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Don't like their Rockabilly covers then MG? Their Arthur Alexander covers are good too. Soldier Of Love. They did great takes on the Motown girl groups too. Please Mr Postman etc. I had the originals of all that stuff (well, not the Rockabilly), which I greatly preferred. To me, for example, no one needs to ask whether Barrett Strong's version of 'Money' is better than the Beatles or not; it self-evidently is. They never bettered that stuff for sure. How could they.

Don't like their Rockabilly covers then MG? Their Arthur Alexander covers are good too. Soldier Of Love. They did great takes on the Motown girl groups too. Please Mr Postman etc.

It does? Yes it does from my perspective which includes personal experience with drug addiction and recovery. Most addicts never escape active addiction even today when there are avenues and opportunities to recover and get clean.In Parker's time the understanding regarding the disease of addiction did not exist. It was looked at as a moral deficiency and personal weakness which it certainly is not. . No one had any clue about any of it - who the hell knew what they were getting into when they figured they were just fooling around with another drug...when did start using heroin? Late 30's or early 40's? On the other hand many people who have used drugs including heroin did NOT and do NOT become addicts because they were or are NOT addicts. Some people are simply prone to addiction and at some point, once they are using they are unable to stop using through their own will. Parker was one of those people. Coltrane was also but through his process and in his case a God he found, he was able to stop using in 1957 - although as we know the after effects from his active addiction which was probably liver cancer from untreated hepatitis C killed him 10 years later. Well that's a lot more insightful than Crouch's response! Then again, didn't Parker say Heroin addiction was like rolling over all your problems into ONE big problem. And what about the connection between being a Black man in America at the time and addiction?

It does?

Your team has made it to the Grand FInal once more GA. You sure picked a good team to support from such a distance. Should be a cracker of a game again this year. Fremantle are playing in their first Grand Final ever. They joined the AFL about twenty years ago I think? Really looking forward to this years game. I will probably go for the Hawks. Hope you can get to see it or listen again this year.

Playing with foppish wankers like Grabowsky would bring out the worst mannerisms in anybody.

Grant Green's version is better.

An ironic empty gesture for pseudo deviants? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKCX92i-pwI

I thought Jimmy's response to Prismac was very positive actually. Must just be me who thought that way

Oh, is that the point.

His strange liner notes for the His Majesty King Funk re-release suggest it would most likely be an interesting read Sounds like he also had a jazz life indeed.

Sensational!

It's too political.

Strange to have a 'book' from such a peripheral figure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaILH0U55lU

There ya go. That's what British Invasion Fusion should sound like. None of that Jeff Beck bullshit. Disintegration Fusion

Greyish Yellow Europe.

Black Country music in what way? Surely the cultural separation of Black and White meant there are differences. How was Country music a wholistic culture. Or are you talking about music with similar form being played in both communities?

That was my first thought. I am surprised it took this long in the thread to be mentioned. Surely it is the banner for disembodied harmonic MELODY.

Not very visually minded anti-album cover thread people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPLS2i9dSy0

Obviously White Country Music is the yin to yang of Black Music in early rock n roll. Are you the first to recognise this? BTW is there any Black Country Music?