Dan Gould

EA is running with some staggering talent for that show. A heckuva lineup, I'm jealous!

Funny no one remembers Ghost Story. Like Kolchak, it lasted only one year. Guess Night Stalker got more attention back then.

I just caught the first Kolchak episode, Jack the Ripper, on the Sci-Fi channel, inspiring this poll. Even though I was only about 8 or 10 years old, I have strong recollections of both these shows, or at least I do remember that a few of the Ghost Story episodes scared the crap out of me. Couldn't find any decent sites for Ghost Story, I did find this site for Night Stalker, which gives some interesting background on the show and how unhappy Darren McGavin ultimately was with the production and the network: http://www.darrenmcgavin.net/night_stalker1.htm Interesting tidbit I discovered in my searching: Both of these programs were originally created by Richard Matheson (well, Matheson wrote the first TV Movie that introduced the Kolchak character). And of course Matheson got his initial attention with his writing for Twilight Zone. So, my choice? I'm really torn because I realize now that when I was a kid, I wasn't sophisticated enough to appreciate the characters, and the interaction between Carl and his editor. It was all about being scared, and at 9 years old, it didn't take much to do that. Same of course, with Ghost Story: I just have strong memories of being really shaken up by a few episodes. I think that the debut episode had something to do with a pirate ship, and a haunted house, and a ghost who looks like the lady of the house and she sends the housekeeper away, on a dark and stormy night. And another one, something about a plane crash, and someone who didn't get on the plane being haunted by the colleagues who died in the crash. Funny how you can dredge up little tidbits of memories from nearly forgotten shows from 30 years ago. Anywhoo .... anyone else remember these shows? Which one would you want to watch again?

Forget Jobim, I like him cuz he's a fellow DEXAHOLIC! Hope it was happy, Jim.

At used LP stores, if I am interested in something that I think is a bit pricier than it deserves, I simply ask for some consideration. The main record store I shop at, I've developed a relationship with the owner and he usually comes down in price. The other store, they'll only haggle if I buy more LPs and since they often price regardless of condition, I don't often purchase there. Ebay and internet LP sites, what can you do? Getting outbid on ebay has nothing to do with rampant greed, it has everything to do with someone valuing a record higher than you do. Nothing you can do about that. I have very often found records I am looking for through google searches that lead me to some little shop that has it. But the purchase being impersonal - either through a shopping cart or en email or phone call, I find it impossible to engage someone in haggling. They've set their price, either I accept it or I don't. If the price is way out there, I just keep looking.

Thanks. The good news is, this was not a complete shock and so planning was started ahead of time. Basically, in about six weeks, I expect to have my mortgage broker license in hand. There are big fees to be made in that field, and the critical added bonus is that as an independent contractor, I will always be free to continue to accept VO (Voice Over) work whenever it comes. We're also setting up my Music Room for audio recording, which will mean that I will also be free to expand my reach to get more VO work over the Net. So, mortgage broker will work out very well considering that, otherwise, in order to maintain availability for Voice Overs, I'd have to look at doing things like evening telemarketing, a jpb that isn't exactly conducive to sound marital relations as far as I am concerned. Leaving a company after six years (the longest continuous employment I've ever had) is no fun, but I've planned my work and now I'm working my plan!

Unfortunately, we may not be getting to the rest of the Fathead, let alone the rest of the alphabet. Dan's A to Z is hereby officially suspended. This project was undertaken as a work-only listening activity, and my employment ended on February 28th. There is no way to know if I will be in a position to resume a listening regimen when I get a new job (I am not optimistic) and at this point, my home listening time will be taken up by the very, very large backlog I currently have. Perhaps at some point I will resume the A to Z at home, but one never knows what the future will hold, right? Thanks to all who enjoyed following my tracking of the collection, and to those who hated this thread, saw no purpose to it, or hated my jazz tastes, be thankful its in all likelihood terminated. Its just too bad you'll never find out just how many Cecil Taylor discs I have.

Lee Morgan: Expoobident Sonic Boom Charisma Infinity Leeway The Gigolo Taru Lee Morgan/Cliff Jordan Quintet Live in Baltimore 1968 The Procrastinator Young Lions (that Veejay thing Lee appeared on, its filed here) Caramba! The Rajah Tom Cat The Rumproller Introducing Lee Morgan We Remember You Here's Lee Morgan The SixthSense Double or Nothin' (Conte Candoli and Lee Morgan) More Birdland Sessions Unforgettable Lee Live at the Lighthouse (the Fresh Sounds issue) The Sidewinder Cornbread Delightfulee Search for the New Land Standards Tribute to Lee Morgan Free Wheelin - The Music of Lee Morgan (Claudio Roditi) (those last two are Lee tributes that I filed with the rest of Mogie) The former Mogie Man (anyone remember before I was GHF?) has lots of Mogie! Zbigniew Namyslowski Lola Sandy Mosse: Relaxin' With Bert Myrick: Live and Well Morris Nanton: Soul Fingers Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron Complete BN and Capitol Recordings Oliver Nelson: Stolen Moments Blues & The Abstract Truth More Blues & The Abstract Truth Soul Battle Main Stem (with Joe Newman Fantabulous Steve Nelson Some disc on TCB, there ain't no name on it! Chris Neville: From the Greenhouse Phineas Newborn, Jr: Harlem Blues David "Fathead" Newman: Heads Up Davey Blue Mr. Gentle, Mr. Cool Fire! Live at the Village Vanguard Blue Greens & Beans (with Marchel Ivery)

This really had me confused so I checked AllMovie Guide. Catrall was in a Star Treck film, but it was hardly an early one. It was number six, The Undiscovered Country. So, I suspect that the person you were thinking of appeared in ly someone who back then was quite nice, IMO but is now. to borrow a phrase from SNL, "A rapacious swamp sow": Kirstie Alley in Star Trek II, with her Vulcan Ears: And looking mighty fine without them, back in the day" (sorry for turning this into the Babe thread. Maybe I could post a picture of Kirstie now, to make you forget what she looked like then?

Your confusion lies in the fact that neo-traditionalist refers specifically to the movement spawned by Wynton: blues and swing - no fusion, no AG, etc. Neo-traditionalist refers to the "young lions" who followed Wynton or were mentored by him. Some neo-traditionalists have moved beyond that initial base, like Chris McBride moving into funk and Roy Hargrove doing his recent projects. But anyone coming out of the "tradition" of the AG or drawing on european folk musics or anything other than blues and swing are not usually identified as "neo-traditionalist."

I wouldn't call Dave Douglas a neo-traditionalist.

No one hit fifty in the last two years. As to the philosophical question asked above, it can be measured by the players who used to hit long outs and then suddenly hit loads of dingers. Those loads of dingers is the exact measurement of how much more is steroids.

For my money, there best work from the first hitch with BN.

This is an excellent point. Anyone else ever notice how many frickin' babes shop at Target and how few seem to make it into Walmart? Maybe that's the secret of their success: There are far more arfs than there are babes. they're sellin to the masses ... and those with masses of asses.

If I remember correctly, his album for Nagel Heyer, Fields of Gold is pretty nice. Solid, mainstream guy. I enjoy him.

I'm sure I'll get slammed, but yes, I have recently used the download service. This is the way I looked at it: While working in commercial radio, I found myself enjoying a small but not insignificant fraction of the music I played in both country and soft AC formats. Before leaving, I used the CD libraries to make cassettes for myself. Wanting to be able to play that music on CD (I don't have anyway to hook up the cheap cassette deck to the CD burner), I recently downloaded quite a few of the tunes I used to enjoy. The way I looked at it was that to pay 88 cents per tune and packing a compilation CD with the tunes I like is damn sight better than finding used copies of CDs, even well picked compilation CDs will only have 3 or 4 of the tunes I want. This way, I paid for what I wanted and got only what I wanted. MP3 sound was fine overall, especially since I'll mostly listen in the car. Annoyances: contrary to what the website says, I had to use Windows Media Player in order to burn CDs. It says you can use any program, but the fact is that even after Windows Media "adds" them to your playlist (goes to the site and confirms that you are licensed to use them) my audio editing software, Goldwave, and my regular burning software, Nero, continued to identify the MP3s as protected and would not access them. However, once I successfully burned them, I am now able to extract the CD files to wav or mp3 and do whatever I want with them. but I didn't like using Windows Media to burn, I think it does a crappy job. I've had to reburn a couple of discs. So, go ahead and slam me for giving money to the Evil Empire. Or slam me for actually liking some country and AC tunes from the 90s. Makes no never mind to me.

Excellent news, Mike!

I see where you're coming from, Matt, but I think the testing process that's now in place is strict enough. And over time, the changes that MLB put into the minor leagues (with much more stringent testing and much closer to a zero-tolerance policy) is going, admittedly after probably another ten years or more, a clean game. No one will make it through the minors as a steroid user, and the testing is strict enough in MLB that I don't think players could adopt to using it too readily. Granted, there are masking agents and all that, so someone driven to cheat may get away with it for a while. But I do think MLB is headed in the right direction. It will be real interesting to see how many positive results there are in the coming season, because it does now result in an immediate penalty. Meanwhile, did anyone catch Sports Center this morning? I saw the tail end of a report about a boxer who abused steroids in order to bulk up, and ultimately lost both legs due to blood clots caused by the steroid use. God how I wish that would happen to Canseco. That right there would be the end of his "steroids are great, used properly" spiel.

Did anyone see ESPN.com's fact checking analysis of his tome? There actually aren't a lot of facts to check, but they had about half a dozen which were easily demonstrated to be completely false. One of them related to his claim that he got to second base in an exhibition game in 2001, took one look at Brett Boone and knew he had been juicing, and claimed that Boone all but acknowledged that "fact." Yet the fact is that in the entire exhibition season, Canseco never reached second base and never even passed second base when Boone was in the game. It was a complet fabrication. Canseco is a joke ... but that doesn't mean that there weren't other steroid users. Its just impossible to believe anything he says because its so obvious he's got another agenda: making money, and to the greatest extent possible, crapping on Mark McGuire's reputation. But if you want to talk about another joke, I nominate Barry Bonds and particularly that press conference he gave on Tuesday. What a gigantic, juiced up pile of crap that man is. I don't think it will happen, but I hope that Hank Aaron takes a stand against cheaters and refuses to attend when Bonds is equalling and breaking his record. As far as I am concerned, the home run champ will always be Hank Aaron ... unless A-Rod or Pujols or someone honest breaks it. But Barry Bonds is a lying pile of shit.

I aim to please.

Considering that I grew out of rock before I discovered jazz, I suspect I'd be listening to blues, although it is also true that I did not discover the blues until I had started listening to jazz, so if there were no jazz, would I have known enough to get into the blues independently? Maybe not, so in the absence of the blues, I'd probably still be listening to the last genre I listened to before getting completely away from pop/rock: Oldies (50s-60s, and some 70s out of a sense of personal nostalgia for the AM radio I grew up on).

I'm glad we're not talking about this Gilad: He scares me.

Like Rooster, early on I bought some Best of comps. Best of Kenny Burrell was the only way at the time to hear, if I recall correctly, a track off the Freedom release, and also D.B. Blues from the album he did with Hank Mobley. I also had the Horace Silver Best of, and way back when, probably about 1990, long before the Blue 'N series, they had a comp of funky jazz that was really good. I also bought the Best of the Three Sounds because at the time, a number of those tracks were not available on CD, and I only had them on Japanese vinyl, with no capacity at the time to do transfers. In the last few years, I've also bought the Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins OJC compilations. They were used, so the price was right, and both were probably 80% things I didn't have, so I had no problem making that purchase.

Moral of the story: Never make your lady think of you this way: Or you may end up looking like this man:

Thanks also for giving the CAPS a rest and posting your summary. Now if we could just get you to understand when caps are necessary and when they aren't ....