Shawn

It definitely has, by leaps and bounds. I use Exact Audio Copy to rip to .wav file and then use Razorlame to convert to .mp3 at the highest possible variable bit rate. I've then A/B compared the compressed and uncompressed files and can rarely hear any difference whether on headphones or through the speakers.

Agreed. The people that own $10,000 to $20,000 stereo systems are probably not looking forward to them, but that's a pretty minute demographic I imagine.

I agree. This is going to be a real snoozer of a Super Bowl. That's the exact same thing they said about the Wild Card round, the Divisional Round and the Conference Championship game...guess who won all 3?

The wild card in this game will be Whisenhut and his familiarity with the Steelers.

When this film came out in 1987, it could have been made about my group of friends (although we didn't kill anyone). Lost, small-town outcasts, only connected by how we didn't fit in with anyone else other than ourselves...scared of life, scared of growing up...and full of misplaced anger and resentment. The soundtrack made it even more authentic, bypassing the conventional wisdom of the time...it focused on primarily underground metal and punk bands...groups that sang about the same issues we shared. Slayer, Hallow's Eve, Fates Warning, Agent Orange, etc. To us, it was REAL. Although I'm no longer the same person (well, of course part of me is)...I still have every frame of this film in my head and every riff and lyric to each song is forever etched in my mind.

To be fair though, the Giants offensive line was a disaster that season...once Eli took over they didn't win a game until the last one of the season. No quarterback can perform when they're getting creamed on every play.

Interesting. I've always admired him (aside from his overtly religious outpourings)...talk about coming up the hard way...Arena League, NFL Europe, backup...and now going to his 2nd Super Bowl. Never count out the old quarterbacks....

CARDINALS BABY!!!!

I'm a Turrentine fanboy...but "Always Something There" is by far my least favorite album he recorded for Blue Note.

This is just my "guess", but these are most likely "Image Files" of the originally released CD...that way they only have to store a single file and burning is very quick. I can't see them wasting time doing anything else. Image files are exactly the same as the original CD...even the table of contents is identical.

I'll take that challenge...won't promise I'll stick to jazz...but I'll do it. There is no reason a 38 year old single person should live like a damn hermit (I'm talking about myself).

I remember the first time I went looking for Bud's Jazz Records I walked around for quite awhile before I finally found it! The guy carried more Steeplechase CDs than any other store I've ever seen. Damn shame it's gone.

Happy Birthday Cedar!

God Bless Chewy!

I agree with all of the above, an excellent session! The kind of album that was almost completely extinct during that era of Blue Note.

The Bucs fired Jon Gruden and the general manager. Jim Schwartz new head coach of the Detroit Lions. The big question now is who is Al Davis going to abuse next?

There's a pretty hip little segment in Follow The Fleet (Astaire/Rogers) that takes place in the engine room of a ship (a very hollywood version of an engine room)...that's from 1937 I believe. You might also want to check out some of those wartime flicks like "Hollywood Canteen".

Elvin Jones - Disc 1

Suggestions needed: Genesis What's the best place to start with the Peter Gabriel era? I've actually never owned a single Genesis album.

I purchased my first CD burner in 1997, I still have the very first CDR I made and it plays perfectly, in fact I've never had a CDR "go bad" (unless it got badly scratched).

Nice to hear they are still open. I worked at Disc Go Round on Broadway while going to college, it was a fun neighborhood back in those days.

Great!

In Austin there is Waterloo of course...which is kind of an annoying store but they do get some good used stuff. My store of choice here is Encore Music & Video, the guy that runs it is very cool and I like throwing business his way. They also stock alot of obscure import horror & genre movies which gives them extra credit in my book.

What Chuck said. 1's and 0's are 1's and 0's.

My favorite performance of his was the warden in Escape From Alcatraz.