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Not flawless, but the tricky was mostly nailed. Credit where due, for sure.

SELL NOW!

If you can pull it off, that's a very effective (and very nervy!) tact. Create a zone by eliminating stray energy instead of by stirring people up first and then chilling them out. Ain't everybody who can do that. I may be wrong, but I think the Miles Prestige marathoin sessions, he started off with ballads. I put them together that way once, and it was a real treat to get that slow stuff and then, finally, here come the hard hits, and they hit that much harder because of the quietness of the ballads, sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhBAM!!! Anyway...

I have nothing against crap, there's some of it that I'm very fond of, actually. But it is crap. In fact, I can't really take anybody seriously who doesn't realize crap when they hear it. One of the most depressing things is for people to defend crap as not-crap. To me, that's the sign of a sucker, a dupe, or, on occasion, a downright idiot. Which again, has nothing to do with liking it or not. But it has everything to do with having a broad enough perspective on both music and life to know crap when you find it, People who get defensive about liking crap are jsut not mature humans, Crap is part of what sustains a market and defines a culture. Crap is inevitable, simply because most people are not genius, hell, most people are not gifted. Most people are, in fact, quite mediocre on their best days. To accept crap is to accept humanity as it is, unconditional love, if you will. But if you don't know what it is you're loving, that's not really love, is it? If Mosaic did a Complete Hollyridge Strings set, I would buy two - one for me, and then one for my dentist's office. I'm tired of 70s rock, and have been since the 70s. But it needs to be cheap, because, god, it is most certifiably crap. Quite possibly genius crap, because those two things are not mutually exclusive. Don't fear the crapper. Shake hands, but don't kiss, that's all you gotta know.

Been there the first time and...

I have no desire to buy new music on vinyl, unless it's as an object, and even then, not all THAT much, and even more then, not for no crazyass highprice. That's a non-starter for me, just crazy and/or stupid.

40 minutes is fine for a CD, especially if it's a good 40 minutes.

I wish there were more records of club comedians with a band. So far, Jimmy Lynch is all that come to mind. Excerpt: Now, imagine Redd Foxx doing his thing with Jack Wilson & Roy Ayers grooving behind him...

I get the impression that they don't really like to keep a big backlog of new releases on hand, so probably just enough to cover the people who didn't get them in the first wave and then, maybe, 1 or 2 more.

Yeah yeah yeah, but nevertheless, crap is crap, period.

Some La Croix flavors are god-awfully revolting, but some are just damn addictively refreshing. For me, this is one of the latter.

Oh hell yeah. I concur vividly.

No, your wallet LOVES you because you're giving it a vigorous but loving workout doing what it was made to do. Not all wallets are made for this, of course, but yours is. So accept the pleasure that comes with the responsibility, and vice-versa.

Yeah, luck only happens when you put yourself in a position to be lucky. After that, it's all....luck. But you called and you scored. Had you not called, you probably wouldn't have. I mean, did they call you? I tend to be a "liberal", but the one thing I agree on with "conservatives" on 100% is that before you go complaining, do your damnedest to do for yourself. You called, you scored, be happy that you put yourself in that position, THEN credit luck. Any collector who's gotten a true collection (as opposed to an accumulation), knows this to be true. You find the mint Boppy Boogolitz LP 78 from 1929 in the farm implement store because you go into the farm implement store, not because the farm implement store came to you in a dream took over your magic car. At best, somebody told you that they were in this farm implement store and they had records or something that looked like records. Still, you had to get your ass into the damn place, THEN you got lucky. Tell 'em 'bout it Hunta! And really, you're set for life now, This set is no longer literally going for literally $1,000,000.00, literally right now (I guess they sold it already), but you can still turn that sucker over if you're short on long: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/12863758

Carpe diem!

See, doesn't it feel good to be proactive about it instead of just whining?

Oh, I've got gajilliboogle bytes of it, I know it's fun.

No, not at all. They get a lot of my viewing time. But they're not really "doing" movies as much as they are original programming. And htey're doing a lot of it. Some of it is pretty good. fwiw, Amazon Prime has a fun group of public domain B movies (some of which are quite entertaining and well done, actually) that are free with Prime membership. There's also some that aren't free. I'd not consider this a repository or anything, god knows, it could be gone in a flash, but it is an option. I've been going through 3-5 a week now and still have over 75 in my watch list. Prime also has some older stuff that is not public domain, and you can watch it for 2.99 and up. At some point, though, stuff will be discarded, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Not everything that gets lost is a "forgotten gem". Some of it is just not particularly worthy of keeping becuase it's not really good. All those blogs that were around a few years ago, they would have all these old records that everybody had forgotten about and I'd download them and then listen and a LOT of times my response would be, well hell, no wonder nobody remembers this, it's nothing to remember.

Yep.

https://www.keithjarrett.org/category/concerts/

Ok, I got my "back in stock" email from Dusty Groove for the two Hino items I wanted and ordered immediately. About 45 minutes from receipt of email to order time. The system works.

The clue is the catalog # - C67003 C67001 & C67002 are found here: https://www.discogs.com/Gary-McFarland-Kristian-St-Clair-This-Is-Gary-McFarland/release/7926034 So, seems legit.

Maybe? related to http://century67.com/

woah...find a tape of a night of that entire evening...woah.