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  6. The Baseball Thread 2007

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Tavarez pitched a great game and the pitching in general has been great this weekend

    will be the true test . The yanks bats are hot, they say good pitching beats well you know what they say.

    GO SOX !!!!

    I say they do great as long as they keep A-Rod in the park. Can you freakin believe what he just did?

    But like you say, good pitching ... and there's no doubt that Schilling, Beckett and Dice-K, plus most of the bullpen, is ten times better than the collection of stiffs Cleveland sent up there.

    Thanks for NOTHING, SS1.

    A-Rod = Mr. April

  11. Wardell Gray

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Last night i bought vol.1 44-46 on the Masters of jazz label contains 13

    selections with the Hines outfit. In the liner notes it reads that there may be 15 volumes ?

    the cd was released in 98 did they ever do nore than 1 can't find any info .

  12. Sly & the Family Stone upcoming catalog upgrade

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Don't know how much detail the box annotation gives, but I read a seemingly well-researched article (lots of firsthand accounts) that gave background on why Riot sounded like it did. Among the reasons:

    • Everybody was as loaded as they sounded.

    • The album was recorded on the run. Sly had been getting heat, some of it pretty blunt, from various political groups, and paranoia, both legit and imagined, had set in. The whole band, but especially Sly, had become somewhat of a "moving target".

    • As a "favor" to various groupies, drug connections, political "messengers", etc., the tapes were used to put down innumerable "guest vocals". By the time it came to lay the real vocal tracks, the tape had been recorded overr literally hundreds (some estimated thousands) of times. The tape degradtion was real, not an effect.

    So, There's A Riot Goin' On wasn't just a political title. It was also a direct personal commentary.

    Would like to read the articles. Could you post a link and/or cite? Thanks.

    you can also read the 33 1/3 "Theres a riot goin on " by Miles Marshall Lewis it does take stuff from the mojo article.

    http://33third.blogspot.com/

  15. Concord on the future of OJCs

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    I'm just wondering what the "object" is with a CD that makes some resistant to the notion of downloaded digital music.

    It can't be the disc itself, because you can make one of those yourself after the download (assuming that the industry uses a format that makes that possible, which they'd be crazy not to not at least offer that as an option, which means that anything can happen...). Unless you're really into the "label" of a CD, one's just like the other, especially once it's inside the player.

    Surely it's not the jewel box itself. Jewel boxes suck. Digipacks are hipper, but less durable, and I've heard plenty of complaint about them here.

    It must be the artwork, the booklet & tray card, that constitutes the "object" that one feels is lost by downloading. Ok, I can buy that, even if, once again, for reissues of LPs they're usually a poor substitute for the originals.

    So, what if...

    You download (presumably in a high-quality format) an OJC for, say, $7.95 (or, hopefully, less), and pay an additional $2.95 to have the booklet & tray card mailed to you. (Adjust the proces of each to whatever might be more "realistic"). Then you can burn your download to a physical CD, assemble the artwork into a jewel box of your choosing, and voila, there's your object.

    Good enough? Or is that nifty yellow & black stuff on the CD face what really matters?

    I can resell a CD if I decide I don't like it. I can buy multi-cd lots on ebay at very low unit prices and explore stuff I'm not familiar with. Some CD's appreciate in value (hello Mosaic), so I can buy those and explore, knowing that I can get my money back if I don't want to keep it. I can legally trade one CD for another CD without breaking any copyright laws, thus being able to further explore more music.

    Right , you can't resell downloads so in the long run it will become more expensive . I have cds now that i don't listen to and i can turn around make some $$ off of them and reinvest in my collection.

  16. Concord on the future of OJCs

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    ogg is nothing but an open source MP3. Flac and shn are the lossless files, as far as I know.

    And Jim, I did not see Brett Primack here or know that changes were made to a download source file due to complaints.

    I'd be more in favor of downloads if the quality was high enough.

    but isn't it funny (sarcastically???) that in one hand the industry (and the consumer market) wants us to up grade quality (audio, 16 bits, 20 bits, 24 bits, SACD, DVD-audio, etc, etc, (you name a few), and also for video: VHS, super VHS, DVD, HD-DVD, and television: wide screen, 100 Hrz, HD-TV, etc tect), and wants us to pay big $$ for it, and on the other hand they want us to pay the same amount for crap like music mp3???

    JB

    John Great post , why is it that movies on dvd are going in one direction Plasmas , big screens ,HD

    and music on crappy little ipods, cell phones, something doesn't add up ?

  18. Concord on the future of OJCs

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    I'm just wondering what the "object" is with a CD that makes some resistant to the notion of downloaded digital music.

    It can't be the disc itself, because you can make one of those yourself after the download (assuming that the industry uses a format that makes that possible, which they'd be crazy not to not at least offer that as an option, which means that anything can happen...). Unless you're really into the "label" of a CD, one's just like the other, especially once it's inside the player.

    Surely it's not the jewel box itself. Jewel boxes suck. Digipacks are hipper, but less durable, and I've heard plenty of complaint about them here.

    It must be the artwork, the booklet & tray card, that constitutes the "object" that one feels is lost by downloading. Ok, I can buy that, even if, once again, for reissues of LPs they're usually a poor substitute for the originals.

    So, what if...

    You download (presumably in a high-quality format) an OJC for, say, $7.95 (or, hopefully, less), and pay an additional $2.95 to have the booklet & tray card mailed to you. (Adjust the proces of each to whatever might be more "realistic"). Then you can burn your download to a physical CD, assemble the artwork into a jewel box of your choosing, and voila, there's your object.

    Good enough? Or is that nifty yellow & black stuff on the CD face what really matters?

    Well right now I'am buying OJCs for $3.99 - 5.99 sometimes $7.99 a disc i'd rather just stick to that it seems

    to me a download for $7.95 is more troublesome. especially if i can still score these at these prices.

  19. Concord on the future of OJCs

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Myth or fact: factory-manufactured CDs have a longer audio life than CD-Rs?

    Fact, but the esitmated lifespan of cdrs properly stored (ie in their cases and not in the sun) is over 100 years, so it is sort of a moot point. Also, there have at times been manufacturing issues with cds that caused unexpectedly short lifespans (chemical reactions between the plastic and recorded layers) - who knows if there are any more such issues waiting to be discovered in our collections in the neext 5, 10 or ?? years. I don't think it is likely, but the possibility can not be ruled out.

    I have had more than a few cdrs where they started to skip and the info wasnt holding up .

    so i also think it's the brand of cd-r you burn to some are better than others.

  20. The Baseball Thread 2007

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by zen archer

    red sox blah blah blah . go padres! go jackie robinson! west coast baseball rules!

    Well the Dodgers are like the west coast Red Sox what with Grady "i'm gonna stick by my pitcher" Little, NomaH , Derek Lowe.

    Padres too with Cla Meredith, Wells, Bard.

    Sox should have never traded Meredith and Bard !

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