were getting high, and as far as they were concerned, he was a legitimate businessman. Damn straight he was! Even if his shit was rumored to be cut like none other... When Billy Ray was sentenced to hard time, it was with him and his champions in the hood still proclaiming to be a legitimate businessman, even if the facts didn't add up to support the claim. Nobody had the basic personal integrity to step up and say, yeah, I like to get high and Billy Ray's my man. I don't care how much his shit's been stepped on, it gets ME high! Billy Ray Pujol doesn't deal drugs, but he's still just as much a "legitimate businessman" as Billy Ray Maddox. Why, with his New Talent imprint, he even builds parks! How much more legit can you get? Jodi Pujol is a completely legitimate businessman. This interview proves it beyond all question. That's why he's got the tapes and you got the needledrops. And a few parks here and there. Hey, you like to get high, so do I. We pretty much all all do. But geez, have some kind of standards about it!

PD is so not and/or besides the point!

They got the tapes (allegedly), you get needle drops (definitely). Discuss amongst yourselves. Me, I'm still LMFAO!

Yeah, but yours doesn't have a picture of Bill Chase getting his crotch grabbed. Value added, and all that.

Y'all are making this one of the bestest, funniest days of this almost-over year, not getting the joke of "legitimacy" that everybody's so keen to claim here. Y'all want it so badly you don't even now what it is. I especially am laughing at how the Euros are all like "hey, it's legal here now, so too bad for America, we're sick of you guys anyway". So NOT the point! Needle drops from master tapes being a treat - that's the point and that's the joke, and that's why I'm ROTF laffing MFAO! Keep it coming!

I'm a pretty happy guy, all things considered. This is just icing on the cake!

I'm not complaining, I'm laughing!

I think it's funny how people feel the need to justify dealing with thieves. Hell, if you do it, do it, and don't pretend otherwise. For the record, I have dealt with thieves in the past and don't feel all that much particularly bad about having done it. But the internet has made dealing with thieves a much less cash-exchanging business these days, so going forth... I also find it hilarious that the whole " we have the tapes, that's why we do needle drops" thing is said with such a straight face. Ubu, you asked a question for which (you know, I'm sure) the answer is obvious!

We're good man, we're good. Us prickly old fucks stay good because we stay true. That's why we're prickly old fucks. Don't just anybody get to be a prickly old fuck, ya' know?

Oh, they're good, but just because they're good doesn't mean that I'm going to like them all that much. And these, I don't. Not these with Bird.

Or, if you want to scroll up a few posts, it's here:

File that under "it's only good because of what you think you're getting, not because of what you really are getting"...

The NYC Dials all have a "rehearsed" element to them that makes for less jarring WHOA!!! than the California Dials. It's probably an illusion, although the working band is there. But anyway, they're just a little more "settled in" than the Savoys, which don't even pretend to anything but show up to the spot and make it on the spot. I mean, both are the work of a true genius, but the "on the edge" fetishist in me finds the Savoys to be overall just a tad more on just a tad more of the edge than the Dials.

Oh, they're all good, but the sides with the vocal group and the later w/strings sessions don't really seem too "inspired" to me. Bird's fine, but... YMMV and all that.

Brains w/scrambled eggs are quite tasty. Scrambled brains, otoh...

Received and listened to...I thank you for caring enough to ensure my listening pleasure, but I assure you it would have occurred anyway! I like this. It conjurs images of The White Album, ESP-label, Braxton GTM, Blue Cheer, some of the old Cantebury-school British things, and lots of other stuff as well. Yet the parts never stick out as being apart from the whole, which I think is the overriding object here, quite apart from compositional/musical specifics. For people my age, that's something most of us have to "try" at doing, at some level anyway. You guys sound like it comes naturally, like you'd have to think about not doing it this way. Nice, very nice.

Oh, I'm sorry, I though Alan was talking about outrage in his playing, not at it. My eyes and brain no longer work in conjuction on a predictably regular basis,

Di-al!!!!

It's like, if it's "intense" then it's got to be "angry" or some such. And god forbid you ever be "loud". That's just crude!

It's just like some people view all profanity as an expression of anger or frustration, never an expression of happiness.