Dan Gould

What, you expect chewy to behave like a helpful board member, as opposed to his usual, completely chew-chew-chewy style of posting? And anyway it had its own perfectly good thread. But I'll try to be helpful and put all the info in one place: Glad I clicked to reply to Chuck's post and found the image source. I had tried searching by "Hank Mobley" + "Newark 1953" and got zip on the interwebs and was really getting frustrated. But here are the details, such as they are, from cityhallrecords.com: Release date: April 17 2012. Two discs of live Hank in 1953. Holy bleeping Christ! April can't get here soon enough. Its suspected or at least a possibility that Walter Davis, Jr. is the pianist, considering that they worked together in the house band at the Picadilly. But assuming that the release date holds, we'll know about sidemen and tunes soon enough.

I'm fascinated that it took this to bring RainyDay back. The old girl must be lurking quite a bit. Or she swung by the Big O just cause she was wondering how everyone was reacting to Whitney Houston's passing. Er, welcome back ... (?)

I'm interested enough in the subject to be satisfied with a PDF file. My interest in the book (very high) + my interest in e-readers (approaching negative infinity at this moment) = zero likelihood that I would buy any e-reader in order to read this book.

Its been painful to watch these clips for me but in a somewhat different way. Only when Mookie Wilson (and Bill Buckner) go will I be forced to see even more videos of 1986, over and over again. So condolences to his fans. Much as his personality rubbed me the wrong way, he was one of the greats at his position, and there's something to be said for a man who enjoyed his job as much as Gary Carter did.

I wanted Aric to say "whaaa???" and suffer a little bit but not you, Brad. :w

All info is here, in the thread where its been discussed:

Have you missed this, Aric? Your absence from the thread discussing this is most glaring.

That's wonderful but it has nothing to do with the Monk bio and everything to do with politics which belongs in a separate forum.

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No idea if it has any significance but an extensive bio of Hank herehas this nugget: Might Walter Davis be the pianist on this date? Roach hired them both after playing with the band, and that was all in the same time-frame. Seems as likely as anyone ...

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More or less, yes.

The "American Idol" approach to vocals. I'll blame Mariah Carey for that, not Whitney. It was Carey who used the vocabulary without displaying any sense of their meaning. I think Whitney didn't understand the context in which she was working, how to modify it to meet the lighter demands of the material and intents. Seems to me that she was just running with the "star trip" and not paying any attention to the music as anything other than a vehicle for stardom. But I strongly believe that in church, she could hit it the way it was meant to be hit. Not so, Carey. The net effect might be the same in terms of impact, but when I hear Whitney's "excesses", I understand them, even if I don't like them. With Carey, I neither understand nor like them. This really nails it for me. An honest accounting of Whitney's career has to acknowledge that aspects of her style influenced, for the worse, so many singers and would-be singers. But I see Whitney as the last of a long line of great singers (there may be others since her but I don't pay enough attention to know about them). Then you get Mariah's take on Whitney's style and then it gets even worse with Christina Aguilera. From those two you get a universe of appalling American Idol 'singers'. I don't think you can get around the fact that Whitney started it, but I still blame Mariah and Christina for where they took it after her.

Glad I clicked to reply to Chuck's post and found the image source. I had tried searching by "Hank Mobley" + "Newark 1953" and got zip on the interwebs and was really getting frustrated. But here are the details, such as they are, from cityhallrecords.com: Release date: April 17 2012. Two discs of live Hank in 1953. Holy bleeping Christ! April can't get here soon enough. Chuck, do you have any inside info on sidemen or sound quality?

Holy bleep. Waiting with baited breath for the details on that one. Hope Aric doesn't crap his pants when he sees it.

I guess I'm too late for GA but my experience with re-furbished cartridges has been uniformly positive. Never a problem but on the other hand I am not even sure which brand printer I have, I want to say HP but it might be Epson.

Reaching Out was also reissued by Muse under Grant's name as Green Blues. Not sure if I never actually heard it or had it and let it go but I've been reintroduced to it thanks to a friend and am glad to have it. I particularly enjoyed "Flick of a Trick" being very familiar with it from its appearance on Dexter's Gettin' Around CD reissue. As to the thread topic, I am surprised Bertrand would need encouragement to go for this one since Bobby Hutcherson is on it.

What about tough noogies?

Shocking and yet not shocking. Really just terribly sad.

Did you read this and listen to the tape available on that webpage? Mike, Allen's aside about Bessie and her lapsed medical insurance was a joke, I'm sure.

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Yes but is there any reason to think it will come out of Craig James' bank account? I'll never know why Texas Tech didn't stand up to the lies ESPN publicized and explained the truth at the very start. But I think in the end they wanted to get rid of Leach and took advantage of the situation. So yeah, they should pay him. But James is a total douchebag lying sack of shit.

If this is true, the Wilpons are in enormously deep doo-doo. And the fact that they cancelled the credentials of the reporter doesn't exactly reflect well upon them.

That's funny, I've bought quite a few Muse LPs that didn't make it to CD - Bill Hardman and others - and never found serious quality issues. Certainly no worse than other 70s-80s vinyl pressings. Xanadu is harder to comment on because a lot that I purchased were beat up in the first place. But my experience with second-hand Muse LPs has been pretty good.

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