Dan Gould

Got my monthly Ace Records email and was intrigued by this one: https://acerecords.co.uk/dirty-work-going-on-kent-modern-records-blues-into-the-60s-vol-1 Based off a limited edition P-Vine issue from the late 1990s, and apparently 15 of 26 tracks either new or saw very limited release. Samples sounded good, there's new Larry Davis (I think) so I jumped on the Amazon pre-order. A 26-track CD compiled and annotated by noted blues authority Dick Shurman. This features nine artists who recorded for the Kent-Modern labels and contains material from the early to mid-60s. The songs are heavily influenced by the pacesetting presence of B.B. King, rhythm and blues, funk and social consciousness in the lyrics as the civil rights movement brought change and turbulence. There's some pretty rare stuff here, as most tracks are new to UK CD. Eight have only been released on limited editions of 300 by P-Vine in 1999, while seven are completely unreleased. Look out for a second volume later in the year.

The only thing I can identify with is buying vinyl at a time that I can't afford it.

Somebody sucks, that's for sure. It's now 11 days since the last scan of a package from the UK, and on top of that Pitney Bowes still says it is in Atlanta while the USPS still says they are waiting for it in Indiana. This is f-ing ridiculous, even if, ironically, we're still 7 days from when eBay says is the earliest to expect the package.

When a vaccine is ready, an unknown but probably sizable proportion of anti-vaccers will be otherwise committed leftists who think that autism and vaccines are related. Just saying.

New live stream from Sweden at 12 pm ET I am going to set up to roll Goldwave when it starts and ride them inputs and see what I get.

Scher will be too. He must be 67 now? Does he plan to live until he's 97? The more I see about this, the more I suspect they did nothing with Sony/Columbia and its bitten them in the ass. If they negotiated the rights a major corporation like Sony can't renege because they think they gave them away too cheaply. And its not like there is no recent benchmark for major archival recordings by legendary jazz artists. The fact that Zev tried to get it for Resonance tells me that he had to have gotten into the question of rights or else he was terribly negligent. For this to be going on three years and no one locked down Columbia's acquiescence or got into the question? Pathetic.

I don't think I've had to extract from a commercial CD for failure so must have been burned CDRs.

I am pretty sure Bresna can chime in here about commercial CDs failing too. I have had CDRs fail but still been able to re-extract the audio and re-burn. This has been for individual tracks though never had one fail to play entirely.

Well this is a reason to ban the piped in fan noise in empty stadiums.

That's one way to interpret it but its not even his battle. Someone from the 2017 team should fight that fight, if its necessary. And there's stuff in that piece that seem highly questionable. Keeping a runner close was part of his mind game? And on the potential DP Kelly deserved to get spiked his foot was in a very dangerous place. Getting spiked might explain the rest of the silliness too. And BTW how will his teammates react if the Astros exact some revenge and actually hit or injure someone down the line?

I don't think clearances are tight or loose, they are given or not given. This suggests that Universal skipped that step, which is a huge mistake, or they went forward with the planned PR for the release and figured they'd cross that "T" if Columbia raised a fuss. Either way a very bad mistake. Here's an alternative, from the liner notes that were posted. There was reference to Monk "owing" a recording session to Columbia. Is it possible his contract called for X number of recordings, rather than having all recordings be the property of Columbia. So if Columbia got the contracted number of recordings, the Monk family could regard the contract as fulfilled and therefore took it to Universal? That doesn't really gibe with the idea that the Live in Japan release needed Columbia approval but at the same time ... the family cooperated on the big biography, they ought to know themselves what the contractual implications of new Monk are, and communicated them to Universal. I'd say we don't know the whole story yet but at least we know the high school and the janitor aren't holding it up.

I thought the unmistakable way of telling is that a CDR has a distinctly different appearance where it wasn't burned.

make sure there is no auto-pay despite your cancellation. Someone else cancelled in June and got charged anyway.

This is interesting to see ... before he got the role as Col. Potter, Harry Morgan had a guest spot on M*A*S*H* as a loony general. In the final scene a court martial is convened with Hawkeye in the hot seat and Morgan's character is asking questions of a chopper pilot played by a black actor (one of "those guys" you always recognize but can't always name). "But first, a song." "Sir?" "you know, a musical number. Why you've got it in your blood, boy. Just let it out!" Then Morgan's character sings Mississippi Mud, with the cleaned up lyrics (different from above, I believe). So it was OK to say "Boy" to a black man but not "darkies" in the song. Checking Google this was the 1974-75 season premiere, "The General Flipped at Dawn".

Well, this is the *other* copy the seller has: https://www.ebay.com/itm/HAL-SINGER-SOUTH-AFRICA-AFRO-JAZZ-8-TRACK-SOWETO-TO-HARLEM/164258992881?hash=item263e9952f1:g:SkkAAOSwcFBe5y~6 I couldn't find an eight track player with output to PC so I went with the cassette copy.

Haven't been ... and those that have made it here have been OK (some of these orders were CDs and even cassettes).

Is anyone still paying for this total bullshit? I just realized its nearly a week since the last post. And looking back, its July 28 and there are 14 days in July without anything new 50% assuming nothing shows up today. I am ready to dispute all charges with Amex for failure to perform to their contractual obligation.

Well we did have another item get dropped off one town too soon (fixed the same day, so kudos) and another item that sat at the local PO for three days before getting on a truck. So yes add Florida to the list but it also has to include Tennessee since a package went from Memphis to Phoenix recently. And Indiana where Pitney Bowes says they handed it off and the USPS still says nuh-huh.

A new way for them to suck. Box of LPs due today, left Jacksonville on the 25th - normally that would often mean delivery yesterday on the 27th. Instead "moving thru the system, arriving late." There is no way for it to take more than 3 days to go from Jax to Tampa when I can drive it in 3 hours or less.

Well a plurality did say that it would be cancelled mid-season due to an outbreak Personally I think there is a definite possibility that, being invested in getting the season in, a "hold" could be placed now and the season reduced to 40-45 games instead of a cancellation announcement today.

OK. "Didn't want to tip off Sony that they had this recording" was what I was going from.

Are you really saying that it is and should be SOP for lawyers to not get clarification on what is an obvious question, you just say "hey we don't have copy of a contract with Columbia Records let's just let the chips fall where they may." Finding out that lawyers approach things as "let them sue us" is just another black mark on the profession.

For infamous posts how about the dude who in 2006 proposed a chemo unit in the Red Sox clubhouse for Jon Lester? Three World Series rings later, whose laughing now?

Those liners make it pretty obvious he was still under contract to Columbia. If their rights weren't cleared first this is a screw up of epic proportion. Fortunately in today's social media world I suspect we will know what is holding it up pretty quickly.

I saw a headline about "player with yips makes return" but I had no idea it was Daniel Bard who seemed to have a very bright future with the Sox many years ago. https://www.mlb.com/rockies/news/daniel-bard-rockies-comeback