Scott Dolan

Wow! And I thought I got a late start. I started around ‘94/‘95.

That and Brilliant Corners (still perhaps the best pre Photoshop album cover of all time) are two hot mess masterpieces. He and Rollins somehow brought out the best in each other.

Yeah, I actually couldn’t agree more, even though I was one of the most prolific posters in the political subforum here. They’ve simply reached a point where even I’m unwilling to engage in discussing them anymore.

WTF is going on?

I can be disappointed in such human failings, but I can’t muster anger over it. While I wish he’d been caught decades ago, as Kevin suggested, to protect others from him, and him from himself, I’ve no issue with his sentence and feel he should serve the maximum amount. But calling him a motherfucker and wishing that he dies in prison is a level I just cannot sink to. In fairness, that may be tied to the fact that I work in rehabilitation and interact with sick people all the time. Addiction is the motherfucker of all motherfuckers. There are monsters, but there are also a lot of otherwise good people overtaken by a tidal wave of bad shit too enormous for them to withstand. Who knows which camp Cosby falls into, but not knowing him personally I will not condemn him to one or the other. The legal system worked, and showed yet again why it is so important to stand trial by a jury of your peers, and not by a jury of the families and friends of your victim.

I guess I just find it impossible to take something like this so personally.

Did he drug you and take advantage? Why so fucking angry?

Jim, they must have changed things for the box set. It has a stripe down the left side of each cover. So the volumes show as blue, red, green, and purple respectively. Here’s a bad pic I found online.

Nope. Blue, so says my set. Took a pic, but can’t post it because the file is too big. I honestly don’t get how this site works at times.

Yeah, I hear all of that. I suppose it all comes down to properly reading the person you're recommending this music to. Do they need training wheels, or are they already adventurous and perfectly amenable to the sausage making process? I had just come off of a full year of listening to Zappa almost, if not entirely (I can't recall if something else snuck in), exclusively. So my mind was wide open to any and every possibility under the sun.

I had a decent collection of Jazz LPs, but no Monk, so I can't speak to the differences you asked about. As for starting at the beginning, it's tricky, IMO. Sometimes you want to start someone out there just because the earliest material tends to be lacking when compared with the heyday material, and you'd hate to see it go unappreciated because it doesn't stack up to the artist in their prime. Though in Monk's case I really don't feel like the Blue Note material in notably inferior at all. Then again, I'm a huge fan of the Columbia era, so...

No, those two were my gateway releases. Oddly enough, I purchased both of them through BMG. This was early on in my Jazz phase. Early 90’s.

Well, my first Monk was the Jazzland release with Coltrane, but right after that I bought the Blue Note box set.

Maybe not, but Ken’s description of that disaster is spot on. All three discs were loose in the package when I bought it, and almost never stayed in place no matter how carefully I handled it. The only packaging I have that is worse is the Charlie Parker Dial & Savoy box where the discs are in sleeves so damn tight they’re nearly impossible to get out.

Eh, Jobs wasn’t exactly screwed together tightly either. His company seemed to do alright.

I think my thing with the Harpsichord is similar to how I feel about the B3 in Jazz. Sonically they don’t fit in with all the other instruments traditionally used in their respective genres.

!!! Ken McIntyre?!

I’m with Daniel on the Harpsichord thing. I find nothing sonically redeeming about that instrument at all. I grudgingly accept the first few seconds of Fixing A Hole, but that’s my limit.

That would be an incredibly stupid waste of bottled water, though.

If they have no water, how are they making coffee?

Can’t imagine why with that band of scrubs he used.

IMO, there is nothing on Iron Man that rises to the level of Music Matador from Conversations.

Hope it’s a great B-Day, brother!

Has the WTA offered similar statements after previous Serena Williams meltdowns?

In fairness to uli, the following does indeed support his argument: ”The WTA believes that there should be no difference in the standards of tolerance provided to the emotions expressed by men vs women and is committed to working with the sport to ensure that all players are treated the same. We do not believe that this was done last night.” Bad behavior is bad behavior, I think we all agree on that. But lack of fairness could push even the best of us past our breaking point. Especially when the stakes are as high as they were that night.