Robert J

I didn't go on about further recs - I have a ton of better world music on a number of labels. But you asked about this specific label itself and I said it was OK for what it's worth. It works well at parties where people aren't listening too intently and just want to have fun. I usually only pull them out in the summer. Some discs were actually suprising in what they had and I noted them above.

so that's what happened! I have about a dozen of the discs from Putumayo. And yes they are somewhat "lighter" than say the other labels you mentioned, but sometimes this is good and suprising. I like to put them on at summer parties. I'd say for the complilations there's usually just 2-3 throw-away items. Stay away from any of the "groove" or "electronica" ones - just your basic DJ or trance beats to world music. If you liked the Mali one try: Mali to Memphis: an African-American odyssey. Off the top of my head, other faves are: African Odyssey Music from the coffee lands Reggae around the world Blues Around the World Mexico

He can quote Herman Hesse though.

http://www.klru.org/jazz/Jazz_woodshedding.html

No lie - last night I dreamed I was there at the gig! Wish fulfillment? Oddly I've had about 3 dreams of meeting and chatting with Organissimo band members. (Sorry Greg, I don't think you were in any of them ) Someday, I'll catch you guys live.

The great Alan Jones. http://www.bagatellen.com/

Oh that BNBB!

And most classical stations play "top 40" anyways. And here's one from Beethoven (or Mozart, or JSB...)

Clem - I do recall that dude Helped me with some Keith Jarrett and Charles Lloyd selections when I was first getting into that. And the Detroit pianists. Though I was only in Schoolkids about 6 times total. However, a current AMG reviewer also worked there at that same time (and became manager) - Thom Jurek (a critic often accused of the opposite of Yanow - too many words )

Couple rejects penis after transplant ASSOCIATED PRESS Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife. The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal: European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology. The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that "an unfortunate traumatic accident" left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally. Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ. "There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife" for a transplant, and the operation "was discussed again and again" and approved by the hospital's ethics committee, Hu writes in the journal. Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involves standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves. From a medical point of view, "the main hurdle is the functional recovery," said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. From arm and leg reattachments, it's known that nerve regrowth occurs at a rate of about 2.5 centimetres a month and often is insufficient to allow normal use, he said. However, the ethical and psychological challenges in such cases can be even more paramount, as this and other recent transplants involving hands and faces illustrate. "Some of the considerations for a penile transplant are the same as for a hand or face transplant," such as the need to take lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, Lee said. The drugs can cause kidney and other damage, acceptable risks when the transplant involves a vital organ such as a liver or heart, but more ethically perilous when the operation is aimed at improving quality of life rather than extending it, Dr. Yoram Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel, writes in an accompanying commentary in the urology journal. Psychological issues are keenly important. The world's first hand transplant recipient stopped taking immune suppression drugs and later requested that the hand be amputated. Lee recalled speaking with the recipient of the world's first double-hand transplant in France, who told him it took months for him to accept his new hands and stop referring to one as "it." Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed "because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis," the surgeons report in the journal. Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors report. If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counselling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided," Vardi wrote in his commentary.

I saw one letter and it was adressed to "Robert". Just reading that and seeing my name made me feel warm and fuzzy inside and even manly. So I can see how this might happen.

So basically were these women who were tricked into modelling and then had to write letters to pay back a debt?

I was thinking that!

That would be awesome to see. I caught her group in 1984 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Verve only shows 3 dates 9/23/2006 Hill Auditorium ANN ARBOR, Michigan ------------------------------ 10/22/2006 NJ PAC NEWARK, New Jersey --------------------------------- 11/4/2006 San Francisco Jazz Fest SAN FRANCISCO, California

Looks like the KGB is on top of this (lots and lots of Ekaterinas) http://www.russian-detective.com/black_lis...l_scammers1.htm

made my lunchtime.

"Happy Birthday!"

Al, you originally had me at the "same vein" Since I was at the recent concert and they played the entire album, and even opened with to appease us long-timers, I should now get a copy.

I've got 3 - Dual, Technics and Revolver. My dad has a nice Victrola that he may give me some day.

so where is every one? - don't let chuck throw us off

Prepping for tonight.

whoa, drug induced daze in year calculations perhaps.... was thinking second year of university, but was actually second year of high school. Concert was at the Pontiac Silverdome, September 30, 1982. It's Hard tour.

Saw that later tour too - Boris the Spider was a highlight

Do you think this guitar will help you get better licks?