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No s@#t, Einstein. 240 kmh = 149 mph. What happened to the spirit of adventure here. Are we just a bunch of old farts? Dmitry, Wow, what's up with that comment? Have you ever actually been on the PCH? A bunch of us have, and Adam is absolutely correct that driving it at 175 MPH is absolutely insane. Seriously, it is fucking insane to try to drive that road at that speed! I've also been in a car doing about 220 kph, but it was on the autobahn in Germany, where speeds like that aren't completely out of the ordinary. I love speed and fast cars, and can't wait for the F1 season to start in a couple of weeks (Go BMW-Sauber Go!), but good god man... I wouldn't trust Schumacher (the good one, not Ralf!) to drive 175 mph on the PCH, let alone "Dietrich"!!! Hey, knock yourself out on the autobahn all you want, or head down to Imola or Spa or any other closed course and drive like a bat out of hell... I've got no problem with that. More power to ya, I say! But if some fucker is doing 175 mph on a road I drive on ALL THE TIME, where the average speed limit is about 45 mph, then you bet I got a problem with that! How you can defend that behavior is beyond me. Cheers, Shane

FUCK! What a pathetic effort in this Olympic tournament! Four year ago I was crying tears of joy, but now it's just waves of sadness. Can't say I didn't see it coming, though. And there's no doubt that karma came back around and bit us hard for including Bertuzzi on this team. Oh well, at least all of the Flames players at the Olympics survived and are healthy (unlike those who play for Vancouver... wow, is that some bad luck!). They even get a couple of extra days off to rest up for the big playoff push. Go Calgary Go! Cheers, Shane

It is. Some of these tracks were initially available because (I guess) e-music uploaded the whole catalog first and it took them some time (and possibly a number of reminders) later to take down the longer tracks. Hi All, Thanks for the info... To me, this is just a stupid decision on Tzadik's part. As an example, I went to download the newly added Ned Rothenberg "Solo Works - The Lumina Recordings", and three of the four songs on the album are "unavailable for download". Who the fuck wants to download just one song (of about 13 minutes) off of an entire album (of about 71 minutes). How is this helping the artist??? I'm sending off an e-mail to eMusic. Like in BFrank's case, I'll likely get get no response... but this situation needs to be taken care of at some point to make it worthwhile to all parties involved (the label, the artist, and the consumer). Cheers, Shane

Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case... Cheers, Shane P.S. ASNL77, I'll look around a few local shops to see if they have any of the vinyl Mosaic's you are interested in. Not likely to find much, but I'll give it a shot! (i.e., sorry for derailing your thread a second time)

Hi Jim, No problem! I actually agree with you on a number of your observations. Duguid can be a bit of an ass at times... I guess Canadians are just sensitive about all things curling, having been ridiculed for so long about it! I will say this... it's pretty easy to fall asleep listening to their commentary, as I've done it many times! Troy, you are pretty much spot on in regards to shoes and the sweeping of the ice! You sound like you've hit a bonspiel or two in your day! Cheers, Shane

Hey, hey, HEY! Jim, don't be slammin' my two main men in the curling announcer world! These two are the best EVER! Actually, growing up in Canada, I curled all the time (heck, we were even taught it in physical education class in junior and senior high school). It is a fun sport, and not nearly as easy as it looks on TV. Hell, I've cracked my skull on the ice many times over the years... although that ice may be pebbled, it still hurts! Anyway, the "two Don's" have been announcers on CBC for as long as I can remember... they clearly are the Godfathers of the curling announcer world. And, compared to some of the other announcers NBC has come up with (Cammie Granato? WTF is that all about? Sour grapes there much?), the Dons are where it's at. Erm, well... OK... let's just leave it at "they're not bad"! Go Canada Go! Cheers, Shane

ASNL77, Sorry to derail this thread! Please accept my apologies! Good luck with your search on the Mosaic LPs. I can say that I love the sound of the Curtis Fuller set, but unfortunately I don't have a spare to sell. Sorry 'bout that! Cheers, Shane

Hi Ken, Sorry, I didn't mean to intimate that I wanted YOU to start your own reissue label (although it would be great, I'm sure). That statement was meant for jazzhound! All he does is bitch about Cuscuna and Mosaic at every turn, so I usually "invite" him to start up his own reissue label so that he can do things the way he thinks they should be done. Oddly enough, he never has started up his own label... he just keeps bitching on and on and on! Keep on plugging away though, Ken... I'm crossing my fingers that those liner note gigs become more frequent for you! Cheers, Shane

Hi Ken, Don't worry about jazzhound too much. He's simply bitter that Cuscuna would not offer him a recording contract back in the day, so he takes his revenge by firing barbs like this on internet boards every now and then. It used to bother me quite a bit that jazzhound dissed Cuscuna, but now that I know the whole story, I just shake my head in pity at jazzhound's bitterness. It's sad, really. Jazzhound, get over it already! Oh, and while you're at it, feel free to start up your own reissue label so that you can do things any damn way you want! Cheers, Shane

Hey All, What the fuck is eMusic doing with the Tzadik catalog? It looks like any track that is longer than 15 minutes or so on any album is "Unavailable for download at this time". For example, just now I wanted to download Wadada Leo Smith's 4 CD set "Kabell Years", and found that 5 tracks are "unavailable"... those 5 tracks make up 107 minutes of music (or about 40% of the set)! Same thing when I went to download John Zorn's "Elegy", one of the four tracks is "unavailable". Seriously, has it been like this since Tzadik started on eMusic, or is this a recent decision? I had the Smith and Zorn album's in my "Save for Later" folder for a while now, and can't believe I would have put them there initially if that much music would be "unavailable". Cheers, Shane

I think the same could, arguably, be said of Public Enemy. It was good to see Ronnie Gilbert looking well. One wonders what the people in the audience--those with an ear for music--thought of the crap that took up 99% of the show? As I said before, the recent news that payola is alive and rampant explains why so much mediocrity has been allowed to float to the top. I don't care what you say about Herbie's playing last night, his musical integrity was certainly nowhere in evidence. In agreement with you on all fronts, Chris! (Well, except on the Public Enemy thing!) My question to those who've been on this mortal coil longer than I have... Have the Grammy's ever really meant anything to anyone other than those in the pop music world? The Grammy's have always been a joke to me, and most of the people I know that don't listen to pop music... Cheers, Shane

As Public Enemy (rightly) once said: "Who gives a fuck about a god-damned Grammy?" Cheers, Shane

Hi Clem and Jim, I have to totally agree with these sentiments. Kofsky's book was the first book I think I ever encountered that made me think "Yeah, that's it" after one sentence, and then make me scream "this is such fuckin' bullshit" the next. What an infuriating read! Jim, you are dead on about Kofsky's NEED to put words in Coltrane's mouth during that interview. His pathetic attempts came across even more clearly when I actually listened to the interview (many years after reading it). How Trane put up with that shit, I'll never know. Maybe he really was a saint??? Clem, there's no way in hell I'll be blaming Marx for things that Kofsky said... Marx wouldn't have said some of that inane shit in a million years! Kofsky seemed like a tremendous piece of work... Sorry, had to rant! Cheers, Shane

Hey Nico, Are you the same cat from Kraytracker? If so, welcome to Organissimo! Never thought I'd see someone from Kray over here! Cheers, Shane

I'd like to hear a "new" ScoLoHoFo... with NoJo... ScoLoHoFoNoJo! And I'm serious about that! Cheers, Shane

Yeah it is a good contrast. Nirvana is the greatest rock band in history. Pear Jam sucks. Hah! Sorry John, but Nirvana as "the greatest rock band in history" is a damn funny one liner! Don't get me wrong, I've dug on Nirvana ever since they were young, no money havin', down-and-out guys. Hell, I saw them more times in small little dives, playing in front of 20 people (that's with me included), than I can count. I watched them from their humble beginnings to their worldwide success (excess?). So I know Nirvana. And I love Nirvana. Nirvana being the best rock band in history? Hell, they weren't even close to being the best "punk-inspired" band in history! And each of them would agree with that statement! Kurt especially, if he were here... And, I find it wonderfully juicy that you harp on about how folks shouldn't call Miles "the greatest", and then you drop a quote like Nirvana being "the greatest"... Sorry to derail the thread. Carry on! Cheers, Shane

Now that would have had to have been one HELL of an explosion for the pen to get all the way up to Rochester! Methinks your coworker had a pretty "active" imagination! As for me, I was a senior in high school in Canmore, Alberta... had to take a Provincial English exam in the afternoon, so I was sleeping in when my mom called me from her work and told me to get up and turn on the TV. I had just turned 17, and the image of the white plumes of smoke stayed with me for days. It felt like I had just lost some good friends of mine! I wondered why the deaths of seven people I had never met had such an impact on me... still do, I guess. Shane

Doug Carn! Cheers, Shane

Yep! I checked their site first to see if I could place an order there, but the link seems to be down... Good site, though! Love the rants! Cheers, Shane

Yep! Me three! Jim, ya gots ta clear out your PM box once in a while... it's perpetually full! I'd like to get both CD's as well, so let us all know how we can score the goods. Cheers, Shane

Hi MG, I've seen you relate this story here a couple of different times, but would you be willing to let us specifically know who that quote should be attributed to? Cheers, Shane

Hi All, For those of us here who downloaded some of the great stuff off the Blood & Fire label on eMusic, I would like to point out that you can download PDF copies of the liner notes to most of the albums on Blood & Fire's website. Just go to the individual albums, and you'll see a link to "Download Liner Notes". I also noticed a massive sale at the Blood & Fire website, with many CD's being sold for ₤4.25... that's a hell of a deal! Once again, if you dig reggae and/or dub music, I strongly suggest you pick up most anything on this label! Cheers, Shane

Leo as a label is still there, yes, but almost every album I was interested in is now gone. This includes albums by Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, Marilyn Crispell, the Ganelin Trio, etc... Hi John, I just noticed that eMusic has added the 4 CD set Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 on Leo Records this week. My guess is that the other Leo titles were removed because they were actually costing them more than they were taking in... For example, it was possible to snag some Braxton titles for 22 or 44 cents (1 or 2 tracks on the whole CD)! Not bad for a 75 minute album by a musical genius! And, like you, I had kept a bunch on my "list to download later", and now I'm kicking myself for not doing so earlier. But, they might come back eventually... That's one thing I love about eMusic... you pay by the track, and if the album only has 3 songs on it, then you pay 75 cents or so. It's much better than the bullshit iTunes tries to pull, where an album of 3 songs either costs $9.99, or they only charge 99 cents per song BUT don't put the whole album up for download! Cheers, Shane

← Hi J, Thanks for that! I listened to the 30 sec sound samples of this CD last night, and they pretty much confirm what AMG talks about. And, although the clips were short, the sound quality is pretty good! Cheers, Shane

Hi All, Hey, I also noticed the "new" addition to eMusic this week: John Coltrane - Live At The Half Note on the Audio Fidelity label. This thing has 6 songs (75:34 total), but they don't seem to correspond to the new Impulse! Coltrane - One Down One Up release. The songs are: 1. Chim Chim Cheree (18:30) 2. I Want To Talk About You (10:11) 3. Impressions (14:52) 4. One Up One Down (7:08) 5. Song Of Praise (18:33) 6. Untitled Original (6:20) I've checked Wild's Discography about this release, but I don't see any Half Note release with these songs/times... Anyone know what this is??? Cheers, Shane