Dan Gould

6:22 am and all is well so far. Even have power still, which is a surprise, somewhere between "modest" and "major".

I figured it had to be mistaken but I don't think its the most outlandish interpretation of how you described the decision to listen today.

You're not supposed to turn on a generator in the middle of the night during bad weather. We've never thought of needing juice restored while a storm is brewing, we've always gotten things going when the storm passes and we've been able to power up fridge, fans, lights, TV. our only problem is having one generator on the fritz and we have to move the one that works to the pump in order to have water for the horses/cold showers. And move it back to get lights and fridge and fans moving. We also haven't run the generator 24/7, usually shut down overnight which hasn't impacted freezer functionality and conserves gas when that is a concern. I can imagine ... part of the shutting off of generator overnight is how loud they are and in the past we've worried about thieves grabbing things while you sleep. Easy to know who is running one for sure.

With 2800 posts, and a member for 17 years, this is truly your first experience of Blue Train? I guess there is a time for everything. I didn't know it was possible to be a listener for at least 17 years and not have heard this album.

They are not cheap, still.

I guess Gheorghe is really thinking about original, on-the-bandstand at the moment of creation, bop pianists, when, as he says, some might have been less rhythmically on the ball than others. But I agree with you Peter because when these guys were developing, bop was it.

It's forecast for a pretty short stay over land and then over water again but what is odd is predicted wind speed goes 60 down to 45, while over water. That suggests wind flow must turn toward being non-conducive to re-strengthening.

Longer it tracks northward the better for the Tampa/Orlando area. When they say its moving NE - that will really concentrate the models and likely landfall. Wild to see that at the end of forecast track its a TS over the Atlantic, and seemingly moving south and then west. Might somebody in GA or SC get a double dip of this bitch? Or maybe go back to Hurricane status and menace the mid-Atlantic or even the NE?

Glad to wake up to a shifted cone, with the eastern edge now not far from Gainesville. OTOH it is disconcerting when the Hurricane Center prominently mentions how the best models have the storm on the eastern edge of the envelope. Historically not all models are created equal and so I'd like to see some further shifts today as this thing picks up and moves toward landfall. Sue and I still have to secure the grounds and mount plywood over one horse stall door. Earliest arrival of tropical storm force winds is after nightfall so that is good. I think odds are slightly better than even for modest impacts here but who knows. TTK should still sweat a bit and Stonewall is probably in good shape now.

I think each of the Woofy releases have their charms. Consistently strong playing. I've wanted to use a track on a BFT but IIRC most are in the 10 minute range and I didn't want to impose that kind of track time.

Yes but its Renaud.

Hardly the same ... they condensed the original to just the C and D sides so eliminating tracks from the 1977 recording. The irony of this issue is that it would get pushed out in the Various section and could easily be mistaken for tracks recorded during the era and therefore of less interest, if your collection is large enough. But this was living masters recording compositions organized thematically, and while they were very much in their prime. I am hopeful that I am going to enjoy this one alot. And may I say while I like the CD cover best overall, the musicians at the piano bench with photos in their respective pockets gets a thumbs up from me too. I would have been fine if they used that on the CD issue.

I didn't but don't buy Citgo on general principle.

Since last hurricane season we've added a loan processor who lives in Tampa so a little concerned business-wise this time around too. I need to top off gas for the generator and Sue and I have to improvise a top door for one stall for the horses but that can only happen when they are in for the duration so hopefully not struggling with plywood tomorrow afternoon. Time will tell and otherwise we're well-situated for food for all living beings on the property, now that Sue got the horse feed she couldn't find yesterday. Looks like deteriorating conditions by Tuesday afternoon and then overnight and most of Wednesday will suck. And blow.

Yet when CDs were still popular and reissue programs still happening ... only CD set seems to be in the UK. Is it as good as I hope, @Chuck Nessa, if you know?

I already have this en route https://www.discogs.com/release/10189476-Various-I-Remember-Bebop-The-Complete-Recording-Sessions but curious who might be familiar with it as apparently a UK release only but by Sony? Concept is certainly intriguing and I imagine the track times are short to force these legends to play to the length of a 78, more or less? Thanks in advance.

Ironic that this thread got revived this week when Terry Funk died at 70-something and a really talented guy named Wyndham Rotunda passed at just 36 ... and I think it was a year or so ago that Ric Flair had one final match, long after his retirement. As far as AEW goes, I am glad there is a well-funded promotion to compete with WWE but the roster has too many interchangeable cruiserweights doing flippy/spinny shit and guys whose conception of a wrestling character is just ridiculous, like Orange Cassidy. It's also a kind of old-age home for former WWE stars as well as WWE talent that got raw deals from Vince but its those guys that make the product watchable, like Daniel Bryan and the former "Dean Ambrose". And now that I've outted myself as a wrestling "fan" let me say I can't watch any of the shows from either promotion straight thru, but I will flip the station in and out on Mondays/Wednesdays.

Thanks to Brad and Stompin' for bringing this article up ... I don't recall reading it back in July (and I think I'd remember hearing that people questioned whether Sonny's body was the one buried). Definitely hoping the author writes that book about Clark.

Color me leaning toward "no," as already noted there are a lot of CDs of an era that pre-dates what I enjoy and I am not sure that there are possibly a lot of tunes from that era (the one I do collect) that would be new.

Is this some new report you saw, because I see nothing about 2025 on the interwebs and I just searched again. Shut down for the rest of the season, pitching-wise, yes. And if surgery is decided then 2025 is accurate (and its disconcerting to realize that second UCL surgeries don't have a great track record in terms of recovery or at least length of recovery). The unicorn might just be a slugger in the future.

Also available at no cost to US Residents is Valery Ponomarev, Beyond The Obvious (Reservoir) Don Braden on tenor, and no piano makes for a slightly different group sound. (Funny story: I got two copies because I had one, put it into a discard pile, and then a couple of months later bought another, very cheap copy. I listened to this copy and said "this is pretty darn good" and then told myself, "Numbnuts, you already had this and didn't like it." Hopefully whoever responds, gets the version that appeals to them. Because I listened to the first one again and wasn't so impressed.)

Unfortunate. I have that first CD and remember enjoying it quite a bit.

Thank you so much for saying so! I am going to be uploading more tunes on youtube in the coming weeks - I haven't really done updates on the website for the music samples. If you haven't, you should subscribe to my channel. You can find me by searching Percy France - I am most but not all of the music uploads there.

Yes, how a bluesman sings, and how someone else does. Seriously that was garbage.

Yeah the difference between legit blues and what did you say, fizzied up recreation? PEE - F-ing YOU. Glad I never voluntarily heard Cream play legit blues until now.