Dan Gould

I've heard of "easing into your day" but that's ridiculous! I can't imagine dealing with an alarm 50 minutes before I need to get up. I guess I'm lucky that I can be functional pretty quickly after an alarm - I've never dealt with snooze buttons and actually prefer to have the alarm situated where I have to physically get out of bed to turn it off (my wife's side has the nightstand but on my side is my tall dresser, and that is where we have the alarm clock). I have to say that I'm thankful I never lost the ability to sleep in, I'd much rather get those zzz's than "enjoy" the early morning stillness. On the other hand maybe my current sleep pattern is just a slow steady recovery of hours lost to sleep deprivation I voluntarily subjected myself when I wasn't working from home.

When I had an office job to go to (and was for the most part my own boss) I'd set the alarm early, like 6 AM - out the door between 6:30 and 7 AM, my commute was almost always painless. I'd be in the office long before the boss was, doing Internet things + reading the paper. The boss thought I started working at 8 AM and so I left at 4 in the afternoon, mostly beating the rush though not as consistently as I beat the morning rush. And I was never a coffee glutton with those hours, I had about 6 cups before 9 AM but never any after that, and I'd get a workout in when I got home, most afternoons. Now that I am working from the house and my wife is as well, she sets the alarm if she needs to be out early or otherwise the dogs get her up around 7 to 7:30. I'm pretty bad about letting Gracie whine until Sue gets up instead of getting up myself. I usually get an extra hour sleep beyond that and am at the PC, getting caught up on emails and checking out the 'O' around 9 AM. I try to make it up to her by letting her sleep on the weekend while I deal with the dogs.

It should be noted that Larry made a mistake with the info I sent him - "Our Delight" which he regards as one of the nicest tracks is in fact from 1979's Tenorshoes, the source of "I Should Care" which he didn't very much care for. So it appears that even at a young age SH could at least sometimes put together a performance that meets Larry's approval.

Thanks for your comments, Larry, I am going to need to pull out my discs again before I can respond. I do wish that you hadn't made so many references to the lyrics as I am not familiar with them in the first place so its impossible to know what point in the tune you are referring to. Track times would have been better! It also occurs to me that it might be helpful to others if you had included the CD titles in your comments. In case anyone wants to compare their ears to Larry's and owns the discs, these are the CDs from which the tracks came. 1 - "Body and Soul" - The Grand Appearance (Progessive) 2 - "I Should Care" - Tenorshoes (Concord) 3 - "I'm Through With Love" - Major League (Concord) 4 - "Move" - Jazz Signatures (Concord) 5 - "Our Delight" - Tenorshoes (Concord) 6 - "I Fall In Love Too Easily" - At Last (Gene Harris-Scott Hamilton Quintet) (Concord) 7 - "Tenderly" - Fujitzu - Concord Jazz Festival Silver Anniversary 8 - "My Foolish Heart" - My Foolish Heart (Eddie Higgins Quartet) (Venus) 9 - "Melancholy Rhapsody" - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Eddie Higgins Quartet Featuring Scott Hamilton) (Venus)

There's an Ebay South Africa site, I'd keep an eye on it to see if a copy ever appears. It probably will, sooner or later.

I'll run your don't like it up against Mike Flanagin, MG, Shawn and Jim and you are blown so far out of the water its not remotely funny. You are Simon Cowell against the rest of the world, only you think your opinion should matter.

Click on the members tab at top right and under the second search field, sort by join date thanks. I see Jim Dye was number four ... still wondering what happened to him. 25 joined up on that blessed day of March 6 - maybe they should all get gold stars? 42 a day later ... 28 on the eighth ... 24 the day after 18 after that 6 on the 11th a jump to 15 on the 13th though - perhaps a mass exodus from AAJ when most people were still sampling both sites? Mostly six or fewer the rest of the way and the migration to the sacred 'O' was complete - mostly.

Is it possible to list members by the date they signed up? Might be interesting to see how the migration accelerated from day to day over those first couple of weeks.

Interesting article in today's Times. Seems that the Feds are investigating Clemens' connection to the owner of a weight-loss center who A] has been identified with HGH sales and B] has claimed in the past to be a close friend of Clemens but now denies it. Rusty Hardin calls the question about any relationship "despicable" which is a pretty surprising word choice. I mean, the owner of the fitness center has never been arrested, he's a member of a prominent family in Houston, what's despicable about asking about a relationship? Seems to me Rusty doth protest too much, so the Feds are probably on the right track. So, is the guy just a hustler who likes to make people think that Clemens is a friend? Or was he one of Roger's HGH suppliers? You can bet that the Feds will now pressure Routh and Kelley with threats of prosecution for steroid/HGH distribution. The dominoes may be falling ...

Its still early though ... look how the Phils looked early in 2007 after the games started to count. At least the Sox reached a deal with Paps - south of the $900,000 he wanted (there's no way in hell he deserves what Ryan Howard got after two years service) but north of the $550,000 Bobby Jenks got (who had more saves after two years, no major injury history, but lower peripherals. $750,000 sounds reasonable to me, and you don't risk the potential damage to the relationship. Meanwhile, the Sox are on ESPN yesterday, 5-2 lead in the ninth, they've gotten fine pitching - and the ninth inning features a three run bomb and a grand slam by the Dodgers. 9-6 the final. I'm keeping the fingers crossed that the rain will hold off this afternoon for the game at Fort Lauderdale. Me and the wife will be in the right field bleachers.

up yours, Lowe. Go read a Kennedy conspiracy book - that has as much connection to reality as you do when you dis LD and me.

Long time, no see, man. Looking at our member numbers, it looks like we both joined up almost at the same time ... and I know I was a little late to the party, so we're definitely past the actual b-day.

Who is this WILL person? Did they have a last name? Was he Indonesian and went by one name only?

Good response, Mike. Allen has ripped LD before. There's no point in going head-to-head with him on this. Its Allen vs a lot of people, and no one is going to change their minds.

I saw Hot Dog once at a used CD shop - they didn't allow you to audition CDs and I had this vague feeling that it wasn't going to be very good so I passed. I think at the time I was less appreciative of that era ... but now hearing that Allen considers the record to be POOP while Shawn, Mike, Jim and MG consider it a classic of its type ... well, I've gotta get me a Hot Dog very soon. That's a seal of approval from all concerned that I'm gonna enjoy it.

i wear a thin t-shirt so short that tufts of stomach hair jut out of the bottom and i wear oregon state basketball shorts which make it look like i am a very serious basketball player. OK, now I really do hope that you are dumpy papa and not dumpy mama as you have asserted in the past.

The blues.

Meaning, Paul, that this era wasn't a very good one? I wasn't really clear on whether you were rejecting these sessions in favor of better ones or what.

I'd drink the worst beer on the planet - say, Ole Milwaukee Piss Water - before I'd ever touch malt liquor. That shit is nasty.

Oh hell yeah!

Dan's still trying to figure out what he can afford and thanks everyone for their advice. He also is hoping to hear from someone on the Brew Moore and Johnny Adams discs.

When the "label" takes on the meaning of the word used, that is absolutely "odious". Do you cook? Do you appreciate a nice thick cut, perfectly aged, seasoned and cooked piece of steak? How would you feel if someone served you a gray, rubbery "hamburger" from the local school lunch room and told you it was steak? Would you simply say "Live and let live" and "that's not really odious or evil" or would you want to let that misinformed person know what constitutes steak and what constitutes disgusting crap?

Interesting. But would the plane have landed safely on the first attempt if the experienced pilot were at the controls? I would tend to doubt it but who knows. I'd be curious to know exactly when he took over - when the plane took the extreme angle relative to the runway, or after?

I think it boils down to a highly possessive attitude toward the term "jazz" - its been appropriated, illegitimately, to market non-jazz music, and fans of the real stuff (or at least some of them) find that especially odious.

1) i can't believe there ever was a whole generation listening to smooth jazz 2) what does it mean to "understand jazz"? who can deservedly claim to have understood jazz? someone who listens to hank mobley the way others are listening to the Yellowjackets? what's wrong with people wrongly assuming they have understood something if it doesn't do anyone harm? (i mean, in rocket science i would see the problem but here..) According to AMG, so if we agree that he is the fount of all things smooth, then people have been listening to smooth jazz for over 20 years, the usual definition of a "generation". I think you're putting to much emphasis on "understand" - its more like fans of the G-ster think "OK, I know what jazz is about" and I think that most of us would say that you don't anything about jazz from listening to him. As for the harm done, let me try an analogy. Let's say that some poor lost soul mistook the New York Mets for the New York Yankees. His knowledge of the Yankees would be a franchise of no great success, with two world championships in three World Series appearances in nearly fifty years of existence. I think true Yankee fans would very much want that person to know that the team in fact has a far more illustrious history covering most of the last century, and that he knows nothing about the "real Yankee franchise".