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Not with a judiciously placed comma, you didn't: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResu...373094175&nsa=1

Haven't read this thread, but based on past experience, I imaginge that there's divided opion on this one. Just got mine in yeasterday, already played it 4x, and put me in the "pro" camp. I don't know if Grant's group sound has gotten enough credit over the years as being as distinctive as it is. The use of those massive rhythmic unisons (which often include all or part of the drum kit) to create the groove is different from the prevailing funk orthodoxy of the day, which relied on broken & cross rhythms. It's a very powerful effect, and I can't say that I can immediately think of anybody else of the time who approached groove exactly like this. Interestingly enough, I hear echoes of this approach in a lot of contemporary dance music, where the emphasis is wholly on stating and working the beat in a way not at all dissimilar to how Grant's groups of the time did it. I've no doubt that there is at least some influence there, and that gives what could be "merely" a really nice archeological find some true contemporary relevance to me.

My mention of Cadence is based on experiences of 25 or so years ago, so perhaps (hopefully) that is no longer their practice. And even if it still is, it's in no way meant to be a dis on what is an excellent & invaluable publication. Business is business, and all that.

I'll name a name - Cadence. This was in the early 1980s, so I don't know if they still do it, or if they do/did it to everybody. But....

Why don't we get Zager & Evans in on this?

Forget 150 years. What about 1500 years? Or 5000 years?

How will we be able to find out which, if any, of our predictions were correct?

I understand why, but I don't in any way share those feelings. It's a perfectly fine document of a certain "slice of life" from a certain time, far more honest as such than some might realize. It's hard to ask for more than that out of any record.

What was Jutta Hipp, a transvestite? (and I don't eveen pretend to know if there was anybody from the 78 era who qualifies...)`

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That's a shame. I would liked to have seen that. I guess in some Third World countries...

That, my friend, is the question to which I'm looking for an answer. There may or may not be a satisfactory one, but otoh, nothing ventured... I'm thinking, though, that one way is to look at certain things as being the "new way" of doing the same old thing and taking it from there, with an attitude that even though I'm old and experienced in the old world, I still gotta keep humble in this new one until I learn what's what. And stay humble, just like in this one, only moreso. Because we are getting in after the show's started, if you know what I mean. One heartening thought, though - that attitude of humility automatically excludes the paunchy Nehrus!

The challenge for all of us is to put it there. It can be done, if for no other reason than it has always been done. Humans will get what humans need, and humans need heart. This is going to be an ongoing thing, to be sure, but we're really just at the very beginning of it. The "Digital Age" began in earnest, what, about 20-25 years ago, right? Not even 1/100 of a bat of the eye in the evolution of humanity. Has the technology evolved faster than we've been able to healthily absorb it? I think it has. But I don't think that it's going to stay that way forever, and that's what we're going to do - absorb it, not abandon it, and make it work the way we need for it to work in human terms. We're not going to have a collective awakening one day and say, "Hey! Screw all this convenience and shit, let's go back to the old days!" Hore-drawn carriages ain't coming back, big bands ain't coming back, and a non-digitalized future ain't going awaay. Is it a fundamental change? Of course it is. But there ain't gonna be any stopping it. Adapt to it (or even better, help shape it!) or be prepared to spend your (as in our) remaining days as a spectator whose seats keep moving further & further into the upper deck.

And the big bands are coming back too!!!!

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She started out in Disney productions and got famous there.

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That stuff is going right around us... http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findwe...ast?query=75023

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