Jim Dye

Wow, AB! That Chained cover is outstanding! impossible, I really liked your takes on the Mothership cover. Especially the first one.

I just had a couple of odd pictures that I found online and tried to incorporate them into a cover. They didn't really have anything to do with the artists or recording date. I just thought it would be an interesting challenge. I'm going to play around with Photoshop some more tonight when I get home from work. I find it very relaxing.

I'm diggin' that 1800's looking font, AB. It goes very well with the train!

I was going to use a picture like this But now there is really no point after Sangrey's interpretation. Yowza!

B) B) B) B) LOL!!! B) B) B) B) You guys are too much!

I was thinking about that earlier! There are plenty of old pictures of train wrecks around.

one more for tonight

.:.

Shrugs has been MIA for a while too. Maybe they're both out to sea.

I liked your 32 Jazz comment, Jim. B) We should have a contest to see who can make the best (worst!) 32 Jazz cover.

Excellent, AB! That's really good.

Ditto Laurie Anderson here.

You forgot the eyeball.

The more I look at my Brilliant Circles mock-up, the more I realize that it doesn't look like a Blue Note cover. But, I really like it how it turned out. Glad you liked the typo, Rooster. I'm having a hard time imagining the Miles covers done differently, but I'm gonna keep on thinking. Wish I had Photoshop here at work!

This IS fun!

That picture of Larry reminds me of this cover:

A really nice selection, Dan. I know I'll be enjoying this disc for a long time to come... Here are my comments so far. 1. Alright. Time for some church. Very soulful. Not sure on the artist or song, but I dig it. Amen! 2. Joe Williams? Fun track. Fun audience interaction. 3. Stand By Me changes, but a different melody. Lou? Alto sweetness. Another good track. 4. I know the tune, but it's not coming to me right now. Nice tone. Not sure who it is, but I hear a lot of other Tenor influences. Sounds recent. A criss-cross recording perhaps? Is this an Adderley cover? very nice. 5. Echo, baby! Another Tenor groove. Sparce piano solo. I can dig it. Griffin? No, too few notes. Wait a second. That's a different tenor now. Maybe it's one of the Griffin/Davis sides? Excellent. 6. Nice Tenor/Bone-head. The tune is mildly familiar, but I don't think I've heard it before. Solid. Polite. 7. I know these changes too. OK. I played this tune in High School Jazz Band. I just can't remember it! Arrrgghh! Good Tenor solo. Good trumpet too. I wish I could remember the name of the tune! 8. Here's the organ! Another familiar melody. I just can't seem to remember song titles! Was this a pop song? 9. 10. 11. Footprints. 12. 13. Randy Weston? Nice intro. Very cool groove. 10 stars. Love it. Great closer for BT2. for 9, 10 and 12 I'll add my comments later, if I can resist the temptation to read the other threads. Thanks guys!

Received my Disc 2 today. Just popped it in to give it a first listen. Thanks Dan and Brad! I'll post my comments in the next day or two.

More belated birthday wishes here. Hope you had a great day!

All the best on your birthday!

Shit. I changed over my personal email and web space to thechain.com because I figured that if it's good enough for Organissimo, it's good enough for me! It's been great until this week. I haven't been able to access my email for several days. My phone and mail inquiries have gone unanswered. Pretty frustrating. You'd think SOMEONE at the company would be able to sort things out. Are you still having problems with your email, Jim?

Sad sad news. RIP, Johnny. If you haven't seen the video for 'Hurt', try and catch it. It is one of the most moving things I have ever seen. Emotionally devastating.

My co-workers think I'm crazy 'cause I'm laughing so hard. That is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

Awesome news, Jim! I have a 14-month-old, and we found out a month ago that we're having another. My wife is about 2 months along now. It's one of the greatest things that can happen to you. I wish you all the best. You'll be a great dad, Jim!

And how is this any better or worse than downloading the music? The CD has already been bought from the record company by someone, or in many cases it's a promo copy and was given to someone (I buy a lot of those). Buying it used puts nothing into the record company's pockets. It only puts money into the used CD store. And how is downloading a song any different than what I did as a kid, before I had a job and thus money to buy a CD or tape, which was listen to the radio and tape all my favorite songs when they came on? I had tapes upon tapes upon tapes of songs and never bought a record until I was about 16. Anyone who truly cares about music will buy the disc. I love having a physical disc with the packaging and the liner notes and the "real" CD and the whole shebang. And AfricaBrass is right, mp3s suck sonically. But I buy a lot of stuff at the used store. In fact, I bought the Yaya3 record, Larry Golding's new record, Charlie Hunter's new record, and Elastic all from the used CD store about a week after they were released. How is that helping the record companies? Suing a 12 year old is really heartless. She's doing nothing worse than what I did as a kid with my tape recorder. I'll say it again. Fuck the RIAA. You would have a point, if it was a promo. In that case, no one gets paid. But with a used legitimate copy, the artist and record company should have been paid with the original sale. With a download, NO ONE gets paid because they are not legitimate copies. I may not be helping record companies by buying some things used, but I am not hurting them by making a copy either.