Dan Gould

Since Jim sent a copy of this to me a long while ago, its not new. But I expect a lot of people will be interested - if a little bit depressed - by this description of Hank the man. I seem to recall one more article that hasn't been uploaded but would provide another glimpse of Hank. I swear it was in JazzTimes some point in the 90s. I recall Sickler being quoted about the fact that when Hank was off the sauce his playing would be much better but he could never stay off long enough. Also that Hank was pretty well read and versed in current affairs and would have long conversations about it. Maybe someone remembers that article and could do what Jim has been doing? I've looked through the JT issues that I kept after the last move but can't find it ...

Paul, you should be glad that Borders was even in Tallahassee when you got there. When I was living there in the mid-90s, it was Vinyl Fever plus a little CD store on North Monroe, and one halfway decent chain store across the street from where Borders is now (that place had a good selection but screwed up management - They had an Eastern Rebellion CD in the stacks for $22.99 when I knew that Vinyl Fever had it for $13. They insisted that as an "import" it was the correct price and refused to match Vinyl Fever. No wonder the whole chain went out of business). I was lucky that Borders opened up about a year before I left for south Florida. Anyway - I haven't been in Borders for about three weeks so I can't say if the local ones are squeezing the CDs down again. Wouldn't surprise me though.

Conrad, I'll do the download thing when you've got the kinks worked out. PM being sent - and thanks.

Last year I was reading an anthology of original stories that were adopted for The Twilight Zone; I recognize quite a few of them in the synopses of the hour long episodes. Some good stories, too, but I really think it was a mistake to go to the hour long format.

SciFi channel runs Twilight Zone at least once a week during the day, and I've noticed that the hour long episodes have been included. Maybe you can check the schedule and set up your TiVO or VCR. I've always felt that the hour long episodes don't work like the shorter ones but I certainly haven't seen all of them.

"Hankenstein"???? IIRC, that's a reference to what Dexter Gordon said about Hank in the liners to one of his LPs.

David, I never use it, but in the trading community, Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is considered the gold standard for ripping flawless copies of CDs that don't have scuffs in the first place. The error checking is supposed to be second to none. Myself, when I have ripped copies I use Goldwave's extraction program and I've never had problems, even with CDs that look less than perfect. As for your other points, I don't know, but I think there are ways to get better results than you've been getting.

Come to think of it, I think that was also part of the discussion at the BNBB - Thinking of Home and SOT were generally considered to be the sessions Hank must have been talking about.

Actually, my thought was, wtf is up with those sideburns?

I can't believe that you believe that, Paul. Do you really think that Grant's brain was fried at this point in his life and that was the reason? Then I'm guessing that you haven't read that many blindfold tests - there are plenty of other musicians who "bomb" and "hard living" doesn't have anything to do with it.

Interestingly enough, just considering the span between the albums being advertised, its roughly two years apart: 66, 68, 71? So lock, stock and barrel, it seems that BN must've thought that Bobby's whole output, roughly speaking, was worth mentioning....interesting! Just my feeble analysis -_- I'm not sure about the timing, but it seems as though about this time, BN was down to Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd and Booby (and of course a few others) ... maybe at that point there wasn't all that much to push.

If there's enough interest, I will. BTW - have you checked out the Red Holloway Caught In The Act scan I posted in the Jazz In Print forum? Yes, just didn't post anything in response. I'm reading everything you post - WTF is Leonard Maltin doing reviewing jazz?

Very interesting. Can't say it bothers me to hear Lou dissing the AG guys the same way he disses fusion guys today. Thanks for digging out these old DBs, Jim. I hope you have time to scan more interesting articles.

Well, good news for Red Sox Nation: Dice K's wife gave birth five days before her due date, so now there is little doubt that Matsuzaka will make the trip to Japan. And Beckett's back has improved steadily but I am sure they will be smart and not have him go to Japan. So long as he is ready for the third or fourth game in Oakland, that's fine, although it would have been a nice advantage, potentially, if Beckett and Dice started twice in the first four games.

Iirc, correctly this was hashed out years ago on the BNBB. While some wanted to cling to the hope that something might have been recorded for another label or something, Michael was pretty firm on the fact that if there was such a session, the tapes are gone, and that in all likelihood, Hank was referring to the Slice of the Top session, which wasn't issued at the time.

I wonder if prices in the UK reflect fewer copies being shipped/sold. Of course eventually OJC prices can be expected to increase as time passes but I can't imagine a reason to pay more than $10 for a copy right now.

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I see the term "vinyl rip" being mentionned frequently, and if it's not done in real time I don't want to imagine what happens to those LPs

Ah, how different people have different understandings of the same words. "Rip" in the current vernacular means running a program to convert one file to another. Medjuck's software records what the soundcard plays, so its in real time and therefore not "ripping". Its the same thing I used to do with Goldwave, recording the audio while the DVD plays.

And here's a perfect column about how fast Girardi was with declaring his opinion of the appropriateness of the play that injured his catcher yet how slow he is to offer an opinion on what Duncan did, and how it all adds up to one word, hypocrisy.

I have to say that Joe Girardi is proving himself as much of a punk as Shelley Duncan. He claims that he still hasn't watched the video of Duncan's slide and therefore still doesn't know if it was right or wrong. Yeah right - that's why he went ahead and had a little sit-down with Duncan about his play. The tabs are saying that Girardi might miss Opening Day at the Stadium if he is suspended, and I think that should happen.

I have to say that there's a chance that the Sox got the steal of the year in signing Bartolo Colon. He pitched briefly in winter ball and apparently topped out around 89, which scared most teams away. But yesterday in his first ST appearance, he topped out at 94, was consistently 92-93 on his fastball. Its not the 100 MPH heat he had in his prime but if he stays healthy and presumably adds arm strength and velocity, he could be 95-96 when he's ready to go, and with his history he ought to be a very effective number 5. And with Buchholz being a little out of whack on his motion, I see no harm in letting him start at Pawtucket, with the message that he needs to dominate and force the issue to get back to the big club. I'd feel better with Colon than Tavarez or Snyder, that's for sure. Buchholz, Masterson and possibly Schilling waiting in the wings? Me likey.

I guess the Health Food industry never got the memo from Greenpeace.

I'm one of those guys who checks his junk mail folder at the same time that I go to my inbox, so I never miss things that end up there. I'm quite sure he hasn't responded.

I guess it had to happen sooner or later (of course I've had mis-graded LPs but when you don't pay "collector's" prices anyway, its never that big a deal): I picked up for $5 a Jimmy McCracklin 45 on Imperial. I've liked the Imperial LPs I've heard so I figured that even if the two sides of this 45 didn't make the charts, they'd probably still be pretty good. I'd know for sure if the seller hadn't failed to ship the item for almost 30 days. AUNTIE THUDS ANTIQUES AND RECORDS should be avoided at all costs! I know $9 total is hardly worth it but you figure that a seller with 98.7% of nearly 10000 ratings would be a little more trustworthy, and a little more responsive (two emails sent without any response at all). I've now registered a dispute with Paypal, if this guy doesn't cough up the money I am assuming that their "Paypal Buyer's Protection" policy will ensure that I am refunded my money. There. Now I feel better.