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Mine is just a couple of years newer than yours, and I think I payed a whoppin' $10. Man oh man, in the wrong hands it was a painful weapon! I finally learned to hide it when some of my more degenerate friends came over.

A Usenet post in net.audio from October 29, 1984 gives the answer as to what was in the old D3 fluid. Don't know what has changed, but if you are looking to set up a lab the post below might give you a headstart. > A while (> 2 years) back, Science magazine (a British mag) published > the formula for Discwasher D3 fluid. It has a British patent and they > put it in to show that it's not made of a lot of things. I have the > original article somewhere, and I will find it, but from memory, here's > the recipe: 97% distilled water, sodium azide (to kill bacteria in the > groves), ethyline glycol (the cleaner), and a surficant (to reduce > surface tension). The article had the percent by weight ratios and a > few surficants that are preferred. Lucky me, I was given a bottle of D4 when a friend moved. I have another that's probably 25 years old. I have 3 bottles of the stylus cleaner, but only one is full.

Meow! Have a perky birthday!

I'll second that. I was sure I'd enjoy it when I bought it, but I was surprised by how much I did. I like the layout of it as well, and for a box in that format it's reasonably easy to read. I'm not sure if any of the extra songs are exclusive to the box (though there may be a few), but it sure makes it easy to have them all in one package.

I had the Barney before the sale and it is a standout. I like the story in the booklet about how a listening session of 78s led to the Reinhardt & Trenet songs being played at the session. I'm not sure how Dusty restocks things, but be sure to pick the Byas offerings by any means necessary (well, short of high crimes, but misdemeanor at will!) I will have to go beyond this series to hear more from him, as what a discovery 50+ years after the fact! And thanks to Brownie for suggesting #54, Clarinettes - a Saint-Germain des Pres featuring a session each from Hubert Rostaing & Maurice Meunier, as this one would have passed me by otherwise. The timing was perfect too, as I got the Reinhardt Mosaic for Christmas. OK, as great as this series is, I'm still staying away from the Dusty site for....maybe another week or...must...not...click....

Egads! What a brilliant idea! Somebody is earning a big fat paycheck coming up with this name change. Well at least now we know what the Rally Monkey has been up to.

Since it's not hot stove I'll stick this here. It was that or "Goofy Stuff on the Web." ANGELS BASEBALL ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL NAME CHANGE ANAHEIM -- Angels Baseball Monday announced the team has changed its official name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. This change is effective January 3, 2005. Link to prove I am not making this up. I think I need a drink.

But that doesn't count. Those were videos!

So far so good. Considering I picked up 50 discs since the week before Christmas, I really should be able to go without buying for a little while as I have some digesting to do. However, I have listened to all of them at least once, and most of them twice. And I succesfully ignored a Django's "Notify Me." That's progress! I'm going to try to make until the 3rd week of the month. And I don't think I'll go on a binge like I did last month for quite some time. Unless the Blue Note catalog is in danger, or Mosaic has a buy one get one free - you know, something like that!

What if one owns your album? Is there a free pass for not having all 10? er.... regarding your album. Is that on the way?

I have this one on now. Having gotten the Mosaic for Christmas, I can say this isn't the Hot Club! Fascinating to hear him with this line up playing electric. I'm so happy I put in a 2nd order, which will likely arrive tomorrow. Hmmm, is the sale still on? I so love the cover photography I think I'd buy these even if the music wasn't first rate. Luckily that's not the case. It's been a happy ear-opening experience.

I thought they should have run the story with the headline "Social Security Crisis Solved!"

Hey hey! Have a great day!

The Mosaic is a beauty, with 2 albums (Breakthrough & Song Everlasting) with the quartet with Adams and 2 trio albums (New Beginnings & Random Thoughts, the former with Tony Williams.) I'm not sure if they had to do it because of song length, but chosing to end the 3rd with "Silence = Death" (the rest of the album is on disc 2) works very well paired with the song that precedes it, "Ode to Life (For Maurice Quesnell.)" I'm very happy I picked this one up!

Sheeesh, I have no willpower. After seeing news about some of the Blue Note cutouts, I added just a wafer thin portion of Jazz in Paris selections to my order. This is 2 days after placing an order of just Jazz in Paris selections. I added Brownie's suggested overlooked gem - Clarinettes A Saint Germain Des Pres, and the Lucky Thompson With Dave Pochonet. Oh my, and one more, Bernard Peiffer's La Vie En Rose. OK, that's it for the year!

Got a reply from the trader, and he's agreed to do a trade for the 11/78 show some time early next year. Holidays and all. Perhaps tomorrow I'll find out if anyone else knows of any local recordings that exist. Regarding this, if I don't post a follow up just assume I didn't hear of anything. But I'll gently remind my friend mentioned earlier not to take too much time in investigating his lead.

If it makes you feel any better, or um, more confused, I spotted one used cutout copy of each of the titles from the past 2 batches of RVGs at a local store. It was too late for me to take advantage of that offer. So many of the Blue Notes, both the older issues and more recent RVG & Conns are available as cutouts at Dusty Groove that I think something else is going on rather than titles going OOP. At least I hope so!

I got a reply from the local who I thought might be the best shot. He had been wondering about Salgado & Cray recordings recently as well. His reply in part: "Curtis played front man for a band called The Nighthawks in the early 70's with Robert Cray on lead guitar and Richard Cousins on bass. They played Taylors, Duffy's, Murphy's and I seem to remember them playing the Black Forest (although those were some really heavy party days and my memories are pretty muddled). Salgado left the band with the name Nighthawks, and Cray formed the Robert Cray Band. Salgado stayed in Eugene while Cray moved to Portland. They occasionally played gigs together here in Eugene as The Crayhawks..." Several months ago he was talking with a friend about whether any early recordings existed, and it was suggested that he talk to someone in town who has a recording studio and was playing back then. He has yet to get in touch with this person however. I have 2 other possible leads. 1) There is a fellow who sometimes shows up at the trader meetings who played drums with a band that often shared the bill with Curtis. In fact I think he played with Curtis a few times. He has a such a large LP collection that he has to keep it in 3 different U-Storage facilities, and thus can't afford an apartment so he lives in one of his storage units. (This is normal behavior in Eugene.) There is a chance he may have something on tape, although the logistics of him showing up on Tuesday, and showing up sober, and then being able to find such tapes and then having someone else transfer them to CDR seems like about a 1000-1 shot. 2) I think I might be able to get a hold of the recording mentioned in my 1st post. One of the people who has it on etree is a local. I have stuff that seems up his alley, but I've never traded with him before. I'll shoot him an e-mail and see how busy he is 'round this holiday season. It may take a week or so (if he's willing) given the closeness to Christmas. If I do get a copy I'll let you know and send it your way. I'll let you know what happens either way.

Way to go & well deserved! And Happy New Year!

Along with myself there are at least 2 other Eugeneans on the O. I arrived in late '86 but the stories of Cray playing the smaller bars and Animal House tales were still being told. I don't know of anything circulating around town, and I've seen nothing of Cray's from this period being passed around at a weekly trader's gathering. There is a show listed on some etree trading lists from late November 1978. It's a FM broadcat with A to A- sound quality. This falls in the period when Curtis was in the band. People who have the show on etree link. Robert Cray Community Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR 11/??/78 FM Intro Hard Times Move On Back Darlin' Losing Hand Where Can A Man Go? Soothe Me In The Night Times Are Gettin Tougher Up & Jumping Time Early One Morning I'm Gonna Cry Don't Lose Your Cool I'll shoot an e-mail over to a local old-timer & trader and see if he knows of anything. I don't hold too much hope, but it's worth a shot.

File under great moments in stupidity, but I discovered last week that I had filed Braxton's For Alto between Air & Fred Anderson. I might need a breathalyzer near my shelves to see if I'm fit for filing duties, although sometimes this sort of thing happens when completely sober too.

An example that really isn't that difficult, but I've fun with in the past involves all of the Mulligan parings. For awhile when I owned no Mulligan I filed Monk Meets Mulligan under Mulligan, just so I'd have something there. Now it's back in the Monk section. The Konitz with Mulligan has always been in the K section, but I do file the Mulligan Meets Hodges release with Mulligan, since Gerry is meeting Johnny, not the other way around. I mainly brought up the above in that I always keep in mind the possibility that Mulligan might accidentally, or on purpose, be filed with anyone he ever met in his life. A bit of wine and anything can happen! Assorted Konitz & Marsh pairings also seem obvious enough, and as they are almost neighbors on the shelf it isn't worrisome. Movie soundtracks I tend to file under whoever I deem to be the star of the soundtrack. All of my current discs are obvious (such as Ascenseur pour lechafaud), but I do have the Jazz In Paris "Jazz Et Cinema Vol. 1" coming in the mail which may necessitate a "various" filing at the end of the shelf. Or maybe it will go with Wilen. As far as the eternal "is it jazz" question, for whatever reason I stuck my Sinatra in the "all other music that isn't jazz" section, so he's neighbors with Sly rather than hanging amongst the preponderance of RVG spines in Shorter, Silver & Smith land.

I was supposed to be taking a break from ordering. But seeing as I already had a text file full of recommendations about this series from a past thread, I had to pick up a few. Don Byas - En Ce Temps-la Don Byas - Laura Kenny Clarke - Plays Andre Hodeir Sonny Criss - Mr. Blues Pour Flirter Andre Hodeir - Jazz & Jazz Bobby Jaspar - Modern Jazz au Club Saint Germain Django Reinhardt - Nuits De St. Germain Pres Lucky Thompon - Modern Jazz Group Jazz Et Cinema Vol. 1 Twice before I have ordered the Django listed above only to have it cancelled, but this time it's shipping! I only own half a dozen as I've had a hard time finding them in stock and at a nice price. The ones I have include the Blakey, Getz, Wilen's Jazz Sur Seine, Lester Young and 2 other Django's. It was tough not order more but I've been a bit out of control of late. But I'm going to try not to buy anything until next year. Ugh, that's 12 days, I'm already starting to feel itchy.

No problems with Firefox 1.0 for Mac on AMG during the past couple of weeks. I can longer remember what's different about it from 0.9, but it was a quick download.

I got my order in today. That was the first one I put in. The title says it all. And my oh my, Charle Shavers on trumpet will blow your socks off. I never would have found this one on my own. Thanks.