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Let's indeed take a stairway to the stars!

John McGraw Connie Mack Miller Huggins

Adressing anybody who loves the comedic genius of the Mustachioed Marvel, Gabe Kaplan. Which ought to really narrow it down,

Dude, it's all good. Go to The Gabe Thread and get your disinterest on.

Venus Flytrap Frank Parrish Ray Campbell

I saw what was announced as their first public performance, in Chicago, at the Underground Jazz Festival, summer of 1981. But since the first About Time side came out in 1982, it sounds like they had been together and performing before that gig?

Yep. Agreed that it's similar to Musicology, but I slighly prefer the earlier album. The new one has a slightly less favorable inspiration/craftsmanship ratio. But make no mistake, it's still quite a good album. Prince's craftsmanship is more fun for me than most folks' inspiration. The guy's not to be taken lightly. But sometimes on the new one, it feels like he might be taking himself that way. If he's making a deliberate attempt to wipe out any residual images of himself as a "hopeless eccentric", he's gone ahead and done that by now. I just hope he brings at least a little of it back into the mix from here on out.

Melvin Laird Mrs. Baird Pan

And since we're more than 50 years into it, I'll include a favorite form the "post-rock" era of standards. "Deja Vu".

"All Or Nothing At All", that's another good one.

Great album. I too prefer it to One Step Beyond. I think that Jackie sounds just a little more confident with the concepts here, perhaps due to Haynes. Or not. But yeah. And one of the greatest BN covers of all time.

It's a very sweet, almost candied, pickle that's cut into farily thick slices. Called that, I'm told, because the old folks used to make sandwiches out of them using, you guessed it, bread and butter. Sounds gross to me, but so does buttermilk, and the old folks loved that too. But the pickles by themselves are delightful in small doses.

Mavs still lack that intuitive killer instinct that a champion must have. I see signs of it developing, but sings won't get it done. Those turnovers in the 4th quarter were just plain choke. The combined winning percentage of the Mavs remaining opponents is something like .570. A tough stretch ahead, and I'm watching to see if they rise or fall to the challenge. It could easily go either way.

Naima Syeeda Bessie

I hope that's the case, but you can't completely rule out "humaintarian reasons" either. BN did the same for John Patton.

I had a friend back in college who dug those sides. I heard them and thought that they were par for the course of what was being done.

The only proof I have is the experience of friend, which he got around by calling another friend who quickly figured out how to crack the CP. But based on what you'll say, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that the CP thing was either an early error of judgement on his part or a manufacturing "add-on" that occurred w/o his knowledge. But I'm still more than a little squeamish about paying that kind of price for what is for all intents and purposes a bootleg.

Vlassic or Claussen usually do the trick for me, but my grandmother used to make her own bread-and-butters that were to die for.

Oscar Meyer Oscar Levant Oscar the Grouch

I can take fusion and smooth seriously if the musicians give me something to take seriously. Doesn't happen often, but when it does, I'm there.

Heroes Villians Margarita, in the cantina

I'll definitely be getting the Blakey, Blackburn, & Ilori. Maybe the Gil, but I still have this stuff on the old BN two-fer, and stories of tape degradation have me wondering if there's a need for an upgrade. Could the 70s LPs actually be of better quality sound?