Dan Gould

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.

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This is what I am waiting for ... getting Mom vaccinated was postponed because she had a pain shot for her back and the doctor said no Covid vaccine for two weeks, and now she had a fall this week and is headed to a rehab facility for her severely bruised shoulder. I have been thinking that we aren't terribly far away when production ramps up enough that supply does start to exceed demand and the ability to get one or another will be no muss no fuss. Can't happen soon enough.

Ah. So he took it in reverse, finish with the Flintstones.

I don't know but is there something similar between "The Theme" and "Meet The Flintstones"? I ask because Percy goes into The Theme at the end of a set but finishes with the Flintstones theme. They kinda laughed about it.

https://www.mlb.com/news/andrew-benintendi-trade?partnerId=zh-20210211-156906-MLB&qid=1026&bt_ee=xBgEz4jZYmr8OySIqDeXITRRH47vPhAS%2FV%2Fq8pMJm99ZzNrRxEciQFqU7pAU8RQj&bt_ts=1613046728031 And the Red Sox collapse to total irrelevance continues. Benitendi, cost controlled for at least a couple more seasons, I believe, sent away for ... bare potential talent plus the inevitable "player to be named later". When in the history of major league baseball has a PTBNL turned out to have a decent career??? And the "prospects" they got are incredibly underwhelming, one of whom has nothing to recommend except "raw power", and he just had surgery on his broken hamate bone, proven to rob players of power even post-rehab. Fucking A this is pathetic.

Excellent. (And also giving me ideas for my planned Percy France website.)

Please PM an address Peter. Thanks. The item is now on hold.

At whatever rate? Would be $16 plus true shipping cost. I could find out this weekend and advise. Let me know and I'll declare it on hold.

Here's the discogs entry for details: https://www.discogs.com/The-Hal-Singer-Jazz-Quartet-Soweto-To-Harlem/release/8398291 This is a fantastic set, a bit on the short side is its only flaw. Great piano in addition to Singer's preaching on tenor. Could easily have been an early 60s Prestige date. According to popsike the LP last sold in 2011 on ebay for over $100. There's an 8-track up on discogs for $8 but another $32 for shipping from South Africa. I'll let this go for $16, with media mail shipping to the US. Your chance to hear a great recording at a fair price on a possibly inconvenient format. Cassette plays without flaw (obviously), J-card is clean if a little crinkly when removed. Cassette case hinges intact at this time. Hopefully padded mailer will protect. Thanks for looking.

I checked my order history. Often my searching is for a specific LP heard about somewhere, and then comes the consideration of who has it, and what else do they got, because normally I won't buy a single LP without serious consideration of overall costs if I find other fairly priced things of interest. Condition ... I don't go lower than VG+ and I already expect to dump the vinyl into the PC and manually clean it up in Goldwave. I don't have a proper rig wherein I can listen to vinyl but I will take time to make it as quiet as possible for digital transfer. And then most of my listening is in the car, or while working, thru the same PC I use for the LP transfer process. (sometimes I listen to the unedited raw file on the PC).

A discogs seller I would heartily recommend: https://www.discogs.com/seller/carolinasoul/profile (they are also on eBay with weekly themed large-batch auctions of rarities.) But on discogs they have very fair prices, low shipping domestically (I wanna say unlimited Media Mail for $5 or something), and IIRC they also clean every record before sale and ship with polybags, if that's important to you. Oh - and they are open to just about any offer, though I have gone that route only on the low price point ones. $4, offer $3 I guarantee they'll take it. And you can easily find enough records to do that and cover your shipping cost. Grading is not egregiously wrong and if you concentrate on the $2-$10 range what have you lost if they mess up?

We have a new(?) competitor for worst regional/local USPS office, to go with Newark and Chicago: Philadelphia. I shipped something to former member Joel Fass who lives in Philly. Its been at the Philadelphia Network Distribution Center since February 2nd, a week ago.

Very cool thanks for letting us know.