Shawn

Sad to see them go, but CDs are WAY down the priority list for me at the time being. In fact, the collector bug died several years ago.

Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean

No kidding! I'd buy that one immediately.

Happy Birthday!!!

One night I was flipping stations in the car and one of the local stations played "Into The Void" by Black Sabbath...I almost fainted dead away.

LOL Classic Rock radio (as opposed to Oldies) seems to have about 250 songs to choose from, the only 250 songs recorded during the late 60's/early 70's evidently. So if you do get lucky enough to hear a band you like, it's going to be the one song you're tired of. Picking an album track must be immediate cause for termination, because only singles really exist in this "other world". It's one of the reasons why I haven't listened to the radio since the early 90's.

He should hang out with Steven Tyler, they have that in common.

Whoever edited this video together needs to be hired by somebody.... Slayer and Baptists!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPwA6F_P9k&

On a side note. I did see a woman "not get hired" by a manager once because she was too attractive, he said "none of the staff will be able to focus on their jobs if I hire her". At first I thought he was joking, but he was serious. She was the most qualified candidate and didn't get hired because of curves. So it's not outside of the realm of reality.

Exile is a record I've never been able to take in a single sitting, but I do like specific tracks from it. I've never really warmed up to the Stones, I like quite a few songs but have never felt the need to really "collect" them. As far as I'm concerned, the old 2-LP vinyl collection "Hot Rocks" had the majority of what I wanted by them. The only disc I currently own is the original CD issue of Let It Bleed.

My Mother bought me my first CD player for Christmas 1987, along with 5 CDs. I had actually been buying mostly cassettes by that point because I wanted "car music" and I think my Kenwood turntable bit the dust around the same time. Thus a Denon CD player took it's place and I started collecting seriously in '88 (I seem to remember the LP sections shrinking to nothing around that point or maybe a year later). I initially didn't think the sound was that great, being un-thrilled with stuff I re-purchased from vinyl. So I stuck to mostly buying new titles for awhile. I didn't start seriously re-buying my vinyl collection until the first round of remasters started coming out in the mid 90's.

Wes Montgomery - Complete Riverside Recordings Listening to the "Moving Along" session right now.

Damn, this one hurts. What I loved about Hopper was that he never used a net, he just tightroped his way through his career...sometimes falling to the ground, sometimes soaring above the rest. One of his must enjoyable recent performances is the crazy billionaire who owns the exclusive condo complex in George Romero's Land Of The Dead.

Same theory applies to loose women picked up in bars.

Robin Trower discusses his current guitar/pedal/amp setup from his most recent tour. The album "What Lies Beneath" is pretty awesome by the way, Trower fans should pick it up.

How low can you possibly go, picketing a man's funeral? Come on.

I picked about 4 hours per day. Usually that's about an hour in the morning before I go into work, and another 3 during the course of the evening when I get home. On days off it still ends up being about the same once I add errands and stuff into the mix. As for "serious listening", I'm ALWAYS multi-tasking when playing music, I'm too antsy by nature to just SIT STILL and do nothing but listen, but I'm used to that so it doesn't distract me.

The Hidden Hand - Mother Teacher Destroyer - 2-LP 45RPM (Sunn36 - Southern Lord Records)

I think it was one of the most graceful and beautiful endings I've seen on Television...of course the series never felt like a TV show, it felt like life. Too many great moments to even count during that episode, it was a huge emotional release that I think the audience needed as much as the characters did. They needed to let go, we need to let go. A show that played by it's own rules during the entire run and ended with the same integrity it began with. That crane shot showing Vincent laying beside Jack as he died, that about wiped me out. The "remembrance" between Sawyer & Juliette was another very intense scene. I can't wait for this to come out on blu ray so I can watch the entire Season all the way through with no commercials. I think the "flash-sideways" segments will play even better now that we know the context. Kind of like going back and watching season 5 "knowing" that Locke is the Smoke Monster, it gives a totally different spin to his scenes. I've never been a big fan of mini-series or episodic television, I've always been a movie guy. But LOST really impressed me, took me on a journey I didn't think TV could take me to.

not in the slightest.

As quite a few have mentioned, I think you naturally tend to pay more attention to alternates of albums/songs that you really love. Going through a collection and listening to only the alternates sounds like a fun experiment, a little "alternate universe" trip. I added a "none of the above" selection to the poll.

As I sit here this evening listening to No Room For Squares, the alternate take of the title track comes on and Mobley's solo almost scared me. That got me to thinking that over the years I've really never spent any serious time listening to alternates on CD reissues or box sets for that matter. I'll usually play them a couple times but invariably end up listening to the master takes most of the time. So I'm thinking about going through my entire collection and listening to only alternate takes. Because I have a feeling it will be an enlightening experience...and because I'm bored as hell.

I've spun it quite a few times, I love it. I find it to be a more satisfying release than South Saturn Delta, that one was SO schizophrenic that it just didn't make sense. Valleys flows nicely and as many have mentioned, the version of Red House on here is CRUSHING.

Nah. Kids don't need to be exposed to Art or Music or anything culturally significant. Just make sure they can pass those math and english tests (which they keep lowering the standards of) so they can pump them through the system as quickly as possible...there are numerous positions available at the local Wal-mart they might even qualify for.