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Just curious... 'Harmolodics" did not make the '70s list. Would "M-Base" make the '80s list at all?

Very nice!

With the recent events, I've been listening to News radio 1080 KRLD AM. You talk about seamless...and not records, but speech snippets, live announcers, commercials, network feeds, all sorts of inputs. It goes on literally forever and it is literally seamless. I had long noticed the skimpy news content, but this was my first time really noticing that somewhere in there, there is a mad scientist genie at work.

Complaining about equipment failure and not having winterized is like comparing that your car is a lemon when you never change the oil. Baseline of reliability should not be based on user negligence.

Not usually, but occasionally. Top 40 DJ-ing, getting that seamless flow with NO dead air, there was anbart to that. EZ Listening stations flaunted their non-non-stop-ness, it was the adult way to do things. Of course.

Sigh...

Thank you! Where where doing well. Inconvenienced by the irritating uncertainty but in terms of actual objective experiences... inconvenient that's about all, can't really complain about that all things considered.

Unity. That's the reason for the quotes, this show that it's all the same thing. Yes. My hero.

Oh, shucks, it's 1974 and I'm loving Phil Woods all over again! Seriously, I'm actually touched by how little ugliness or rancor there is in this book, at least to this point I've only gotten up to where they have just left America. And almost all of the harshest words are directed to the system and not to individuals, which is a very refreshing change from the way many things are done these days. I have a hard time thinking that he chose his words carefully for his final record, but personal stuff...leaving it personal and not going public... I respect that, very much.

I'm thinking it's a records keeping thing. They will want to keep track of how many people have just one and how many people have gotten both. That's what I'd think anyway.

My experience has been that most of America belongs to some kind of a cult. It's how most people get ahead in life. Independence and success are not naturally aligned!

Of course wind turbines can be winterized. They are regularly used in cold weather climates. But as already noted, wind turbines have not been the main cause for the outages. Not even close. An overall failure to adequately winterize is. Wind, oil, and gas. Water freezes if you let it. I mean, who knew? I got me some entrepreneurial spirit here, so hey - R&D money to develop self-triggered defrosting technology! Automatic alerts when a turbine is facing impending freezation! Dare To Dream, America! Don't say that it can't be done, say that it hasn't been done. Get busy dreaming and get busy spending! And quit fucking around, Goober, time"s a-waistin'!

Exactly. Blaming wind turbines alone is ill informed at at best and a disingenuous distraction at (possibly) worst. NOTHING works right if you don't do preventative maintenance. It's not complicated. The future is here to stay!!!!!

I would like to commend Mr Woods for his gentlemanly approach regarding road activities and the amorous opportunities undoubtedly presented there on. Seriously.

"Blame the turbines" ain't gonna cut it. EVERYTHING was affected, natural gas, refineries, all of it, because everything was affected by the hard freezes, because winterization plans were inadequate. Water ERCOT references 2011 (aka The Winter Where Nature Fucked Jerry Jones), and ok good, "improvements" were made. Good, let's make some more. Only this time, let's not fight the last war, and let's not pretend that this is an "unforseen" and/or a "once in a lifetime" event. Both are patently untrue. I've lived in N/NE Texas most of my life, and yeah, this shit has always happened. Not annually, but often enough. This whole "warm weather" thing is tourist trap bullshit, and that was true even when traditional weather patterns could safely be expected.

Any factual errors that can be found in this article please present them. Also any fact-based opposing positions are gladly solicited. Let's talk about investing renewables, profiting off renewables, but not having as much as a basic contingency plan for something as basic as upkeep of wind turbines. Rule number one - protect your investment. Protecting your investment goes far beyond protecting your money.

I have seen one mention in the part of the book that I've read to "Ken Hopkins".

http://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_3f272ecb77944d60e1912e5e87737c60 A pretty good look at just how complicated it all is. But it's made more complicated by certain hard-wired philosophies about what all this should be.

They didn't winterize the wind turbines.

The basic premise, as I understand it, is the we all hold ourselves back because of...ourselves. So we need to figure out how to get throh/past all that shit. Clarity of focus aka "clear". So far, so good, probably one of the more admirable quest in life. But Lord...a cult is a cult is a cult. Dear Leaders and YOU pay for them and that's how you "advance " , that's a cult. Always. In all fairness, again, I have known 1 or 2 people who got something meaningful out of it without getting cult-ed. But apart from them... Those motherfuckers creepy. And yes, the same can be said about ANY church and its members. Like Groucho Marx and clubs, I'm wary about any church that would want to have me as a member.

Does anybody know if there's a Nelson-arranged Capitol date for one of their singers where King Curtis is also on board? Looking for an explanation of those two singles as stand-alone releases, surely there's other things for some reason.

Documentation on the Eno thing, please?

Two more things. 1 -a cult is a cult is a cult. I've done occasional gigs at non-denominational mega churches where we were locked in a room for an hour before the service while the musical director prayed incessantly for, among other things, protection from outsiders and my level and spirits. Crazy, more than a little. But the gig would pay $3 50 for about 4 hours work so... And most of the band regulars looked it like that. But most is not all...and then their was all the layers of staff who would drop in to make sure that everything was "going ok". Creepy as fuck. 2 - Al Di Meola has always been, from what I can tell, either a jerk or a very jerk - like individual. Make of that what you will.

Yeah, there is that...and it's unfortunate. But there's almost by definition a connection between " communication" and "manipulation"...if you want to manipulate me to buy a record, fair enough. If you want to manipulate me to consider a broader worldview, thank you for caring. But if you want to manipulate me for the purpose of overt prosthelization..advertise it as such, like Gospel or some such. To be fair, I haven't noticed anything like that at the casual fan level that I've been at for quite a while now. And I've know a few people that joined and did just fine. But there are the others... What any of that has to do with Chick Cores, I don't know, and I don't know if I should care. But...

Watched a nice enough documentary on him a few weeks ago. It's on Amazon Prime.