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Veronika Harcsa in custom made Tisza:

Aye, lads, she be a-lookin' like a "sneaker" to me, HAR HAR HAR!

It all seems very 1992-ish to me...

So, is this company operating with or without BN/EMI permission? Ifit's with, then why would they not cooperate to provide satisfatory product/greater sales/greater return on licensing fees, etc. And it it's without, then how the hell is Amazon sanctioning this? Is EMI so impotent that Amazon spits in their face and laughs? Or does not EMI give a shit that somebody's openly pirating their product in the mainstream market place? And I really find it..."odd" that nobody at BN/EMI has kept a CD master of every release. What happens when James Newton goes crazy, kills Ad-Rock in a drive-by, gets famous in a whole new way, and suddenly they decide to reissue Romance and Revolution? Or America decides to change our national anthem to "Blues March" and they decide to repress Moanin' in Pop Smash quantities? What, is it back to the master tapes one more freakin' time? Unless I'm missing something really obvious, the more that comes to light about this whole deal, the more dysfunctional it appears...

Don Brown was there! What tune you talkin' about?

But a McDonald's sundae is forever.

Well, it should probably be noted that using boiling water (or grits, ask Al Green...)as a weapon of aggression is hardly unheard of either. The singer might well have had it in mind to disfigure his woman before dispatching her, to teach her a lesson, and to mark her as physically ugly as he perceived her spirit to be. Like I said, not exactly unheard of.... And if that seems genuinely dark, sinister, mean, and malevolent, oh well. It is. But shit like that did (and does) happen.

FWIW, I have, and have long had, a totally irrational but deeply visceral hatred of Kurt Warner.

Mention? Hell, you've freakin' represented!

It's a signifier of sorts. Out in the country (or in any poor area back in the day) boiling water is a commonplace activity. Cooking, washing, sterilization of drinking water, etc. But everybody knows that boiling water ain't used casually, or recreationally. That shit hurts and you best respect that fact. So it's not so much the boiling of the water that is significant as much as it is the timing, that the dude is picking a time when water is boiling to call his mama over to his knee and then call her out on her bullshit. Kinda like "harmlessly" sharpening a knife while you ask somebody about that money they owe you, that type of thing.

Let me say this again - I'll gladly pay 5-6 bucks for a real set of artwork. But to pay $15+ for a freakin' CD-R requires amounts of both disposable income and disposable sanity that I am not able to muster at this time. Thank god!

It's...as if...you were actually....in the room when the meeting took place!

They don't have any archive that I'm aware of other than the analog masters. They probably still have the CD mother stamper somewhere in the pressing plant, but they don't have any kind of library of all the CDs they've ever made. say WHAT?

Yep. And that's a drag too, considering the lineup, although maybe it's somewhat a case of "band minus bandleader" "slacking off". Maybe a different drummer would have upped the ante. Oh well. Just goes to show you that there are no guarantees...

I feel much the same way about Fuller's other Impulse! date, Soul Trombone. Not bad, but could/should have been a lot better, imo.

If you ever find out, please let us know. I for one am curious!

Dude, I tried, believe me. Like you, it sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it exactly. As to where to go, try this: http://www.beyondjazz.net/ They got forums like this one and the nature of that music lends itself very nicely to your query. No promises, but hey...

When you say "blues", do you mean "blues" blues, or jazz/blues/etc (I'm asking because of the Alex North & Streetcar references)? Because I'm thinking that the underscore of a lot of older cartoons had very "jazzy" music, some of which probably might fit within your boundaries. Not sure how much, if any, has been extracted to standalone soundtracks, but there's probably some crazymad collectors/archivists/etc out there who have some something along those lines, either w/the actual scores or else recreations. But then again, animation was very "jazzy" in and of itself, and you say you're looking for sightings in un/non-expected places... But then again again, I think that most animators & their cohorts would be considered "outsiders" relative to "blues" in general, Cliff Edwards notwithstanding...

My guess? They expect a generally older demographic that's "frightened" of digital downloads. See, this is just nuts AFAIC. "Frightened" of digital downloads, yeah, ok, I know the type, but geez, they're all gonna be dead in, what, 30 days or so? Everybody else has figured out that you can either A) Buy this type stuff legit used or elsewhere if you look hard enough B) Get a burn from a friend and/or C) Download it from the internets for free. But what you can't find w/similar ease is the packaging. A professionally-printed booklet (not some ink-jet job) would be welcome, as would, in some instances, tray cards, etc. Not sure what the cost/benefit ratio on this would be, but I'd be more prone to pay, say, $4.95 for a real booklet than I would $14.95 for a CD-R of something (that I can easily get elsewhere in some form or fashion) and some "almost real" artwork... Hell, even build artist/composer/publisher royalties into the price to compensate for non-sales due do the promiscuity of digital reproductions of the musical content. I know that's a bit altruistic, but hey, it's new day!

Oh. A rights issue, I presume? Probably not going to find any separate soundtracks for those films. Hell, it's a miracle that those films even got found/preserved at all! Haven't really seen too many of them myself, so I have no idea what type musics were used in the soundtracks. But I'd have to think that there would be some blues/jazz in there somewhere, even in the underscore.

Hands down - "That Night" by Jazzanova feat. Bembe Segue. It's made a powerful connection with my heart, body, mind, and soul.

Further Bembe update: She keeps turning up on some really good broken-beat records and keeps sounding really good on them. She's also done a track w/Jazzanova, "That Night", that has really caught my ear as being a really good/interesting song. Imagine an old Strata-East thing re-imagined as a vocal vehicle perfectly suitable fodder for mainstream consumption, and that might give you an idea. Or something like one of those BN "spiritual" "with voices" albums with a vocalist taking the lead instead of an instrumentalist, that might give you an idea. Great groove, great changes, hell, great tune, period. Available for $0.89 (that's EIGHTY NINE CENTS!!!) as an Amazon download here (O-Board link built in, hopefully): http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/order/than...wWGTZITaQ%3D%3D Some y'all might like this, some more y'all won't. C'est la vie. But ffor those who will (or even might), damn, 89 cents is a cheap price for damn near anything these days...