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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIfgW2jOEo

Went tubing for the first (and last) time down the Comal about a month ago...a river full of drunk obnoxious college kids and no way to avoid bumping into them as you went down the river, yes. Nice and lazy....not exactly. Maybe now that school's back in session, it might be more of what it probably really was at some point. That's a good point. I lived in San Marcos for a year back in the early 80's, and back then there weren't the numbers that there are now probably. Last time I went was when school was in session too, so it was probably a bit less crowded than in the middle of summer. (Aside - I did go tubing on the Delaware River between NJ and Pennsylvania last month, there was hardly anybody on that river, and it was beautiful - went past the area where Washington crossed the river). The last time I had been actually in New Braunfels was around 1970 or so. Back then, it was a quaint town known entirely for its German flavor. Now, almost 40 years later, it's all about tubing & Schlitterbaun...traffic's horrible, the locals are stressed and often rude, and it's just not fun. If our visit was any indication, "tourism" has ruined that town in every way except revenue-wise. However, on the way there, we went through Lockhart. Kristina's been aon a barbecue kick lately and wanted to try Kreuz. Now THAT is worth the trip, especially the sauerkraut. But hell, the brisket and sausages too...if anything has ever been divinely inspired, this stuff has been.

Went tubing for the first (and last) time down the Comal about a month ago...a river full of drunk obnoxious college kids and no way to avoid bumping into them as you went down the river, yes. Nice and lazy....not exactly. Maybe now that school's back in session, it might be more of what it probably really was at some point.

And don't count on me, but I've heard nothing one way or the other.

Houston probably has the most vibrant jazz scene in Texas, or at least appears to. Austin is what it is and has signed a lifetime contract to never be anything else. San Antonio...I'm sure there's more "there" there than I've found to this point, but damned if I can tell you where. Dallas/DFW (which you don't mention, but...) is like reading a really crazy pop-up book while you're on a bad acid trip - you think things are bad until POPUP! WHAOH! Guess it could always be worse! But every so often, you'll get tickled, so you keep turning the pages...

Some of the best Trane on record (based on my personal criteria, of course), and there's about that much more of equal quality waiting to be officially released. The Quartet in '65 was stretching that thing as far as it could be stretched without it becoming something else entirely. It's rare music in every way.

Some of the songs on HDN go on a little too long though,,a return to a bridge that wasn't really needed, a repeat of a verse with no new lyrics that served no purpose other than to add a few seconds to play time...little things like that...three was definitely some growing pains to be had yet, and making a record of the perfect length for a song was not one where they always came out triumphant, at least for a while "I Should Have Known Better" is a prime example..make it a 16 bar guitar solo, come out of that to the bridge, take it home, badda boom badda bing, nice and clean like a washing machine. That 2nd A-Section of vocal after the 1st A guitar solo drags the "record flow" down, disorients it, makes it feel like you got to point C but forgot something and had to go back to point B to pick it up... Nothing really ugly, but definitely not perfect, either. And perfect they could ofttimes be, and ast 65 rolled into 66, something they increasingly became. But see, that's one thing Brian Wilson was an ace at. Beach Boys records were never too long, never fillered out wiuth an extra 8 or 16 bars. Hell, most of the BBs pre Pet Sounds hits we 2:30 ot less, sometimes only a sec or two over or under 2:00 flat... It was a good time to listen to the radio, that's all I can say. Everybody was in sync and on the same page.

I think Dylan knows how he sounds now, and I also think he genuinely likes the material, although why he likes it might not be the same reaons that most people who like it like it. But then again, who knows? I also also think that Dylan is one of the driest, wryest performers in the history of the world, so maybe for him, doing material that he like the way he sounds now provides him with a conceptual chuckle or two. Not scornful or condescending or anything, just one of those things you laugh at...just because. Again, look at this cover and tell me you don't see at least some wry and dry... http://www.yenra.com/wiki/images/Bob-dylan...stmas-album.jpg

http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/barrick.htm

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None of the above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crcq3G18JLc

Again, the album cover tells all:

I think the look on the horse's faces as they escape from the album painting pretty much lets us in in the joke:

The only thing that would be better would be if would have been a duet album with Tom Waits.

True, but I consider Mitchell an already-jazz drummer who crossed over to rock. I mean, "Third Stone From The Sun" is not the work of somebody who just "liked" jazz...

Not until now, but now I know how those reverse IP lookups work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa

Although the story is what matters in the real world, in the O-World,I was more interested in the headline. I mean...that's a classic, right? You couldn't make something like that up.

I've had good results playing it with an "Elvin" feel. Not much of a stretch at all. And speaking of rock, swing, and Elvin, at some point we must mention Keith Moon, whose hero might have been Gene Krupa, but who approach to band drumming was closer in spirit to Elvin, I think.

Yeah, here you go: BEATLES RADIO SHOW 1962 [with pete best } : Ringo tightened the whole thing up. Big time.

Yeah, me too. It takes a while to get used to being in a "sterile" studio and feeling the same vibe as a loud, smokey, sweaty club full of people who are feeding you back the energy you're feeding them. The Beatles - Some Other Guy (Live at the Cavern, 1962) I tell you, the main musical, as opposed to psychological, difference between this & the Decca tapes is Ringo.

But Smile survived, and ultimately triumphed.

Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_...EMPLATE=DEFAULT