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The worst, Lon, not the best...

I'm beginning to think I should be... But hey - check out "Legs" & tell me if that alone ain't worth the cost of admission.

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Well. Aren't you the ungrateful one. OOPS! I take no credit whatsoever! Nah man, I saw a whole generation of guys turn into clueless pseudo "sensitive" types thanks to Elton, only to have their hormonal chain simultaneously yanked by Grand Funk. Garbage on both ends, and it showed as the years passed. You can blame the worst of 1970s Heartland American Young White Male Behavior of the 70s (which is to say almost of of it) almost entirely on Elton John & Grand Funk Railroad. And if there's anything left over, add Gary Muledeer to the list.

Imagine some local Bay area dude who gets a notion to make some records with a band that sound like RIOT-era Sly demoing really cool song skeletons that sound like Willie Mitchell sketches with lyrics like O.V. Wright might have written in a drunken/depressed rage of love, sung in a voice that combines the most ethereal elements of Al Green & Sylvester, with only a fraction of the finesse of either. Or put another way - There's A Riot Going On coming from the guys on the corner (the guys who are always on the corner...) instead of the guys on the stage. Yeah, plenty to be suspicious about from a "technical" standpoint. But factor in that the singer is really, REALLY, REALLY into the emotional/spiritual zone that it takes to overcome all that, to put this shit over anyways, and then what do you have? How you answer that question will say a lot about you and your relationship to music (no worng answers), not the least of which is whether or not you'll want to hear this album. But if you think you might, I'm here to encourage you to do so. Strongly.

Cubie Pat Luby Jack Ruby

Exactly. And I don't care about Elton/Bernie either (except for extreme dislike), having seen them help me turn my generation into mushbrains. Especially the dudes.

Big Wally Wally George George Wallington

Best wishes to a gentleman of extreme sincerity and erudition. A role model for us all.

The songs (which are often enough interesting from a melodic/harmonic standpoint) should be allowed to have a life away from the songwriter/performer (who has always struck me as, if not lame, sorta...uh...unpleasant). Then we could tell for sure. Maybe.

I've talked to a few old-timers around here who heard Ornette in FW, and they say that he was playing "just like Bird". Even allowing for generalities, I think it's safe to say that if he couldn't play bebop at all, they'd have said something. These were not the type people to sugarcoat, if you get my drift... I think it's probably like me eating liver - I can eat it, but it's not natural to me, and there's any number of things that come naturally to me before that does. And ever since I made it clear to my mom that I was not going to eat it (musta been about 10 at the time), I've never even tried to, except once or twice to be polite. But you can best believe that every bite pained me to no end. I might even go out on a speculative limb and say taht when Ornette was playing inside, he did it by playing by ear. The guy's notions of theory (from what I've read/heard him him say) are certainly homemade to one degree or another (which is not to imply that they don't "work. Hell yeah they work). So he wasn't playing bebop "theoretically", he was playing the licks that he heard, and playing them well, apparently. But w/o that "traditional" theoretical understanding, he might not have been able to apply those licks to anything too much other than situational replication. Which might mean that when he started to do his thing, the was playing by "heart" rather than by "ear". Because although he could apparently hear the bebop language well enough to play it, it seems that he didin't feel it enough to grow all the way into it. Some guys w/o all the theoretical background can do that, just because they feel it. But Ornette was feeling something else, and something else was what he ended up playing. As for the intonation issue, it's so totally a non-issue. I'll go so far as to say that he has better control of his pitch than do most people who play "in-tune".

Try this: http://www.dustygroove.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...x=16&GO.y=9 Hit the Send Request button to get an email notification when/if it comes back into stock, and grab it when/if it does,

No explanation of where the TCB string overdubs on the Andrew Hill album came form? Although, there's one cut on the TCB that's not from the Hill Warwick LP, iirc. But that's just one...

Not sure I'd wait too long. Don't know that supplies will be unlimited on this one. Just a huinch... Besides, do you want to take a risk on not getting the Kenny Burrell ad for Schlitz Malt Liquor? Yeah, that's right - Burrell plays and read the copy, finishing up with "...and that's why it's Burrell's brew." Kenny Burrell was well enough known in this community to do a speaking/playing ad for Schlitz Malt Liquor on an AM R&B station. Any notions about "Soul Jazz" being a "community" music being an illusion go out the window fast when you hear that one... And let's not forget - Hopson was Charles Earland's manager for at least a while. The tune "The Mighty Burner" was named after him. And there's a few ads for local clubs that have organ music in the background. Can't tell if they're from already made albums or what, but I wondered if Earland's the man playin them? Nah, if I was you, I carpe diem on this puppy. Trust me.

Yo Bertrand - I posed your question to somebody involved w/this set and got this reply:

Dude - I heard it today, and, uh....yeah. That's putting it mildy. You get the distoted AM sound, and on top of that, WHAT seems to have subscribed to the not-uncommon practice of setting their turntables at a faster speed than 45 RPM. So this is not a disc for "record collectors" But this is it, man. This is it.

Exactly, which is why it's the "best", imo, type of "out" - that which grows the tradition from within rather than attempting to change it from without.

The station in question has a link here: http://www.desiconnectionusa.com/radio/ but it's not working. There's a buttload full of other links to other stations, though, on that site. I've not checked them out yet, so can't comment on any of them, but there they are. But the music is only part of it for me. The commercials, and the DJ patter are every bit as interesting (well, ok, almost as interesting). Like I said, the process of assimilation going on right in front of us. Check it out.

I think he did.

You think so?

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People Who Listen To Sleigh Bells While Snow Is Glistening In The Lane Parson Brown Squire Parsons

Heiner Stadler is definitely a cat worth checking out. If you ever come across this one, carpe diem: Featuring Thad Jones, Georges Adams and Lewis, Stanley Cowell, Reggie Workman, Lennie White (sic), and not a cliche in sight.

Yeah, that's what I meant.