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Stealth like a mo...who would have imagined Thai it would have been Hall & Oates who would be the ones to marshal the ingredients of the avant-pop primordial stew of the 70s to not just emerge on land, but walk upright to the top of the charts for a couple of years? Imagine Brian Eno producing David Byrne singing Brian Wilson songs, only David Byrne was an unabashed blue-eyed soul singer...that,'s kinda what those records sounded like to me at the time. My first time hearing "Kiss On My List" was on some staticy sunrise-to-sunset AM station in rural Kansas, and yeah, it was like War Of The World's or so shit, aliens had invaded, when do we get to someplace with a record store?

There's nothing so sad as somebody trying to make excuses for why they fucked somebody. Whatever you were thinking when you decided to do it, that's why you did it, period.

So it was more than a Don Ellis thing for Mackay, eh? Interesting! Then there's Harihar Rao...a lot of "cultural cross-polination" going on in that time/place...

Wow, looks like there was a dance to go with it?

Don't/won't do Facebook, but Allen, if you've made it far enough along to read this page, know that I am pulling for you, big time. You need your energy, no doubt, but just know that the music world needs yours, so....get well, be well, and stay well unless and until the options are all gone.

Just finished the first disc, the duets with Milford...Milford was truly amazing. Not "amazing", amazing. So much independence of limbs/times, physically and mentally, it takes an especially learned and evolve human to get to this/those place(s).

So they didn't really help you, they just enabled your continued lack of knowledge. Whatever you had to correct to make it work - that is why it wasn't working before. I mean, ok, I don't want to know - can't possibly know - everything about this stuff, but I do like to know why it was not working to begin with as well as why what I was told to do worked to fix it, something a little more than NOW, it just works, that's all. That's not a heavenly angel, that's a fallen angel sent by that main fallen angel, what's his name, Beezlejubuice, that guy.

There's no such thing as a truly cool bachelor pad, that's just one more delusion of the deferred adolescence that is at the root of our dystopian world today. Same thing with "man cave", yuck. Real adults don't need excuses for running away, because real adults don't run away.

MicroCenter is everything Fry's thought they could be with an archaic invnetory system and clueless growth strategy. If it's "computer" anything, make mine MicroCenter, always.

Why do you doubt it? Is female flirtation in the pursuit of advancement/advantage something that just does not happen? Hell, older people do it, young "adults" definitely do it. What the older/allegedly more mature person is then called upon to do is divert/deflect. But,,,,"allegedly".

Naboth Jim Nabors Vladimir Nabokov

Real guy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/369065/

Only slightly less a profanation b/c Joe Beck had the flayva already, no need to bare the (w)hoariest of cliches in the arrangement. But still...totally unnecessary and pretty unpleasant. Joe Beck/Esther Phillips, there was some room to work there. Joe Beck/Sinatra...not really. A bit better live, but not by much... One of those guys should have booked Keith Mansfield. The we might be able to discuss seriously.

It just works, that's all. Must be your fault.

So, Scientology as record player? No wonder vinyl's making a comeback!

Wow, that's too bad, unless it was on purpose. Here, let's give Patrick the attention he deserves, without the distraction of sis Pedersen of Denmark: Looks like Sis has a son named Sonny, and Sonny loves his Mom,Sis, as well he should (hopefully!) https://www.facebook.com/6913356066/posts/10158074256576067/

1979 EMI World Disco Dancing finals - who's your fav dancer?.. I think I'll go with Sis Pedersen of Denmark.

Yeah...this is pretty much why so many people think the hate disco, as well as why people who dance hate shit like this calling itself disco. At least it's not Bosser Nover! Really, Jack Jones has a great instrument, but a voice like that creating an aural permission structure to wear polyester and Hustle (both almost certainly cluelessly and tastelessly)... that's basically Rick Dees with a Pro Grade Satan (in platforms) doing the bidding. And that playoff, with the trombones...my god, Joseph Welch already knew the answer when he asked the question. It was LA. they could have gotten Plas Johnson, but (sounds like) they got Pete Christlieb. That's the difference between taking the money and whoring, between knowing and not caring, between love for sale and buy my pussy.

Is that Pete Christlieb on tenor?

Klubber Raven-Symone Frank Foster

George Braith...a truly interesting guy. As it pertains to Ellis/Mackay-Hamilton...I'm sure you could do a "good" psychological study about at what point does syncopation and/or polyrhythm turn into actual odd-meter. I know Miles' 70s band had this thing where they had something like three(?) different time-signatures happening at once, and it was funky as all hell. Zappa, of course, did something similar (and more ostentatiously), and...Stravinsky, on and on. But the thinking...what gets people there, what gets them to going from feeling all these upbeats and floating ones into actually saying, ok, let's do this and NOT have it relate to 4 or 3 or 6? And then, what gets them to retrofitting it to something "bossa"? Not for nothing, LA, studios, writers, if you can write it they can play it, and if they can play it, they can think it, if they want to. Lalo Schifrin? Dave Brubeck? Ravi Shankar? All of the above and more? Are you already playing 3 over 4 anyway and all of a sudden the bug gets in your head to cut out the middleman of evening it out every 12 bars and just even it out to 7 on every bar? That's not an "organic" thing necessarily, but how is living in a studio really organic? And yet...

that whole post-ellis fallout thing...I still say it created and qualifies as a "next-gen West coast Jazz", but i don't know if anybody else views it that way. a LOT of it was on impulse, though, and maybe nobody bothered to look at it that way then. But there it is. I mean, look at who is on this record, it's pretty much a Don Ellis Alumni Band! Ed Michel had an ear for that scene at that time and made a good number of records from it. Joe Porcaro, btw, one helluva drummer.

They did two albums for impulse! Imo, this one is by far the best. Dave Mackay was in that post-Don Ellis Fallot orb, and their"angle was as an hipper, updated, odd-metered Jackie & Roy...it worked in every way except the didn't sell a lot (maybe any?) records. But it had/has a cult following, for obvious reasons.