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It's pretty much the way they made 78s, just with better tools at their disposal.

Aren't you supposed to learn stuff like that before going live with it? For a business that does kinda leans into the Pre-Order model, wouldn't there be a basic Beta testing before turning it loose into the wild, where people like me can wonder "WTF?" out loud in public? I mean, let it do what it do. Just don't make consumers have to guess and speculate and shit about what that "it" is. That ain't right, becuase y'all don't really answer the phone much, and who wants to fuck with email about this.

Really? So, if i ordered something else from the same website using the exact same process, it would be different than this?

Why should we have to suspect anything as basic as, ok, here's how we're doing it now, this what to expect once you order?

But Garry Giddins, why Tab Hunter? That threw me for a loop from which I am still somewhat looping!

... who I recently saw talking about Tab Hunter in a bio-doc about same. Crosby, not really a surprise, but Tab Hunter?

I disagree with none of the points made in the article. But I still have not warmed to those Bob James records. Come to appreciate them as the accomplishments they are, but do I really want to listen to any of them...not particularly. They're like hard answers to easy questions, or vice-versa. something...I appreciate that the imbalance is what allows the ideas to penetrate to a wider audience, but for myself, I like balance (ultimately...immediately, I can get suckered as easily as anybody on superficials, possible easier than most, actually), the feeling that the answers and the questions are being addressed equally. Sure sometimes that means a toning down or an amping up, but that's the difference between an artist and a skilled craftsman - realizing that duality between question and answer, and the proceeding accordingly, in balance of intent and execution. I still like this one, though. It's balanced within itself. Let's here it for knowing what a hook is for, and what to do with it, growing it, but not killing it by asking it to do more than it can handle. Balance.

I feel the draft, of course. But "Big Record Companies" had, by the late 1970s, ceased to be actual record companies - they were corporate holdings, damn near all of them. Cost centers dedicate, not to their honor/quality, but to their ability to deliver earnings up the chain. That Bruce Lundvall was able to throw some weight "our" way for a little while was cool, but definitely an outlier, and really who should be surprised by that? Why should anybody be surprised by that? Thinking that we were somehow "let down"...when will we ever learn? When will we ever stop begging? We are not now, nor will we ever be, a "common"music in a world where the majorities of the population want lifestyle accessories to go with their current trendfuns? Not that there's anything wrong with that, music as lifestyle accessory is totally appropriate, BUT - what lifestyle are you leading? Whose lifestyle is it anyway? And why should anybody think that everybody else should have it? This music came from the underground, and the moment it ceases to be connected to the underground is the day it ceases to be itself. In other words, if you can't handle the underground, get out of the music.

I know that Swan was a Philly-based label, but might this have been recorded in LA? sounds like Earl Palmer on drums? Who was doing sessions in Philly at the time who had a pocket like that? Same for the bassist. IN there! Ultimately, though - that chord? WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!

Then they should say so?

I've not yet received an email.

Exactly.

A brief explanation would have been nice...and not difficult to provide.

My order has now progressed to being "on hold"? Is there a FAQ somewhere to explain what this means?

No, not that this song/record exists, no surprises there. No, not that the song later got repurposed by Barris, with the able/deft help of Milton DeLugg. Intereswting as trivia, but not really WTF-able. No, not that badass drumming pocket, Hey. But that chord? WTF?!?!?!?!?!?! Gotta be secret CIA code!

I have kept that page open, and after refreshing every so often, I see that it has gone from "received and being reviewed" to simply "has been received". No idea what that means. I also had to create a new account with a new password with a 12 character minimum. A 12 character minimum? Seriously?

Modern Day Scrappy - In Chicago!!! Yeah, the unsavory (i.e. - violent) departure of overbearing drummer Paulsey Parlatian was definitely to everybody's benefit (except his, but you know, you can't fuck the boss's daughters and expect there to be no repercussions).

I hope this isn't one of those things of, well, we had 50 people preorder but our first shipment was only for 25, so hang in there, ok? Not that it matters, but I really did not like that.

Time to move on, maybe?

Donavan Flick - Eating The Tears

That was in the days when "sales" included advance orders and shit. You may very well be the only person I know who actually bought it! It hit the cutout bins in a little over a year, iirc! A world record, perhaps? What I do recall about that year was that the industry had grown used to supermegajumbotron sized hits, and then that skipped a year or two, and of course, home taping was the reason, not that tastes were changing

Seriously, he seems like an honest guy with a perhaps OCD-ish work ethic. He knows what he is and what he isn't..the one thing that struck me as a total cop out was his excuse for never bothering to learn theory. That's just lame. But hell, we've heard variations of the same thing for generations around all kinds of pop music (and some jazz, to be honest). Otherwise, he worked hard, still works hard, and didn't fuck up. As a person, good for him. As a musician...it's easy to blame him, but obviously, a lot of people like shit, and if you don't believe that, you haven't been paying attention for the last century or three The film itself was a lot less prickly revisionist than the reviews linked here, but the critics all look like critics (and sound like them as well), and if the moral of the story is that 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, I say the hell they can't, but it's their world, and/so I try to live in it as little as possible. I have learned that feeding the beast of wrongness only allows it to remain hungry. It already has it's food, so it need not have mine. Two different worlds...

I watched this this afternoon. The guy seems like Martha Stewart with a soprano, only less ruthless

Tusk sold?

With the exception of Golson, On occasion, yes. Not all of them, but a few of them, yes. It depends on what I'm n the mood for.