Dan Gould

My only comfort when one of the mo-fos is stopped next to me at a light or drives down the street just as I am starting to fall asleep. I've dealt with hearing loss most of my life (it started around the age of 5) and I am probably lucky I got out of the radio biz and stopped spending so much time with headphones on. I'd probably be completely deaf now if I'd used the WalkMan the way Tom has. And if I couldn't hear the music I love, I seriously doubt I'd have a lot of interest in living.

Pretty good, but my not-yet-paying job has gotten very time-intensive (don't ask, its a long story) and my folks are visiting us in Florida this weekend for the first time since our wedding day, so I'm a bit out of sorts trying to get the place presentable. How have you been?

Always, always ship outside the sleeve. If I have a poly-sleeve, I tend to keep the vinyl out of the sleeve. Isn't this a way to avoid ringwear?

what projects do you have in mind? adroit as you and michael mosaic are, you should both be getting huge blank checks. Was never asking for money, just proposing the folks whining for stuff write a budget for the material they want. Never got any takers. I don't know what you mean by "write a budget". MG He means to show us how expensive it is to produce a reissue so that we'll stop bitching about the lack of whatever reissue we are bitching about.

Happy Birthday, Hans!

Not being a customer of satellite radio, I haven't paid a lot of attention to these two companies. But I will say I am stupefied that the FCC has authority to regulate a merger. Terrestrial airwaves are a public good, so the FCC has the power to regulate them, just as they regulate broadcast TV. But they don't regulate cable television (I'm talking about mergers and programming, not local governments that regulate cable providers which have been granted monopolies). So what right should the FCC have to regulate satellite radio? Is there a limitation to how many stations can be 'broadcast'? It certainly doesn't seem that way. I can understand a concern over what stations may be dropped from a merged company, but it is completely beyond me why there should be a question about anti-trust issues. Yeah, I know it creates a monopoly, but no one needs satellite radio to live. If the market supports one company, fine.

That's it! Credit also to Bluesman. Now I remember - that disc had to be removed from the Cellar Jazz website because they hadn't gotten permission to record EA, and someone helped me out with a burn. Thanks for solving the mystery, and thanks again to whoever it was who helped me out with a disc that couldn't be legally sold when I tried to get it.

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Steve Allen was Buck Hammer. Was he father to Buck Naked?

I don't know about that database but "Music match" didn't, and that's the program that has identified CDRs under their source title in other cases.

I'm spending the weekend making the house look presentable for my parent's visit next weekend (three years in the house, and this is their first visit. You might say they aren't fans of Florida - the only other time they've visited was for the wedding. ) So my next task is to get the music room into decent condition - its been a long while since I've organized new arrivals, and the place has become something of a dumping ground for boxes of stuff. So I come upon a CDR in a slimline case with unfamiliar writing on it "You'll See". No artist. Obviously someone sent me a burn of something, but Lord only knows what it is. Tenor-organ-guitar and rhythm, and I thought that the leader might be Houston Person. But AMG is no help. Apologies in advance to the individual who sent this to me, for forgetting that you sent it and what it is. But I'd really would appreciate some help ID-ing this thing.

Gene Harris and Ray Brown Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan Lee Morgan and Jackie McLean Dexter Gordon and Kenny Drew

I disagree. You don't make a "Breaking News" post on February 15 of what is meant to be an April Fool's joke. It is more likely, definite even, that the March Gramophone went to press well before this broke, and the April issue is the first one to be published after.

Ah, the most joyful four words in the English language: Pitchers and catchers report. And here's a pic of the most important new pitcher:

It isn't a matter of like or dislike but total disregard and disrespect for musicians who can play rings around him and his pathetic bandmates. Add that to his laughable knowledge of the music ... I mean, forget that calling Miles with Tony Williams "early" ignores the Birth of the Cool - what about the first Quintet? The Trane-Cannonball band? All the other recorded bands that came before the second Quintet? I don't give a shit if a loser like him doesn't "like" jazz. Anyone who makes the crap he does, I wouldn't expect him to have any appreciation for something as complex and challenging as jazz. But to disrespect the musicians and know nothing of the history anyway? Fuck that.

I'll take a leap of faith here and presume that Mr. Copeland sucked and blew at jazz and was told so in no uncertain terms. So he played rock instead. By the way, the Police STUNK on the Grammys, speaking of talent. Where can I hire someone to throw a pie in this guy's face? A pie made of cow poo poo. Check the forecast in hell, folks. Rainy and I are in 100% agreement. Except that you couldn't pay me enough to watch the Grammys.

I'm still surprised. Yes, come back to me in two years to see if you can sell your townhouse for $400k. How accurate are appraisals, by the way? The true test lies in whether you can actually sell at the stated price. My parents own a place in South Florida, and they said the market is dead. No one can sell anything. Not that they are looking to do so. They experienced a big run up in value going into last year, but things have reversed since. I'd think you would know Paul that appraisals are based on the recent selling prices of comparable properties. They better be accurate because banks rely on them. Even if it takes four more years, there is no doubt in my mind that given the city I live in and the continued influx of population, our townhome will reach the value I spoke of. We've been here three years. Say it reaches that level in seven more years. That's a 285% increase over ten years - 28.5% per year. is there a better investment? Now, it is true that it is a buyer's market right now. The biggest problem is that there were a lot of idiot investors who bought at the top of the market and are now dumping their properties to get out from under the mortgages they took out. That is doing more to depress prices than anything else.

I wouldn't say I don't like it, but I am far less averse to cold weather than my wife, so the possibility of moving isn't nearly as troublesome to me. But that doesn't mean I feel "stuck" as that implies a desire to leave if I could. Nevertheless it is certainly true that I need to be here, or another large market, to do voice overs.

But I must say that the above real estate analysis has to be pure bunkum. Good luck hoping that you will see such escalation. It seems that prices are actually on the decline in Florida as well as in most of the US. I realize your wife is involved in that kind of market, but those figures strike me as economically impossible given current conditions and intermediate outlook. First of all, are you saying that higher priced real estate doesn't all things considered, tend to appreciate at a greater rate over the long term? In the specifics of my prediction, in two years, I'll tell you if our home didn't cross $400,000. Right now the appraisal sits at $280,000, and I guarantee that within two years (which is not an "intermediate" outlook) the value will have risen significantly.

Fact is, the northeast is even worse for taxes and population density (plus road and highway systems that are in worse shape with less capacity). The simple fact is that it its impossible for me to work as a voice talent in the sort of tiny-to-small markets you have moved to, regardless of how much cheaper the cost of living is. On top of that, my wife needs a strong real estate market to work as a mortgage broker. So we really are kinda stuck here, and that's not even taking into consideration my wife's hatred of cold weather and the fact that most of her family is in south Florida as well.

I got here when there was already bumper-to-bumper traffic. I avoid it for the most part by working out of my house, and by avoiding any VO gigs in the early morning or after 3 pm in Miami. My house was not outrageously expensive, and anyway, the advantage is that expensive real estate tends to appreciate at a much higher rate than other places. Bottom line, even in our slow-to-depressed real estate market, within two more years, our $140,000 townhome will have a minimum value of $400,000. I'll take that in a heartbeat over living in some quiet rural area where home values may grow by about 1% a year. You better be ready to live out your days there because the only ones to profit off your house is your descendants. Frankly, my only pet peeve about south Florida is the annual appearance of snowbirds (that's when the wall-to-wall people becomes annoying); and the year-round aggravation that is blue hairs who don't have a frigging clue how to drive.

Why? (If you don't mind sharing) It comes from having lived there for 32 years. Watching it rapidly transform from the very cool place it once was to the overcrowded, overly expensive piece of shit hellhole it is today. Heat, intense humidity, bumper to bumper traffic, wall to wall people, outrageously expensive homes and taxes, etc.......... The heat and intense humidity were here all along. Or did you only notice them after you decided it had become a piece of shit hellhole?

Delray Beach. You have my sympathy. I neither ask for it nor accept it.

Delray Beach.

If you have a partner/spouse/whatever: Coltrane & Hartman If you don't: Stanley Turrentine and the Three Sounds, Blue Hour