GregK

I am thinking of trying soy half and half in my coffee, for a change. Normally I use non-fat or if I have to (like at Starbucks, for example) the regular half and half

I wish they'd get the rest of the Dylan SACDs in there already. Columbia House has them all but they won't let my wife join. I was going to get them all in the intro offer under her name but they are demanding bank account info, etc, making it more difficult than usual to join, so I told them I'll just give my money to someone else.

my wife tries to have an open mind, as she came with me to see Hancock and Shorter and then again both artists when they came with their own quartets, and she really enjoyed the Jarrett trio. But most of the time she looks absolutely bored when I have any music on (she prefers TV and movies) and I swear I can see her shudder when I put Zappa or King Crimson on. I have a catch-22 with work, too: I work in a lab so guys are playing music all the time, but of course my tastes are in the tiny minority (I'd list the crap I hear other people play but I choose to ignore most of it. Lots of contemporary angry-young-man angst ridden formulaic garbage) so the few times I play jazz or some challenging music it's non-stop complaints and lots of "zingers"!! So I just listen to music on my mp3 player or in the car.

I've never liked the vibes, marimba, etc. Guess that's why I could never appreciate Dolphy's Out to Lunch, or Dave Holland's current band. That sound just instantly make me think of Lawrence Welk or ultra-smooth music!!!

woops!!! my mistake!!!

I'm done with baseball. I have been a fan for 25 years, until now. This is sickening. The Yankees just go out and do whatever they want. How was this allowed but the Sox weren't allowed to trade for him?? (I'm not a fan of either team).

This isn't even close to being correct. They recently added the Buffalo Springfield box set, which was released 3 years ago. They also added a Son Volt disc, originally released in 1996, and the I-10 chronicles, originally released around '99. These are original issues, not reissues.

I must be missing something here. I am a big, big fan of Steely Dan and I think Santana is great. I especially love his tone. So, where do I fit, if I like them both??

My email says the 60's box is this fall. I believe the Cellar Door stuff isn't going to be a box but a series of double CDs

I voted for JuJu, but I really like Footprints Live. I've listened to that quite a bit since I saw him with that same quartet 2 years ago. It may not be his best but I think it ranks right up there close to the best

How did you get third row center??? i selected best available, for the highest ticket price, over a month ago, and it gave me something like 13 rows back, on the left!!! Man what a rip-off!!

Hey, no problem. I did want to ask you, though, if that was Chunga's Revenge Zappa on your bass drum? I kept squinting at it, trying to figure it out, but my eyesight is so bad that it was never clear.

I had a great time. I wish I could have stayed longer. Sounds like the second and third sets were good. I wanted to let the band know that as I was driving to the club, Michael G Nastos was mentioning the gig and he played one of your tunes on WEMU.

Guys you were great tonight!! Sorry I had to split after the first set but what I caught I liked! You put on a good show despite the less than perfect acoustics the sound was a good mix. I hope to catch you again when you're back in Ann Arbor. Nice meeting Joe and Jim and Paul from the board too!! Paul we'll have to meet up again at the next show.

I find a very strong King Crimson influence in this album, most noticeably in the drums and some of the guitar tones I've heard a lot of these references to King Crimson. I guess I should go check them out, since I've never heard any of their music before. they are an interesting and always changing band, with lineup changes every few years and with that usually a drastic change in sound. The Tool references are, to me at least, from the 73-74 edition of the band, with Bruford on drums and John Wetton bass and singing; I hear a lot of similarities in the guitar tones and some of the phrasing with this edition of the band, and some of the drumming reminds me of the mid-90s "double-trio" edition of the band. Check out the live The Nightwatch (the Wetton 70s edition) and THRAK from the mid-90s to hear what I'm talking about. None of this is to say Tool isn't original. What I hear is Crimson filtered through Tool but never obviously. I'm dying to hear some of the live tapes from their tour in 2001, where Fripp sat in with them

I find a very strong King Crimson influence in this album, most noticeably in the drums and some of the guitar tones

ugh. There is nothing I hate more than THAT smell. You need to sit them by an open window for a few weeks or something. One of the main reasons I've stopped going to bars/clubs; I hated my clothes and jacket emanating the stale smell of cancer the next day

huh? where did I say I avoided Zappa? I listen to him frequently. I know my Zappa!!

no need to look it up. Sounds nothing like Frank, let me tell you!! Howard Stern kept playing parts of this song a few days ago, so I was NOT able to avoid it

actually, yes, you are the only one who must think this. Unless there's a different "flavor-of-the-month" type of Zappa out there, then no, this sounds nothing at all like the Frank Zappa we know and whose music we love!

Ravi Shankar's, no?

a discussion of King Crimson records by people here would be very interesting, although I would definitely ignore anything to do with rap or musics of that ilk

Keith Jarrett trio in Y2K ( not much jazz where I lived before I moved to Michigan) followed 2 months later by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock duet. I hope Chris responds to this thread. I'm interested in what his first jazz concert was!

It's very easy to avoid this stuff. Stay away from mtv/vh1, and don't listen to commercial radio. I am proud to say that this method works just fine for me!

I still haven't gone to the Bird yet. How was it??