Big Beat Steve

Like the name of the Woodstock festival photographer mentioned in a link in that thread "over there"? Burk Uzzle? Country folk too? A name that could have been invented by anycartoonist and sounds like it sprang right out of the "Toonerville Trolley"?

Well, the vocals at the very begining of the Tapp version do sound a bit like someone might have singled out one singer from one of those early 60s black girl groups and it might have come out like this. But as the song goes on it obviously isn't black (and not the countriest of country either IMO but rather overproduced. and slickened up - not a big wonder if Owen Bradley was involved). Merle Kilgore as the songwriter gives the country origins of the song away, though. Demetriss Tapp isn't a name I had heard before either. Must have come from a period when odd-sounding names weren't considered a hindrance to popular success by the A&R people (Tupper Saussy is another one of those monikers that just sound strange IMO as a stage name).

That guy's just faking. What he pointed at as being the R'n'R section clearly is where he pulled out the Illinois Jacquet "Swing's The Thing" LP on Verve at the begining of that clip. R'n'R?? When R&B (where this MIGHT have been filed) is a different section anyway? And Miles' KOB does not seem to be far away from that corner either. Seriously, man ... you're an imposter ... So WTF???

George Wettling, then?

Just read this review of Ella Fitzgerald/Joe Pass "Take Love Easy" (Pablo 2310702) the other day: ... Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by a sole musician, guitarist Joe Pass. And this accompaniment has ruined the record for me. Joe Pass plays with such flabbiness and langour that borders on a state of decay and does not feed the great singer even one single atom of swing. "Swing" may not be the keyword here because obviously swing was not the aim here. Yet Ella almost always swings her ballads, even at very slow tempos. Here the music of Joe Pass is so very emollient that Ella just was unable to give her best. The music makes you feel like you're stuck in a club with all the lights dimmed at 4 or 5 in the morning at the moment when most of the customers, well tired, start dozing off ... To have her accompanied by a sole guitarist, il would have needed a George Benson or Bill Harris ... I am no Pass expert at all because for all his chops he somehow has never grabbed me they way other guitarists with boundless technique and fluency (like Tal Farlow) have. Just not enough "bite" for me (at least in what I did hear of him).

And he talked about it here and there in his postings (and on his blog IIRC) so while it would be great to see it published this does not seem to be some news out of the blue. Yes, this is very comforting to know. I had similar fears (it has all happened before, and dispersing archives like this piecemeal on ebay or elsewhere isn't much better).

I'm not into much of late 60s/early 70s hard/other rock at all but any version of "I'm Going Home" is effin' smokin'! (Those who have an idea of where I come from music-wise will understand why I think so ... ). I'd listened to the versions on "Undead" and the Woostock album at a friend's place but found the version on "Recorded Live" best and this is one of the VERY few LPs form that period that I later picked up for myself.

Boy, do I hear you there! Agreed with you all the way. Improving a not so great-sounding reissue with something sonically more palatable is fine, but the lengths that some audio nerds go to about minute, miniscule "improvements" and then proudly proclaim what they have been able to "dump" .... Reminds me very much of some self-proclaimed music "connoisseurs" at our high school back in the latter 70s when (remember?) "quadro" was all the rage for a time and touted as replacing stereo once and for all, and these "connoisseurs" went all crazy about whatever quador platter they sumbled upon. Never mind that even better record shops carried something like different 20 LPs with true quadophonic pressings at a time at best, so actually a dismal selection. But what did they mind .. "it's quadro so it's got to be the ultimate in liostening experience", regardless of the crappy music often pressed into that format. Anyway ... Personally I do consider myself a collector and don't mind being called one, though when I see what true collectors (-cum-historians-archivists) accumulate I bow my head in shame and resignation ... So let's say most of us "collectors" probably are and remain in the "searching" phase and are collectors with a comprehensive collection in rather specialized (sub-)fields or their actual field of collection only.

He can be googled (he was a major name among Swedish modern jazz trumpeters). He was very short indeed. I remember a photo of the Staffan Abeléen group (apparently used for publicity purposes to) on the bandstand where Abeléen (the "other" horn and therefore front man) stepped off the bandstand and onto the floor, apparently to make Färnlöf look less short.

I wonder if any of those whose height has been mentioned here have ever shared a bandstand with Swedish trumpeter Lars Färnlöf in the 60s or 70s. THAT would have made questions of being (bodily) tall or not appear VERY relative.

I must admit that before this thread came up I had never realized the face of that 2nd tier actor often seen in 60s movies or series belonged to the one I had often listened to on that 10-inch Urbie Green Vanguard LP or on his excellent Jazzwave LP on Jubilee, etc. Quite a run ...

"Big" or "tall"? I understand there is a difference there in (U.S.) English

It was meant to be.

Question (again) of personal tastes, that's all. The kind of discussion that will never lead anywhere.

I do wish you luck and I think I understand. My collection is sizable but no doubt smaller than that of MANY around here but purchases have slowed down because the threat of running out of shelf space is looming (I'd rather not tell how I freed up vinyl shelf space close to 2 years ago to ease the problem for a few more years, hopefully ). But I've begun downsizing in my "other" collecting area (classic cars - mostly 50s) and have passed on a few car books and magazines and have started downsizing my spare parts stocks. Still only a drop in the bucket but a start in an ongoing effort ...

I know there are (probably plenty of) records/recordings in my collection that I will never play again before I leave the building - but of course I don't know today which ones they are (though they ARE accessible like the rest) so they are keepers. (For the foreseeable time being, anyway ) If you keep a checklist of the records you have played and scribble the dates you played a record on the inner sleeve you are not a collector (nor even a real music enthusiast) but a bookkeeper and bureaucrat, in my view. I must admit it keeps baffling me how often I read around here (from US forumists, in particular) that they cannot access this or that of their records to check this or that detail "because they are in storage" (and, as was hinted at between the lines, seem to have been so for quite a while in some cases). "In storage" being something that sounds like "in a lockup storage box" to me. Is that a way to really enjoy your records? Or are you intent on providing stuff for an upcoming episode of "Storage Wars"?

Might this be him?? No, it's not. Google "Zero Freitas", everyone. Makes us all realize that whatever we have accumulated our collections are just small fry and we are all perfectly sane and restrained to a maximum.

I think the eyewitness accounts of all that would fill a book or a lengthy thread.

Don't worry ... "Kartoffelpüree" is perfectly understandable even in Germany. Same for "Möhren" & "Karotten" (both understandable too, but in fact down here in the South we call them "Gelberüben"). But "Paradeiser"??? Or "Zibeben"?? And as for "Spritzer", I was under the impression you call them "G'spritzter"? Like UK and US English: Two countries divided by the same language.

Mashed, i guess?

I remember from my contacts with U.S: soldiers on post here in the mid-80s there was one Master Sergeant whose tour of duty in Germany was about to end in a couple months time and he regretfully told me he had decided to stop drinking German beer ("Löwenbräu" - the GERMAN variety - was one he loved in particular) for his remaining time here because otherwise he'd be unable to adjust back to what he'd be served back home in the U.S. (and he pointed out that German "Löwenbräu" and U.S. "Lowenbrau" had nothing much in common except the name). I understand things have changed since but still ...

That's it, Priceminister is the name under which it is still known there. Sorry I can't priovide the info you specifically want as whatever I had heard about sales on this site came from various contacts in France who bought there and always were quite satisfied. But that won't tell you much as these were domestic transactions. I've checked the site here and there for reference through the years and find that the range of prices for a given object often is ENORMOUS. Some offers are very good, other prices are just KRRRAZY.

Do we know what's outside the picture? Unfortunately the picture that came up online was as small as you see it here so you cannot make out much. Does anyone have any idea of the size of the collection of Chris Albertson? His memorabilis alone must be mindblowing. Hope it all finds a good new home/caretaker. As indicated by himself in his "Bulletins", the collection of Hugues Panassié amounted to some 20,000 records (no details on the 78s-to-vinyl ratio, though). After his death in 1974 it was preserved intact and not dispersed and was later (probably after the death of Madeleine Gautier) donated to a municipal library near his home town. Some use seems to be made of it (including access for researchers) AFAIK but even under these ideal "inheritance" circumstances it had remained inaccessible for quite a few years after it was passed on to the municipality (to the dismay of the Hot Club). The collection of researcher and author Johnny Simmen from Switzerland was also donated to a jazz foundation (in Switzerland) and therefore preserved as a unit.

Rakuten crops up in the www address of the PRICEMINISTER selling platform. Is that what you are referring to?

Like I thought ... yours IS huge ...