Dan Gould

OK I will play: Jeff Hamilton and Ray Brown

At least you didn't call her a Nazi, David. <a thousand eye roll emojis>

unproccessed and untweaked. This sounds to me like its a completely straight transfer of ANALOG tapes to digital to vinyl. Maybe I am (also) unaware of what unprocessed and untweaked means.

In this particular case, the performances were recorded on an Ampex 600, if I recall correctly, and yes, the recordings are mono. A set of tapes has been in Jim Wilke's collection for all these decades, and those two reels were physically shipped to me for mastering. (Blue Note now owns and archives these original tape reels.) As the production team and I started going through the contents of the tapes, we discovered a problem: One song was absent from the tapes I received, but a flat, existing, archival digital transfer existed for that track, and it sounded fine, so we included it -- and the album is better for it.

He in no way says its a digital master. One track was somehow missing from the reels and a digital transfer was used. What would be nice is to know what tune was sourced from a digital transfer so that others could make their own judgements. What this really does is call into question is what else was lost on the misplaced reel because its pretty rare that a single tune is all that was recorded. It sounds like Mr. Wilkie did his own mix tapes from the recordings he preserved of these broadcasts.

I don't know what I would possibly say to someone who doesn't think Bari Weiss or her media company produces work "in good faith". And anyway that would get into politics, unfortunately. The link is supposed to be a gift link so I don't know what happened. The gist is that high levels of pot usage among the current population is producing a reaction in some users in which they are in utter and total physical despair, with multiple trips to emergency rooms, endless vomiting (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)). For those who start to experience this, nothing cures it but quitting the weed. Here's another link https://www.thefp.com/p/grass-sick-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome-marijuana?r=px8hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

This is messed up and makes me glad I never smoked. https://www.thefp.com/p/grass-sick-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome-marijuana?r=px8hr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Looks like I messed up by not pre-ordering so it may be a while before I hear this. Wasn't going to be life-altering anyway and I am pretty confident that within six months or a year the Amazon price won't be as ridiculous.

I have absolutely no dog in this hunt but maybe the Jays having home field will keep the Dodgers at bay. If forced to choose at gunpoint I'd rather not have the Dodgers win. But I really don't GAF and might even manage not to see a single pitch the rest of the way.

Any way you slice it House Warmin' is a great record. I did in fact purchase s second copy once - the Nothin But Soul issue - at a record convention but it wasn't overpriced and as memory serves, I think it sounded better than my first copy, which was one of those black and white Argo reissues. As for why no Ammons mention it seems pretty obvious to me that he was a Prestige recording artist and this was Argo. Pretty sure that after he helped make Prestige such a successful label that Weinstock kept him as a contracted performer.

I think I am just a hair younger than the original Kiss cohort but really right there, just a few years after they hit big. HATED HATED HATED them. Might have been the target demo but had no use or interest in guys dressed up like that or why anyone would be attracted to that. "Beth", however, was a pretty song.

Paperback is fine by me. Will preorder for sure.

@Fer Urbina Thanks for checking.

Sad news I missed from last week: https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/mike-greenwell-dies I never realized Greenwell finished his career having walked 100 times more than he struck out. That's a good hitter (.300+ lifetime average told you that too). As for the postseason, I can't recall if there has been road teams winning the first two games in both LCS ever before. Brewers and Jays have their work cut out for them.

Aggie, this reminds me of something I feel compelled to do here in Florida. My wife and I used to watch Bar Rescue and sometime after we arrived in Plant City, there was a bar just to the west of us where a shooting took place. So every time I drive past that location (even now when the building is long gone, replaced by a quick lube company) I say in my best Jon Taffer voice, "Two people were shot to death in your bar ... and you're failing!"

I can only imagine what a "Sludge" band is. I do hope people clicked on the link, I am not a sailor or particularly interested in the subject but did find the article interesting and worth ten minutes. As for Lightfoot parodies, there is only this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/arts/edmund-fitzgerald-gordon-lightfoot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.o8Rl.LbaN2a01PVJh&smid=url-share

I'm a palate cleanser like liquid drano.

Well I am sure Felser will ask for December but there's no way to artfully combine name and month so ...

That's exciting news!

I never noticed especially slow connections and right now, my browser if flying from page to page.

Doubtful - that tune is on the "Standards I don't need to hear ever again" list.

When it was bases loaded I turned away, was sure he was saving the worst performance of the year for the playoffs. I did come back to the broadcast for the last two outs, after switching channel with my eyes covered and slowly realizing that he had gotten the first out and it was still 3-1.

Obvious key for Game 2 is going to be the Sox making Rodon work and work to get him out of the game and get into the Yankee bullpen. For the Sox and Cubbies sake, I do like the odds in 3 game post-season playoffs for the game 1 winner to advance. No wonder Cora rode Crochet and Chapman so hard.

Sorry Met fans but $350 million to one player just doesn't buy what it used to .... <green smilie here> (and its all the better that Francona is the manager of the team that benefits from the Mets largesse. In all seriousness, the Sox have their work cut out for them, and so do the Cubs but its nice to be able to watch October baseball with an interest deeper than "Die Yankees, Die". And @Patrick - what they accomplished this season is quite remarkable, whatever happens. They didn't just beat September deficit - they obliterated it. I hope the magic continues.