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Great choice. Maria's really underrated-- as is her ex.

Saw her last year. She was still great.

Well you were honest enough to say "imo" instead of "imho".

And your reason is.....? A debate about Apple and their skinning 30% off every music sale, and other things, would certainly derail the thread - and my issues are not entirely related to music. So I don't think such a debate would be fruitful. People who use Apple and like them will be pro - people like me anti. I can ssure you though, I will never buy an Apple product or service, so it's not an option for me. I hope you understand - I'm not avoiding the issue, it's just that I can predict the path any debate would take. It wasn't a rhetorical question. I'm seriously curious about your reasons. Apple's 30% is (I think) less than most brick and mortar stores take.

And your reason is.....?

Wow that Little Richard Lp brings back memories. I never owned it, but a friend did and we played it over and over again. I did have the first two Elvis Lps and 2 out of 3 of the Eps culled from the first Fats Domino Lp. And then I think I never bought anything but jazz until around 1967.

I remember Lorne Michaels offering the Beatles $10,000 or some other small amount to perform on SNL and said they could split it anyway they want if they didn't think Ringo should get a full share.

Disney Hall seems pretty great to me though the only time I heard classical music there I was sitting behind the orchestra. It was great. John Adams who was conducting played air violin.

I saw him recently at the LA Palladium. He was great. I think he's having more fun now than he would with Zep.

Monk & Joe Turner!! Where did this come from? (I saw Turner play once at a press party during the Cannes Film Festival. Everyone pretty well ignored him. I'd never head of him at the time but I remember thinking that he was the real thing.

Belated Birthday Blessings. (Anything for alliteration.)

Every time I see this topic I briefly think it's about the Jean Renoir film of this title that is equally hard to come by.

I'm pretty sure that Criterion doesn't own a piece of Hulu. Hulu has just licensed the films from Criterion and eventually their license will expire. (Though they may renew it.)

OK I found out. Art House is just the film without any of the bonus materials.

They're basically the same. Janus Films is the majority owner of The Criterion Collection. (Of which. I'm proud to say that I was one of the founders back in the Laser Disc days-- I've nothing to do with it today.) The Essential Art House releases may have fewer bells and whistles but I presume they're using the same transfers. I'll try to find out.

I think it means you still pay for your membership but get a credit for that amount to wards whatever you purchase. But I'm not sure it can be used against downloads or only merchandise.

Here's a link I found. If you like this (and I think it's great) I highly recommend the 3 DVDs released documenting The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 which seems to be from similar concerts from a different tour. There also seems to be a Italian release that I suspect is a bootleg which seems to have taken stuff from all 3 DVDs and the British broadcast. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=american%20folk%20blues%20festival&sprefix=american+folk%2Cmovies-tv%2C211

Illinois Jacquet playing Round Midnight on Bassoon.

I don't think I got that e-mail.

According to Amazon my copy should arrive tomorrow. (And by the way I met Ingrid Caven once.)

As a concept they could have announced the album, had friends review it and never actually record it. If anyone wanted to buy it they could have claimed it was OOP.

And I wish it would rain.......

I've always been curious about the Pennebaker archive. IIRC he once said of the 1966 Dylan tour of the UK that he'd given the negatives to Dylan and Howard Alk and they'd cut it to pieces for Eat That Document. Then I read somewhere about him saying that he had it all buried in his backyard. Then with no explanation it showed up the the Scorcese documentary about Dylan. He had a realistic sense of the importance of what he's shot. I remember him once saying that if something interesting was happening he would run off and shoot it whether or not he was making a film on the topic. Now, of course, everything is captured on an iPhone or a security cameral, but Penny was there before it was easy.

I was there.

Bon anniversaire! (Or whatever it is in French.)