Dan Gould

I agree Guy, I just knew that I had mentioned some young lions early on, though I didn't call them that. It's nice to be past that part of history. Nowadays the scene sucks for everybody, and jazz is way past the 'smells funny' phase too. Kidding. Sort of.

Back on the first page I listed Brian Lynch: Peer Pressure (Criss Cross) Ralph Moore: Round Trip (Reservoir) Mulgrew Miller: Work (Landmark) Scott Hamilton, Tenor Shoes (Concord) ******************************************************* I'd say each of those are early "young lions" and each are among their earliest leader dates, except for the Scott Hamilton recording - whether they had a lot of marketing behind them or not.

Thank you!

Posted an update - for those interested - possibly the best photo found to date, an unexpected grouping of the Oliver Jackson Trio featuring Percy France, but with a special tenor guest. https://gofund.me/96032520

Philadelphia may be a close second ... outside of the whole "we'll deliver your daily mail if and when we feel like it" thing. I sent a box to former member Joel Fass in Philadelphia. The package reached the Philly distribution center February 2nd. it was delivered to him this past Saturday, more than 2 1/2 weeks after.

Thank you Tom!

"one of the greatest" might be a bit much. I bought it when I was on a major Plas kick and its plenty enjoyable for what it is - warm tenor+strings, mood music for imbibing with adult beverages.

Thanks gents, and thanks also to others who have contributed.

I've posted more than a bit about my Percy France research over the past two years. I am sincerely hoping folks will consider helping me bring this thing fully to fruition: https://gofund.me/96032520 Thanks for your consideration.

There have been huge technological changes on radio, which had started not too long before I was shit-canned by mello 105 under new ownership. Everything was getting digitized back then, and with touch screens to run stop sets or an autoplay feature where you just stack up one element after another and it just goes and goes. No more CDs, no more spots or bumpers recorded onto carts and no pushing the button on the board to trigger the next element, or setting the trigger on one cart to auto-fire the next spot at the end of the first one. The switchover at mello 105 led directly to the firing of a very long-time board op who couldn't handle technology. One more quick story, related: Mello 105 was the radio partner of the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks, East Coast Hockey League (don't ask me why). One year they reached the playoffs and the game was getting televised locally. Meaning that the voice of the Tiger Sharks, Kyle somebody, had to record his radio pre-game ahead of time because he'd be busy doing the TV pre-game. I was board-op for the broadcast and it was all set to go on the new fangled computer in the studio. It's playing, I don't have to do anything, but I somehow hit the wrong part of the touch screen and .... no more pre-game. I'm kinda surprised I didn't have nightmares about this too. We're ten minutes into a 20 minute segment. If it were on reel, I could have started it up again, but now I can only restart a digital file from the beginning - not gonna work. And I am NOT the one to jump on the air and talk extemporaneously about the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks either! So I did the only thing I could think to do ... I rolled our Tiger Shark music bed - Theme from Jaws. Over and over and over and over and over and over again. Fortunately I think everyone was watching the TV broadcast. The phone didn't ring once, until after we were simulcasting the tv audio, when the boss called and said 'what the hell happened?"

OK I gotta keep talking about my radio days ... my psychological makeup requires being ready to go ahead of time ... I'd pull the CDs and the commercial breaks/bumpers for at least two hours at the start of a shift. Still made mistakes, in all honesty but in terms of my psychology - I sweated those failures and for years after my last radio gig had nightmares about dead air. Sometimes I would be on the air, and my carts and CDs would be just out of reach - couldn't get something, anything into the players. Or, I would dream that nothing worked on the board - hit the button, cart deck won't fire, CD player won't fire. I would wake up and discover I was pounding on my clock radio. That was my "board". Flip side to my worrying mind was the jock who worked the shift in front of mine. He would wait until a song was in the last 20 seconds to even look at the playlist let alone get the next CD into the other deck. And he kept that seamless flow and never made a mistake. One day the Program Director was hearing too many mistakes and came into the booth and watched at the end of the day. He's sitting there and watching this guy and was losing his shit. "Uh, Marilyn, the song is running out." "Yeah, I know." But he always made his transitions. Finally the PD barged out of the room, declaring "I can't watch this shit anymore." But he still issued a memo that all jocks must pull music and spots ahead of time. And that's when Christopher (Marilyn) Parker started making mistakes and having dead air. Finally the PD came in and said, "Marilyn, just do it your way. Sorry I hassled you, man."

You gotta have something to easily pad into the network feed ... reminds me of when I was at the country station, they ran Paul Harvey live off the satellite. And you didn't have an instrumental to fade out if necessary. I was weekend overnights but handled mid-days when that DJ was off and had to sweat that transition a few times. I think a couple of times I had it down perfect - last tune, Paul Harvey intro cart, pod up Paul Harvey. Yeah! And then another time or two I had that Paul Harvey bed playing for 20 seconds before his feed came over. Ugh. Paul Harvey followed me to Mello 105 but we didn't do any live feed, always taped it and ran it later.

Well, in line with my "who is third on the Men's Grand Slam list" approach, I have to be pleased that Rafa will stay tied with Roger for a little while longer. And there is more tennis to come, maybe the guy who vanquished Rafa can take care of Djokovic too. This match sounds absolutely epic by the write up in the Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/sports/tennis/rafael-nadal-loses-australian-open.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article (And while not germane to Rafa's dedicated thread, I am not exactly upset about Serena staying stuck behind Margaret Court. And not only because they won't have any more Serena matches to prioritize on ESPN. It was ridiculous this week, every time I tuned in at 9 pm, "up next, Serena Williams".)

It was a helluva an adjustment when I went from TNT Country to Mello 105. Not only letting every song fade completely into nothingness before the next track was triggered, but specific instruction on how to back-announce including precise inflections. Then when I was handed the morning drive slot when someone got shit-canned very suddenly, they were upset that I had "no personality". You drained it out of me, fuckers.

When I started in radio I learned about all the important information coded in with artist/song, key of which was how much music played before the singing commenced, AKA 'the ramp' - Shania Twain, Any Man of Mine must have had the longest ramp of all - as well as the ending, F for fade and C for cold. I can't imagine that in the free-form radio years jocks had any idea about this info and had to learn on the fly. I'm now reminded of the one hit wonder "Beach Baby" - I had no recollection of the strings/orchestra arrangement over the the last 90 seconds or more of the song until I bought a 70s compilation that had that track. Question for those older than me: Did they really fade out or talk over "Hey Jude" or "The Boxer"?

It took a little while - quite a while actually, seeing the date on Niko's post but I actually heard from the author of this excellent thesis about BJP. He was happy to help and gave the thumbs up on all of it - said the photo is him, the voice is him, and his musical style is heard in his solo. No doubt in his mind. So that's 4 for 4 saying its Big John Patton one one basis or another. Not that I really needed a fourth source, but here it is.

Saw a story in the Times about securing legit high-filtration masks and learning about likely fakes on Amazon, ended up at this site: https://bonafidemasks.com/ You can get the legit surgical-style masks or the KN95 which doesn't fit as securely but still very good - and only $10 for 10, with free domestic shipping. I went for the latter.

You should delete those first three sentences and start with a cult is a cult is a cult. Everything about L Ron Hubbard is about control of other human beings, and making money from it. He was a shitty science fiction writer who admired churches for amassing wealth which he was never going to attain. He invented his "system" and peddled it with one huge lie: That he was discharged from the service with terrible injuries and that only Dianetics "cured" him. He targeted people with weak susceptible minds just like cult leaders do ... and the entirety of the rest of it is cult cult cult, with heaps of criminality interlayered thru out. And to think, they claim to be the most ethical people in the world. Fuck him and his descendants. I would vote for any candidate for national office who would campaign on a promise to investigate, and remove, their "religious" tax exemption.

OK, thanks for your clarification.

You really summarize the evil nature of Scientology and the crimes committed by Hubbard and then Miscavige as "a couple of dopey science fiction themes"? I realize there's a "no religion" as well as "no politics" rule but I have never ever heard Scientology described in such an anodyne fashion.

You have my sympathy. What was the lowest on the thermostats? Or do you have electronic ones and don't know?

Wow. And yet somehow not surprising.

I was waiting for the Scientology part to come up in this thread. The nicest thing I can say is that among Scientologist performers of all kinds, Chick was way less objectionable than Tom Cruise.

Mulgrew Miller, Trio Transition

This one certainly is more up my alley than the 70s was. Just thought of a few of many: Al Cohn: Rifftide (Timeless), No Problem (Xanadu) relatedly, Don Joseph, One of a Kind (Uptown) Brian Lynch: Peer Pressure (Criss Cross) Ralph Moore: Round Trip (Reservoir) Mulgrew Miller: Work (Landmark) Scott Hamilton, Tenor Shoes (Concord) 20th Concord Festival All-Stars (Concord) - Ray Brown Trio w. Gene Harris plus Sweets and Red Holloway - how can you go wrong? Ray Brown Trio, BAM BAM BAM (Concord) - the definitive performance of Summertime by Gene Harris contained therein.