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Ok, if you're talking Buddy terry, you gotta go for the Prestige Natural Soul. Woody Shaw, Larry Young, Eddie Gladden, Newark out the ass, kinda like Unity w/o any pretense of being a formal, well-rehearsed Blue Note date, if you know what I mean.

Link to Amazon (thru Organissimo) for the album under discussion: http://www.amazon.com/Follow-Red-Line-Vill...3387&sr=8-1

Discovery Home has License To Grill w/Chef Robert Rainford, who appears to be a little....uh....goofy, but damn does that food look good!

Hey, not my fault if they're too cool to be proactive...

You're still one ahead of Gayle Sayers.

Oh, I think/know he's a player. Never any doubt in my mind, and plenty of respect for him here. Just not a lot of personal love, and the reasons are that - personal. Either somebody gets to you or they don't. And Potter hasn't. Not his problem, not my problem, not anybody's problem. Just one of those things that happens in this big. wide, wonderful Universe Of Music of ours. And in all honesty, his playing per se on this one isn't what gets to me. It's the group energy, focus, and syncronization of their willingness and ability to go there and get there as a unit. And frankly, I'm just glad to hear somebody "currently in favor" doing something that's this much of a slam in the face of all the overly-precious "art music" that all the sit-still-dammit-and-LISTEN-INTENTLY types (aka, Aric's "beards" & Co.) have been so damn insistent on promoting as the One True Serious Jazz for way too long. This shit is loud, raucous, beat-y, gonzo, and serious as a mofo. It's guaranteed to have the "beards" running from the room in disgust. No, I take that back - running from the room would be too much of a public physical exertion and too direct a show of emotion. The beards would wait until break, walk out, drive home, and then sniff about it all. Potter or no Potter, I'm all in favor of pissing off the beards from now until....ever.

Bassless 4tet w/Craig Taborn, Adam Rogers, & Nate Smith, a (considerably more "electric" - in terms not just limited to AC current being used) followup to Underground. In no way have I had an interest in Potter over the years. Underground was the first album of his that made me listen, and then it was with as much curiosity (as in, "Wow, this is Chris Potter and I'm actually semi-interested. WTF?") as enthusiasm. But.... These guys have got something going on. Check it out.

Stay on it. R.I.P.

Not exactly....if this was the "file sharing mentality", it would be available as a free download at any website near you. This is pretty much old school plagerism-for-profit, period.

Oh, I know all kinds of shit. I got peoples, ya' know. As for the Pewburner thing, a few years ago somebody I know bought some stuff, and brought it over to share. We're all good citizens and shit, ya' know, and have/would buy any legit issue of this material if/when it becomes available. But until then... Yeahyeahyeah, we all know the drill. So ayways, we get ready to burn copies of the Pewburner discs, and the PC starts wiggin' with error messages and shit. Copy protected like a mofo, this shit was. Fortunately, one of the team was one of those type of friends you always like to have, somebody who keeps up on the latest code to trump the next-to-latest code, so he sat down and in a few minutes, voila, Opal Nations was more like Opal Fiefdoms. But I mean really, of all the nerve - you're selling blatantly booted shit at blatantly inflated prices because you got no real overhead to speak of and you know that naybody who really wants it will pony up on your terms, and then you got the nerve to "protect" "your" "work". Granted, this was a few years ago, and we were all so soured on the experience that we've not yet done return bizness (at least not that I know of), so maybe the CP is gone. But if it's not (or even if it is), hey - Gimme a break, Offal, and fuck you up your momma's ass whith's your grandma's donkey's dick.

Him & Opal Nations, whose Pewburner outfit offers "CDs" of innumerable, priceless OOP Gospel material that the owners are unlikely to ever release on their own, so, ok, there is maybe a "heroic" angle to Pewburner except.... This motherfucker has the nerve to put Anti-copy protection on shit that he don't even own! He don't want you doing what he did. He wants you to pay him for doing what he did. so fuck him, and fuck Tom Lord too.

Hey man, sorry for all the inconvenience, but...we were in a hurry. Send me a bill, ok?

What if the coyote would never look down? What if Adam & Eve would have never opened their eyes?

Got to hear this, and as much as I hear the Newk, I hear the Hank at least equally. Rhythm section is kinda wobbly in spots, as is the leader, but not in an incompetent way. I hear them still learning to speak the language. Sincere, at time confident, at times flatering. Just as anybody else in the still-formative stages of attempting to speak a language that is not native to them. I gotta wonder about that osca-pella version of "Bali Hi" though...was 1960 still close enough to the whole WWII-occupation thing that picking a song from South Pacific might have had..."subtext"? And "Volare"! Maybe it took a non-American to see past the "baggage" of the source and into the hipness of the blowing potential of the tune. All in all, a pleasuarably informative listen, I'd say.

If it was just The Dells, I could pass comfortably. Fine talents, but... The wildcard here for me is Stepney, a man who could take things in some interesting directions. I'm of the opinion (minority, it seems), that Earth Wind & Fire's output suffered irrevocably from Stepney's death. Maurice White was a helluva talent then, but w/o Stepney in the mix, his stuff didn't have that extra creative "dimension" that it did with. It's on DG's own label, so it should be availabel for quite a while. I'll get to it eventually, probably.

Hell, I'm about to have a 15" penis. What the hell am I gonnna need money for after that?

Yeah, a fair amount, mostly on his own tunes. Sometimes he'd play everything on them.

Shaq Smack Stack

Ah, that makes sense. It was the Beatles and the session work was done in 1964, even if the original tracks weren't. That's the first I've heard of this clarification, although I've not followed the "controversy" with anything remotely resembling resolute interest. Purdie has for years been under the impression (or creating the impression) that he was the "Real Ringo" or some such. To be the Real Pete Best is a distinctly lesser honor, although nowhere near as lesser as being the Real Jimmy Nicol... Of more interest to me is how Carol Kaye gets off claiming to be the Real James Jamerson & Earl Palmer the Real Benny Benjamin. That's a lot deeper...

Absolutely, but for me, it more than kinda ruined what came in its wake... I mean, really, they could've died/stopped/whatever at Sell Out or thereabouts and left a legacy as hip and fuquitous as any BritRock band ever. That shit has an edge that is honest & real & unsullied by...the ambiguities of success. It is what it is, all the way, no real subtext needed, and it hits hard. If that was all they had done, hey, what's not to love about that? But noooooo..... Oh well, that's life. I'll justify later Sonny Rollins & Max Roach from now until the cows come home, but The Who... as much as I like it, I don't care enough about it to do that.

Not really sure if the early Who could be referred to middle class, at least in U.K. in the mid-late sixties. The problem with The Who now is the backstory. Townsend didn't die before he got old. Good for him, bad for the band. Unless you're old enough to be able to honestly ignore that bit of backstory (and thank god I am), it casts a shadow like any other backstory.

Thank you!

No. Purdie claims to have been hired to overdub parts on some 1964(?) cuts, but that's never been proven, and the existence of the original session tapes, which appear to match the released versions exactly. make his one of the more bizarre music industry claims.