JSngry

No love for CHARIOTS OF FIRE?

Bad bunch of Dr. Pepper, probably.

Fetuses aren't so damned cute when they get to be teenagers.

Those kinds of "obvious" things can be pretty funny sometimes, I think. Now, if "funny" is not allowed, then let me out of the room!

OH!

Ok, I'm slow. What's the deal with this one? Looks normal to me, although I don't have my glasses on.

It can be reeally stupid, really sublime, and almost anywhere in between. Ain't whatcha do...

Don't know anything about any PM-ing re:that Trane thread. As for directly bringing it (the similarity to past instances, I assume?), yeah, but you gotta ask youself - What Would Sonny Stitt Do?

I think I'll leave it to Clem to detail the nuance, should he desire (or even agree).

http://stasick.org/funshopping.mp3

As Larry Clinton would say, "Ipso Doodle!"

Eric - Not being an ex-BNer, you probably weren't aware that we had one poster there who delighted in trolling w/anti-"avant-garde" nonsense (I call it nonsense because all it came down to was "those guys don't know how to play their instruments". Period. Nothing more than that, which IS nonsense), and John McDonough was one of their favorite people to quote to begin stirring the pot. So that's why your initial posts were greeted w/scepticism (by me, anyway). It just seemed like "more of the same", especially when your initial responses to mine and others "well, some people like it just because they actually like it" was to (seemingly) claim that this was impossible. But the further along the thread went, the more that I saw that you weren't trolling, so I adjusted my input accordingly. I don't mind a serious discussion, but if I'm going to get into it with full seriousness, I have to A) have the time and energy to do so; B) see the the other guy is serious and intellegent, and is not just bullshitting with some closed-circuit buzzwords, or the ideological equivalent thereof; C) really, REALLY believe in the point I'm making. Hope that explains something/anything.

Meese in heat? Ex posto vomito!

We have good beer, and you'll love paying for it!

I'm asking myself, "Why would anybody want a Jimmy Smith Blue Note record to sound like a Stax recording?", and all the answers eventualy reduce to that what he's like to hear is a direct result of what he thinks he's listening to. Ergo, summa cum loudly, some quietly, and sum not at all. Q.E.D & H.E.B. (you need to move to Texas)

I did. And I'm still not convinced. But you do need to move to Texas.

If we have room for mooses, we have room for couws.

You need to move to Texas.

I'm not convinced, though.

"Funky" may or may not fit, depending on what the word means to you. It ain't The Crusaders, if you know what I mean. But it's definitely groove music.

I suspect that the person who made that comment has led such a life that his little or no understanding of and/or exposure to the cultural milieu from which Mr. Smith sprang. I also suspect that his empathy to the way that those recordings would have resonated within that milieu in terms of percieved "funkiness" and such is little or none. In other words, he sounds like a dumbass white boy who thinks that "black" only comes in one shade. Tell me I'm wrong.

And I'd like to hear "West End Blues" with bebop piano....

Saddest thing I ever saw was when I made a one-eyed woman cry.

Are you serious?

I also hear that all 21 takes survive...