Shawn

The primary target audience for jazz is the same age group that still buys CDs.

Excellent new song "Eternal Rains Will Come" from Pale Communion. The progressive rock tendencies continue to dominate and the vocal harmonies (arranged by Mikael & Steven Wilson) are a new wrinkle to their ever-evolving sound. Release date for Pale Communion is 8/25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0B26wv22ao

Exactly, an "album" is just a collection of items (photos, songs) and is not tied to any particular format. LP (in the states) is only used to describe a long-playing vinyl record.

Huh?! What brought this on? Not only did I not mention anything about Jazz, but I don't even disagree with this statement. Obviously it was a poor attempt at humor on my part.

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One of the times I saw him and Dr. Lonnie Smith were the backing band for one of those "young lion" tenor players that I've completely forgotten by this point in time. All I remember about the show was watching Lonnie & Idris lock into an almost supernatural groove. I'm not sure I even looked at the tenor player the entire night!

I'll be morbidly curious to see how it differs from what is already being sold which is pretty much anything imagined (baby clothes, bike jerseys, etc.). But the fact that it'll be sold in Bloomingdales is so very weird. I still find it strange to see spinning racks of Hendrix and Bob Marley incense sticks packaged, as to me I imagine the smell of death or pot. I don't think that's what they're going for, but I never bothered to read the flavors. The only reason to burn incense is to cover up the smell of pot, so I'm sure the scents are something different.

I got to see Idris a couple times at Jazz Alley in Seattle back in the 90s, what a phenomenal player. I have to admit that I'm a huge fan of the late 60s soul and funk jazz and there was nobody better to propel those sessions.

Jazz is pretty much extinct as it ever will be. It is a microscopic market for the few who still enjoy the style. But it will never go away 100%. Sorry, if the shoe fits... In the grand scheme of things LPs might be a "microscopic market" but it's still on a major upswing. In 1993 less than one million LPs were sold...in 2013 that number had increased to over 6 million. No other physical format is increasing, the rest are declining rapidly.

No room for squares. In 1968 if you were wearing a suit, you were.

As far as I'm concerned Garner was about as hip as you can be. I used to watch Rockford Files when I was a kid and he was an early hero of mine.

The Mac Mini (which is what I have) uses HDMI to output digital stereo & multichannel audio. Here are the specs from Apple's support page. Which type of audio works with Macs using HDMI? Apple supports 8-channel, 24-bit audio at 192kHz, Dolby Surround 5.1, and traditional stereo output. http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

What? There are just as many hi-quality audio options available from Macs as PCs. In a side by side comparison my Mac sounds just as good as a transport as my Sony blu-ray player does.

Spotify is a different animal than Pandora. Spotify has entire albums, so you can either listen to an entire record or make your own playlists or discover via their programmed playlists (more like Pandora). Radio has really never been my thing, I don't want someone else choosing what I'm going to listen to, I'd rather program that myself, so Spotify works for me whereas I found Pandora annoying. For a Pandora station to work for me it would have to feature "schizophrenic stations" where it's a mix of jazz, progressive rock and heavy metal with occasional forays into classical, folk, blues, funk and movie soundtracks.

Cool, thanks for the elaboration.

Is it "total crap" because it's poorly done, or because it's a horror series? I'm planning on checking it out but will probably wait until it completes so I can watch the whole season together in one shot.

I like Pharrell's tune, I like Weird Al's parody. You can keep the outfits.

Wikipedia is good enough for most things, I don't think I've visited the Allmusic site in several years.

They also just published this follow up: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/classic-rock-started-with-the-beatles-and-ended-with-nirvana/ Thanks for posting those, the era that classic rock radio covers is just about what I mentioned earlier, kind of really kicking into gear in 1967, peaking around 1973 with the majority of the plays being between the years 1973 and 1982. I remember being surprised when I first heard Metallica on a classic rock station, but hey, the advertisers have a target audience to reach and I can understand why they are there and why Nirvana is there. However, the first article also brings to light the fatal flaw of the classic rock radio format...how narrow the band and song choices are. The top 25 artists account for almost 60% of everything played on classic rock radio. To me that's truly depressing considering the sheer amount of great rock music that came out in the 1970s. What's even more depressing is that most of the time these stations play the same 5 or 6 songs by these artists over and over, you're not going to hear any deep cuts, any hidden album gems, any b-sides...only the most over-played hits. According to classic rock radio Deep Purple only recorded the song Smoke On The Water, that is their entire catalog...Jimi Hendrix only recorded about 5 songs, Black Sabbath recorded 2 songs, Blue Oyster Cult recorded 2 songs, Kansas recorded 2 songs, Fleetwood Mac recorded 3 songs, etc, etc.

I wouldn't call it a cult following. Black Sabbath have been widely considered the first true heavy metal band and have been basically accepted by each new generation since the early 70s. In the 80s when I was a teenager all my friends knew Black Sabbath, many of us liked both the Ozzy and Dio eras. While I was in college in the 90s they had been "reappraised" by critics because of their influence on the Seattle scene, Soundgarden in particular owed a large portion of their sound to Tony Iommi. At the end of the 90s they reunited with Ozzy and went on several tours where they were discovered by a whole new generation of fans. They just played Hyde Park a couple weeks ago... Back to the classic rock radio format for a second. It's not just "hard rock", you're also going to hear lots of Steely Dan, Eagles, Elton John, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, Neil Young, Yes, ELP, ELO, Steve Miller, The Doobie Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Genesis, etc. Essentially everything "not pop" from the late 60s, 70s and early 80s.

I think he was talking more about the nature of programming on US classic rock radio than just Pink Floyd. I completely understand because I've gone through periods of my life where I was burned out on a lot of rock, especially the bands most frequently played on classic rock radio. The cure (for me) was getting into jazz and taking a really long break from a lot of the most-played artists. Eventually I tested the waters and realized my burnout had passed and I started getting back into rock again.

and the aging classic rock audience!

I'm finding it really hard to believe that 11 years have gone by since I joined...which makes the old BNBB seem like ancient history. Thanks for putting up with me for over a decade.

Personally I consider "classic rock" to be 1967 to 1980 or thereabouts. I know some people would go back farther but I think it really starts with Sgt Peppers and the beginning of "album rock". Nowadays classic rock stations tend to go further into the 1980s, at least I suppose, I haven't listened to the radio in years.