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That seems to be how every concert ends nowadays. I can't remember if he ever did encores (I first saw him about 1970). Anyone remember one? Here's Van back on Cypress Avenue:

I think I'll keep my cds and my hard disc backup of music on my computer but I can see streaming music and "capturing" rare material that I worry might disappear.

I saw him a couple of years ago and was just as enthralled as I was the first time I saw him nearly 50 years ago. I saw him about 5 times in between and I don't think I ever saw him do an encore though the band keeps playing as if he might reappear.

Happy B'day!

Happy B'day young man.

I feel the same way. And I also think Brooks is great.

So did Isaac Stern (well at least he had an office there) and Bill Cunningham.

Just as his best playing reminds me of Pres in his prime, some of his latter day playing reminds me of what I consider Pres in his decline. (And I know some here don't think Pres was ever in decline.) It sounds like there was even later playing that shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Lester.

Wow! Who knew?

Moondance!? Wow I 'd love to hear that.

Was My Blue Heaven the flip side of I'm in Love Again or was it just out around the same time? And how did you avoid hearing Rock Around the Clock in 1955?

Going back to the original question: Am I the only one here who remembers "the days before rock n' roll"? (As I think VanMorrison once sang.) In the summer of 1955 there was nothing intellectual about it-- it was like being hit by a bolt of lightening. In the summer of 1956 adults were still arguing about whether rock and roll would last and I had an epiphany: I was in a restaurant when someone put Elvis singing "Don't be Cruel" on the juke box and I realized that not only would Rock and Roll last but in 50 years we'd still be listening to many of the same songs.

IIRC it was originally released in the UK as two EPs. Is the cd based on the US Lp release?

Not "Let it Bleed" or "Sticky Fingers"?

I remember listening to his his first MLB game on the radio. IIRC he got 4 hits and I was thinking "who is this guy?"

For some strange reason my parents had an 8 track player as part of their Hi Fi cabinet and a few 8 tracks as well.

Do you mean you actually had the turntable in your car or that you recorded the Lps to tape and then played them back in your car?

Wow. No one's accused me of that in a while.

White enough to get in trouble during the LA riots until he was recognized. (And of course yo might well asl "which LA riots" there's been so many.

Which reminds me that before cars had cd players they usually had cassette players. You could buy a portable cd player and attach it to a device that somehow wired the player to a cassette mechanism that you then inserted into the cassette player to listen to the cd. Anyine else remember these?

What's this in response to?

Which one are you missing?

Happy B'day!

When I moved to Toronto in 1965 John Norris was in charge of the Jazz Section of Sam's. That was how I met him.

Finally over.