PHILLYQ

I always had a major soft spot for 'Agharta'- to me, it seems like the music hits you like a runaway freight train at times, at others it glides softly. The way the band shifts on a dime between the two extremes always knocked me out. But I do love 'In A Silent Way' 'KOB', etc. It's soooo hard to pick one...

RDK, Beautiful girls, but do you ever get to eat that burger? Your arm must get tired holding that burger up!

Dmitry, Do you ever check out ZigZag record store? It's on Avenue U & maybe 23rd St., right across from the post office. They sometimes have some decent used jazz cds(very mainstream) at a cheap price. I'm usually at the park every Sunday afternoon, from about 2:00 to 5:00. Thge pix were taken by some guy who just happened to come by that day and asked if he could photograph us.

Here's a link to a picture of me on the web with my pals playing handball at the local park. I'm the guy with the moustache, glasses, gray hair & Muddy Waters t-shirt: http://community.webshots.com/photo/122113...122117317dQMYDX

Cream- they opened my ears to improvisation with the live stuff(I'm So Glad' live is still spectacular to me today) Jimi Hendrix- great songs, revolutionary guitar The Doors- a visit to the dark side...

Catesta, If I'm not mistaken, Tony was dealing with an obnoxious lawyer who refused to return Tony's deposit. Tony had a couple of henchmen drop anchor very close to the lawyer's house and proceed to blast Dean Martin, etc. at very high volume, so high that the lawyer couldn't even entertain guests on his deck. The lawyer still didn't want to return the deposit, but his wife talked him into it.

In my own admittedly limited viewing experience, I find fighting in hockey to be moronic, not much of a notch up from wrestling's idiotic displays. As Patricia noted in an earlier post, Olympic hockey is a lot more fun to watch. You can have hard checking, but when the game stops for fighting it's gotten out of control. Hockey players are enormously talented athletes, but the fighting aspect prevents the proper exhibition of speed & skill that could be displayed. Gretzky was very outspoken on this issue in favor of banning fighting. B-3r's point about expecting players to act like adults is a very good point.

If you want to get an idea of a fair price for the Mosaic sets, please keep in mind that the out of print sets frequently sell for far more than they did at the time of issue. One thing you could look at is what a particular set went for on Ebay to get an idea. Another is to actually put it on Ebay- you'll probably wind up with the best price you can get for the set. If someone is coming to you with an offer that works out to $10-$15 per disc they are probably trying to take advantage of your unfamiliarity with Mosaic sets. Another thing to look at is the Mosaic threads on this board and the Ebay craziness thread for information.

What about Sinbad? I played one of his standup performances(on video) for a multi-generational crowd on a Thansgiving and everyone was howling- no cursing, no sexual stuff, but good old belly laughs all around.

Dmitry, I know nothing about laptops, but just be careful if you're shopping in Brooklyn. There's a lot of places that advertise incedibly low prices but specialize in bait & switch tactics. One place on Coney Island Avenue(I think the name is Sunshine, they're right near the Kent movie theater) was actually nailed and paid a fine. Be wary...

For #666, let's invite Miroslav Satan, especially if he's playing for the NJ Devils!

Jazzmoose, The NYC tabloids would have a field day with Satan playing for the Devils! 'Satan Scores, Devils Burn' 'Satan has a Hellish Game'

Chris a, Hardbop= Heaney, your favorite reviewer..

The set is up to $62.00, a bargain for 11 discs of Rahsaan. Get your sniper ready, Evan- good luck getting it!

Do we really need a paean to 'The Great One' that doesn't mention Jackie Gleason? Hardbop has been too busy hanging out with Chris A. & Stanley Grouch, quaffing a few and roving around NYC, beating up electric bass players & threatening Fender Rhodes players.

I'm dying to see what happens with Adriana and the FBI(The puke scene from last season was stunning, it was so unexpected.). Christopher would just explode!

I bought a couple of discs yesterday from this guy on half.com. His prices are very good and he has a huge collection to sell. From what he says, the discs should be in almost pristine condition. Definitely worth a look, but watch your wallet!

Congrats, now you can do double duty(doody!) on the diapers!!! Enjoy and best of luck!

I may be wrong, but I think the only recording of that group to hit cd so far is 'Echoes of an Era', with Chake Khan added asa vocalist. I don't think the instrumental dates have been issued on cd yet.

When the feds come to question you about your highly shady stock transactions, you do have an obligation to answer truthfully under the law. Martha Stewart did not answer truthfully and also doctored records to back her false story. Imclone crashed quite a bit after the Waksal revelations, paired with the FDA not approving Erbutex. It's about impossible to determine which was worse for the stock price, but both were certainly harmful to the share price and cost many investors lots of $. Martha Stewart avoided that with her 'hot tip'. While technically not insider trading, Ms. Stewart is barely on this side of the law on that one.

Similar to Rachel's suggestion, have you tried progressive lenses? I have a three-section pair, with the close on the bottom, distance on the top section & intermediate in the middle. There are no clear lines dividing the sections, and you tilt your head slighly to get the best viewing angle. It took me about a month to adjust to them, but once you adjust they seem perfectly natural and normal. One big advantage is that you need only one pair of glasses(no switching) and you don't need to make radical changes to what you can see(No adjustment period for your eyes to catch up to the lens.)

Ken Lay is hip-deep in the Enron doodoo, there's no doubt in my mind about that. There's also no doubt that Ken Lay is very politically connected- Bush is a close buddy, as are many others high up in the administration. Connect the dots here, Ken Lay probably gets a light sentence for his role. In considering Martha Stewart, it's not enough to say that nobody was harmed by her activities. The integrity of the marketplace has to be maintained. When someone is dealing on the basis of material, non-public information, they have a great advantage over other investors. Suppose you also held Imclone stock but didn't get a call from Waksal or your connected broker telling you to sell? Martha Stewart has gained a huge advantage over you because of her inside information. You didn't get the inside dope and lost your shirt on the stock. When it can, the SEC is pretty diligent about pursuing cases like hers. Martha Stewart was also a broker, so she's well aware of insider trading prohubitions and she certainly knows what lying and covering up are. She worked very hard to cover her tracks and concoct a story(Stop-loss orders are very rare and are usually noted on an account quite clearly when issued) that seemed plausible- it just wasn't true. Shed no tears for Martha Stewart- she's guilty as charged.

I don't know, Deuse. I read books all the time, play/study chess, listen to music, and my kid only wants to play computer games and watch TV. None o' this is rubbing off... Conn, That's almost me to a tee- I don't play chess, but I'm an avid reader and music nut, and my son has very little interest in that. I tried...

Or is it Dianetics? No,wait, that's the Chick Corea thread...