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No, why?

That CD's looking for a place with my other CDs. Won't you help it - and them? Please? Love, Sally Struther's

Whoa.... Nope, he's in Round Rock, which is basically Austin...a little bit closer than San Diego is to Oxnard, distance-wise, and a whole other world "culturally".

Don't forget Knucklebean! And I'm one of the few(?) who actually likes Hutcherson Columbia output a good deal, and even more than some of his "lesser" BN work.

Green Acres had some very surreal moments. I've been watching Ozzie & Harriet lately, and there are some moments in some of the episodes where the dialogue gets really "outside the lines". The writers credits for those particular episodes invariably contain Jay Sommers' name.

70s reruns brings Stoner TV. 60s stoners weren't really TV types, at least not that I've seen real evidence of. Us 70s stoners, otoh, realized what a great too for brain rot it was, and embraced it fully! Also, The Prisoner & Green Acres were prime fare. At least in my world.

Montara...yes, I "like" it, but more as "concept executed" than as music I really engage in. I like Dale Ohler's work elsewhere, but here it sounds like he was bringing hutch into his world rather than the other way around, and no harm/no foul, of course, but still, I'd like to have heard the premise executed with a different concept, say...Clare Fischer's. But this was George Butler Time, so...

Pass The Plate was the first "Crusaders" record. It followed on the heel of Old Socks, New Shoes..., which was the last "Jazz Crusaders" record. The latter has a version of "Jazz!", also recorded by Hutcherson on San Francisco. Both of those first two Chisa albums have cult appeal today (and the Socks/Shoes record has the immortal "Way Down Home"), but imo neither capture the band at its best of either their earlier or their later forms. "Transitional" indeed!

Well, you COULD have, except they had literally just changed the name of the band... Also, count me as one who has never been fully bitten by the San Francisco bug. If we're talking first part of the 70s, make mine Cirrus (1974). The recording is a little echo-y for my taste, but the playing is top shelf. I think Montreux is amazing, but that's a really stealth record. Head On is fine with me, but...Iapetus shows that core band to better advantage, imo.

I started knowingly/consciously collecting Blue Note as a label (as opposed to just getting the records because I was a fan of an artist) ca. 1977-78. When CDs started gaining traction, all of a sudden there were a big buttload of "rarities" suddenly available. You think I was going to walk away from that? Hell no! And not just Blue Note, all of a sudden, people who couldn't hear past no surface noise didn't want ANYTHING on vinyl. Me, otoh, I A-B-ed the first CD of Aretha's Gold with an older LP I had, heard zero surface noise on the CD but at least as big of a zero punch as compared to the LP, and realized right there that I was not gonna be that sucker. So yeah, thank you, suckers, all over the world!

I did not dump most of my records, nor did the real music people I know. I thought that those who did were suckers, because other than having no surface noise, those early CDs mostly sounded like shit compared to the LPs. Things are different now, of course, but for my money, I'm fine with listening to analog recordings in the analog domain.. Natural beauty and "perfection"...one without the other, again, that's for suckers. To all the suckers out there who did ditch all your LPs, hey, thank you very much. Y'all made it much easier than it should have been! Cassettes, though...hmmmmm...

That's a Grown Folks' tempo right there.

This record is what so many people tried to do in its aftermath.

We're at a point now in Season 1 where for whatever reason Buzz & Todd are not wandering around finding something to preach about to everybody (including themselves) and perhaps not coincidentally, these episodes are better acted and as a result much more entertaining.

Hello. And of course, the Cardinals are the purest of the pure: https://kmox.radio.com/articles/news/mike-shildt-says-cardinals-knew-others-were-cheating Oh, but uh.... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/30/st-louis-cardinals-hacking-scandal-punishment-houston-astros-mlb Some call it "cheating", but others call it "espionage". SEXY!!!! https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/17/st-louis-cardinals-espionage-claims-us-sports-dark-arts-go-back-100-years Ball Four? JUST four???????

PM sent on Mosaic Select: Bob Brookmeyer (3-CD) $50.00

A life not wasted. RIP and the fullest of props.

Yeah...add her to the seemingly endless (but not infinite) list of poets whose poems read better on the page than they do in the ear...assuming that they are worth reading at all (ahem....).

Two things - You can delay tape hiss/degradation, but ultimately you cannot prevent it except by dying before it sets in. We've made a few - just a few, but still a few - bucks selling our old CRTs to really hardgore electroncs/gaming geeks who know how to recalibrate and/or degauss the damn things so they can play OG cames on OG systems. The appeal is apprently not to have them look better, but instead to have them look the same.

Yeah, well, see, that means that it is your responsibility get wealthy (and patron-y) by the time you get older. And please, do better at it that I have.

Indeed they do!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fksd3B0Uylo&t=887s