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There's only one reason why I'm not rich - I don't have enough money to be considered "rich". Now, the reasons why I haven't gotten rich, that's another story, and no doubt fodder for a list such as this...

Eruh... Don't the examples in the first post suggest otherwise? If so, there was a Rollins/Tyner duet on "In A Sentimental Mood" on PBS back in 74 or 75 that was killer. Far more beautifinous than the one that came out on the Milestone Jazzstars side.

Looks like the Japanese issue has some different tunes... 6. Avalon - (studio) 7. Tickle Toe - (studio) 8. Warnin (Take 1) - (studio) 9. Warnin (Take 2) - (studio) 10. Stomping At The Savoy - (studio) Compared to the one available at Amazon: ... 6. Tickle Toe 7. The Man I Love 8. Autumn Leaves 9. The Way You Look Tonight Any opinions as to whether "Avalon", the two takes of "Warnin'" and "Savoy" are worth $20 more than "Man I Love", "Autumn Leaves" and "The Way You Look Tonight"? Oh hell yeah. The Japanese version is all Warne/Pepper, whereas the American issue is a straight reissue of the LP, which was Warne/Art on one side & Pepper "leftovers" from other sessions on the other. Both are certainly worthy issues, but in my world (and using the EDC method of valuistic formuology) More Warne ? More $$$ outlay. Always. Yes, but the Japanese version does have a very wide and rather weird stereo separation -- Art and Warne to the far left, rhythm section to the far right. I need the extra material (though OJC issue doesn't leave out anything great) but wish I'd also kept my copy of "The Way It Was," which if IIRC either used a mono master or tamed the wide stereo spread. I've still got my vinyl of TWIW (surprised they didn't call it "The Way We Were" to try and snag some sucker-buys...), and pretty sure it's all stereo. Is that weird spread just on the bonus material? Maybe they just didn't touch the original session tapes or something like that. Oh well. Back in the day, an amp w/a mono switch was no big deal. Now it seems to be a "special feature". The glorification of the mundane, it's made our life so much better! Neverthenonetheless (and still using the EDC method of valuistic formuology) More Warne ≥ More $$$ outlay. Always. And that ? = "greater than or equal to". Guess Character Map transfers don't work. Weird. Can I get a mono switch?

Looks like the Japanese issue has some different tunes: ... 6. Avalon - (studio) 7. Tickle Toe - (studio) 8. Warnin (Take 1) - (studio) 9. Warnin (Take 2) - (studio) 10. Stomping At The Savoy - (studio) Compared to the one available at Amazon: ... 6. Tickle Toe 7. The Man I Love 8. Autumn Leaves 9. The Way You Look Tonight Any opinions as to whether "Avalon", the two takes of "Warnin'" and "Savoy" are worth $20 more than "Man I Love", "Autumn Leaves" and "The Way You Look Tonight"? Oh hell yeah. The Japanese version is all Warne/Pepper, whereas the American issue is a straight reissue of the LP, which was Warne/Art on one side & Pepper "leftovers" from other sessions on the other. Both are certainly worthy issues, but in my world (and using the EDC method of valuistic formuology) More Warne ≥ More $$$ outlay. Always.

Lowrider = always makes me stop what I'm doing and take a moment to shake my ass, at least mentally. A single disc compilation could be made from this that would guarandamtee that it would be more than mental, not that it would take any great act of heavy-handed persuasion or anything... "Slippin' Into Darkness" is the one that always gets to me. But that might go without saying.

War was a cool band.

Oh yeah!

Some already R&B-ish Ray Abrams from 1951 can be heard here:

I was weaned at the tit of my AM radio (except when I was home and feverish with Measles, Mumps, and the Mysterious Q Fever, and/or in the car with mom & dad, in which case it was EZ Listening hellven all the way), and I shut it off in 1970 (except for Astros games - gotta love Loel Passe, and if you don't it's only because you never heard him, everybody loves up on Gene Elston, but he was Bobby Flay to Loel's Jack McDavid - not to be confused with David McDavid btw). When I turned it back on in 1973, I thought I had suffered permanent Mysterious Q Fever damage, and Elton was prime suspect as carrier of same. Hate is not too strong of a word. Quite the contrary!

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...

Dead baby turtles That can't form a sentence...

This is a fun record, kinda "retro early 70s" but with spirit, not idolatry. McCaslin is a player I first heard w/Monday Michiru, and then on one of his own dates, and finally here. He reminds me of late-60's/very early 70's Eddie Daniels, and I mean that as a compliment. He ain't particularly deep, but he sure as hell can be fun. Here's hoping that he doesn't end up screwing up.

I don't think so. But mine is a widely but far from universally held opinion. I'd say it's a 40/60 affair at best. The focus was fading fast, and there are moments of bland inertia as well as moments that shine with at least some of the old sparkle (and "In Time" is one of the marvels of the age by anybody's standards). To it's credit, it's an album where even the lesser cuts can get by on groove, if that's enough for you and/or you don't pay too much attention to what the shit could/should have been. Soon, such was not to be the case. Still, it's the last full album by Sly that anybody things is worth a damn in any proportion.

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Uh...Mosaic Contemporary anybody? Send some emails & see what the response is.

Don. Gal's dad. I still call him Jr because like I said, I like to keep by bullshit simple. And Jr. he is. Went through the typical-of-the-time reflexive Beatlephilia, then the not-so-common Beatlehatred. Never was taken by too much of too many of the post-breakup work by any/all concerned, but years of playing the shit (& Elton's) in various bands/contexts made it for me all about the songs. Do they stand up as interesting/fun (enough) things when you're doing it strictly for the money. Is there still something to like/love there that makes the whoredom bearable, and at times even allows for the busting of the surreptitious nut? Opinions have changed about many over the years of doing this (including mine about Jr.) and some haven't. McCartney's written enough stuff that still gets a grin. Elton still elicits a grimace and/or cringe (when it's not tortuously and endlessly rambling to no good end, it's just plain dumb. Heads you win, tails, I lose...). We're talking 30 years now, more or less, so the options are pretty much set, and obscure album gems, if & when they exist, are not relevant to my lifestyle, not from these two, or others of their ilk. Beatles? Hey, one word - songcraft. Like 'em or hate 'em, there's usually some damn fine songcraft involved in the stuff that's made the cut (and often more in the stuff that hasn't). After that, it's all in what you make of it. Fair enough for all concerned. OTOH, hearing a Lewisville redneck bar bad singer do "A Country Boy Can Survive" like he means it because he does because he knows more about trot lines and such than McCartney knows about Helen Wheels or Elton knows about damn near anything, well, that's a Recommended Life Lesson for ya' right there, although god knows not a Recommended Lifestyle, not unless you were to the manner born, in which case, EVOLVE MOTHERFUCKER, if you can, and if you can't, hey, that's what Rural America is for, although you best pick your spots carefully because "rural" and "ignunt ass" are not synonymous... And Elton is a fucking twit. That's my final answer.

Ok, one more lesson. Paul, 1970-present = (Sinatra + Costa)/X (where X = Sinatra & Strings) Elton = (Johnnie Ray - Frankie Laine) x Post-VietnamWatergate Pop Culture School's out. Have a good summer!

And oh yeah - Hank Williams Jr > Paul, 1970-present + Elton, beginning to end. I like my bullshit uncomplicated. Shortest distance between two points, and all that...

yep! Uh...Mosaic Contemporary anybody?

+5 points for confidence, but -10 points for inaccuracy. The correct answer is: Elton = Paul, 1970-present + 10(insufferably (but marketable) self-focused, absorbed drama) - intrinsic musical instinct/ a sembalance of a normal personality "Levon" = "Silly Love Songs" + pseudo"sensitivity" + nobody knowing any better except those who already do. Paul is a twit in spite of having written some good/great songs. Elton is just a twit. Take away the self-created drama & the songs themselves suck. Damn near all of them. Q.E.D.

Clark Terry?

Holy shit... LOTS of recordings from the Hillcrest...

still has one in him ?..He just put out a Very Good album at the end of 05. Chaos and Creation in the backyard....... Well yeah, but looking at his history for the last 25 or so years and how often he comes up with one of those as time goes by, you figure that the odds of him having another one in him before he dies are roughly 50/50... If I'm wrong, it will be gladly.

Lots of words about "the deal" in the press release & little/none about what to expect musically. I'd not mind a good, really good McCartney album, assuming that he still has one in him (and he maybe might). But I don't give a dead rat's ass about "the deal". Stockholders must be salivating like its 1999, but what time is it really?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511085/ You tell me.