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That Open Door pic was in the first jazz book I ever read, Marshall Stearns' The Story Of Jazz. I hadn't even heard Bird yet, but the mojo came through anyway. Maybe it was the white suit.

The really yucky ones were the ones that had the front cover on the front and on the back.

Thank Bobby Parker. You can hear part of the "Day Tripper" riff in this tune also. Yeah, but the first thing I hear there is "What I Say" extrapolated out...it's all one big gigantic musical gene pool...

http://nicealbumshameaboutthecover.blogspo...oes-to-nyu.html

Magnolia Hotel

John Bobbitt The Man Who Got Away Dick Wellstood

The Man Man Ray Ray Manzarek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKM37yuOa3s&NR=1

Yeah, I remember when Staubach was dissed for not - results be damned - calling his own plays. Of course, it came out years later that the guy was not above disregarding the sent-in play when he felt the need to. Coaches calling plays instead of QBs might me more "realistic", but damn, is it really football? I suppose so, but...

I suppose my point is, ok "All-time Great"? Based on overall actual record, no, probably not". But "overrated"? No, not really, not in terms of ability. I think "impaired greatness" might best sum it up.

I watched Namath play. On a healthy day, he was truly great. Of course, bottom line is that you gotta win and win consistently. But unless you ever saw him in action with his knees healthy (and really, after '71 or so, his knees were pretty much gone, at least as far as being the "old Namath" went), don't even begin to use stats as a measure of talent. The stats lie like that.

Stats can sometimes be deceptive. Namath had the skills, just not the knees. Post-Super Bowl he was damn near always hobbled.

A point well-taken indeed, but...the uber-lefties will occasionally get called down/out by the more centrist ones. I don't recall a similar thing happening with our departed guest, except for maybe one or two things of yours towards the end. Maybe there would have been more to come. I'd like to think so. What totally bugged me was his adressing everybody not on his page as "leftists", "socialists", "statists", whatever and then attributing all sorts of absolutist "motivations" to any disagreements with his rather absolutist "libertarian" attitudes. There was no room for nuance with the guy, no room for partian agreement or disagreement, and no looking at anybody as an individual rather than a "type". It was a like dealing with a Wynton fanatic... It was also the introduction of an idealogue rather than an idea, and the further it went on, the further it became obvious that this guy(?) was here, not to debate or introduce ideas, persopectives, and concepts, but just to put a label on everybody who would disagree with him and then use that label as a springboard from which to proclaim his idological superiority. We've had leftist trolls take this approach from time to time, and they've been banned too. The guy never allowed that he was dealing with nuanced individuals here. Whethre that was becuase he was teminally myopic or just a "posture" on his part, it grew old quickly, and never produced anything other than YES! NO! YES! NO! YES! NO! ad infinitum. His banning is no loss at all to intellegent, or even semi-intellegent, dialogue.

Marc Myers: Who Was Bobby Scott? http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/05/who-was-bobby-scott.html

Well, uh...YEAH! I mean, seriously, you gotta understate those lyrics to make 'em work, and when was the last time you saw anybody, especially a singer who had what they saw as a chance to "make a statement" be able to sublimate their ego enough to actually make one? But I'd like to hear Bobby Scott's version. really, I would.