Dan Gould

OK. The problem is he did what was legally demanded of him. He has no authority beyond that. Besides, we don't know he if did not speak to the offender. Stll, any repercussions are not within his control. Know hypocrisy when you see it, please. Your arguments are falling on deaf ears. Doesn't Mr. Gould realize that a lot of the beer-swilling Red Sox players he worships clearly come from the machismo, anything goes environment and culture that has pervaded our high school and college campuses for decades? Can anyone translate this for me? No? I didn't think so. Why can't you? Did you attend UConn? More random idiotic blatherings. Do you enlist your dog to pound on the keyboard before you click submit?

OK. The problem is he did what was legally demanded of him. He has no authority beyond that. Besides, we don't know he if did not speak to the offender. Stll, any repercussions are not within his control. Know hypocrisy when you see it, please. Your arguments are falling on deaf ears. Doesn't Mr. Gould realize that a lot of the beer-swilling Red Sox players he worships clearly come from the machismo, anything goes environment and culture that has pervaded our high school and college campuses for decades? Can anyone translate this for me? No? I didn't think so.

If you read teh interview carefully you will notice that it is stated there that at the time of these reissues (80s/early 90s) the copyright laws all across Europe were set to a cut-off P.D. date of much less than 50 years. You have an interesting defnition of "much less than 50 years". If FreshSound started after 1987, it was subject to the 40 year rule, making their legal LP issues going up to the late 40s or early 50s depending on the year the label was started. That leaves my question untouched. Did FreshSound reissue on LP recordings from, say the late 1950s? Simple math tells you it violated the law even as it stood in Spain. Same thing, frankly, with the 1995 standardization of copyright. That means that at the moment of adoption, he wasn't supposed to reissue anything recorded later than 1945. Was he following that? I kinda believe he wasn't but I can't specifically identify the releases.

I'm also wondering about these "old days" when they put out LPs - even if the law was 40 years at that time, was he really strictly adhering to that law? That would make him restricted to recordings from maybe the early 50s. What I'd especially like to know though is the corporate ownership of whatever label was putting out the Xanadu catalog recently. Not even close to the 50 year rule and if its owned by his wife or daughter or whoever, his hands ain't exactly clean if you ask me.

Follow up to find out what was done? Ask his close friend what the fuck he was doing with that ten year old boy?

Apparenty in Jetman's world, "vile" includes an extraordinarily wide variety of behavior, from recruiting violations and scholastic fraud to defensive coordinators who butt-f*ck young boys.

Agreed. How could anyone see this coming unless you had prior knowledge of Sandusky's vileness? There's nothing here that was predictable, including the administration's offensive response. Who expects an AD to respond the way he did if he was told a ten year old was being raped by Sandusky? The only thing that makes sense is if the student who saw it didn't communicate the full nature of what he saw. And even then its no excuse.

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One advantage of getting back to playing in this day and age is the easy availability of music. Had no idea it was like that for sheet music as well as the recorded kind but hardly looking I've found about half a dozen country songs from the 90s that I used to spin at WTNT-Tallahassee and should be able to play based on the chords.

Used to be my wife missed me for hanging out on the board, now she misses me for strumming the guitar every night. Skid, barre chords aren't my only problem, any 7th chord involving the pinkie is a major problem but hopefully I'll strengthen it and be able to play those chords well. In the meantime though as long as its not an E to E7 progression, I'm going with the chords I can play. How's that for a substitution?

Spending time in the dark with Jackie McLean? Seriously though I don't think its quite so weird. Its aiming the record as "mood music".

Hey, thanks Brute. This came in when I was writing response a few minutes ago. It looks like a good solution (though, as I think about it, I still would need to edit things into "tracks"...it's all so confusion.) I'd been looking for something like this, but as a USB to RCAs. Hadn't thought about the analog headphone jack. If the laptop plays DVDs, you can use DVD Audio Extractor to extract the music and an audio editing software like Goldwave to cut it into tracks. There's no need for more equipment to lug around, and you get the music off the DVD into a format you can play.

Entirely by ear as in, you don't know the names of the chords you pick out? FWIW, what prevented me from progressing further was (and I know still is) getting "full barre" chords to sing out properly. I'm going to keep working it but even when I was younger, it was very hit or miss, and my hands aren't any bigger now. I don't know though - maybe I should buy one of those hand-shake grips to strengthen my fingers? If I could get the barre part down maybe I could manage the rest eventually.

I hope you didn't hit him too hard. I should have, since he turned around and gave it to someone else. Otherwise I'd have taken possession from him and have a beautiful Epiphone guitar again.

DVD Audio Extractor is a program I found online when I wanted to extract the audio layer from a DVD. There's a full-feature version you can demo for 30 days or something. http://www.dvdae.com/

A certain Texan baseball pitcher with a penchant for fried chicken and beer says the same thing. But he's a righty, so I don't know ... Actually in all honesty its just one finger, and I didn't even notice it until today at work. Won't stop me from perfecting the opening to "The Heart of the Matter" when I get home tonight.

Well John at least you don't have to beat yourself up over missing out on gigs for trombonists.

And if you used to play and stopped, why did you stop and do you regret it?

We have so many pros, and it seems more than a couple of accomplished amateurs but who plays a musical instrument with the most modest of skills? I ask cuz I grew up playing guitar, rising to something like a modestly skilled intermediate level, never had a lesson after 8th grade but continued to play until college. I stopped playing and when my brother asked for my guitar, I let him have it. Flash forward 22 years or so and my wife decides to buy herself a used guitar because she wants to play with our nephew who is learning the bass. So when I was home to visit the folks I found all of the sheet music still in my boyhood desk. Now after a month I am playing just about every night and really surprising myself how much is coming back. Some songs I even think I am playing better than I used to (thank God for the "Made Easy for Guitar" book series!). So if you play but only for yourself, tell us about it. In the meantime anyone got a home remedy for blisters on the tips of the fingers of my left hand?

Here's hoping the Small's gig will be available for streaming soon.

Its not about "feeling sorry" for people losing their jobs. I've worked in radio and know how it feels like to get shit-canned. I (and everyone of those people who got pink-slips) also know that its part of the gig. Radio jobs are one of the least secure in the business, unless you are a "big name". Which gets us to this ludicrous notion that its somehow the fault of Rush Limbaugh's "obscene" salary. (As an aside, are you at least consistent and also regard as "obscene" the salaries of every left-sing actor/director/musician who also makes a boatload of dough? Or is it OK if the "right" people make a lot of money because the money they make is more than compensated by the money their creations earn?) Ah, whatever. We've seen lots of hypocrisy from the left, what's a little more? Back to Clear Channel and Rush: They have big debts. They have to cut costs. They signed a contract with Rush. Its guaranteed. He makes them a shitload of money. They can't fire him and they'd be fools to do so when he is a cornerstone of the business. The "hundreds" of jocks don't have guaranteed contracts. Their employment is "at will" and they can be fired. Is this really so difficult to understand? But I get it - you believe there is a level of income that is "obscene" and must be regulated. I don't live my life hating the successful.

Do you really need more examples of the anti-Semitism expressed at these protests? What was that? Its not fair to extrapolate out from the crazies and paint with such a broad brush the whole movement? You mean, like when a smattering of Lyndon Larouchies led the MSM and every lefty you can find to label the Tea Party as racist? Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, huh? You can re-read my signature for another example of the hypocrisy of the left.

What exactly makes you turn thumbs down? Embrace the movement! BTW, 964 "Likes" for that video vs 470 "Dislikes" on Huffington Post. I'll spare everyone the image documenting suggested song title #2.

leeway - allow me to ever so slightly manipulate your, as usual, excellent writing: "[it's] destroyed much of [everything] in this country, [it's] now busy destroying [itself], which is a good thing really, but I feel sorry for the people who lost their jobs." w/ my slight tweaks, it seems you've also succinctly described something that's been heatedly debated (and yes, predicted) for well over 100 years; and even moreso in the last couple of years in this country. just like Clear Channel, it starts w/ the letter "C." and i mean capital C. good post leeway. Wah wah wah. Capitalism, like democracy, is the worst system possible, except for all the others.