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Overtaking the over-sized jumbo return address label (sic - first there was oversized, now there's jumbo oversized) as the current object of a befuddled/bemused WTF-ness whenever witnessed... I mean, jimsangrey@spliffco.com gets the same result as JimSangrey@spliffco.com so...why bother. Are you supposed to feel warmer & fuzzier from communicating with JimSangrey than you are jimsangrey? Or if I show you that I'm JimSangrey and not jimsangrey, does that signify that I'm somehow more "personal" or something? Or am I valiantly resisting the cold impersonal digital world by representing as JimSangrey instead of jimsangrey. Good luck on any of that... No matter how I look at it, it still comes down to this - it's a hyperlink (or will be) to click on, and if I don't know who or what I'm sending it to, I shouldn't, and if I do, then...why? People going nuts with the foo-foo these days and trying to take me with 'em. I'll go, but only up to a point!

There's a courthouse on Broadway?

OOPS, my bad! Seriously, brand names are used to sell dreams at least as much as they are product. Buying a dream is cool until you wake up. Product is what it is, and endures according to its merits. Fantasy, otoh, got bought by Concord.

The biggest immediate change after Lion left was the mixing/mastering/whatever (I should know exactly, but don't). Wolff let(?) Rudy start putting in all that extra reverb, and the "classic" Blue Note "sound" (which Rudy himself credited to Lion) was gone. Too bad, it was a good sound, at least for me, even if the pianos didn't sound like pianos per se. There was a mix of wet and dry, of presence and distance, that was just too seductive to resist. At least for me. Rudy would continue to add that reverb on until, in the latter days of Muse, there were times when the reverb appeared to be in the foreground, like it was generating the sound, rather than the other way around.

That's where Paladin would have broke it down for them and then built it back up to where they would have no choice but to accept. Either that or else shame them into submission for allowing themselves to fall victim to their baser, lazier instincts. I've seen him do it both ways. Either way, the bad guy ends up exposed as guilty and dead as a result. Paladin knew how to make that shit work!

So the Johnny Scott Orch is separate from the TH/PG? It's not TH/PG backed by this orchestra? Don't know why, but I think I'm relieved?

Yeah, I know. But it still works! But you got me thinking..."emo-bop"...would that be like Richie Cole, or later Phil Woods, or...what exactly? Anything dealing with Stanley Crouch? This is an opportunity for another critical controversy to stir up sales. How emo! Yeah, as I understand it, Wolff almost single-handedly kept the organ fire burning after Lion booked.

Well then, I'd think you'd also have to thinl of a "Lion Blue Note" or an "original Blue Note" or something like that, then. If only because "Blue Note" is ultimately just a label name, and the only time it's not "real" is when somebody who doesn't own it uses it. The sentimental pull of what the "Lion Blue Note" stood for & accomplished is certainly understandable and real, but...the real respect for me comes from the actual accomplishments, not the mere "brand name". And in these times, "business interests" are all about blurring, if not outright erasing, that line, and not just with Blue Note. I'm full agin' it!

I'm know they do, but that's the "emo" thing I'm talking about. It has no basis in reality. "First" and "real" are so not the same thing...I know it "feels" good to revel in all the...aura, but by any objective standard, Joe Lovano on Blue Note is just as "real" and just as "Blue Note" in this time as Hank Mobley was in his. Of course, to admit that is to admit that things ain't what they used to be, which is true, but that's what makes it real, too.

As it pertains to helmet laws, Oregon, 1988, for one (and only?): http://nwhog.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/helmet-laws-in-oregon/ (and yes, I had to look that up!)

You tell me. Oh, that's easy - Paladin would have fought off and shamed the mob, then, on his way out of town, spotted the perp going back behind the livery stable with some kid. A confrontation would have ensued, resulting in either (probably depending on who the writer was) the law being called in or the bad guy drawing on Paladin and going down as a result, in which case Paladin would have a touching quote form the classics at the ready. Either way, ambiguity removed, justice served, and nobility engendered. Gotta love the Paladin!

I admire Lion's entrepreneurial spirit that sparked Blue Note, the fact that he paid musicians for rehearsing and got involved with the compositions, lineups, his rapport and long-term relationships with many artists he signed, etc. And yes, I like his stewardship of the pre-'67 Blue Note catalog much, much more than the post-Lion catalog. Let's put it this way: I'm more a fan of Lion than of Bobbi Humphrey or Keren Ann. Makes sense to me. The Lion-Wolff label was a good thing for real, although some of the 50s dates can be of markedly lesser quality than others (and an honest "ambivalence" is perfectly acceptable there, I think. For example, there's a few Clifford Jordan sides that I have just to be having them, not that I'm really proud of that...). Although none are really bad, some are a tad...pedestrian. But hey, how could it not be so? People talk about "Blue Note" like it's all one thing, and it's definitively not. Hell, by now it's been non-Lion (or Wolff) for longer than it was, and the results speak to that. So all the emo "I Blue Note" that has been in the air all these years, really, really needs to be qualified, especially as time marches on. Not that nothing good happened post Lion-Wolff, yeah, plenty did, but it all happened in a different way and for a different reason (i.e. - Stick-Up & Knucklebean are both damn good records, but.., That's certainly not a factor in liking/loving the music, but Label Love & Music Love aren't really the same thing, that's all I'm saying.

You mean you're an Alfred Lion fan, right? Otherwise, you're "unambivalently" down with Bobbi Humphrey & Keren Ann, to name but a few.

What Would Palladin Do?

The cost is shifted towards who? Non-taxpayers? I mean, I get the argument that there may not be an impact to the "general taxpaying public". We can contrast and compare statistics and actuarial tables and underwriting guidelines to ferret out that one, or at least attempt to. What I'm not buying is that "taxpayers" of one stripe or another totally escape the impact (no pun intended), not unless buying motorcycle insurance exempts you from paying taxes, or vice-versa.

Well, let's say that existing helmet laws were put to the vote and passed, to remain on the books. Would that be the triumph of the nanny state, or would that be the voice of the people being heard? Or, like most elections, would it merely represent superior marketing to the ambivalent by the winning side? What I'm really asking is this - when duly elected representatives enact laws and are not removed from office for passing those laws, how much can you blame the nanny state, how much do you blame the voters, and how much do you accept that those who oppose the laws are currently not dealing from a position of strength in terms of popular and/or economic support, in which case they should attempt to mobilize the electorate to support their position? If what's left of the nanny state is allowed to survive through the actions of duly elected representatives, that's the "will of the people" in action, right?

Then again, if you hope to get a jury of peers for a psycho baby-killer momma, compromises will have to be made!

But is it not reasonably safe to assume that most riders who buy insurance are also taxpayers? I'm just saying that even if the additional cost of non-helmeted injuries are only borne by theose who buy the insurance, it's still then (mostly) taxpayers paying the extra expense. And if they - the affected taxpayers - don't feel justified in bearing that burden, what is their recourse other than through legislation, besides doing a Wardell Gray on every uninsured rider they see? I'm certainly sympathetic to the public safety vs individual liberty argument, and see merit in both sides. That, and many issues like it, are all part of living in a society that simultaneously allows individual free though and collective decision making, dynamics with the potential for conflict always present. Considering the alternatives, it's a conflict I'm happy living with. I'd think the sane thing to do would be to put these issues to a vote & let the chips fall where they may, knowing full well that if they fall unexpectedly and/or unpleasantly, there's always a chance for another vote to be had.

Nope, He just smiles on the back cover, nothing more. Probably the only time that Bennie Maupin & Tim Weisberg have been mistaken for each other...

Wow, I really remembered him in bike helmet & shorts. Who had an album cover like taht then...Tim Weisberg? Yeah, Time Weisberg:

Is the argument being made that taxpaying motorcycle riders buy insurance at rates with the cost of claims paid out to injuries to helmet-less riders not factored in? If that's actually what's happening, them actuaries are being negligent to their employers. Fire 'em!

Yeah, if you can find it offered at a price you like, I'd say go ahead and add it as a supplement to your collection. I'm planning on doing that. There's enough that I like to make it so, especially on Moonscapes. But if it's a price you don't like, or if space is at a premium in your crib, or if the notion of a photo of Benny Maupin riding a bicycle in bike shorts disturbs you deep down in some place you never knew you had, then, hey, no need to put yourself out over it.

There are those who would say that the same holds true for the political system as well...

In Orlando: http://www.ci.orlando.fl.us/fpr/html/Parks/WillieMays.htm

They pretty much split the difference, so I guess if you're looking for something to dislike, it'll be there, and vice-versa. The earlier one (Moonscapes. iirc) is more Mwandishi-oriented overall, but since this is a 2-on-1, you get both. Neitehr fully go one way or the otehr, neither really soar from start to finish, but neither out and out suck either, not relative to their aim. In other words, neither one is "essential". If you're looking for something along the lines of Henderson's Capricorn sides or Priester's ECMs, this ain't it. It's in there, but it's not that.