GA Russell

Lonnie Smith

Thanks sonnymax!

LOL! I understand. This reminds me a lot of early Passport.

This one is up at Spotify. I like it. It is light and breezy, not very deep. Reminds me of the 70s.

Al Cameron Week 11 picks and power rankings http://www.cflblogzone.com/2012/09/a-couple-of-factors-behind-davis-trade-this-week%E2%80%99s-picks-and-rankings/

The Eskimos traded Greg Carr to the Riders for the rights to Matthew O'Donnell, whom Cincinnati cut the other day. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404575 ***** Greg Xenakes Week 11 picks http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4527102 All eight teams are playing home and home series this week.

Happy Birthday sidewinder!

Jim, you may remember this thread from 2006.

What do you think? INVASION GROUP IN COLLABORATION WITH INNERHYTHMIC RECORDS TO ISSUE FIRST EVER ACOUSTIC SOLO BASS RECORDING BY BILL LASWELL MEANS OF DELIVERANCE AVAILABLE ON WWW.INNERHYTHMIC.COM, IN STORES AND ONLINE OCTOBER 16, 2012 NEW YORK, September 4, 2012 - Innerhythmic Records, founded by musician and producer Bill Laswell, presents a milestone release, a rare return to the roots. In keeping with his distinguished career, Laswell decided to go solo and acoustic. Means of Deliverance showcases original solo pieces on an innovatively designed instrument, the Warwick Alien fretless four-string acoustic bass guitar. This work adds to an acclaimed catalog of forward-thinking projects and puts Laswell in touch with his foundational instrument. Award-winning jazz journalist Bill Milkowski, who authored the book "Jaco" on jazz icon Jaco Pastorius, summarizes Laswellʼs project, Means of Deliverance, the latest addition to a legendary carreer. Attached below. TRACKS 1. Against the Upper House 2. A Dangerous Road 3. Ouroboros 4. Buhala 5. Bagana/Sub Figura X 6. In Falling Light 7. Aeon 8. Epiphaneia 9. Lightning in the South 10. Low Country Laswellʼs sense of creative daring as a producer is further demonstrated on several recordings that have kept him on the cutting edge for over three decades, including Afrika Bambaataaʼs collaboration with punk-rocker John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols fame) on World Destruction and PiLʼs Album (which brought together an unlikely crew of Sex Pistolsʼ frontman Lydon with drumming greats Ginger Baker and Tony Williams, synth-pop pioneer Riyuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra fame and rising guitar star Steve Vai). His spoken word collaborations with beat poet William S. Burroughs and expatriate poet-composer Paul Bowles have gone against the grain of music industry trends while his radical remixes (or re-imaginations) of landmark recordings by Miles Davis (Panthalassa), Carlos Santana (Divine Light: Reconstruction & Mix Translation) and Bob Marley (Dreams of Freedom) have further defined Laswellʼs audacious m.o. as a producer. As a player, Laswellʼs bass lines resound with rare authority on groundbreaking projects by Tabla Beat Science (with Zakir Hussain, Karsh Kale and Talvin Singh), his avant-dance band Material, his progressive dub flavored Method of Defiance and the throbbingly intense power trios Massacre (with Fred Frith and Fred Maher), Painkiller (with John Zorn and Mick Harris), Praxis (with Buckethead and Brain) and Blixt (with Raoul Bjorkenheim and Morgan Agren). In recent years, Laswellʼs artistic reach has extended to the continent of Africa, where he has sought out "the new thing" in countries like Morocco, Senegal, Mali and Ethiopia, just as he did in the South Bronx some 30 years ago. An eternal musical renegade, Laswell has always played by his own rules. Eschewing standard music business models, he continues to call his own shots as a producer while pursuing a visionary path. With Means of Deliverance, his most austere and personal album to date, Laswell pushes the envelope in a zen-like way. An intimate and revealing solo bass outing, performed entirely on a Warwick Alien fretless four-string acoustic bass guitar, it puts a premium on melody while tapping into some of Laswellʼs deepest roots as a musician. "I think in this case, itʼs about where you come from," he says of his first-ever solo bass recording. "And you never lose that. If you come from a background where you hear country music, you hear blues and simple music, and youʼre born with it...maybe you forget about it later on when you get involved with more complex or avantgarde things, but it never really goes away. You just have to sometimes move away all the things on your plate and get back to that natural thing." In a very real sense, Means of Deliverance celebrates Laswellʼs own Americana upbringing in a small town outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky. "I grew up in the country," he explains. "I heard hillbillies play, and itʼs different than hearing them on records. And it stays with you. You see the trains go by on the tracks and you realize people are poor and there wonʼt be anything else for them, and that stays with you. Many of these bands today are inventing images of these things. I actually was there, I grew up like that. So you have this thing deep in you and you play that thing of where you grew up. And it's rich. It's American music...Midwest music." Pieces like the Delta blues-infused "Low Country" and the melancholy but moving "Against the Upper House" exude profound feelings of Laswellʼs rural Midwestern upbringing while his sentir-sounding bass playing on "Buhala" and "Epiphaneia" reflect his more recent interest in Moroccan, Malian and Ethiopian musics. On the buoyant "A Dangerous Road," Laswell utilizes an Ebow to create a tamboura-like drone underneath his melodic motifs while he incorporates a sample of an Ethiopian stringed instrument on "Bagana/Sub Figura X." Elsewhere, the adventurous bassist and improviser makes almost subliminal use of slide while also exploring bell-like harmonics on the bubbling, slowly insinuating "Ouroboros" and the mesmerizing "In Falling Light," affects resounding upright bass tones on the sparsely appointed "Aeon" and strikes a surging vibe with muted strumming on the low-end groover, "Lightning in the South." "I found it to be kind of a folk sound, a country sound, a blues sound," says Laswell of the richly resonant Warwick acoustic bass guitar heard throughout Means of Deliverance. "And I heard it that way. I didnʼt see it as a virtuoso technical thing. I approached it more like Muddy Watersʼ Folk Singer album or some Delta blues recordings by Son House. Those things, to me, are more relevant than fusion recordings or jazz recordings. Itʼs just simple music, simple statements and thatʼs the concept here. Itʼs meant to be minimal and simple, like a childrens song. Itʼs not meant to be thematic, itʼs more like something you can easily relate to." Means of Deliverance stands as a crowning achievement for the prolific bassist-composer-producer and occupies a special spot in Laswellʼs sprawling discography. "These kind of things take more priority because theyʼre personal," he says. "And they have great meaning because you take the kind of devotion and commitment that goes into religion and you put that into each note and each chord. And thatʼs a powerful thing." Laswellʼs solo bass showcase resonates with that kind of exalted power and majesty. "I feel very good about it," he says of his work on Means of Deliverance. "Itʼs a simple statement that has a background...the background is how I grew up. Itʼs not pretentious or trying to grab anything technical or academic. It just has to do with impressions as you grow up. Itʼs music that comes out of a life experience, which is what it should be. Otherwise, itʼs not music, itʼs just some notes flying around. But this music is about feelings, memories, intuitions. It comes from a very real place." And you can feel that earthiness and urgency from track to track on Means of Deliverance. -Bill Milkowski

Happy Birthday 2012 Jim!

Belated Happy Birthday 2012 Stompy!

Belated Happy Birthday 2012, umum!

Belated Happy Birthday 2012 romualdo!

What a day! You picked two great games to record, aloc! Toronto Argonauts 33....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 30 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4526627 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404461 What a terrific game! It was a fun first half. Hamilton dominated the third, and appeared to have the game in hand. But Toronto dominated the fourth and took an 8 point lead. With two minutes to go the Ticats scored a TD with the 2 point convert to tie it. With 26 seconds left, Swayze Waters kicked a 33 yard field goal to win it. Chris Williams set two records on one play. He returned his sixth kick of the season (fifth punt) for a TD, and he returned a punt for a TD for the third consecutive game. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/teams/story/?id=404450&hubname=cfl-tiger_cats ***** At this stage of the season, I think it's safe to write off the Bombers. It's possible that they will go on a tear when a healthy Buck Pierce comes back, but the team appears to be in disarray. And despite their decent record, I don't think that the Argos are Grey Cup calibre. The offensive line just isn't good enough. Ricky Ray is a drop back passer, and he hasn't been given time all year. Today the coaches had him running roll out plays, and that's not him. ***** Calgary Stampeders 31....Edmonton Eskimos 30 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4526669 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/teams/story/?id=404481&hubname=cfl-stampeders Another great game. I think five lead changes. On the last play of the game, Grant Shaw tried a 48 yard FG attempt into the wind to win it. It veered left, and Larry Taylor was able to bring it out of the end zone to avoid the single point and preserve thee victory. ***** Cleveland has cut Solomon Elimimian. He has ten days to sign with another NFL team, or his rights will revert back to BC. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404451

Lon, not to split hairs, but as I understand European law, nothing recorded before 1962 is a bootleg in Europe. All pre-1962 recordings are public domain. So items that were bootlegs ten years ago are no longer. Of course, the US has different copyright law, and US law controls this board.

I respectfully disagree with Bertrand's suggestion to do away with all links. I find the links in the Bargain Box and Bargain DVD Box threads to be very valuable.

Saskatchewan Roughriders 52....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 0 http://www.sportsnet...aspx?id=4526386 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404407 In a battle of last place teams, the Riders snapped a five-game losing streak in a big way. I expect that the Bomber fans will start calling for the head of GM Joe Mack if the Bombers don't win the Banjo Bowl game next week. PS - This was the first time the Bombers have been shut out since 1969. The 52 point victory margin ties the Riders' team record, which I think goes back to 1909.

Clarke-Boland wins with 5 votes to Gerald Wilson's 3, so that's what I have picked up. Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

Texas rookie Jurickson Profar hits a homer in his first major league at bat. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/nineteen-year-old-profar-homers-in-first-career-at-bat/article4515268/

I hear I Met Him on a Sunday fairly often on Sirius. Of course, I also hear The McCoys' Fever fairly often on Sirius, and that was a very minor hit where I lived in New Orleans.

Perhaps ten years ago I heard 7+7 Is. I didn't think that Musak had many Love fans.

Thanks Jim. As I recall, both Dionne Warwick and The Shirelles recorded for the same label (Wand/Scepter), so I was thinking that it might be a cover of a Shirelles song, but I forgot about that one. Note: I could be wrong about Shirelles being on Wand/Scepter.

The New York Times article says that The Beatles did one of their songs. Does anyone know what that was?

sonnymax, go post your Wess/Coles cover on the multiple images thread!!!

From last night: Montreal Alouettes 30....British Columbia Lions 25 http://www.sportsnet...aspx?id=4525703 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404281 Great game between two top teams. See-saw battle with Calvillo sharp. ***** Minnesota cut Emmanuel Arcineaux, and offered him a position on their practice squad. He turned them down, and instead signed with Washington. Solomon Elimimian has signed with Cleveland. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404324 ***** Both Justin Hickman and Jerrell Freeman have made the Indianapolis roster. Marcus Thigpen has made the Miami roster. No links yet.