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"Interesting" makes "certainly not straight-ahead" irrelevant afaic.

Let the record show that this was meant as a goof, as indicated by the laughing smiley attached to the post. No animals were harmed in the prodcution of this post, nor were any real humans actually threatened. We now return you to your regular programming, already in "progress". And exactly what is "prodcution" anyways? I don't know but it's not a threat, I promise you!

Let the record show that this was meant as a goof, as indicated by the laughing smiley attached to the post. No animals were harmed in the prodcution of this post, nor were any real humans actually threatened. We now return you to your regular programming, already in "progress".

Frank Stallone Penn Gillette (F.S. was on Identity tonight) Gene Quill

Found anotehr one where he said that he worked at some university in Chigago for a long time after "retiring", but that he got fired when they found out that he was a performer. C'est la vie...

So, can I call you GOM-er?

Yeah, the crosshairs aren't blurred anymore.

Ok, the ritalin's kicked in. Never mind.

That would be GOM. Need some ritalin, perhaps?

Whatcha want? Whatcha need? What can you afford? Surprise me. I dare you.

Hell, I remeber his sides getting 4 & 5 star reviewws in Down Beat when I was a kid, and he seemed likea cult figure then. I know I should've at least checked him out by now, but you know how that shit goes sometimes. So, what's the deal?

At what?

Lou Costello Lou Gehrig Charles Mingus

People still abuse Fletcher Henderson?

Sixto Lezcano Pope Sixto V Paul Desmond

Jerry's lost quite a bit of weight.

That would be enough to make anybody go crazy.

Good to hear from you Danielle. Keep practicing, and keep that fire going! Good thing you're getting some clarinet chops now while you're still young. I started on sax & didn't get around to trying to learn doubles until I was 20. It's a lot easier to do it now, trust me.

"Tough" reading indeed, but not without a lot of merit in the end, I think.

I also think it's important to distinguish be tween"The Beach Boys" & "Brian Wilson". Deeply intertwined though they may be, there's ultimately a distinction between the two that must be made when it comes to sorting out all the bi-lateral hypes & exaggerations, and in my mind, it's a distinction that results in Brian mattering in a way that the Beach Boys don't. In what way he matters is a deeply personal one, but let me just say that if you're a Caucasian-American of a certain (more specific than the hype wants you to believe but less specific than the detractors hope you realize) "type" & "vintage" & haven't -or more to the point, won't - come to terms with what the Brian Wilson "ideal" was dealing with in its own highly flawed & ill-fated way, then you probably have no right to listen to any non-Caucasian-American music as anything other than wish/fantasy-fullfillment lifestyle accessory. Once you do come to terms with it, you're free, but until you do, hey - you're only kidding yourself.

Almost. I have still have a tough time with Carl and the Passions/So Tough, even with "Marcella" & "Be Still". When playing the "would you rather have these songs in spite of the album as a whole or would you rather not have the songs at all if it means not having the ablum game" I've pretty much concluded that it's the latter. But Love You, hey, that's a wacked out freakin' gem of an underrated work of parallel-universe self-contained geek genius . I was there at the time, and to say that people were..."confused" is putting it mildly. But the people who knew knew, and the impact on the underground was damn near immediate. I think you can safely call it the delayed SoCal doppelganger to There's a Riot Going On.

Well, since there is no such thing (or many such things), you'll get no argument from me about this. But I will say that it's an album that holds up well (i.e. - keeps giving up with new information) over the years. I've been coming back to it for about 30 years now and still find new things in it. Very few pop albums hold up on those terms for me. Consciously or not, the songs create a linear narrative from start to finish, and the arrangements/productions are in perfect sync w/the unfolding of that narrative. Combine that w/the sheer density of most of the tracks (the PS box set is one of those things that's for fanatics only, but it also shed a lot of light on the specifics within that density), and you got something to keep you occupied for as long as you're willing to be occupied. I trust that you've picked up on the latter-day "completed" Smile? If not, you probably should. It's some stunning stuff.

Is this the cover? or this one? Probably not this one: Leave it to our friends the Japanese: http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~tripan/ http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~tripan/tripanLpcd.html They're coming to Austin? Jeez, I figured they'd be dead by now... They must have the same manager as The Platters....

So that's how the Crusaders tune got its name!

Brazils & filberts.