Teasing the Korean

This has GOT to be a joke, right?

And guilty of murder as opposed to manslaughter. Can't say I'm surprised.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/13/phil.s...dict/index.html

Tell us about his hair. Has he changed it?

Sorry, computer/posting mishap. I wanted to address her bizarre quest to stop everyone from playing Zappa tunes. What's up with that?

Gail Zappa.

Clark Terry & Gary McFarland - Tijuana Jazz - HMV (stereo)

GREAT ALBUM! Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice - Impulse! (mono promo)

Why are we conflicted about Maine?

That's right, I forgot that your entire catalog is being re-released on Sept. 9.

It's too bad many sellers are inaccurate, or worse, untrustworthy. I sell near mint LPs and I grade them VG plus just so I can be on the conservative side.

It's not BS. It is documented. Mono was the format for pop music. The stereo mixes up until around Sgt. Pepper were done quickly by junior staff. George Martin and Beatles mixed the mono versions. The book on the Beatles in the studio documents 6, 7, 8, 9 mono mixes of a tune until everyone was satisfied. By contrast, five tunes from Beatles for Sale were mixed for stereo in a in a single half-hour session. You can like whichever versions you choose, but it is a fact that mono versions are the ones with everyone's input, until the White album, where the stereo version was the main one.

If you've gone this long without them, don't cave in now! I admire anyone who has successfully avoided the Beatles!

If you have not heard these albums in mono, you have not heard them as they're supposed to sound.

So you can buy the individual albums in stereo but you need a box set for the mono albums. How stupid is that?

http://www.amazon.com/Goldfinger-Various-A...5939&sr=1-2

I really loved what the Yardbirds were doing during the period that Beck was with them. The bassist and drummer, Paul Samwell Smith and Jim McCarty, did some really incredible stuff for guys in a rock group. There is that hint of psychedelia creeping through in the late 65 early 66 stuff. The mono version of the album "Over Under Sideways Down" aka "Roger the Engineer" is, even with a few weaker tracks, a pretty solid album that neatly captures that proto-psych vibe. All this culminated with the great single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago." Then Beck was gone (Paul Samwell Smith was gone too) and the Yardbirds basically went to hell. I often wish that the sound of 1966 psychedlia lasted a little bit longer before its 1967 incarnation overtook it.

While we can debate what is or isn't an "easy listening" album, it is a mistake to lump the Legrand album into the same category as Michelle, Girl in Love, etc. All of the tunes and the arrangements are by Legrand, and it has far more depth than aforementioned easy albums. It would offer plenty of appeal to a jazz fan interested in seldom-performed tunes and colorful arrangements, even if it is not a "jazz" album from a purist's perspective. IMHO.

Extreme separation, bass and most rhythm instruments and wordless vocals in one channel, brass and reeds in the other. Some percussion but not much else in the center. Yes, it is kind of a cool record, but not a twenty dollar one in my opinion.

I always buy from Cameron, currently at 74 cents per box: http://www.cameronpackaging.com/LPalbum.html These are folded in a such a way as to allow for multiple LP shipping.

Webley Edwards - Hawaii Calls: Favorite Instrumentals of the Islands - Capitol (turquoise, mono) with Al Kealoha Perry I feel like Dr. Jacoby on Twin Peaks or Dwayne Hoover in Breakfast of Champions!

What album is Space Towers? Does it have an alternate title? Year? Never heard of that one. I have Space Probe, but that's probably not it. It is a comp. Everything on Space Towers came from another album. On the comp I made, I took some tracks from Space Towers, so I'm not sure which original albums they were from. I will post info on the Space Towers comp when I find it.

Candido - Latin Fire - ABC Paramount (stereo) Arrangements by Manny Albam

Just spun side one. It kind of sounds like a Bob Thompson RCA album. Wordless vocals, big band, and a guy on congas. Not a huge focus on Candido, but there are some shorter passages with drum solos and rhythm section. Basically a space-age bachelor pad album - good but not the best in that category. Don't know how much you usually spend on rekkids, but I wouldn't spend $20 for it. That's just me. And avoid the stereo version.