Scott Dolan

To attend concerts I would have to take an expensive trip to Amsterdam on progressively more uncomfortable public transport. Amsterdam is an open sewer where rudeness and anti-social behaviour are the norm. Then I would have to part with even more money to listen to music in a room full of potentially annoying strangers. You'd have to pay me to go through such an ordeal. sounds like everyone might benefit from your choice The bolded quote is rich! You have to wonder if he ever reads his own posts around here.

You're right, Dan. No reason for me to argue with the person who knows exactly what happened. It's obviously the fault of the USPS.

Most likely a function of poor bookkeeping. Happens with a lot of companies out there. They'll think they have something in stock, but actually don't. I don't know. Their (Dusty Groove) site seems pretty accurate when indicating that something is not in stock. So do most places I've dealt with. Or so it appears on the surface. One sales not entered into the database can change everything. I've seen cases of it with brick and mortars where their websites shows it's in stock, but it actually isn't. Thing is, with you and Dan both having similar experiences from a common vendor raises a red flag.

Most likely a function of poor bookkeeping. Happens with a lot of companies out there. They'll think they have something in stock, but actually don't.

In my experience all shipping companies have their ups and downs. I've had excellent and terrible experiences with them all. Fortunately, the excellent experiences far outpace the negative ones. My most recent negative experience happened late last year with Fed Ex.

Don't believe me, just do your own homework. Preshipment info means that only a shipping label has been printed. That's it. Packages that come in are either scanned in on the shipping dock, or at the drop off counter. These are not opinions, they are facts.

Pre-shipment info is not the product. Your product wasn't delivered to the post office until the 20th. Anything that comes in is scanned. It's not like they throw it on a shelf and scan it later.

It's called a completist fetish, Justin. I don't get it either, but we all have our quirks, I suppose.

Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure that was the last Impulse! title I ever bought! Perhaps there are some emotional scars there I wasn't consciously aware of. I guess using that TV as a radio would not be an option. Been there, more or less, one year. No heat other than the stovetop, draftyass windows, not much food, screen a bit bigger than 7", cold day, but hell the thing had some kind of picture and it DID make a sound. So I followed the game, It was Steelers vs Cowboys, good game, Cowboys lost, my Belgian drummer roommate didn't understand why I wasn't pulling for Dallas, I didn't try to explain, it was too cold. This other guy showed up with a can of Baldinger's Chopped Chicken Livers. He was from New York and thought that was the right thing to bring to a party. I don't really like liver, but that Baldinger's was not bad, I will admit. When my wife and I first moved in together the only tv we owned was a 7" inch black and white. It was so small that we actually put it on the bottom shelf and sat on the floor right in front of it to watch it. Kinda surreal that I'm posting this from my iPad, which has a screen three inches bigger than that old TV.

But why would I even be interested in "how bad it can get"? That's the thing. There is way too much well recorded music in existence to bother finding out "how bad it can get". I love football, but if I had to watch the Superbowl on a snowy, 7" black and white tv with a cantankerous vertical hold, I'd find something else to do that evening. Same thing. I don't buy bootlegs, and for very good reason. The worst part being that they dressed up that mess in a fancy Impulse! package, which certainly fooled me.

Wow! Isn't that interesting! I am glad you appreciated it. Do you have a different method? No, I'm just amazed that since you've announced that you're "new here" (twice, for good measure) that you often use these forums to discover new music. Must have just started discovering new music, I guess? That's a matter of individual tolerance/expectaions/whatever. Have you listened to Olatunji Concert? Because everything you stated after what I quoted doesn't apply to it. Even a little bit. It sounds like it was recorded with a Fisher Price mic at the end of it's life span. Or, as the AMG review put it: "...it also gives the average collector a taste of what the maniacal collector goes out of their way to find, as the sound quality is on the level of a sub-par bootleg." And that's being kind.

Wow! Isn't that interesting!

What Paul said. There are rare exceptions like Olatunji Concert, where the music is out of this world, but the sound quality is so horrendous that it's difficult to revisit.

Haven't seen it yet, ejp. But it seems most folks agree with your assessment. One that I need to revisit is the original Total Recall. In the last few years I've read some rather glowing reassessments of it. I just don't recall it being a very good movie. I suppose the latest version is great eye candy, but I still can't bring myself to watch it. Definitely need to check out A Scanner Darkly, though. Thanks for the reminder. BTW, in going back to check xybert's exact quote on Bladerunner, I saw this. Which obviously got lost in the mix while I was forming a quick rebuttal: TWO HUGE thumbs up! This and Shawshank Redemption are the only two Stephen King stories that ever amounted to shit on the big screen, while staying completely faithful to the original text. Interestingly enough, they were both short stories.

Amen. The Exorcist blew the book away. I agree with Bladerunner being at least as good as Do Androids Dream..., but I don't see the movie as being an adaptation of the book. More of a "inspired by" thing. Exactly. It was more like a Cliff's Notes version of the book. If even that, really. Yeah, i remembered that the film was different enough from the book for it to be a controversial inclusion but it's starting to come back to me just how different it was now. I did leave out Naked Lunch though. Oh, don't get me wrong. I wasn't faulting you for mentioning it, because taking the title of the thread literally, well... it WAS as good as the book, since both were outstanding. It's similar to The Shining in that it was a fantastic movie, just very different than the fantastic novels they were derived from. I've thought about breaking Do Androids… back out several times, but never have. I still think it's his most interesting read, but I'm biased as I was a huge fan of Bladerunner before reading the book. It's really too bad his books have been so badly butchered in the cinema... Though, I would be thrilled to see some big budget director like Nolan or Abrams take on Lies, Inc. Even for PKD that was a fairly fucked up affair. Though, I'd enjoy watching either of them work their way through the middle section of that story that starts right after the protagonist gets shot with the LSD dart...

Amen. The Exorcist blew the book away. I agree with Bladerunner being at least as good as Do Androids Dream..., but I don't see the movie as being an adaptation of the book. More of a "inspired by" thing. Exactly. It was more like a Cliff's Notes version of the book. If even that, really.

Shawshank Redemption comes to mind. Blade Runner was incredible, one of the best sci-fi flicks of all time, but it was such a tiny piece of the book that I can't say it qualifies. The Shining was better than the book, IMO. Very, very different, but better.

I seriously doubt that. They can simply digitize everything and sell it for the same price they're getting for CDs, but with a lot lower overhead. The majors have already done that for the most part.

Vinyl fetish in no way implies a genre was intended for a specific playback medium. If that were the case you'd have had record labels and artists refusing to put their product on CD. Sorry, it's an absurd notion.

I love how you present this as fact, when the reality is that it's one of the sillier things that been said in this thread.

The cat has rhythm! Wish I knew sign language to know how precise he is, but I find it far more cool than funny. If he's actually on it, then deaf folk must have been jamming right along! Nice! Thanks for posting that, page.

Man, that strikes me as wildly optimistic. Playing in the background at shops and restaurants counts as meaningful exposure? I'd be willing to bet in most places, if you asked people when they left if they remembered if there even WAS music playing in the background they'd likely not remember. When I worked in records shops (various shops and times in the '90s), 'I heard this in a coffee shop' was a big source of inquiries - also a hard one because even if they asked for info on the recording it often got messed up somehow... Fair enough, my friend. I rescind my previous comments on the matter. I'll gladly accept what you, Hot Ptah, and .:.impossible have stated. I haven't had the same experience, but know well enough when I'm outnumbered 3-1 by folks whose opinions and insight I respect, I'm most likely betting on the wrong horse. Besides, what you three are stating is far more positive in the grand scheme.

I suppose if you went alone…:impossible. But if I'm out with family and/or friends, I'm not the least bit interested in background music. Perhaps it's just me...

Man, that strikes me as wildly optimistic. Playing in the background at shops and restaurants counts as meaningful exposure? I'd be willing to bet in most places, if you asked people when they left if they remembered if there even WAS music playing in the background they'd likely not remember.

Awesome! Thanks for posting the vid as this boy can't stay up anywhere near that late. Outstanding rhythm section! Your brother was playing some sneaky mean shit there!