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Well, yeah! I listen to him on those post-Mercy Capitol sides and no matter what the groove is, funk, straight-ahead, fusion, out, whatever. the cat's always inside the music, breathing with it and bringing it to life. I'm beginning to realize that he was the "secret weapon" of that band.

B. Bopstein Hen Gates Izzy Goldberg

For sure! Here's the part that really gets me: The image of a Miles retreating into a self-pitying funk stemming from "commercial rejection" a la Brian Wilson after Pet Sounds or Phil Spector after "River Deep, Mountain High" is just too damn funny! (to say nothing of being totally ignorant of the painful physical ailments that Miles had been battling at the time, which is what (supposedly) drove him towards heavier & heavier drug use, which in turn is what finally led to him just calling time out for a while). I mean, can you hear it? "Shit, man, Herbie copped all my m=f=in' shit and had a m-f-'in Gold Record with it. It's all over, m-f'ers never gonna listen to me no more. They're all out to get me. Keith, Chick, Wayne, Joe, even that crazy m=fer Airto. ALL them m-fers. It's useless, I give up. Teo, stop the m-f-in' tapes. I'm goin' home. Call the crib and tell whatever m-f-in' bitch answers to have an eightball and a box of m-fin' Kleenex ready, I'm gonna be gone for a while. DAMN that m-f-in' Herbie Hancocksucker..." I...don't...think so...

Roy freakin' McCURDY, y'all!

Scottie Pippen Ben Vereen Galt MacDermot

Wow, maybe I can get a tech-support gig! Seriously - can you explain how the IP addresses get out of sync and the power-cycling thing becomes necessary? I don't understand how this can happen when my modem, router, & computer are on. Seems like if they're on, then everything should continuously be in sync. But no, eh?

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Not sure, but I think it has somethng to do with how your start-up files configure your network card setup at system startup. Rebooting after power-cycling gives everything, all the various configurations, a chance to "start clean". Or something like that. I grasp the principal much better than I do the specifics. I think... I went through a few days last week wher I was having to power-cycle 2. 3, sometimes 4 times a day. Not cool. But then it stopped. It goes in spells, it seems... Check this out, though - a few months ago, I had a 48 period where the shit was flakier than Grandma'a best biscuits, and I called up to express my, uh, "dissatisfaction". The CS rep was totally cool and gave me a two day cresit on my upcoming bill. Of course, I stressed that I "do business" over the net and that the outages were costing me irreplaceable time and effort. Kinda stretching the truth, but then again, kinda not. Anyway, Comcast seems to not be afraid to make it right somehow if you got a legit-enough sounding beef. The only thing more you can ask is flawless service 24/7, and I really don't think that the technology is sophisticated enough at the consumer level yet to get that from anybody at this juncture. So a break on the bill is all right by me for now.

Two questions: Do you have Comcast Cable Internet? Have they told you about power-cycling the modem? I have Comcast Cable Internet, and there are days when my signal goes out a few times per day. Mostly it's a good solid noinstop signal, but there are "those days"... How I've had it explained to me is that Cable & DSL give you a dynamic IP. Sometimes, for reasons not explained, your IP will change and your modem will fail to "grab on to" the new one. What you then have to do is unplug your modem (and router, if you have one), wait 30-60 seconds, and then plug it back in. The modem then reconnects to the signal and "grabs" the new IP, and all is well. I've heard conflicting reports about whether or not you should also power off your computer when power-cycling, but since it seems to always work when you do (and only sometimes when you don't), I'd say it can't hurt. The sequence is: A) Power off the computer B) Unplug the modem C) Unplug the router D) Wait 30-60 seconds D) Plug in the router E) Plug in the modem F) Wait until the modem is fully connected and operating (check the signal lights) G) Reboot the computer Usually not as big a pain in the butt as it sounds, I assure you, But, if your signal's returning on its own after going out for a while, there may be something altogethe different going on. I don't know. This is just posted as a PSA on the behalf of The Dept. Of FWIW.

My download is 7209 kbps, but my upload is only 355 kbps.

Took a while to track down a copy, but I did. I like it. Nowhere near as firey as the Horzizon sides (which are on the verge of being forgotten today, and that's a crime) & the Strata-East side, but what's lacking in overt fire is more than made up for in depth of playing. Fortune's tone sounds more "old" than I'm used to hearing from him, but good lord, the lines he plays are the type of thing that you can only get to by years of experience and deep thinking. Nary a cliche on this one. Like I said, I still think I prefer the older sides overall, but then again, nobody stays young forever. And it also sounds to me like Fortune is just sort of "holing up", not wanting to fight the "jazz war" any more. And who can blame him? Fire, real fire, is too often seen as a negative quality in today's marketplace, and Fortune sounds like he's decided to quietly pursue his craft w/o doing anything to call undue attention to himself. I mean, jeez, his tenor tone almost sounds like Lee Kontiz'! But he's still writing tunes based around the rhythm section and building them from the ground up, he's still adding the percussionist, and he's still playing with a totally non-bebop-derived vocabulary. Those are all risky strategies for a "straight-ahead" player today, so if he's decided to somewhat emotionally "filter" his intensity level, so as not to raise anybody's suspicions that he's anything other than a "respectable staright-ahead player maintaining the tradition", I can't say that I blame him. It's a strategy, to be sure, and those who have ears to hear, will. I also like this album much more than his previous Blue Notes, which seemed a little flat to me. If on this one, the sparks come from embers rather than from a raging blaze, on those, I just didn't hear too much of any fire. I've yet to give the Konnex sides the listening they deserve, and the Atlantic sides were/are frustratingly half-formed, as if somebody decided that the sound of the A&M/Horizon stuff was a good place to start diluting from. So I can honestly say that this is the best Sonny Fortune leader album I've heard in quite a while. The cat has always been a serious player, and at times a somewhat dangerous one (within the realm in which he travels). If he sounds less than dangerous here, that's probably the idea. But listen closer and... Thanks for the tip, Al!

Guguanco!

Same.

Lockjaw Davis Mad Dog McCree Ray B. Browne

I don't like spam, but I've always liked Jeffrey Osborne.

Yeah, well, I know, yeah, uh huh, sure, I hear ya', yeah But....

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http://lastlinkontheleft.com/fc0502.html#f1051 For that matter... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=16900

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Mason Reese George Mason Paul Masson

In the bathroom?