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Damn, wish I had the money to order some from Newbury. But I just got hammered with a $600 car repair bill...I'll be lucky to eat let alone buy discs.

It's actually the syrup in coke that settles your stomach. They used to sell coke syrup at drug stores, my Grandmother used to give it to me as a kid, you ate it with a spoon mixed with crushed ice.

Thanks for the tips! I'm starting to get the hang of this thing...and I'm digging it.

I agree. In a way I'm glad I didn't see her, cancer's terrible. Don't get me wrong, I agree that cancer is a horrible thing and nobody deserves that type of fate (including my father who passed away a couple years ago from lung cancer).

Would Bill Evans "Conversations with Myself" qualify as a duo recording?

I saw some clips of her on Larry King recently...she looked like she'd been dead for a few years already. Only 60 pounds...but still wearing tons of makeup, which made it even more hideous. I shed no tears for evangelists...

Triple shot tall latte. Still feeling the effects of Saturday night's Bacardi binge...

courtesy of George Carlin... Drivers to avoid... Any old man wearing a hat. Any old woman so short you can only see her knuckles on the steering wheel.

Okay, so I'm staying with friends and they have a Mac, I haven't touched one in about 10 years. So a couple stupid questions to start with... What replaces a "right click"? How do I get links to pictures, etc? Can a Mac read documents created in Microsoft Word? many more later I'm sure... Thanks in advance!

Nice thread! First up a 45 that I discovered as a 4 year old and was on my way to being a music fanatic. The Beatles - Hey Jude/Revolution. I still remember being utterly fascinated by Hey Jude and the way that it kept building and building and building in intensity. Then there was that distorted guitar riff/scream at the beginning of Revolution, I immediately wanted to hear more. American Graffiti Soundtrack. An album purchased as a "peace offering" by my Stepfather for my 5th birthday. We had NOTHING in common before this album...and it was also just about the last thing we ever had in common. I loved almost every minute of this. The first time I heard Wolfman Jack, he made quite an impression. My favorite tracks were: Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey), The Stroll (Diamonds), Ain't That A Shame (Fats Domino), I Only Have Eyes For You (Flamingos), Chantilly Lace (Big Bopper), Green Onions (Booker T). Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits Another album I got at age 5. I heard "Black Water" on the radio and bugged my Mother until she took me to the store to buy it. The funky guitar riff in "Road Angel" inspired me to pick up an old tennis racket, hold it like a guitar and ROCK OUT! (this track still has me looking for that tennis racket). Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon The first album that literally transported me to a better place (away from stepfathers, school bullies, etc). Started a love affair with progressive rock that continues to this day. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast/Metallica - Kill 'em All (tie) - These two albums inspired me to run out and buy a bass guitar (and then switch to guitar a few years later). Metal dominated my listening for the next 10 years. John Coltrane - Blue Train The first jazz CD that I absolutely HAD to purchase as soon as I heard it in a record store. I remember playing it over and over and over for an entire weekend...and then running back to the store to find more albums that inspired me to the same degree. Miles Davis - Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet This was my first Miles purchase and started me off on a hunt for as much Miles as I could get..and Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers..etc..etc.

It's short, but it's a MUST HAVE! Worth picking up for the track Riff Raff alone...Wilbur Ware baby!

Johnny Griffin & A.T. Griff in full flight.

You don't have to train cats, just show her where it is, plop her down in it...she'll take care of the rest. That's why cats are so awesome...LOW MAINTENANCE!

There was a lot of weird crap done to albums originally issued in England then reissued in the states. Look at the Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced example. The British version of the first Black Sabbath album contains "Evil Woman", while the track "Wicked World" was substituted for the US release. The British version of Deep Purple's Fireball contains the track "Demons Eye", the American version substitutes "Strange Kind Of Woman". The thing with Rubber Soul is that I got used to hearing it in it's original (US) form, I've never been able to adjust to the CD version. I'll check out that box set one of these days...

Up with price reductions.

That's a great one! Man...$100...stuff gets inflated fast when it goes out of print. Another vote for Lord, Lord Am I Ever Gonna Know?. The opening monologue is rather haunting viewed with hindsight...the session is fabulous as well. This Fresh Sound CD is also excellent...

Thanks!

Believe it or not I've never heard Caravanserai, guess I need to change that, huh?! I only own the first 3 Santana albums.

Now is it the chest hair or the sweat that makes it ugly ...... Both...

I had Rubber Soul on vinyl when I was a kid, my favorite track was "I've Just Seen A Face" which I believe was the first track on side one. In the CD era I got Rubber Soul as a Christmas present and was severely dissapointed that the song was nowhere to be found. Then I discovered it was one of the last tracks on the CD of Help. Was that a difference between the US and UK versions of the album? Which version had "I've Just Seen A Face" on it? Thanks.

I too love the way the Mies Columbia boxes are presented...a little difficult to read sometimes but nice pieces to own. However, I had to take back my first copy of the BB set because after a few months of sitting on the shelf, the glue paper sleeves had lost adhesion and the glue was all over the CDs ---- every single one was unplayable at some point on the disc. That Impulse Coltrane quartet set is an awkward bugger though. I have an unplayable disc 2 in my Davis/Coltrane set...due to glue. That was the last one of those I bought.

Once again, I must reiterate that ignoring the past just so we can feel more "comfortable" in the present is a horrible fucking idea. When I was a child my favorite stories were the Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus stories. These are widely considered to be "racist" these days and are often hard to find in stores unless you special order them. Hell, Disney still hasn't re-issued Song Of The South because of this. I must say that reading these stories as a 4 year old didn't give me any racist views whatsoever. As an adult wanting to re-visit these stories I was shocked when a lady at Tower Books told me they were only available by special order. She seemed offended by the fact that I even WANTED to own these works. I bet you $500 she never read one of them...she's just assuming they are bad because someone told her. That's what happens when you don't investigate shit for yourself, you end up ignorant and you increase the problem with every person you mention your false beliefs to. When I was in my early twenties I became a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, got hooked on his stuff. There's ALOT of racist sentiment in his stories (not all, but it's a recurring theme). Being a sensible adult I realized this was due to the time it was written and I filed that information away appropriately. Did I stop reading his stories because of this? No. Because I was into them for their sci-fi/horror elements...not for the social commentary of a pathetic Anglophile with limited social skills. If we don't have the perspective of the past...the TRUE past...not the "safe for general fucking consumption" version of the past...how are we supposed to really understand our place in society and how we came to where we are today. And by the way...I don't consider myself a member of the "white" race. I'm a member of the human race. Period.

You can't change history, pretending it doesn't exist makes it no less real. Sometimes being exposed to things that upset us is a healthy thing, it makes us think about where we've come from and still need to go. This applies to all things in life, not just race. Censoring art, books, movies, albums...this does nothing but obscure the history of our human culture...and we all know how humans behave once their imagination kicks in.

The Heavyweight Champion. Love that set. The discs are nicely contained in sturdy digipaks, the booklet is easy to read and well constructed, plus there's the cool tape reel box for the bonus disc. It's nice to handle a set that doesn't seem fragile, one that's actually USABLE and a booklet you can read, unlike the Miles metal boxes.

Burrell, Green & Kessel Kenny Burrell, Grant Green & Barney Kessel. I need to get this video...