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Great to see you again, Chris!

Miami has hired Danny Barrett to be their new running backs coach. http://www.tsn.ca/former-cfl-qb-barrett-hired-as-dolphins-rb-coach-1.427660

Terrell Sinkfield has signed with Minnesota. http://www.tsn.ca/former-ticats-wr-sinkfield-signs-with-vikings-1.427664

The league has drafted new rules regarding tampering with coaches and other non-players. Gary Lawless has a good report. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl-drafts-new-anti-tampering-policy-1.427315 ***** Duron Carter has decided to return to Montreal. http://www.tsn.ca/report-carter-signs-with-alouettes-1.427567

Scott, I am slowly acquiring the components, but have not yet set up the system.

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I have tried changing the font, but nothing has happened. I am using a Dell PC with Windows 7 and the latest Firefox. Any more ideas?

Manfred says that the National League may go with the DH. http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/mlb-commissioner-says-nl-teams-may-be-more-receptive-to-dh/ar-BBoxitt?ocid=ansmsnsports11

I want to thank everyone for his recommendations. I decided that, considering both quality and price, I would go with the Monoprice 12 awg. I also went with the Sewell Deadbolt Fast-Lock banana plugs to go with the wire. I'm moving slowly but surely.

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Presents Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at The Village Vanguard DELUXE 2-CD SET AVAILABLE ON FEBRUARY 19, 2016 CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE THAD JONES / MEL LEWIS ORCHESTRA'S OPENING NIGHT. Includes 92 Page Book with Essays & Interviews From All Living Members of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra Including Garnett Brown, Eddie Daniels, Richard Davis, Jerry Dodgion, Marv "Doc" Holladay, Jimmy Owens, Tom Macintosh, Jim McNeely & John Mosca SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE WITH THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA SCHEDULED AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD ON FEBRUARY 8, 2016. The Village Vanguard's Website New York, January 21, 2016 - Resonance Records is proud to announce the release of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra - All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard. This first official release of these recordings capturing the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in their Opening Night performance at the legendary Village Vanguard in NYC on February 7, 1966, a performance that launched a tradition of successive Monday night appearances by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra that lasted twelve years and which continues today through the dedication of the band's musical heir, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. This combined fifty-year residency at the Village Vanguard will be celebrated by the release of this album. The album includes recordings from March 21, 1966, as well as those from opening night. These recordings will be released as a deluxe 2-CD set on February 19, 2016, within two weeks of the 50th Anniversary. This is the first official release of this material endorsed by the estates of Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Village Vanguard, since some of the recordings were unofficially exploited via a limited bootleg in 2000. This Resonance Records release includes the best takes from the February 7th and March 21st performances, many of which were not on the 2000 bootleg. Resonance Records, a multi-GRAMMY® Award winning label (most recently for John Coltraneʼs Offering: Live at Temple University for "Best Album Notes") prides itself in creating beautifully designed packaging to accompany previously unreleased recordings of music by jazz icons. Such is the case for All My Yesterdays. This release includes over 100 minutes of music, with a 92 page book, and is presented in a 6-panel, eco-friendly digi-pak. This package is one inch taller than a standard CD to present the 2 discs and book (extensive books have become a trademark of Resonance Recordsʼs historic releases: Wes Montgomery In the Beginning includes a 55 page book; the upcoming 2016 Larry Young release In Paris: The ORTF Recordings includes a 68 page book). The All My Yesterdays book will serve as new reference material for Thad Jones/Mel Lewis fans providing rare, previously unpublished photos, historic essays, interviews and memoirs. Contributors include executive producer George Klabin who recorded the original tapes, producer Zev Feldman, associate producer Chris Smith (author of The View from the Back of the Band: The Life and Music of Mel Lewis), longtime Vanguard Jazz Orchestra arranger and pianist Jim McNeely, and trombonist/educator and current member of the Vanguard Orchestra John Mosca. All of the living musicians who played on these recordings contributed to the notes, recounting their personal experiences of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. Included are accounts from saxophonists Jerry Dodgion, Eddie Daniels and Marv "Doc" Holladay, trumpeter Jimmy Owens, trombonists Garnett Brown and Tom Macintosh, along with bassist Richard Davis. The pages display rare photos by Chuck Stewart, Raymond Ross, Ray Avery and Jan Persson. During the same year that Miles Davis and John Coltrane debuted at the Village Vanguard with their newly constituted small ensembles, in early 1966 Thad Jones and Mel Lewis made an important statement by creating a modern big band. Thad and Mel recruited a dream lineup of talented musicians including the late pianist Hank Jones, saxophonists Pepper Adams, Jerome Richardson, Joe Farrell and trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. During a time of social distress in the mid - 1960s, the ensemble also made a social statement due to its diverse mix of races, ages and religions. On a cold February evening in 1966, jazz fans lined up around the block waiting for the doors to open at the famed Greenwich Village club; a new big band formed by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis was about to perform. Max Gordon, founder of the Village Vanguard, invited the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra to play that evening and for subsequent Monday nights. Inside the club was Resonance founder George Klabin, a 19 year-old self-taught sound engineer who had already established a reputation recording jazz music around New York City. Using a small cocktail table by the edge of the stage near the drums, he set up his 50-pound two track Crown tape machine and portable Ampex four-channel mixing board. He apportioned his six microphones among the various sections of the band (for the March 21, 1966 recording he used 10 microphones). Ahead of his time, Klabin captured astounding sound quality - he recorded directly to two-track, while mixing the sound live, adjusting the mic volume for each of the soloists on-the-fly. For this release, he transferred and re-mastered the audio using the original two-track tapes as the source. Thad Jones Ray Avery, CTS Images While a student at Columbia University, Klabin was head of the jazz department at WKCR-FM, the college radio station. His colleague Alan Grant, a jazz radio announcer, asked him if he would record this new big band during their fist gig at the Vanguard. Little did Klabin know that this group would become the renowned Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra who would perform every Monday night at the Village Vanguard for nearly 50 years under only three names: the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, the Mel Lewis Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. As agreed, Klabinʼs recordings became a demo tape for the band, which secured them a record deal with Sonny Lesterʼs Solid State Records, in exchange for Klabin's being given free reign to play the recordings on his radio show on WKCR-FM. In his essay, Klabin recalls the magical feel of that evening in the packed, small club. He writes, "There is a palpable crackling energy in the room! This is the first time they have played this innovative stuff in public. Thad is the cheerleader, conducting, waving, shouting, clapping. You can hear it throughout the recordings. Itʼs really special!" One can hear this crackling energy in the room from the start. During the opening tune "Back Bone," a Thad Jones composition, players and audience members are clapping and shouting encouragement for each soloist. The recordings capture the atmosphere at the Vanguard without compromising the clarity of the music. One can hear people laughing and shouting as they listen to these innovative, cutting-edge arrangements and solos propelled by Mel Lewis's infectious, driving rhythmic force. The audience and musicians alike are electrified by the music of Thad Jones, who arranged and composed thirteen of the seventeen tunes heard on this album. "Big Dipper" opens with a trumpet and alto saxophone exchange featuring Jimmy Nottingham and Jerome Richardson. This trumpet-alto sax conversation is followed by a brief piano solo by Hank Jones, after which the band roars in. There is a dazzling freedom to this music; you can hear the excitement in the room, not just from the energy of the music, but from the audience's reaction to it. The same holds true for the ballads, which include "All My Yesterdays," "Lover Man" and "Willow Weep for Me." Recordings from both evening performances (February 7th and March 21st) all convey the ebullient energy Thad, Mel and the band were expressing and the audience was feeling. By the mid-ʻ60s, Thad Jones had established himself as a noted composer, conductor and a top jazz trumpet player. From 1954-1963, he performed with the Count Basie Orchestra as featured soloist, arranger and composer for the band. As Chris Smith describes in his essay, Thad had a unique, sophisticated writing style that is "never completely absorbed on first listen - or hundredth, for that matter. It takes mature ears and repetition to process Thadʼs unusual inner voices, unexpected rhythms and crunchy harmonies . . . Simply, he heard things in his head that our ears and brains are still trying to process 50 years later. That is an undeniable mark of genius and one that should be consistently mentioned among the ranks of other 20th century composers such as Ellington, Strayhorn and Gershwin." Thad Jones originally wrote many of the compositions and arrangements heard on All My Yesterdays for the Count Basie Orchestra, but for whatever reason, Basie didn't use them. Thad left Basie in 1963 and became an in-demand studio musician in New York. But he'd always wanted the material he'd created for Basie to be performed, and not quite three years later, he used it as the foundation for the big band he formed with the celebrated big-band drummer - and his musical colleague - Mel Lewis. Jones / Lewis Orchestra Raymond Ross Archives, CTS Images Toward the end of 1965, Thad joined forces with Mel to assemble a rehearsal band to perform Thad's charts for which they enlisted the top players currently working in New York. After a couple of months of midnight rehearsals at Phil Ramone's A & R studios, on February 7, 1966, they launched the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra at the Village Vanguard in the performances on this album. Regarded as one of the finest big-band drummers of his generation, Mel Lewis developed his solid, bedrock big-band driving style with the bands of Stan Kenton, Terry Gibbs, and Bill Holman. He supported the rhythmic journey of Thadʼs compositions with precision and musicality while propelling the band with fire and energy. Together Mel Lewis and Thad Jones created an environment of innovation, as they explored new musical territories that paved the way for big band music to come. When All My Yesterdays producer, Zev Feldman, started working at Resonance Records in 2009, he learned about the existence of these Thad Jones/Mel Lewis recordings that label president, George Klabin made as a teenager. A fan of the band since his college days, Feldman was determined to produce an official release of this music in an expanded edition to honor the 50th Anniversary. He always felt it was unfortunate that in the 2000 bootleg release, many of the musicians were not credited and no one received compensation. It's been a long journey for Resonance to negotiate agreements with the families and estates of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis and to secure clearances from all living members of the orchestra and the heirs of those who had passed away. Resonance is pleased to release this music officially with blessings from all those involved in the recordings. Feldman beams with excitement: "This is one of the most important large music ensembles to ever record jazz. Some of the greatest players from the New York jazz scene in the 1960s come out of that band. You can feel the excitement - these recordings capture a special energy. Since I started working at Resonance, this has been one of the albums that Iʼve been most excited to release. Itʼs also special and personal to George Klabin, so we all wanted to go above and beyond for this project." To engross oneself fully in the musical experience of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestraʼs All My Yesterdays, George Klabin suggests, "Put on a pair of good stereo headphones and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of those two nights. You will hear all the subtleties: Thadʼs shouts, the room sound, the musicians' camaraderie, encouraging each other and most of all the pure joy! Now you can be there, too." Fifty years later on Monday, February 8, 2016, the Village Vanguard along with Resonance Records, will commemorate this golden anniversary with a CD release celebration. On this evening, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will perform compositions from All My Yesterdays to celebrate opening night back in 1966. Although they normally play this material weekly, this evening will serve as a special tribute. Orchestra leaders John Mosca, Douglas Purviance and the Village Vanguardʼs Lorraine Gordon have joined together with Resonance to celebrate this milestone in American jazz history. TRACKS Disc One - Recorded Feb. 7, 1966 Back Bone (13:21) All My Yesterdays (4:22) Big Dipper (5:51) Mornin' Reverend (4:49) The Little Pixie (14:24) Big Dipper (alt take) (5:44) Disc Two - Recorded March 21, 1966 Low Down (4:38) Lover Man (5:24) Ah, That's Freedom (10:08) Don't Ever Leave Me (4:28) Willow Weep For Me (6:15) Mean What You Say (5:51) Once Around (12:44) Polka Dots & Moonbeams (4:02) Mornin' Reverend (5:49) All My Yesterdays (4:24) Back Bone (12:58) Sax Section Jones / Lewis Orchestra 1966 Raymond Ross Archives, CTS Images ABOUT THE LABEL Resonance Records continues to bring archival recordings to light. Some past releases include the critically acclaimed 2015 Grammy Award-winning John Coltrane release Offering: Live at Temple University (Grammy® for "Best Album Notes," Ashley Kahn), Wes Montgomery One Night In Indy & In the Beginning, Charles Lloyd Manhattan Stories and Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate. Located in Beverly Hills, CA, Resonance Records is a division of Rising Jazz Stars, Inc. a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created to discover the next jazz stars and advance the cause of jazz. Resonance Artists include Richard Galliano, Polly Gibbons, Tamir Hendelman, Christian Howes and Donald Vega. www.ResonanceRecords.org For further information on Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra - All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard, please visit: www.ResonanceRecords.org

Scott Mitchell of the Calgary Sun is reporting that Eric Rogers worked out for Chip Kelly of Philadelphia a few weeks ago, and Kelly liked what he saw. So now Kelly has joined San Francisco, and he has signed Rogers. http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/01/20/stamps-star-rogers-joins-niners

I remember my favorite time in a movie theatre. It was the spring of '72. We watched a double feature of two new French comedies: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe and The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob. I spent three hours rolling in the aisle. My date didn't laugh once.

Today's Checking Down http://www.cfl.ca/2016/01/21/checking-will-chick-dressler-land/ You will note that Tanner Marsh has tweeted that he has been released by the Als.

The Stampeders today gave Eric Rogers his release, to allow him to pursue NFL opportunities. It looks like he will sign with San Francisco. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/01/20/report-rogers-set-to-sign-with-nfls-49ers/ http://www.tsn.ca/rogers-heads-to-nfl-after-stamps-release-1.426036 ***** The Scouting Bureau released its December rankings. http://www.cfl.ca/2015/12/11/cfl-scouting-bureau-releases-december-rankings-2/ ***** Dexter MCoil reached an agreement with the Eskimos. Until May 1, he is free to sign with any NFL team. If he fails to do so, he must sign an Eskimos contract for both 2016 and 2017. McCoil says that he has signed with San Diego. http://www.cfl.ca/2015/12/05/mccoil-esks-reach-contract-settlement/ http://www.tsn.ca/mccoil-signs-with-nfl-s-chargers-1.422215 See also this recent Checking Down. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/01/13/checking-down-mccoil-heads-south-and-other-off-season-notes/ ***** Alex Suber has retired. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/01/15/suber-signs-one-day-contract-retires-as-a-bomber/ http://www.tsn.ca/veteran-db-suber-retires-as-member-of-blue-bombers-1.423438 ***** The Bombers released Dominic Picard a few weeks ago. Yesterday he signed with the Als. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/01/19/alouettes-land-national-ol-picard/ ***** The Bombers want Weston Dressler. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/01/20/bombers-weston-dressler/ ***** Wally has promoted Khari Jones to OC. Both George Cortez and Chuck McMann have retired. http://www.tsn.ca/jones-washington-named-lions-co-ordinators-1.422281 ***** Indianapolis has let Duron Carter go. He is now free to sign with any team. http://www.tsn.ca/former-als-wr-carter-released-by-colts-1.422221 ***** Drew Edwards says that Delvin Breaux is doing well for New Orleans. http://3downnation.com/2016/01/13/former-ticats-db-delvin-breaux-locks-down-success-with-the-saints/#comments ***** Santino Filoso compares the seasons of the 2003 Renegades and the 2015 Redblacks. http://3downnation.com/2016/01/20/the-2003-renegades-vs-the-2015-redblacks-a-statistical-look/#comments ***** I think I have figured out why the text above looks like a URL, but I don't know a simple solution to get what has been done corrected. Any ideas?

Free agency begins Feb. 9, noon eastern. TSN has compiled fa list of those who will become free agents then. You will note that Hamilton, Toronto and Saskatchewan have the longest lists. http://www.tsn.ca/2016-potential-cfl-free-agents-1.406129 ***** Eric Matthews published his list of the Top 50 players in the league, to stir up some conversation over the hot stoves. http://3downnation.com/2015/11/28/top-50-cfl-players/#comments ***** Do you know who was the first black regular-starting pro quarterback? The Ti-Cats' Bernie Custis in 1951. http://3downnation.com/2015/11/26/bernie-custis-forgotten-legacy/#comments ***** Drew Edwards reviews the Ticats' 2015 season. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/28/collaros-injury-defined-the-ticats-2015-season/#comments ***** Cliffy D. Pine reviews the Alouettes' 2015 season. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/29/the-alsternative-2015-year-in-review-part-1-of-2/#comments http://3downnation.com/2015/12/30/the-alsternative-2015-year-in-review-part-2-of-2/#comments *****

TTK, you need professional help! It wouldn't surprise me if William Shatner or Jack Webb did what you're looking for!

I don't think I posted this last spring. Drummer Dan Brubeck Honors His Parents' Music (& Debuts on CD as a Leader) With "Celebrating the Music and Lyrics of Dave & Iola Brubeck," To Be Released by Blue Forest Records April 28 2-CD Set Was Recorded August 2013 Live at the Cellar, Vancouver, BC With Brubeck's Quartet: Saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, Pianist Tony Foster, & Bassist/Vocalist Adam Thomas April 8, 2015 On his brilliantly realized new album Celebrating the Music and Lyrics of Dave & Iola Brubeck, drummer Dan Brubeck introduces his parents' remarkable and surprisingly little-known songbook. The second youngest of Dave and Iola Brubeck's six children, Dan has an extensive history of performing and recording alongside his famous pianist father Dave Brubeck and had long wanted to explore some of the songs and textual settings that his parents collaborated on over the years. The 2-CD set, which happens to be Dan's recording debut as a leader, will be released by Blue Forest Records on April 28. "Some of these songs could be classified as 'standards,'" he notes, "but most people have never heard them with Iola's lyrics. Many of these songs have rarely been heard at all." "In Your Sweet Way" is the track that opens the album, and as with many of the pieces that follow, Iola wrote the lyrics specifically for a jazz legend (Carmen McRae). Iola, who died last year at the age of 90, contributed incisive insider commentary about the songs for the album's liner notes. Dave Brubeck passed in 2012 at the age of 91. The opportunity to pursue the project arose unexpectedly with some of the finest jazz players in the Vancouver, BC area, including saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, pianist Tony Foster, and bassist/vocalist Adam Thomas. "These are the guys who had good chemistry and we stuck together," says Brubeck, 59, a longtime resident of British Columbia. L. to r.: Tony Foster, Steve Kaldestad, Adam Thomas, Dan Brubeck (Grant Simmons). Brubeck made the serendipitous discovery that his bassist was the perfect vocalist for this material. "He was completely in tune," Dan says of hearing Thomas's singing for the first time, "phrasing beautifully with a soulful sweetness, all while swinging his ass off on bass. When the quartet had a gig we just set up mics in the Cellar, which is tiny and intimate. I was just amazed when I listened back to what we got." Thomas's most impressive feat is the easygoing authority he brings to interpreting songs the Brubecks created with Louis Armstrong in mind. He swings joyfully on "Since Love Had Its Way," and wrings every wistful drop from the masterpiece "Summer Song," an intoxicating draught of song that has unaccountably remained uncovered until this year (both songs were introduced by Satchmo in the Brubecks' politically astute jazz musical The Real Ambassadors). Adding to the poignancy of "Summer Song" is the fact that the chorus serves as Dave and Iola's epitaph. "I don't think anyone's done it besides Louis until now," Dan says. "For them that song had a lot of special meaning. I think Carmen was supposed to sing it but Louis heard it and that was that." The quartet doesn't avoid the best-known numbers, offering memorable versions of the oft-interpreted "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and Paul Desmond and Iola Brubeck's enduring hit "Take Five." But digging deep into the catalog yields one unexpected gem after another. Thomas hits just the right plaintive tone on the minor blues "Lord, Lord," a piece from Brubeck's suite The Gates of Justice. And "Strange Meadowlark" is another superlative piece that, like "Summer Song," could easily become a standard (it's got a good start with recordings by Carmen McRae, Frederica von Stade, and Hilary Cole). Born in Oakland on May 4, 1955, Dan Brubeck was a highly energetic child who found his calling at the trap set. Mentored by two consummate polyrhythmic masters, Joe Morello and Alan Dawson (at the Berklee College of Music), he was working professionally before he finished his teens. Over the years Dan was featured on nearly a dozen albums with his father, and toured widely with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, including many appearances with the world's leading orchestras. He's been an integral part of the various Brubeck bands, including the Darius Brubeck Ensemble, Two Generations of Brubeck, and the New Brubeck Quartet. He's toured internationally and recorded three widely played albums with his electric jazz group, The Dolphins, and co-led the Brubeck LaVerne Trio with his brother Chris and pianist Andy LaVerne. Dan has also toured with acts ranging from The Band and David Benoit to Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond, and has recorded with jazz guitar legend Larry Coryell, singer/songwriter Livingston Taylor, jazz/pop singer Michael Franks, and pioneering blues guitarist Roy Buchanan. Dan continues to perform and record with his siblings -- Chris Brubeck, a bassist, trombonist, and noted composer, in the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, and pianist/composer Darius Brubeck in Brubecks Play Brubeck -- when he's not playing with his Vancouver band. The Dan Brubeck Quartet will be appearing at the following venues, with additional dates in the works: 8/1 Kaslo (BC) Jazz Festival, 7pm; 8/15 The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra's Evening of Jazz at The Lake, Red Deer, Alberta; 9/18 Jazz n Caz, Cazenovia (NY) College Jazz Festival; 9/19 Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs, NY; 9/20 Weir Farm, Wilton, CT. Photo of Dan Brubeck by Colbert Photography Web Site: danbrubeck.com

And now continuing on... John Hodge has taken a look at the 2012 draft to see how things have turned out. He also provides a link to his review of the 2011 draft. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/07/grading-analyzing-re-drafting-the-2012-cfl-draft-2/#comments ***** I had Tommy Joe Coffey's bubble gum card in 1959. Curtis Rush reports that he is now beginning to suffer dementia. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/07/former-ticats-great-tommy-joe-coffey-struggling-with-dementia/#comments ***** The 2015 All-Star team was announced. BC, Edmonton and Hamilton each had 5 players. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/09/lions-esks-and-ticats-lead-cfl-all-star-pack/#comments ***** Here is a list of US college players currently on various neg lists who played for teams good enough to play in bowl games this year. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/19/the-cfl-guide-to-the-college-football-bowl-season/#comments ***** The Bombers named Paul LaPolice to be their new OC. http://3downnation.com/2015/12/21/blue-bomber-notebook-december/#comments

I'm surprised to see that Joe Farrell led a group in '64.

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Jim, I recognize the second song of the second video of your post. I had Brasil '66 doing it on an early '70s album, maybe Yo-Me-Le. I never learned the name of it. It sounds like something Edu Lobo might have written.

Jim, thanks for setting me straight. It all looked good until I saw that Real Gone Music is being brought to you by the same people who gave us Collector's Choice. So again, I will await your comments on the quality of the sound.

Jim, I thought that you really, really, really didn't like the Real Gone label. I'd love to hear this music, but first I'll wait to see what you have to say about the sound, etc.

Glenn Frey of The Eagles died today at only 67. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/01/18/glenn-frey-founding-member-eagles-dead-at-67/