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you've actually got a Grace Jones album? Really. I find that hard to believe. Is this a side of MG we don't know about?

Yep. It's rather obvious there are no debilitating or irreversible symptoms involved. The article makes no mention of any other symptoms accept the speech change. Which when you listen with knowledge of a Brain Injury speech pattern, is clearly one in the same. My interest in this, is really, are the anxiety and depression the results of a life that has been changed because of a confluence of Brain injury related symptoms - or just simply a change of speech articulation. If these sufferers are only being highlighted for the unusual 'spectacle' of a strange speech shift, and not for the 'whole' battery of ABI disability, then it's actually not being reported ethically. Some people recover functioning from Brain Injury's with minimal long term symptoms. Migraines and speech change suggest a more serious injury, that would have added symptoms to those two. But the articles focus more on some kind of 'social stigma' or 'change in relationship to self' adjustment disorder. I want a hamburger.

If the sufferer has other symptoms and disabilities associated with an Acquired Brain Injury, then yes indeed it is very sad and actually quite tragic. Even 'mild' affects of Traumatic Brain Injury will be life changing and potentially tragic for the victim and their loved ones. However, this article does not deal with those debilitating and irreversible symptoms whatsoever. So if this person got away with a Brain Injury and all they (and their family), have to deal with is 'a funny French accent', then I definitely think grounds for humour and light heartedness are in order. If you are cognisant with 'Australian Sixty Minutes' - the most puerile and sensationalist of Right Wing propaganda, then perhaps you are Australian, and will surely see the hilarity of this almost 'Monty Python-esque' of circumstances. If indeed, the sufferer has, 'more usual' symptoms of ABI, and they are downplaying them at the expense of this rather 'inconvenient' - but funny symptom - then perhaps they are actually doing a disservice to the very real and disabling, 'other', challenges someone with ABI must negotiate on an ongoing basis. well, you can check the other articles, and see how the people who have this rare speech disorder feel about it. It's traumatic for them, and I'm sure it would be for any of us, were we to develop this problem. The vid I linked to clarifies what really happens, from a neurologist's standpoint as well as that of several people who have the syndrome. (They feel that it has pretty much destroyed their lives.) Just not funny at all. Like I said. Educate yourself about the other effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and how they effect peoples lives, and this rather extreme speech impediment will be put into perspective. Is this the only neurological disfunctioning going on? If these people are getting on with normal functioning, and their brain is still processing everything to speed, apart from having their words come out sounding 'Chinese', then they are very lucky compared to someone with a Brain injury. Who also have the added reality of not only diminished cognitive power but also diminished energy and physical capacity as well. It's still funny.

On this level it really is ridiculous. The golfer Greg Norman, someone gathered an American accent overnight. Germaine Greer never acquired an English accent.

If the sufferer has other symptoms and disabilities associated with an Acquired Brain Injury, then yes indeed it is very sad and actually quite tragic. Even 'mild' affects of Traumatic Brain Injury will be life changing and potentially tragic for the victim and their loved ones. However, this article does not deal with those debilitating and irreversible symptoms whatsoever. So if this person got away with a Brain Injury and all they (and their family), have to deal with is 'a funny French accent', then I definitely think grounds for humour and light heartedness are in order. If you are cognisant with 'Australian Sixty Minutes' - the most puerile and sensationalist of Right Wing propaganda, then perhaps you are Australian, and will surely see the hilarity of this almost 'Monty Python-esque' of circumstances. If indeed, the sufferer has, 'more usual' symptoms of ABI, and they are downplaying them at the expense of this rather 'inconvenient' - but funny symptom - then perhaps they are actually doing a disservice to the very real and disabling, 'other', challenges someone with ABI must negotiate on an ongoing basis.

I don't think there's much lost on Lennox Avenue Breakdown and Illusions. LAB sounds 'very' organic to me. Can you also elaborate perhaps?

Great LP but I'd actually file it among the then-burgeoning New Haven creative music scene. Maybe so, but was Michael Gregory not on the Wildflowers comp, perhaps there was some cross-polinisation going on? In the spirit of the OP's enquiry maybe you could elaborate?

Just youtubed it Amazing!

Blood Ulmer's first major 'Free' recording definitely. Although he 'guested' on Joe Henderson's awesome Tress Cun Deo La from the Milestone album Multiple. And before that Larry Young and John Patton dates.

and the recently released

I thought nobody liked that film except me.

That one's a very 'doorish' gate So I think it should pass.

I wonder if Chewy has that Kent LP? MG Damn. I thought that was Chewy!

Oh. I see. Well most will be reading it here for the first time

And of course..this one... almost the end of an era in a way. And an album I appreciate more and more with the passing of time. Especially with the extra 'non album' tracks like 'Lester Leaps In'. But Angel Eyes is a beautiful performance too. Plus many others.

Are they better disco/funk than Grant Green's The Main Attraction, MG? Would that have been a better album if HP had produced it 'his way'?

That's right! You read it first here people http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-16/tasmanian-woman-wakes-after-car-crash-speaks-with-a-french-accen/4757146

Close enough

I like Enrico Pieranunzi and I haven't even heard him yet!

This is the big question. An original first press Attica Blues? Still sealed? He says in the description 'two breather holes' in the seal. So perhaps they take away the risk of warped vinyl? I bought a still sealed copy of Wes and Jimmy 'Further Adventures' on Verve. Unfortunately record was warped and unplayable. By my standards anyway This guy seems to get a lot of sixties and early seventies still sealed vinyl though. And this one is listed from his 'personal collection' Didn't anyone tell him what a great album this is...and he should have a listen to it.