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David Naylor Week 6 preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/cfl-...article1244079/ Gregg Xenakes Week 6 preview (I guess he has taken over from Fred Williams) http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.../AJN4246473.htm ***** To make room for JuJuan Armour at middle linebcker, Wally has demoted Javi Glatt to backup and special teams. http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Glatt+Ar...7295/story.html

Clave, why do you think that a patent would be necessary to place ads in a "real" book?

Here is a matrix comparing all of the eBook readers out now or soon to be released. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix

Happy Birthday Shawn!

I've put on my Charly Records cd of Billy Lee Riley's best songs called Rock With Me Baby. Great stuff! I sure would like to know what songs of Herb Alpert and The Beach Boys he was on! Here's his LA Times obituary. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,6424973.story Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' Charlie Gillett/Redferns Billy Lee Riley, performing in 1956, is best-known for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot.” He also worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles. The raucous performer and songwriter recorded for Sun Records for four years and later worked as a studio musician in L.A. His other big single was 'Red Hot.' By Dennis McLellan August 4, 2009 Billy Lee Riley, a rockabilly pioneer and songwriter who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label and is best remembered for his 1957 singles "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot," has died. He was 75. Riley died Sunday of colon cancer that had spread to the bone at a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., said his wife, Joyce. The Arkansas-born son of a sharecropper who began playing harmonica and guitar as a child, Riley landed at Sam Phillips' Sun Records in 1956. His band, which for a time included a then-unknown Jerry Lee Lewis on piano, is said to have played a key role in shaping the Sun Records' sound, providing backup on recordings by Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Lewis and others. "My band was the Sun sound," Riley told the Associated Press in 1984. "We've never gotten credit for that, but it's a fact. I was doing what Elvis was doing before Elvis did it: mixing blues and hillbilly, putting a laid-back, funky beat to hillbilly music." Riley's single "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" was released in early 1957 and made Riley and his band, the newly dubbed Little Green Men, a regional name. His follow-up single, the hard-driving "Red Hot," came some months later, and Riley, who was known for his raucous stage performances, figured he had a national hit. Although Riley recorded what have been called seminal rockabilly tunes, stardom eluded him. Riley blamed Phillips for promoting Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" at the expense of "Red Hot." "After Jerry Lee got on the label, Sam got hung up on him," Riley told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2000. "A singing piano player was something very different, and he thought it could be another Elvis Presley. My record 'Red Hot' was happening, and [legendary DJ] Alan Freed was playing the heck out of it and told me personally I had a hit record." Riley recalled that he had been booked on Freed's upcoming rock and roll tour when "Sam got me kicked off the tour and sabotaged my record and called the distributors and canceled all the orders because he only wanted to go with Jerry Lee. He just felt that Jerry Lee was gonna be the next superstar, and he quit promoting me and Johnny Cash and Orbison. " After a "drunk and vengeful" Riley returned to the studio one night and kicked a hole in the string bass and poured wine over the tape machines, according to a 1997 story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Phillips arrived and calmed him down, saying, " 'Red Hot' ain't got it. We're saving you for something good!' " Despite his run-in with Phillips, who died in 2003, Riley spent four years at Sun Records. "I think we were the first rockabilly band to use sax and piano," he said. "We were the wildest bunch there at Sun. As individuals, we were pretty wild and we put on a heck of a show!" After leaving Sun, Riley formed two record labels and, in 1962, moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio musician on sessions for Herb Alpert, Dean Martin, Rick Nelson, the Beach Boys, Sammy Davis Jr. and others. Although he quit in the early 1970s and returned to Arkansas -- "heavy rock was out of my league," he later told the Associated Press -- he returned to music after being invited to perform at a Memphis music festival in 1979. Riley was born Oct. 5, 1933, in Pocahontas, Ark. Introduced to the blues by black sharecroppers as a child, he learned to play harmonica at 6 and received his first guitar at 10. After winding up a stint in the Army in 1953, he formed a hillbilly band.

I just finished playing Brewster's Rooster for the first time. I like it a lot when it sounds like a John Surman album, and not so much on a couple of tracks when it sounds like a John Abercrombie album. I'm sure I'll be playing it a lot over the next few days. There are parts when DeJohnette sounds like he is doing an Elvin Jones impression, which had there been no Elvin Jones would have been perfectly fine, but as it is sounds a little weak compared to what Elvin would have done. I won't make up my mind after just one listen, but I think this is a keeper for sure.

The Lions have signed three players including JuJuan Armour. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/BC/...0349656-cp.html ***** Scott Schultz is going to retire. No word yet on why. He has spent his entire career with the Riders, and I suspect that they gave him the option of retiring or being released, and he decided to retire. But that's just my guess. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...0351036-cp.html

Happy Birthday 2009 Lon! What will you be spinning today?

Nice find, funkogre! I wonder why they would need or want a patent to place ads within the text of a book. My guess is that they plan to change the ads periodically (like maybe every day!), so that maybe your purchase is not static.

Thanks for mentioning that one, Moose! I saw Mott the Hoople in 1970 when they were touring to promote their first album. I saw them a year later and met Ian Hunter. I loved that band before they hooked up with David Bowie! By the way, I saw in the paper last Sunday that Ian Hunter has a new album just out.

That's coming out in the US on Tuesday. What did you think of it?

Saskatchewan Roughriders 24....Calgary Stampeders 23 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...0338391-cp.html http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../final/W766.htm Good game. See saw battle, won with a bomb that beat a safety blitz with about 1:20 to go. More Saskatchewanians live in Calgary than in any Saskatchewan city, and as usual the sold out crowd had a lot of green in it. So there was plenty of loud cheering when either team scored. ***** Week 5 summaries http://stats.sports.theglobeandmail.com/cfl/scoreboard.asp

Adam, please let us know what you eBay sets go for. Good luck!

Winnipeg Blue Bombers 13....Toronto Argonauts 12 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/argo...article1239070/ Great game between two bad teams. Considering that he had been with the team less than a week, Michael Bishop looked pretty good. The Argos turned the ball over seven times! But they almost won anyway. With 19 seconds to go, they kicked a 47 yard FG to give them the lead. But they had a time count violation, so that moved the ball back 10. The 57 yard attempt hit the upright!

Michael Bishop will start for the Bombers tomorrow against the Argos. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...315376-sun.html ***** Hamilton Tiger-Cats 30....British Columbia Lions 18 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1238641/ I remain hopeful that the Lions will get it together over the course of the season. But after five games, I think it is fair to begin to think that this is the worst team Wally Buono has ever coached. Here's an oddity: There were no punts in the third quarter. This is the first time the Ticats have swept the Lions since 1992. With 3 wins, the Ticats have now matched their win totals for both last year and the year before.

Chuck, now it's my turn to agree with you!

Edmonton Eskimos 33....Montreal Alouettes 19 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1237096/ Surprise! The Als got it together in the fourth quarter and closed to within seven, but the Esks scored a TD to ice the game. Edmonton has been strong the past two weeks. ***** David Naylor's Week 5 preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1235712/

The Bombers played all three QBs last week, and Richie Williams had the best game. So today they released him! They also let go Tyrone Williams, whom they had picked up in the off-season. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...303686-sun.html

Christmas of 1967 gave us a small portable unit (don't remember the maker) that played mini (in size and length)-4 track (in operation) cartridges. I had two tapes - Jimmy Smith with four songs from his Got My Mojo Workin' album and Stan Getz with four from from Jazz Samba. It didn't plug into the wall. The flashlight batteries ran down in one day. I returned it after 48 hours. A few years later I remember reading in Billboard about a unit that played discs with two songs on them. They were called something like hip singles because the discs would fit in your hip pocket. I never saw them in stores. Our 1965 stereo's turntable played 16 2/3, but I never saw such a record. Right now there is a new item whose name I don't recall, but I've seen them in stores. They are solid state, and plug into your cell phone and iPod. They also have a dedicated player for those who do not have an mp3 player. The item has a pre-recorded album, and blank space for you to move your own music onto it. I'm guessing that they are pre-recorded mini-SD cards. And now that I think about it, nobody has mentioned the minidisc! I believe that they were quite popular around the world, particularly in Japan. I think that they never caught on in the US because Sony kept the price too high. Once the iPod took off, Sony improved the minidisc players and brought the prices down on the players and the discs, but it was too late.

Say hello to the Ticats' new receiver, Arland Bruce! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/bruc...article1234785/ ***** Ken-Yon Rambo hurt his knee in the game last week, and it has now been determined that he will be out for the year. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/stam...article1235276/

RIP. When I was in college I had an ABC Riverside LP of his which combined songs from The Stratus Seekers and his other Riverside album and featured Don Ellis and Eric Dolphy. I enjoyed playing that one a lot. Here's his LA Times obituary: George Russell dies at 86; composer influenced the evolution of jazz As a music theorist, he created the Lydian Concept to free improvisers from what he called the 'tyranny of chords.' By Don Heckman July 29, 2009 George Russell, a composer, educator and theorist who had a powerful effect on the jazz forms and methods that have evolved from the 1950s to the present, has died. He was 86. A MacArthur Foundation Award winner, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and a Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Emeritus at the New England Conservatory, where he taught for 35 years, Russell died Monday in Boston of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Russell was a rare spokesman for the study of theoretical principles in an art form that emphasizes improvisation and spontaneity. His treatise “The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization” -- first published in 1953 -- had a significant effect on the growing fascination with modal and free improvisation surfacing in the late 1950s. Elements of the concept, which outlines methods by which improvisers can free themselves from the "tyranny of chords," as Russell described it, were a factor in the modal works present in Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," the bestselling album in jazz history. Russell's premise that jazz improvisation could reach beyond well-established harmonic foundations further validated the methods chosen by jazz artists such as John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Don Ellis, Wayne Shorter and others. His own compositions -- beginning with the startlingly inventive music on his mid-1950s breakthrough recording, "The Jazz Workshop," continuing with his small groups of the '60s, occasional large ensembles of the '80s, and the Living Time Orchestra that he led on and off until his death -- were constantly evolving displays of the expansive possibilities of his creative overview. "My work," he told The Times after the MacArthur grant was awarded in 1989, "tries to achieve a kind of world view or synthesis of many kinds of musics, one that doesn't ignore the sounds of our time. My hope is that it's a complete music -- physical, emotional as well as thought-provoking." George Allen Russell was born June 23, 1923, in Cincinnati, the adopted son of Joseph, a chef on the B&O Railroad, and Bessie, a nurse. Drawn to music at an early age, he sang a number with Fats Waller at age 7 and played drums in a Boy Scout drum and bugle corps. After receiving a scholarship to Wilberforce University, he was called up for the World War II draft. But when tuberculosis was diagnosed in his examination, he was hospitalized, serendipitously with a fellow patient who instructed him in the fundamentals of music theory. Briefly working as a jazz drummer after his release, Russell decided to explore other areas of music after hearing Max Roach play the drums, and wound up in New York City. By the mid-1940s, he had become part of an adventurous group of young musicians -- Davis, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, John Benson Brooks among them -- who frequented Gil Evan's West Side apartment. Told by Davis that he wanted to "learn all the changes," Russell interpreted the remark as a quest to find new ways to approach harmony, and he began to work on his Lydian Concept. Applying the principles he was discovering, he composed "Cubana Be/Cubana Bop" -- early examples of the blending of jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms -- for Dizzy Gillespie's big band. In the 1950s, while still supporting himself with odd jobs, he wrote and recorded "The Jazz Workshop" album, which -- combined with the publication of the Lydian Concept -- thoroughly established his credibility as a jazz artist. A commission from the Brandeis Jazz Festival followed, along with the large ensemble album, "New York, New York," which showcased Russell compositions performed by an all-star assemblage that included Coltrane, Bill Evans, Jon Hendricks and others. Russell led his own sextets in the 1960s, but by mid-decade, the music industry's turn toward rock music had diminished the employment potential for jazz players. He moved to Sweden until 1969, then returned to teach at the New England Conservatory. A second volume of his Lydian Concept -- "The Art and Science of Tonal Gravity" -- was published in 2001. He is survived by his wife, Alice; a son, Millgardh; and three grandchildren.

Chuck, you're making me laugh! At present, this thread has 14,465 views. How are your threads doing?

Say hello to the Bombers' new QB, Michael Bishop! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/bish...article1231735/ http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...266686-sun.html

Happy Birthday 2009 md!

Edmonton Eskimos 38....Sasktchewan Roughriders 33 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1231551/ http://stats.sports.theglobeandmail.com/cf...gamecode=873636 The best game of the week. See-saw battle. Sask scored the first 22 points. ***** This will take you to the box scores of the four games this week. Click on "box" to see what you want. http://stats.sports.theglobeandmail.com/cfl/scoreboard.asp ***** Kitwana Jones chased down and held a purse snatcher in Edmonton the other day. He played his college ball at UNC, so The News & Observer printed the Globe & Mail account of the story! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/edmo...article1226495/ http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Edmonton/2009/07/22/10218886-sun.html ***** David Naylor is reporting that the Bombers are thinking of bringing in Michael Bishop and Casey Printers. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1231482/