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technical term, eh? I think? hope? But for swing, hell, Motown! Jamerson! Stax! Al Jackson! NY 50! Panama Francis! LA 60s! Earl Palmer! Hal Blaine! And Keith Moon! Ricky Wellman! Swing is the lifeblood of Popular Music. When it's not there (and too often over the last 25-30 years, it hasn't been), worry.

Not at all. I am saying that a big label could take what was gonna happen anyway in terms of "mass appeal" and just make it happen that much more. Gene Ammons was never gonna be a major crossover act. "Canadian Sunset" or "Angel Eyes" on Columbia might well have not sold as well as they did on Prestige. But Garner, Brubeck, Ellington/Newport, etc...each in their own way ready for "mass appeal", a ballw hich something Columbia certainly knew how to take and run a very far way with. and also pointing out the irony in a "major label" helping to popularize the very music that they would eventually be accused of helping to kill.

Hell, house swings when it wants to. Hip-hop swings when it wants to. Punk quite often swung when it wanted to. The kids can stay in the yard, as long as they swing. Ringo channels Richie Goldberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itLR8aW7vig And swings.

How many are there? I really dig the one where Brian hears Ronnie Spector doing "Don't worry Baby". Short, but priceless:

Hell, once upon a time, rock and roll in general swung, more often than not.

Yeah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKl4ufehjpA Once again, it's because of Ringo.

Can't argue with that.

Definitely from the Landy era. Yours was my first though as well. No fidgeting, no goofiness, lucid and well-spoken. Definitely farther along than the frighteningly surrealistic SNL performance... But - little-to-no eye contact w/Douglas, and....sounds like he's reciting rather than speaking. As time would reveal, Brian was not yet well.

All on Columbia. Not on Columbia.

With a turntable and a little luck, you can get some pretty nice-sounding OJC vinyls and some really nice sounding Columbias. But they're not necessarily any better than some good digital remastering, and are definitely more trouble when, with even a little more luck, you're making out (and beyond). So stick with CDs.

It is, and somewhere here there's a thread I started about that cut, comparing Ringo's work there to Almost Billy Higgins In It's Own Way. So at the very least, Ringo swung. Maybe Ringo was the Count Basie of Rock Drumming. And to bring it back to the other currently running Beatles thread that's a well-seasoned club band you're hearing there, in the best possible way and kind.

Uh, yeah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNDNORVUKIw...feature=related

England swings like a pendulum do.

Cheaper than a jukebox! Beautiful song, great record, but....DAMN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmcovQpvdg...feature=related

ok, mary travers. that's your three right there.

You ever notice there's more famous people named Bateman than you might think? And only Justin & Justine are related. Jody Powell died too...

To shop for reasonably-priced quality footwear from the privacy and comfort of somebody else's home.

Now don't do anything rash. I'm going to co-opt this one, if that's OK. I'll make good use of it. Take it and run with it.

Yeah, the whole thing with Al was straight out of a movie...the guyshows up to hear a band, the weather sucks, he paid the cover, the club is damn near empty, the band has no bass player, Greg says to no one in particular, "Anybody play bass?", Al says, "Yeah, I do. Too bad there's no bass here", the club owner says, "Y'all need a bass? I got one back here." Now here's Al's big decision - he'll be the first to tell you that he's not a "trained musician" and that he has very little experience playing in contexts other than friends, family, church, etc. But dammit, he loves this music, and here's a chance to play like he might have once, twice in a lifetime. Does he beg off based on personal insecurity & such, or does he carpe diem and not be afraid to let what happen happen? Big Al showed enormous courage, took a deep breath (I saw him!) & took the bass, then he took the bandstand. By god, Big Al wanted a taste, and Big Al seized the opportunity and got him a taste. To do something like this, you gotta be one brave motherfucker or one ignunt sonofabitch. I know Big Al well enough to know that he ain't ignunt, so...Kudos For Kourage! And here's the thing - Big Al has damn good time. For real. You can learn tone, technique, tunes, all that, but you can not learn good time, not the natural kind. I'm not gonna lie and say this was the best gig I've ever played. But I will go on record as saying that from a sheer "human interest" standpoint (and I hope that I never get so wrapped up in "music" that I lose sight of the human interest part of it), this was quite a trip. Can't really say that I've ever seen anything quite like it, much less been an active participant. Jean Sheppard (or, for somebody still living, Joe Milazzo) could turn this into a freakin' EPIC tale. And everybody, everybody wpold assume that it was 100% fiction. But it really happened.

Thanks for the tips! I (and I guess it's because I'm a drummer/percussionist) tend to do what you're talking about from a rhythmic standpoint, but I'm usually all for leaving the melody intact. But, when you're talking stuff like Metallica, where the melody is certainly almost never the main selling point of the tune, you might as well tweak the hell out of that too, right? So, again, thanks! Well, if you have the time, the tweaking can go all the way out and then back in again. Depends on where you are when you reach that point of "Yeah, tha's it".

REISSUE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!

Did somebody say "probeity"?