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That's not Ricky Ford on #7?

Sue Johanason Sue Mingus Siouxsie And The Banshees

As is also true of a cat who's one one team's card while wearing the uniform of another, Larsen's in Giants garb on that Astros card. I smell Bobby Bland....er....trouble.

And thus has it always been.

Sivart Nosnibor Selim Sivad Serutan Yob

And yeah - the CD cover sucks!

In that little drought of the late 70s, I used to point to this one as "the last great organ album". In a sense, it was, if only because everything that came after that (even Earland's own Muse sides) had a de facto air of "getting back". From a "serious jazz perspective", I suppose there's flaws aplenty. Joe & Freddy might ramble on a bit, and most all of the tunes go on just a little bit longer than they "should". But at the risk of giving the impression that I hold this type music to a "lower standard", I gotta say that none of that bothers me too awfully much. The shit grooves all the way, and I think it's safe to say that for Earland and his audience, that's grounds for a good, solid "mission accomplished". There's certainly many "better" "jazz" albums, and there's even "better" organ albums. Yet, over the years, I've pulled this one off the shelf more often than quite a few of those. It's just got that "thing" to it, that vibe, that spirit that makes the "music" less important than the music, if you know what I mean. And I think you do.

You're welcome. I guess all I'm really saying is that, no, it doesn't matter. Not in the end. But there's a huge difference between realizing that to be so and assuming that to be so.

Indeed it does. I really don't see how too many players under the age of, say, 35 or so can claim "authenticity" to "the tradition" in any truly deep way other than love from afar. The river has broken off into so many streams now that the water's flooded everybody's yard to some extent. But the closer to that "tradition" you choose to stay, the more you gotta ask yourself just what that tradition entails, and not just on a superficial "swinging, blues-based" level either. There's so much more to it than that... And coming to terms with it doesn't necessarily mean you change the way you play. But you still need to come to terms with it. Superficiality is the order of the day, and has been for quite a while now, but that doesn't alter the fact that if you "claim" something for yourself (again, no matter what race you are), you better have a damn good understanding of what it is you're claiming, or else drop the "claim" and admit to being a student. Nothing wrong with being a student. Nothing at all... From what I've read, Warne was very conscious that he was playing "black music" in a "non-black" way. Or "white music" in a "black way". Whatever combo works. But the point is that he confronted identity & integrity head on, and his music has a power that the music of few white musicians of his time did. There's a reason for that, and genius is only a part of it. Genius in the service of bullshit will just get you some high-grade bullshit. We are living in a world today where barriers are breaking down, and concepts of identity are organically changing as a result. I'm all for that, believe me. But I'm seeing it mostly in the young people, not too many of whom give a rat's ass about "traditional" jazz ) as anything other than one of many "roots", if they care about it at all (and frankly, I can understand why they don't. Now more than ever.). So anybody under a certain approximate age who talks about the "tradition" these days in terms of a manifesto or some such is guilty in my eyes until proven innocent. Such a somebody is going to have to prove to me that they ain't either denying or theiving. Or both. And - white folk of most all ages still got a funny little habit of thinking that everything is cool with them when it ain't. The classics, it seems, never go out of style.

Nah - windbreaker under the uniform combined w/a visible flat top. CREEPY! Dude, any player w/o a hat on a baseball card back then was somebody you knew was not in a stable position...

I knew I was leaving somebody else out...

If you're white, play jazz, and didn't come up in a hermetic environment, sooner or later you have to come to terms with the intersection of "identity" & "integrity". If you don't, you're a fool and/or a crook. Plenty of both yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Chewy's statement might have been simplistically stated, but the idea behind it is not without merit. Far from it.

John Lennon Oedipus Electra

More pictures of old sports cards featuring people who look like criminals go here. Lord knows there's enough examples. And - NO DENNY MCLAIN!!!

More pictures of old sports cards featuring people who look like criminals go here. Lord knows there's enough examples. And - NO DENNY MCLAIN!!!

This is how I first encountered the man. He kinda scared me.

It's some nutty shit, this one is. Everybody sounds buzzed on something or another, shits sloppy like a mofo, tempos are throught the roof on at least one occasion and in multiple places simulataneously on the others, and nobody seems to give a fuck because they're having so much fun. One of my favorite Hub sides, period. Seriously.

Didn't know of any notable version beside's O.C. Smith's. Ya' learn something everyday here at Clem's Ranchodeo.

Thank god! I was paying a fortune in DVD rewind fees to Blockbuster.

You have to unplug it for a minute or so. It's Comcasts first reaction to any connection problem. It's been a while since I did it. Yeah, that's how it works. Supposedly the dynamic address occasionally gets "lost" somewhere between the ISP & the computer, so you have to power off the modem for 30-60 seconds and then power it back on, which results in a totally "fresh" connection/dynamic address for the computer, and it's all good. Really, a very minor inconvenience (except when a lenghty post here gets lost and has to be retyped...)), but we all want/expect our internet to work perfectly every time out, don't we? Maybe Honda or Toyota should get into the game... Nobody's been willing/able to explain to me why this addressical discombobulation occurs in the first place, or why it seems to occur more on weekends. But I suspect that it's a function of higher traffic causing a bottleneck that the ISP's internal routing system is unable to effectively handle. I'm guessing that it's a totally avoidable issue, but that it might require an investment that they're not willing to make. Or not. I really don't know what I'm talking about here, not beyond the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" stage.

It looks like they took too many risks with your DSL connection. If a user is located too far from a telephone "knot" in the street (I don't know the technical term), the DSL connection is not reliable and normaly the DSL company would not accept to connect the user. Well, that was the thing - the relay station was/is less than a quarter mile from my house! The ISP tech's test was able to pinpoint the problem as being between the relay station and my house, possibly even with the wires in my house, which would be Verizon's issue. That the Verizon rep walked out of the discussion after being presented with this evidence told me all I needed to know about DSL as it pertained to my house and Verizon as it pertained to my future needs outside of basic local telephone service.

DAn, in hte DFW area, customers do have the option of differing speeds of DSL. Some ISPs advertise the options more prominently than others though. I had DSL and was disappointed, to put it mildly. Speeds were only marginally better than dial-up, and large downloads would frequently timeout. The problem was between my ISP & the phone company (Verizon). Both of them blamed the other, and I finally tried getting them both in on a conference call. The ISP rep presented his evidence (quite convincing live test results that showed the problem to be w/the Verizon line between a relay station and my house) to the Verizon rep, who then proceeded to excuse himself "for just a second" . Thirty minutes later he had not returned, so that was that. I switched to cable (Comcast, now Time-Warner) the next day. Cable has been great speedwise, ranging from exception to reasonably excellent. The only problem is that I have to power cycle the modem more than I'd like to, anywhere from 2-5 times a week during weekdays (and 1-3 times a day on weekends). This is apparently a quirk of cable's, and can be annoying when time is tight, even though it's only a 30 second procedure. But on the whole, I'm quite pleased. Downloads are as fast as anybody could expect out of anything less than a T-x, and surfing is mostly effortless. A new kid on the block is FIOS (FIber Optic Service), which is really tempting. Our cable service provides fiber optic lines up to the house, but from the house into the modem, it's regular cable line. FIOS provides fiber optic line all the way to the modem, and the promised results look to be spectacular, as they theoretically should be as a result of eliminating that last "bottleneck". It's just a tad pricier than cable, but if the performance delivers to spec, hey, it would be worth it. Problem is, it's only being offered by Verizon, them of the "cut and run" DSL episode. To say that I am more than a little wary of resuming service of anything Internet-related w/Verizon is putting it mildly. Realistically, anecdotal evidence seems to suggest to me that there is no "absolute" answer to the cable vs. DSL question. There are any number of variables, all of them related to local sevices and local technologies. A service/package that works great in one town might suck in another. The only advice I can give is to not settle for service that is not personally satisfying. There's too many options out there (in most places, anyways) to do that, even if getting what you wnat might cost more than you're now paying.