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not much in Ann Arbor so far, maybe half an inch, but its windy and gettin' chilly. My walk home from work was an adventure, as the cold shut down my iPod about a third of the way and a lot of snow had blown over the sidewalks, which slowed me down.

Chunks? If that's chunky to you then what type of girls do you like? Dude, Natalie Maines has been chuggin' some Ben & Jerrys for quite some time. Take away the high fashion black drape and you'd see.... It's all good and fine, to me though...they are just the most annoying group that ever existed. Record and song of the year....holy cow that record is crap...who bought that thing? And now they'll just be more and more pretentious....uggg... The middle one is fat and the two on the end are just plain UGLY.....and I have no idea what their "music" sounds like.

I have a few Classic Records releases and I think they are great. Heavy vinyl (not sure how that affects the sound, but it sure feels like it's important), great packaging on thick cardboard with those rice paper sleeves for the records, and at least on the ones I have, excellent sound. They are expensive, which is why I only have a few, but I do like what I have seen and heard so far from them.

my first impression of this new album is: "overproduced". Lots of background singing and big drum sound. Probably would be better more acoustic-ish, stripped down.

Jay-C Mell-E-Cee

Scott, get it @ bestbuy. Last week it came with a free disc of acoustic versions of 4 of the songs, and I'm pretty sure that deal is still on. As for Mellencamp, I always thought his best was Lonesome Jubilee/Big Daddy. I really liked the folkish textures. Not sure if I could stand Joan Baez even for one duet, so I'm wavering on this one.

this one ain't grandma's music:

significantly less

the pictures are great. Now I know what some of those instruments look like!

Wasn't that announced in 2000? It took 5 years for that box to appear

bluenote board

I got it a few years ago from Dusty Groove for about $45 or so. It's large-sized, a coffee-table kind of book, with various interviews and pictures. Seems like most of the interviews were done in the mid to late 90s. There may be 90 pages total, half of those pictures, with large-type print. Expensive but the interviews are interesting and the pictures are great. If you're a big fan then I'd say get it.

I'm not a big Neil Young fan, but I bought this disc after hearing many good things about it. It is excellent, strong playing and a tight band. One of the guys in the band died a few months after the gig and this disc show how much he contributed to the band. Highly recommended Actually it wasn't a few months, it was about 2.5 years later when Danny Whitten died from a heroin OD. He was about to rejoin Neil with his new band the Stray Gators (the Harvest band) for a tour. He was so out of it that he wasn't contributing anything so Neil sent him back home with some cash for a plane ticket which he instead used for the heroin that he eventually overdosed on.

Was this sudden? She certainly looked fine, seemed to be healthy when I saw her in Ann Arbor in September. Wow.

wow. Terrible and shocking news.

what do they consider "jazz"?

Fripp-y, I mean, Happy Birthday!

So no Jarman? Who do I start pestering with emails for a live disc of this tour?

256 kbps here

Legacy also releases new material.

It's gotta be me then. I'm just not hearing it. This is the reason I got the Weather Report box in the recent BMG sale because I need to re-listen to this music and find what I've been missing. I just haven't been able to connect the later, funky stuff with the early, acoustic (and to me, better) Miles-ish Weather Report. They don't even sound like they are playing the same kind of music

the Layla box set, which made me get my second one as soon as I could just a few months later, which was the Allman Brothers box set

What happened? I hope she's alright!

My final 5.99 order is Bill Frisell/Ron Carter/Paul Motian

Much slower. I still haven't gotten an order I placed for the Trio Beyond the first week of Dec., but I got the Weather Report box from BMG in less than a week.