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There are roughly 60 artist discographies at JazzDiscography.com, the site that Michael Fitzgerald is associated with. Also many more "leader" discographies as well. You'll see a few non-jazz names like Dusty Springfield on there, but that's a case of someone using the nifty Brian program to create it, and as the program is part of the site's mission those are included too. We all remember Mr. Fitzgerald as being meticulous don't we?

I actually saw this jump. Anybody else have this toy as a kid? I didn't, but a younger kid down the street did. We older kids suggested all kinds of cool things for Evel to jump. I don't think Casey's toy Evel will ever show up on eBay, as that toy may have suffered more injuries than the real thing.

White zin with polka? Why ruin good polka?

WOW! I'd like a pint of that! Glad to hear she's recovered so speedily!

Does this include the song "Drowned"? Or "Sea & Sand"? Side three I have some love for, but nothing I'd rather hear before other Who material. I forgot to mention how much I love "Bell Boy," completely outta character for Moon but heartfelt (and believeable) nonetheless! Side 3 is the one that gets the non(Quad)believers. Even though I've seen it a hundred times or more, watching Moon try to sing "Bell Boy" live with the headphones off & on between the drumming duties still makes me smile. I think it's on the old live Maximum R & B video comp.

Does this include the song "Drowned"? Or "Sea & Sand"? Check out the wonderful Secret Policeman's Ball acoustic version of "Drowned" sometime. This was during his Remy Martin stage, though he was sober for this song. Or at least not shitface drunk. He played "Drowned" & "Pinball" acoustic, then went backstage. A bottle of Remy was in his dressing room as a thanks for doing the benefit. He was to perform "Won't Get Fooled Again" later with guitarist John Williams. He downed the whole bottle while waiting. Ends up he briefly "fell asleep" sitting on a stool while playing the song onstage with Williams. The editors of the movie were too kind and edited it out, so it's a little jarring when you see it. Yup. Semi-relatedly I didn't fully appreciate, or er, understand the solo song "Slit Skirts" off of Chinese Eyes until many years after its release. I think our dancer (not "Helpless" - Quad reference) JSngry mentioned James Brown Who covers earlier, though as I've been out drinking, I could be wrong. Sure, there's love for it. I have the US, the UK, and the deluxe CD flavors. I find something to love off of all of them, some more than others, and then there's solo albums that rate highly for me - Rough Mix, Who Came 1st, Empty Glass. Plus Entwistle's Whistle Rhymes (with Peter Frampton) which every 5 years or so I give a spin. It works as a dark comedy album. Follow that with a few cuts from Smash Your Head & a few of his others. There's a reason he only wrote 1-2 songs per album. Moon's I just have for the optional covers (bought used for $2.50 25+ years ago), and I can't say I've played McVicar (my token Daltrey) since sometime in the early '80s.

Not really. I don't usually post what's in my queue as I use yourmusic in many different ways. Sometimes I'll pick something with the live-in in mind, such as Traffic's "The Low Spark..." (though I like it too.) 2 months ago. Last month it was the Merle 2-fer of "Mama Tried/Pride In What I Am?" Up next is Alejandro Escovedo's "The Boxing Mirror" unless it gets bumped for something else. Some things in the queue are to replace badly scratched old favorites (Neil Young's "Zuma.") Haven't been grabbing much jazz as classical is "newer" for me. I'm probably confusing them by alternating between country & classical picks. I guess the last jazz pick was Andrew Hill's "Compulsion." I've got 48 things in my queue, though many won't be gotten. Some are there just to remind myself to investigate further, others to remind me about gift ideas. I've been having a hankering for some Beethoven string quartets, and saw Chuck's rec regarding the Takacs Quartets. As these are multiple disc sets it'll entail a non-queue purchase. And probably fairly soon - a little gift to myself for finishing holiday shopping perhaps.

I have fond memories of hearing that echoing about in the Checkerdome in St. Louis during the soundcheck. Pete may have hated sports arenas, but the echoey arena made them sound bigger than they by that point in '82. Even fonder memory was that they played "Tattoo" that night. "A rooty toot toot, rooty tooty toot toot, rooty toot toot tattoo too, to you." After hearing the demo of "Daily Records" on one of the Scoops I appreciated the song even more. Kind of funny given the lyrics that he ended up having writer's block shortly thereafter (at least for The Who) for over 20 years.

I've been hearing it blasting from car stereos in Austin the past few days. And then there's the modern day homage - numerous shows appearing on torrent sites. It sure made me not want my MTV. I pictured the dearly departed as being the lead singer from Twisted Sister. And seeing modern shots of DuBrow I thought perhaps it could be the same guy. Took a Google of Twisted Sister to see it wasn't. Apparently I'd do very poorly in the category "'80s Hair Bands" on Jeopardy. But I'm glad I've forgotten!

A real beauty and far too young to pass. You know the saying, time will heal, but that's little help now as time passes too slowly for comfort's sake.

I think if you were there with The Who from the beginning that it would be natural to lose interest by the time Quadrophenia came around (if Tommy didn't do it already.) If the change in style wasn't enough, if you were the type who paid attention to lyrics you were probably too old for the themes in Quad. Getting kicked out of your parents' house, pining after girls in a pitiful manner, and being overly obsessed with fad & fashion (never mind that Mods vs. Rockers wasn't an American thing) is more likely to be absorbed by a teenager, and maybe a few in their early 20s, but not much further than that. So a lot fans who followed the group from '67 or so were too old for that. And then just 2 years later you get a mid-life crisis album from a 33 year old. When you wish to die before you get old you go thru this earlier in life. The Who By Numbers is as much a being-famous-is-miserable album as anything else and full of self-loathing. If you're one to find The Who boring at this stage, Townshend beat you to it, as he was terrified of becoming a "boring old fart." From "They Are All In Love," which didn't get played on stage. Goodbye all you punks Stay young & stay high Hand me my checkbook And I'll crawl off to die Like a woman in childbirth Grown ugly in a flash I've seen magic & fame Now I'm recycling trash God I love that woman in childbirth line. Is it any wonder The Who have so few female fans.

I've never seen The Who mentioned as a hair band influence. I mean, not to get all literal, but only 1 guy in the band had hair that was hair band worthy. Usually the early '80s hair bands claim to be influenced by glam (Bowie, Bolan, the Dolls) and early metal/hard rock (Alice Cooper, Zeppelin, Aerosmith.) I suppose you could put The Who's rock opera habit as influencing some of the Spinal Tap tendencies of the hair bands though.

It has some harsh (or laughably bad, frustrating) edits, especially when it gets into the Tommy section. It may be edit free in the section before, I just can't remember. Almost positive the great version of "Young Man Blues" is complete which is a good 'un.

I was a huge Who-head and Quadrophenia is my favorite, or at least most influential rock album in my life. Though I haven't had to play it much (perhaps just once a year, if that) in the past...well, 20 years as I played it so much as a teen. Still play my Track vinyl, never did bother with remixes (other than the vinyl soundtrack.) That doesn't mean I didn't play Tales From The Who quite a bit during some of the years since. Tommy is a silly story, but just like my mom could sing along to Puccini operas I know all the words to it so can do the same. The Councertgebouw '69 version has long been a favorite, in part because they do "Sally Simpson" which they rarely did as it always threw Daltrey off. As far as sound sameyness, I dunno, never been a problem. Maybe because so much of my listening was live bootlegs during that time, and over the past few years add in DVDs. Of the studio albums that I'm likely to play now it's usually Odds & Sods (as so few songs were done live), The Who By Numbers if I'm feeling alienated, and then probably Sell Out. Speaking of DVDs, some of you may have heard been disappointed that the London Coliseum '69 show wasn't included in the recent Amazing Journey documentary release. It had been promised early on along with the infamous Kilburn '77 show. Ends up the moderator at thewho.com had the following to say recently: Hi, All, A message has come through to me from The Who's management about 'Amazing Journey' and the mysterious 3rd disc... Apparently, the reason the bonus Chicago DVD is not the whole show is that it was remixed from the original 24track tapes and the sound was incomplete on some tracks due to tapes running out on the night being changed. The decision was made not to include tracks from an inferior stereo mix that exists. The Coliseum ('69) and Kilburn ('77) concerts were completed and intended for release as part of Amazing Journey but the releasing partner only wanted to put out a two disc set. Only the Japanese releasing partner wanted the third disc, so they will put it out when they release 'Amazing Journey' next year. The Kilburn and Coliseum shows will be made available to fans at a future date, as well as, possibly, the 2006 Leeds University show. OK? Rob L" Hopefully the "future date" will not be too far out there!

I'm not opposed to compilation sets, in fact I think it will help out the latter years especially. But I agree this set doesn't have the "ooph" that I thought it would as fall '79 does have some powerful moments. I think '79 would have been better represented by releasing 12/28/79 or 10/27/79. 12/28/79 fits on just 2 discs so cost considerations are met, and it's one heck of a show. The nearness of the date to DP 5 (12/26/79) shouldn't be a concern, as the DP series smartly mined mid-to-late Sept. '72 3 times. (And if Road Trips wants to release more from that month, please do! Complete or "best of Waterbury" without cuts, and all of 9/28/72. Chu-ching go their registers!) As the "concept" is so open-ended I'm going to be optimistic. Hey, you gotta be about something right?

I'll have my secretaries change it tomorrow (they're out of office). I'm having this weird craving for a Bloody Mary.

I think I see a pillow crease on the side of his face. He might rest more easily if you let him sleep on his other side tonight. Not that I'm trying to tell you what to do. Happy Thanksgiving...to dem Yuropeans and other nonmerkins too!

I just noticed you've gone on a diet and lard free! (Talking avatars here.) I have lots of Tyvek sleeves with window & flap that I bought for trading & storage. I like how they don't scratch discs, and if you spill water (or booze) on them they hold up. You can also make a 4.75 x 4.75 inch setlist, and if you do it right most if not all can be seen through the window.

Best kind of depends how your brain works. Were it not for the fact that I made & downloaded artwork for so many shows I would go with a space spacing option. Maybe. I have 3 disc shows in normal sized 2 disc cases, 4 disc shows in the fat quads. In rare instances, such as the Hofeinz '72 shows I fit 5 discs into a quad case using a double tray inside. To save some room I've started using the "bags" that allow you to display the cd artwork (including the all important spine) for shows by other bands along with a few 1 disc Dead shows (mostly partials), while keeping the prime Dead in jewel cases. I have one binder for discs but it has no real theme to it. I find that binders aren't much different than discs in Tyvek sleeves in shoeboxes for me (where some "naked" Dead show & many other shows live), in that I'm more likely to look for music that's easier for me to go through. I'm also not sure I trust Case Logic sleeves for anything crucial. I now have a 300 GB external that has been relieved of computer back up duty for music. So far though I'm using it backup for shows (& dvds) I don't want to lose (I loan out a lot of stuff, and discs come back scratched sometimes), but not the primary copy of music. If I was starting over I would tempted to keep all my Dead shows on a drive in FLAC form. Tag the songs with name & date, and play them with (in my case) MacAmp using a line out from the computer to the stereo. I do listen to some music that way, but mainly to check whether the stuff I want off of the Dime & elsewhere is worth saving, or just a "catch & release." I do a lot of the latter nowadays (listen to once or twice, then delete after getting the share ratio up.) I am a firm believer that hard drives will fail, and I'm not ready to commit to having a huge music collection that exists only a hard drive and having to back up that hard drive. I've thought about keeping "lesser" shows on the hard drive, but then I start to wonder why I should devote resources to lesser shows. But hard drives are fairly cheap, and you can sock away a lot of stuff on them. It's up to you to decide how much protection & redundancy you need. Sorry, a lot rambling, probably not much help.

I'm still stubbornly refusing to do so. One, because I've trade for that show 3 times already. Two, I'm still hoping for an official-ized box. If they ever do it may be that the fans may end up having a better sounding copy through unofficial means. Still, the main reason I want the box is to get rid of some cruel cuts on 11-9 & 11-10.

Congrats! Had Utley not gone down it may have been his. I still thought they might take votes away from each other, not that I'm any good at predicting how others vote. Tough choice but I like it. He played every day at SS, he had great numbers, and got better as the season progressed too. Plus he had attitude! (See, I'm not a complete stathead.) Hmm, does any article list the shortest MVP winners? Ah never mind, everybody's favorite to fire former-Hall-of-Fame-player-now-announcer is an inch shorter. ~Edited for clarity

Make sure you check out 8-6-71, and don't let the fact it's an audience scare you off. I'd take audience recordings like the one by Rob Bertrando over soundboards any day! The happy marriage of a great show & great recording. Yeah Doc Rob made one sweet recording that night. The only audience tape to ever see official release, IIRC. Just the "Hard To Handle" on Fallout From The Philzone right? I believe the part of the Houseboat tapes that are from 8-6-71 on DP 35 are soundboard (never did get that one, so I'm not positive.) I've got a SNB of the Dark Star>Attics>Dark Star>Sugar Mag>Dark Star>Kitchen Sink>Dark Star (okay, the 2 are made up) part. While compared to so many great sounding recordings available of the Dead it's very rough but it's nowhere near as bad sounding as advertised. Sure, it could be better, but when you have a sequence that crazy you take what you can get! I faded out in my hyper-obsessive Dead collecting mode before getting to 11/5/70, though it was on the list of things to get to. A couple of fall '71 where Keith joins the band shows were also targeted and not gotten. Someday...I had reached the point where I needed to start listening more rather than collecting more. While AUD patches can be a drag in some shows, there are some I enjoy. I always like the one in the Dark Star>Dew from 9/11/73, because you can feel the excitement from the crowd, especially when the Dew drops. And then it goes back to board - the better to hear the boys. Thanks for the 11/5/70 tip!

Ends up the youngster named to eventually replace Cabrera is a kid named Wood. But they also have Izturis, and the kid I mentioned, and even a couple of other bodies so they wouldn't have to start super-sub Figgins there. So they can throw a lot of wet noodles at the wall & see what sticks! Cabrera has really upped his OBP & hitting the past 2 years. Good thing y'all won another WS, otherwise you'd hear more of the "why did you get rid of him" talk. But the Angels have been very good about developing talent, especially in the infield, and letting the more expensive option go away via free agency (Eckstein) or a trade in this case while the guy has value has happened enough in recent years to almost be called "the Angels way." Cabrera's batting average with runners on & other clutch measures were lights out last year, but if you look at other recent years that hasn't been the case. I think to a certain degree the RBI total was just one of things that's unlikely to be replicated (especially for a sub .400 slugger). Plus Cabrera being involved in big trades is habit forming! It's early too, so there may be more trades & signings to come. They also didn't get much out of Juan Rivera or one of their young third basemen last year due to injuries, and Matthews wasn't available for the playoffs, and Kendrick will just be 25 next year and will likely improve some more, so I don't things are that dire offensively.

Make sure you check out 8-6-71, and don't let the fact it's an audience scare you off. I'd take audience recordings like the one by Rob Bertrando over soundboards any day! The happy marriage of a great show & great recording.

Not sure why you say they have to get a poor fielding great slugging 3rd baseman to replace a SS who hits for average but not power. They've got a kid named Sean Rodriguez who has a bit of pop who they've probably figured is a cheaper alternative at SS. And if he doesn't work out, there's always Figgins. This isn't to say they won't try to make a play for Miguel, it's just the Angels use the farm to feed positions when they can & that may be what they're doing. I think it's also a sign that they have questions about 4 & 5 starters Ervin Santana and Joe Saunders, and rightfully so. Santana took a big step back, with a road ERA over 8 and he missed some starts as well. Perhaps the loss of Bud Black as pitching coach is to partially to blame. Garland has never excited me, but for the past 6 years he's made at least 32 starts, and has 4 years in a row of over 200 innings. Probably better to spend 10 million on that kind of pitching than 8.5 million on Orlando Cabrera.