GA Russell

Thanks Ted! I've bookmarked it.

Larry Taylor is injured, so the Stamps have signed Jason Armstead. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=405104 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/stampeders-add-veteran-returner-jason-armstead/article4539321/ ***** Greg Xenakes Week 12 picks http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4528883 ***** I forgot to mention that Darian Durant injured his hip flexor (I think it was in the second quarter) in the Banjo Bowl, and it was rookie Drew Willy who led the Riders to victory. Durant will be dressed for this week's game, but it looks like Willy will play. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/roughriders-to-give-drew-willy-work-with-starting-offence/article4536060/ ***** Here's an Allan Maki summary of where the Ticats stand about where they might play next year while Ivor Wynne is being rebuilt. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/ticats-running-out-of-time-to-find-stadium-solution/article4537890/

A few comments from the weekend: Marcus Thigpen (Miami, punt return) and Jerrell Freeman (Indianapolis, interception) scored touchdowns in their NFL debuts yesterday. ***** Swayze Waters sprained his neck (I'm not sure when or how), and the Argos brought Eric Wilbur back. He had a so-so game. He is a punter who also tries placekicking, and there is room for improvement in the latter area. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404829 ***** The league is promoting the 100th Grey Cup with a train car which will travel from coast to coast over the course of ten weeks. It started in Vancouver yesterday. The car is like a nice Hall of Fame display. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404744

Agreed! I think we do very well under the circumstances.

Banjo Bowl IX: Saskatchewan Roughriders 25....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4528162 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404893 Great game! See-saw battle. Sandro DeAngelis kicked a 40-yard field goal on the last play of the game to win it. I will explain the Banjo Bowl for those who don't already know. Troy Westwood kicked for the Bombers from 1991 to 2009. He had a big mouth. The Riders and the Bombers are each other's big rivals. Nine years ago in the week prior to the game in Winnipeg, Westwood had some fun during an interview and said that the Rider fans were "banjo-picking in-breeds". Naturally, that was good for some headlines. Ever since then the Rider game in Winnipeg has been called the Banjo Bowl, and I'm confident that they have all been sold out. Westwood is today a host of a Winnipeg sports radio station.

Dorothy McGuire has died. Love 'em or hate 'em, to me the McGuire Sisters were the voice of the fifties. http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/09/2329543/dorothy-mcguire-of-mcguire-sisters.html

The Miles Bootleg Series Live in Europe 1967 box is now going for $22.86. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005ARYEY6/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Horace Silver - Retrospective - used Like New $74.99 http://www.amazon.com/Retrospective-Horace-Silver/dp/B00000JYZA/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1347203189&sr=1-1&keywords=horace+silver+box+set

I had no idea until reading the LA Times obit that Joe South wrote Untie Me. I grew up with Manfred Mann's recording of that. http://www.latimes.c...0,5448730.story http://www.youtube.c...h?v=SKBxTcdKW9k

Toronto Argonauts 45....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 31 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4527849 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404819 The Argos dominated, but the Ticats wouldn't quit and kept scoring points. Cory Boyd's replacement Chad Kackert scored three rushing TDs. The Ticats are now 3-7. Everyone expected them to do well this year. It looks to me like their defense is suspect. The Argo's offense seems to have their number. ***** British Columbia Lions 43....Montreal Alouettes 10. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4527874 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404840 The Als haven't won in BC Place since 2000. The loss drops the Als into a tie with the Argos, first in the East at 6-4. The Lions now have the league's best record at 7-3.

Your mention of black churches makes me think of Charles Mingus. Complete RCA and Columbia box - $30.42 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Y2W49W/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00 Complete Atlantic - $129.99 (used - $40.99) http://www.amazon.com/Passions-Man-Complete-Recordings-1956-1961/dp/B000003446/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1347148639&sr=1-1&keywords=Charles+Mingus+Atlantic

Calgary Stampeders 20....Edmonton Eskimos 18 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4527704 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404789 I had to go to bed early with the Stamps leading 7-1 in the first quarter, so I missed what sounds like a good game. On the last play of the game, Grant Shaw attempted a 42 yard field goal to win the game, and he hit the upright.

The Stampeders have agreed to terms with Stevie Baggs. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=404726 ***** Matthew Scianitti Week 11 picks http://www.cflblogzone.com/2012/09/cfl-picks-week-11-stampeders-and-eskimos-ready-for-labour-day-rematch/

Happy Birthday Sonny!

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!