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And that's the thing...I don't really consider it to be "smug" if you're representing the truth...it's kinda like the old "if you got it, flaunt it" thing. I got no real problem with that. To me, "smug" is more like when you're self-satisfied but somebody could easily come along an knock that smugass look off your face without too terribly much effort. So to that end, Johnny Guitar is just BAAAAAD, nothing smug about it. Did he in fact have the real mutha for ya'? Why yes, I believe he did! But this is not my game, so I'll play by the house rules. Yes indeed. Perhaps another thread entitled... 'album covers of badasses that lack humbleness, modesty and self-effacement'

My talent and beauty repudiate your silly camera....

What's so Uhhhh...about this jsngry?

Very candid. Mal Waldron heh That's sock'in it to em.

Your cover is not showing? Maybe you're right though. . Maybe personally, I just have a highly sensitive paranoid 'smug' meter that goes off in my head. Perhaps anyone mugging for the camera with a happy and content face can be projected onto as 'smug'. So maybe a bit of 'poetic' licence to the term smug. But every time I look at these covers and think of 'smug' I can't help laughing. Especially those Classical ones Now that Mahavishnu/Devadip album. That is the worst kind of 'smug'. It is 'passive aggressive' smug . I have involuntarily sworn at that cover ever since I first seen it when I was about 14. Thank God they marginalised Larry Young on the packaging/project Orrin Keepnews is the winner. I agree. Rieu is 'smug'. Jeez I hope his 15minutes are over. Why does David Murray always look stoned?

Interesting post CJ. Very sad to read though. I guess that explains why he never came forward during the Andrews Green biography The creative communities must have lost a lot of people during that time that weren't as well known as some. Did the Japanese re-issue have extra info (I've never known if those Japanese inserts contained a wealth of added info to the liner notes or not?), or did you find this out through personal research? Very sad none the less. I remember seeing a picture of Claude Bartee jamming with Billy Higgins but can't remember which book it was in. Maybe a Leonard Feather encyclopedia perhaps. I think I had a kind of love-hate relationship with Bartee's playing on Grant's albums. But Grant must have dug it a lot. His sound on Betcha By Golly Wow is sweet and tart in a good way. A great album any way you look at it.

A little off topic, but certainly worthy of more research...

And the winner is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hrjGgbGQY Ben Affleck - where is my volume

Claude Bartee (ts), Willie Bivens (vib), Neal Creque (p So I guess Grant Green was sitting in with Pucho's band in those clubs in New York no doubt, seen as he built his new sound around these guys. Shelton Laster says in the Andrews Green bio that, 'Grant and Claude go way back'. This seems to suggest they knew each other even before the days of this band. St. Louis maybe? + the John Patton connection - Vincent McEwan (tp), Harold Alexander (ts, fl)

This is one of my favourite threads ever. Keep em coming please. I find this hilarious in a smug kind of way and of course... the shirtless wonder.

Have you got his version handy?

Truth is stranger than fiction. Next up - Donovan - Live At The Lighthouse

So MG, I have always wondered about the band because of the Grant Green connection too. Is it true many of the musicians Grant used on his second Blue Note run were Pucho alumni. I guess the connection makes sense in light of what you write above, re- where the band drew it's audience from.

That's one of the most out there connections I've heard. But why wouldn't Gould like Bacharach inspired 60's pop? Everyone else does. Except maybe Chuck Nessa.

Wouldn't that kind of injury feel different - worse - than the original one? I'd think I would know if the muscle is torn off the bone vs a micro-tear as in a 'pull". Yes, you're probably right. Aussie rules footballers here usually miss about 3-4 weeks with Hamstring injuries, so if you rest it for that long and it doesn't feel normal again you should get it checked. Although as we get older the healing process seems to take forever

You should get it seen to. It might be tore off the bone after re-injuring it. You might need an MRI scan.

Haven't heard it. Kenny was big in the ghetto, in those days. And the Christmas album may have given it a bit of a push. A few years ago, Jim got me a CD of a radio programme by Sonny Hopson - The Mighty Burner - a DJ at WHAT Philly = a mainly R&B/Soul programme from '67 or '68 and there's Kenny doing a beer commercial in the middle. THAT is street credibility. I bet he didn't mention that in his Guitar Player Magazine cover story.

For the Brits. From Us (Aussies) To You

I haven't heard the recent ones. I would like to hear them even for the fact to hear one of the last of the greats play at such an advanced age. A couple of years ago there was a streaming audio of a Birthday celebration for KB, it seemed like it was in a small club or even a house. I paid the small amount of money to have access to the concert, but the video stream was too strong for the broadband link here, and I missed out on seeing it. Apart from the chance to see such a special event, I was very interested in seeing KB approach his instrument in his 'twilight,' so to speak.

That's why I see copies of Tender Gender on ebay all the time and very cheap. Any idea why was that one, above all the others was such a big seller MG?

This is great stuff. RIP. I went to a local 'Bluesfest' a few weeks ago, enjoyable though it was, it could never compare to this. The organisers are hoping to bring out some 'International' acts next year. And yep....who would be on the top of their list for a 'Blues Festival' - apart from Bob Dylan Yep...Bloody Robben Ford - with his wispy washed out/thin vocals and Fusion scales. Give the people what they want. Not that there's anything wrong with that...but still...

No it wasn't a fight, it was just two different opinions, they were interesting opinions too, that's why I remember it. If it isn't linked..... it was basically "Clem" playing the 'devils advocate' and saying Kenny Burrell's Lps were basically 'professionally played and too tasteful for their own good, not dynamic or vital enough - that kind of argument if I remember correctly. jsngry (who appears to have a 'very informed' knowledge of Burrell's discography , responded that Burrell was the kind of player that represented everything Grant Green was hyped up to be - but wasn't. And that if (like Burrell), you weren't 'a drug user' in those days, then you had to have something special to 'be part of the musical landscape of the time'. Of course the arguments were more 'nuanced' and the poetics more 'developed'' than that, but that was the gist of it. I can see merit in both opinions, and have thought them myself over the years, but personally I can't live without Kenny Burrell's music for too long.