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Yes to Fela!

Thw IE equivalent, yes. And often. The outages are short-lived. but frequent. Very frequent, actually.

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Life is good.

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Thank the Sexiest Album Cover thread. It was whilst doing research for it a few weeks ago that I found the item at Dussygoove.

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Bobby Day Bobby Knight Alonzo Mourning

Nas Todd Rundgren Mark Farner

John Roseboro Rodney King King Vidor

What are the Carter-Harmon tapes?

Is it true that the expense of this project pretty much rurnt Bethlehem, which up until then had been having a pretty good run? I know they stayed around for a while afterwards, but with less resources at their disposal. That's what I seem to have heard. Or something like that. And who is Frances Faye anyway? For some reason, that's somebody I'v never been the least bit provoked into checking out, yet the name keeps popping up,

http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzcd3.htm#370464 Japanese import, $24.99, cover presumably intact, available from the you-know-whos.

Anybody know if the bonus cuts on the Jones/Lewis were on the Mosaic? I know it says "previously unreleased", but...

Dig it. There's more than a few days when I'd gladly pay ten bucks (or more!) not to have to deal with myself!

Well, yeah, there's always going to be, to one degree or another, a "cute" (a word/concept I absolutely abhor in it's "pure" sense, btw) factor to anything a Chico Hamilton group does. That's what makes Chico Chico, but ususally (well, often enough) he perspectifies it in a way that it's not just cute. But I know what you're getting at as well.

I remember it as being a mixed bag, but the good part of the mix was quite good indeed. Never bought it, though, whereas I did buy plenty of other Nelson Flying Dutchman albums. But that was then and this is now, and that now is already then, so who knows?

Nobody's saying (well. I'm not, anyway) that FD is worthy of ridicule because of his lack of Netskills, that's absurd. He goofed, period. A goof is a goof, and an act of chumpdom is an act of chumpdom. ("Chump" must be a significantly nastier word in Maine than it is in Texas. Must be the differences in climate...) Can we have a moment of objectivity (and bad taste) here? Let's say that Screw magazine was still around, and a columnist for that mag published a column about buying the Pamela Anderson/Whatever-his-name-was-rockstar-husband sex tape on the Internet. Well, guess what? THAT was available for free, too, or so I've been told. Don't you think that the more savvy readership of Screw would be justified, in this instance. in calling that columnist a chump? (the matter of anybody and everybody associated with Screw being a chump is besides the point... ) Man, I can and will freely admit that Sonny Rollins has made some stinker albums. Why won't you admit that Francis Davis has written some stinker columns? I'm not Clementine, and I myself have got no problem with an overall positive assessment of FD's overall accomplishments, even if I'm not quite as enthusiastic as you are. But c'mon - this column, this specific column, is nothing to be proud of, unless it's turned into a learning experience by his Net-savvy friends spanking him for it and he gets prodded into digging a little deeper into the matter at hand. Now THERE'S an idea for a column - the world of free concert recordings (aka bootlegs) currently available on the Net. Might take a little time for research and such, but that's a whole lot more, uh, timely and relevant than the one he did write. Gut turning a lemon into lemonade is a time honored tradition, and a mark of true nobility afaic. And if the issue of the "propriety" in writing publicly about such things is an issue, the question then becomes - why did he write about this one?

All right then, that's news I can use. Thanks! As far as the chump/overpaying thing, I've done it as well, more than I care to mention, actually. But I've never been offended by being told that I was inded a chump. I consider it schooling, and schooling ain't always pretty. Hell, if I took away everything I learned "pleasantly", I don't know how much of what I know that I still consider worth knowing would be left!

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May I be so forwards as to suggest just dropping in to see what condition your condition is in?