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Yes.

No.

Hell, it's not really a "scandal" at all afaic. "Lives and Loves" are pretty much part of everyday life. The real point of interest for me in the story is Laura Nyro...that's one of those songs that sounds really light on the surface, but the more you dig into the lyrics, it becomes a lament of the "Peter Pan syndrome" so prevalent, I guess, always. It could have been Helen Merrill, Helen O'Connell, or Helen Wheels for I care. The Helen Merrill bit is an interesting "jazz diversion" to a much more interesting tale, namely an 18 year old girl being prescient enough to take a very "adult" (or lack thereof) situation and comment on it in a way that was both "poppy" and dead-on serious. Or maybe I'm stupid - it just now dawned on me that the line about "I look at you and see the passion eyes of May" only makes sense if you realize that May is the month before June, which is of course the traditional month for weddings. That and the part about "in your voice I hear a choir of carousels. Oh but am I ever gonna hear my wedding bells?", how the contrast between a choir, a massive, giddy, ephemeral choir of child's play is always there, always attractive and tempting, but there's no indication that it will ever mature into something adult...I mean, yeah, ok, it's must a pop song. Big scheme of things, life goes on. But outside of that, pretty strong stuff, becuase let's face it - many, many men either don't grow up or else do so only with a life-long struggle to resist and revert. It's a pretty damn serious song, really. That it was inspired by Helen Merrill's life is really only relevant to jazz geeks like us. What it says is relevant to the lives of a helluva lot of people, then, now, and forever.

True, but if the blockage is deep into the system, you gotta get it down in there full strength...I'm still thinking that having to clean out a drain every three months is indicative of a bigger blockage further down in the piping, and as such, the snake would probably be bet. But as a preventative, I'd think that the baking soda/vinegar combo flushed through the whole hose on a monthly basis would be an excellent idea if the household is one which uses the pipes in a way which promotes long-term cloggage (and believe me, most hoouseholds do until the need arises for their first snaking!).

Copper sulfate will take care of roots in the pipes. Just a few crystals a month.

Every three months sounds like a lot. You may have something going on further downstream, so to speak. Exactly. We've built our housealmost 20 years ago & the only time we've had any backup from the showers or tubs has been when the blockage has been further down in the lines (just because something goes down the drain doesn't mean that it goes out the line, and after a while enough stuff doesn't go out the line to create a real blockage). Somewhere on the outside of your house (or in your yard, if it's an older house), there's a "central entry" for your plumbing (many call it a "clean-out"). You can run a snake all up in there and clean the pipes out good. It'll probably take at least 30 ft or so snake, and you can rent those at equipment rental places (fascinating visits if you have even a bit of a hardware jones...), or you can get a plumber to do it.

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And in your voice I her a choir of carousels But am I ever gonna hear my wedding bells? Boys of all ages, they're everywhere, aren't they...

Yeah, I know him well...I'm just tripping on the overall combination...Ernest Raglin & Eberhard Weber playing "On A Clear Day" w/Monty Alexander!

This one looks interesting: Monty Alexander, Ernest Ranglin, Eberhard Weber, and Kenny Clare! 1. S.K.J. 2. Summer Of ‘42 3. Now Is The Time 4. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 5. Feel Like Making Love 6. On A Clear Day

How are they? They were both in those big ol' ginormous Longview, Tx Treasure City cutout bins in the early '70s.

(not the same as the MPS album of the same name...) &

Anybody heard his Pacific Jazz sides?

Damn, I though this was gonna be a clip of "Machito"...

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You ain't workin' no campfire gigs with that thing! And yeah, ain't no macho hangups here! But check out that axe - most decidedly not metal! Las pollitas prefieren la madera!

Having been steered to classical music via, what the cognoscenti would view as, prog-rock cannibalising of core repertoire, this suits me fine. Yes, it is but a shadow of the original, but it's been turned into an interesting separate piece. And as a lover of 70s electric piano, this hits another button. I actually prefer it to Sketches - a record I've never great warmed to (apart from the fabulous last two tracks) because it seems to take its source material and just play it straight. I suppose there's plenty not to like about that Laws version of Rite, but what I do like about it is that everybody involved seemed to be thinking for themselves...never a flaw in and of itself in my book. I mean, yeah, ok, CTI is supposed to be all lush and groovy and earcandy and all that, and this is that soncially, but at the same time it...not really following anybody's formula of how to do a "jazz version of the classics"...and if you listen to some of Laws's licks, the later-Coltrane influence can be heard. It's not like this guy was always playing pretty and clean, I mean, he definitely had something to say besides I'm A Freakin' Virtuoso, if you know what I mean... I've hung with a few serious "classical" flautists over the years, the kind who are still snobbish about the "proper" way to play the instrument. They were all extremely sensisitve/critical about things like evenness of tone, articulation, intonation, accuracy of fingering/execution, all that stuff, and the only jazz flautists they accorded respect were Dolphy, Laws, Tabackin, and in the case of one guy I knew later on, James Newton. Everybody else they found either lacking or merely "interesting". That means nothing, of course, but still..."doublers" beware!

Given a choice between panpies and harmonica, the choice for an itinerant musician would be obvious, I'd think. For one thing, campfire gigs would be a helluva lot easier to come by.

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Oh yeah...the white cover is a "second edition"...the first edition was a gold cover, I think...never seen that one but once. Color aside, this is what they look like: