Uncle Skid

Oh yeah, well I had three.... Nevermind, I don't even have the Hill set, but I want one real bad. The thought of buying one on Ebay makes me want to cry like a little girl.

Way back when I was in college, my roommates and I would get drunk and practice random acts of anti-vandalism. We'd be walking back from parties on campus and do crazy things like fix knocked over signs, pick up litter, help people fix flat tires, and other wild and crazy stuff like that. We felt that, in a very small way, it might counter some of the insanity that went on elsewhere. I ran with a pretty crazy crowd, huh???

I think this whole controversy is just a little silly. If someone who has never posted here wants to offer something for sale, what's the big deal? I know it may be considered rude, but I don't think we need a "mininum post count" rule. Maybe a minimum post count "suggestion" instead? The chances of me buying anything from a first-time poster is very small. I'd bet that is true for many others as well. People that have been around for a long time and contribute to other discussions on the board will always have an advantage over newbies when offering something for sale.

0.19% I'm pretty sure that Groove Merchant is Natalie's father.

Just noticed this: Most users ever online was 84 on Jan 28 2005, 01:50 PM

The first song of those samples (The Dance) is the *entire* song -- all 5:32 of it!! It looks like that is the case for all three. Those are some serious "audio clips"!!!! B-) B-)

If I count only my jazz CDs, I am currently the low man on the totem pole (251-500). This can only mean ONE THING!!! I'll get right on it!!

That gets my vote! Call 'em Samoas, Caramel deLites, or whatever, but those are pretty good right out of the freezer, too! I've also found that freezing them makes them slightly harder to eat quickly, hence reducing my total cookie intake significantly*. * yeah right!!

About a year ago or so, right here on this very forum! In fact, my first purchase was the Blue Mitchell set, right before it went OOP. I got caught up in all of the LAST CHANCE frenzy around here, and I'm glad I did! I also bought the T/K/M and Morgan/Shorter sets right before they were gone, too. I envy you guys you have been at it for awhile. I just can't imagine how cool it was to be able to order the Hill, Morgan, McLean, Rivers, Mingus and Blakey sets directly from Mosaic at reasonable prices! On the other hand, if all these sets were still easily available, I'd probably be broke!!

Man, I really wish I could go. It's a little over 2 1/2 hours from here to Ann Arbor (~170 miles), but this weekend just didn't work out. We've had a sick kid here the last two weeks, so I need to stay close to home as much as possible. I've mentioned this to Upright Bill, but I'm not sure what he's planning. He's having one of those "Texas Hold-em" tournaments at his house this weekend, but I think that is Friday night. I won't be going to that either -- I already went once before, and made my donation....

No Aldo Nova, but I think they might have some Loverboy!!! If Joe G isn't a member already, I'm sure he will be soon! Looks like they have a whole bunch of Rush CDs, too.

http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/discography/2030.html

B-) B-) B-) me too me too me too me too!!!!! My Seven Steps box also arrived today! I finally gave in and joined a week ago, at the $5.99 price. I figured the $4.99 deal is probably long gone, and if it did come back, I could try the email thing mentioned earlier in this thread. The box set, plus the first item in my queue (Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus) shipped one day after ordering, and both arrived today with no screw-ups. Aw Yeah!!

I just came in from doing my driveway -- there was almost a foot of new snow, all since yesterday evening. Not that it did any good, as it will probably be awhile before the plows come by on the street.

Photographs show unusual deep-sea creatures washed up by the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: FALSE.

Sing/Song from Roscoe Mitchell's Snurdy McGurdy!

I'm pretty sure you can't select your encoding rate at EMusic. Subscribers just have to take whatever EMusic has already put up, unless they "re-encode" at a higher (or variable) rate, and then upload the new files. Incidentally, I just came across this article: Understanding Audio Compression: MP3, WMA, Ogg, and More. It includes an interesting discussion of MP3 encoding rates: MP3s are convenient, but they'll never be as good as having the original CD.

When did you sign up originally, Greg? Was it before or after the $4.99 offer started disappearing? I'm probably going to just sign up now (at 5.99), and then try begging for the $4.99 deal. At this point, it might be too late.

200 cars -- that's unbelievable! Last night the GR news was reporting 100! I'm also glad I wasn't out driving yesterday!

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Um, yeah, we're gonna need you to go ahead and not watch Office Space anymore, because it contains "a theme of irresponsible work ethics". Now for something completely pointless: link.

Good idea, Al. I'm also sitting the fence on this one. The $4.99 deal almost pushed me over the edge, but now that it appears to be back up to $5.99, so I'm in no particular hurry. Aw heck, I'll probably sign up, as it only took about an hour to come up with this want list (all supposedly readily available): Duke Ellington - Piano in the Foreground Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background Charles Mingus - Mingus x5 Ornette Coleman - Complete Science Fiction Cecil Taylor - Conquistador Larry Young - Mothership Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter Wayne Shorter - JuJu Miles Davis - Seven Steps (box set) Ornette Coleman - At the Golden Circle, Vol 2 Miles Davis Quintet - Workin' (K2) Roland Kirk - Domino Thad Jones / Mel Lewis - Consummation Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers Lee Morgan - Sixth Sense Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand Dexter Gordon - Go Thelonious Monk - Columbia Years (x3), Monk's Dream Sonny Rollins - Complete Prestige Recordings Grant Green - Grantstand Jazz Messengers - At the Cafe Bohemia Vol 1

Clicking that link now shows $5.99 -- I cleared my cache twice just to make sure. I was just getting ready to join. Is $4.99 gone for good??

I can't believe no one has mentioned Uncle Ted!!!