Jazzdog

There was an article in the recent Billboard about this supposed price drop. If it does even happen it wont be until at least the new year according to this article IIRC. There is still some haggling between the majors and the big distributors. I wouldnt hold out finding anything from these lables at the reduced price until all the details get hammered out. Also, Ghost, I would be the poor sucka in charge of restickering all of these titles, something I am REALLY looking forawrd to!

Hmmm...I found that album in a bin somewhere for two bucks...totally excited. Paid for it, took it home and took it off almost as quickly. I gave the disc another spin a few years later, and I was suprised to find out that the place that sold it to me, would buy it back for about .10. I really didn't mind, but I would have thrown the damn thing in the garbage. This totally scared me off from buying anything by GG that wasn't on Blue Note.

I used to have a homemade cassete with Collosal Head on one side and the first Latin Playboys disc on the other. That was a fun one!

By the way, I DID unpack the Rouse Conn yesterday. the only one I wasn't planning on getting and I have to wait until Monday just to hold the ones I wanted in my hands! One question....does the bonus track seem somewhat out of place or is it a Bossa Nova tune to keep in with the theme of the disc?

Funny thing about this disc IIRC... Dosen't the cover depict a train wreck? Or is this just my imagination?

Sixth Sense? Guess I am happy with the "old" version. Will the new version have the extra tracks? I did notice that Home Cookin was also recently remastered with extra tracks.

Anyone else notice that there is not a single Hank Mobley title amongst all of these. And what of the titles Kevin cannot mention yet. Do you think he is just yanking our chains here? ...and what about the Gigolo? Should I spring for the TOCJ?

Taken from the WEll website... "Join us at The Well. Located in Covina CA. Karaoke, Pool, Darts, Beer, Food, THE BEST BARTENDER in the world and FUN!!! The Well in known WORLD WIDE for the friendlest bartender around! So Stop in and say hi. If your going to visit California make sure to stop in and have a cold beer... Also send us an e-mail." No Covina, TX as far AFAIK.

No, it's the 3rd.

Awww...I have been forcibly ejected from Bars containing less desireable members of the female clientele than this particular establishment.

Its down by Los Angeles, out on the San Bernardino Hwy (I-10), going East out of LA County. Looking at the pictures I am not suprised that this kind of place exists over there.

Yeah, I am real picky with my Neil. I don't like the really folky stuff (aside from his first couple of efforts)and and my favorite albums of his are the dark, dirgey mid 70's stuff. But not to get this thread on a Neil Young note...It's kid of like Dylan flirting with the mainstream, He's just not that type of artist. Leave that to the Collins' and the McCartneys of the world!

Bev, I wonder if you are familar with the album McDonald and Giles recorded after the two left the original Crimso. I prize my copy, found relatively cheap in the used bin at a local record store. I really liked this one. I also really like some of Anthony Phillips' work after he left Genesis, the most memorable being Sides, which also utilized Michael Giles as drummer.

I mean...how bad could it really be?

I found this review of the Plaxico, sound not bad and copies are going REAL cheap on amazon and half.com... Personnel: Lonnie Plaxico (bass); Tim Ries, Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone); Lew Soloff, Jeremy Pelt (trumpet); Helen Sung (piano, electric piano); George Cooligan (piano, organ, keyboards); Lionel Cordew (drums); Jeffrey Haynes (percussion).Recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, New York on May 4 & 5, 2000. Includes liner notes by Neil Tesser.With electronic fusion on the wane and the "young lions" of the '80s reaching middle age, a new hybrid of jazz cropped up on albums and in jazz clubs. This combination of styles borrows its harmonic qualities from post-bop but melds it with the rock-solid foundations of funk and soul. Increasingly, we are hearing a kind of hopped-up mixture of James Brown meets John Coltrane. The result is a rather provocative and fresh reading of jazz in the 21st century. Lonnie Plaxico's MELANGE is just that: a cornucopia of musical styles woven together forming a new and colorful musical fabric. All eleven tracks heard on MELANGE promote the blending of jam-band sensibilities with complex jazz blowing. Highlighted by performances from trumpet great Lew Soloff and New York sax sensation Tim Ries, this music is energetic yet sensitive all at once. Complex melodic riffs soliloquize over the dense rhythmic pulsations of bassist Plaxico and drummer Lionel Cordew. Stand-out tracks include the penultimate tune, "Patois" and the only true ballad on the disc, "Darkness." This guy has played with the MBase crowd so I would say expect some groovy and foreward thinking music. I am gonna track down that William/Edison disc as well as the Truffaz. Like what little I've heard from him.

Hope you take Monday night off cuz them Conn's a-comin round the mountain Tuesday!

I have been curous about this recording from that period that was reissued a few years back. "Life". If I am not mistaken this was recorded with Crazy Horse essentially with Steve Jordan on drums. The Geffen period is generally not considered to be "Good" Neil, though the "Good" Neil is better than most artists' best work! Now, as for Rush, the 80's is generally seen to be the prime period of thier music. I would say that the albums from this period, even including Hemispheres from 1978, are their best work. Many true Rusheads consider the Power Windows and Hold Your Fire albums as part of their downward spiral, but in my opinion that didn't happen until the '90's. I really didn't start paying attention to music until about '81 or so. That would have made me about 7 and KFRC AM used to play the top hits of the day. Then MTV got going real good and the visual aspects of the music were played up tremndously. Two artists who used that medium to the fullest effect were Peter Gabreil and David Bowie. It was a short lived effect though, as that also coincided with their music becoming increasingly commercial. Bands like Big Country, Madness, The (English) Beat, Grace Jones, Prince, The Police and Tom Petty were the vanguard, and the video medium increased their standings in the pop world. So this period, up until about 85 or so, when Miami Vice became popular and the whole thing spiraled downwards from there.

This totally sucks guys. Here I was on the fence but now I am plainly off it. If they manage to recall the disks and fix them, then I should check it out, but until then....

It's schmaltzy, commercial crud. I would do best to stay away.

I know you did that for comedic effect. At least I hope so cuz I am LMAO now!

I change blades about every other time. Since I only shave once or twice a week, I can get pretty good use out of a blade. But I do have that snuggling problem, but I think she really cares more about how my breath stinks (or not).

Eddie McFadden

Grant Green really is for me...THE guitarist. Not just with Organ groups, but for everything regading guitar playing. At least in my opinion!

An interesting, creative and expansive thread...I like it! A Bit of History I was always an electric shaver kind of guy. I guess I always had a thing about sharp metal objects gliding across my face. I had a Norelco 'lectric shaver (first 2 head, graduating up to 3 by the time I was 20) for years and years. I wanted to have a thick beard so I used the thing constantly, after my dad said the more I shaved the "thicker" the facial hair would become. In about '95 I started keeping a neat goatee, which went thru various stages. In the Fall of '96 I took a little backpacking trip across Europe, during which time I was 'not shaving'. I was doing fine, until about three weeks in, when I was in Edinburgh, my ace turned extraoridnarily itchy and uncomfortable. So being slightly naive of the whole process I bought a manual razor at the store, took it back to the Hostel and shaved three weeks of growth of my face...sans shaving cream...only hot water! After I patched up all the nicks and stopped all the blood, I decided that the shave was FAR more smooth than the electric, so I ditched it! I went back and forth from goatee to full, back again, clean for a while and now I'm good with my patch of hair under my lip. I've also been able to (after years of attempts) to keep pretty nice and long sideburns. (The chick love 'em!) Strange though, becuase although shaving used to be at least a once a day habit, I now go 5, 6 days without shaving. To free up time in the morning (out the door by 6:45) I usually shave before bed. After trying various things I finally settled on the following...Shick Extreme 3 razor and blades, Nivea Sensitive Moisture Rich Shaving Gel and Nivea after shave balm. Barely any nicks or burns.

Hey, invite me over...I love all that stuff! HAHA I'll bring some whiskey and some co...NO...NO, forget it, I'll just bring whiskey!!