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Kudos to Chris Albertson(I ordered your Bessie bio on Tuesday), Jim Sangrey(You hipped me to some James Brown that knocked my socks off!), Jazzmooze(Perspicacity & perspective- say that five times fast!), Rooster Ties(All around good guy on the board), DEEP(Great stories!), Patricia(Ms. Nickname), and many others that have helped me to know more & appreciate more about this wonderful music.
Another set of kudos to the political posters, Berigan, Johnny E., Ghost of Miles, Chris A.(again), Dan Gould(baseball, also) & many more, for an interesting, contentious, but frequently civil discourse on many topics.
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Don't drink & drive- you might hit a bump & spill a drop! I'm staying home, where I'm unlikely to get hit by a drunk driver(but I'll be checking the front door periodically!) HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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I've seen it on Ebay, but it goes for around $30.00 when it pops up.
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Today I saw a Jeff Beck live disc in mint condition recorded at B.B. King's club that has been bid up to $13.63. I bought it new last week for $9.99! Do these people look anywhere else?
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Maybe he'll have to go back to his original nose!
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The photos are fantastic! Thank you very much for sharing them with us.
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Thanks for the tip! I just ordered six for $36 + tax, no shipping-wonderful!!!
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What about Downtown Music Gallery? They have a lot of import and offbeat stuff, and their prices are reasonable. Here's a link:
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You're right, I'm a Yankee fan and I'm disgusted by this turn of events. Pettitte is a very good pticher who frequently came up big in crucial games. He's not a whine/moaner type(like Sheffield), just give him the ball and he pitches well. The Yankees also will now have a rotation without a lefty pitcher(I can't count Wells until he's actually pitching, with back surgery, big gut, 40 years old, etc.), which confers an advantage to visiting teams in Yankee Stadium.
Decline? Yes, Steinbrenner is running the show again. WE NEED ANOTHER SUSPENSION OF STEINBRENNER! BUD SELIG, ARE YOU LISTENING?
Kevin Brown is a very good pitcher when healthy- that's the sticking point with him, he visits the DL way too often and is now 39- YIKES!
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What's missing from that article is the rate of change- I believe that the rate of warming has increased quite a bit. Nothing like leaving out some important stuff that's crucial to our understanding. Interesting article, though.
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DEEP,
Keep those stories coming- they're very interesting and some are quite funny.
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'Members in Drag' is sure to draw a crowd(like we're not homely enough!)
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I just used my 15% off coupon- got a book for my wife & a brother-in-law, gift card for a nephew, and I saved enough to get Blakey's 'Indestructible'! That's one good deal!!!
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Brandy Grenola has surgically enhanced boobs, blonde hair, comes from California, spouts meaningless 'New Age' aphorisms, and is extremely flexible?
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Dan,
I agree with you there about Nick Johnson- I hate the idea of letting him go. What disturbs me is that Vasquez is not signed to an extension. Theoretically, he could pitch one year, then go free agent and stiff the Yankees(Of course Steinbrenner will throw buckets of $$$ at him).
The rumor in the NY Daily News today is that the Bosox are trying to trade Ramirez for A-Rod, and that the deal involves the Bosox absorbing a large chunk of Ramirez' $. Nomar then would be dealt for prospects, possibly to Anaheim. For Texas this creates a lot of payroll flexibility, as they no longer have the A-Rod contract and they get Ramirez on the cheap. It looks like Theo Epstein has been given permission to go completely for broke, as the Bosox payroll may start to approach Yankee proportions. If this all works out and the Bosox win the World Series, he'll be called St. Theo in Beantown, and the owner can then have a statue erected in his honor!
It is really great that both the Yankees & the Bosox are going at it so heavily in the offseason. I just wish we could find some good dirt on Steinbrenner, get him suspended again and let Gene Michael run the team- he did a great job during the last suspension...
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'Lickey Flatbush' ??? That should be worth at least a few comments!
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Count me in as another person disgusted by the nonsense that DEEP has been unleashing on this board. Chris A. has been driven away, one of the few board members who has had personal experience with many of the Jazz greats that we discuss endlessly. Also, Bev, DEEP's other target, seems to have been driven off by DEEP's sophmoric idea of a joke. Bev was a valuable resource on this board for British & European Jazz, quite literate & informative. In essence, DEEP banned them- how are we any better off for this sickening turn of events? DEEP may be a good guy(I've never met him), but his behavior and his subsequent mocking apology are indefensible, uncalled for and horribly uncivil. Shouldn't we be an awful lot more sophisticated than teenage pranks?
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I saw something about this culinary concoction in the NY Daily News yesterday. There was a turducken eating contest, featuring Ed'Cookie' Jarvis & Charles'Hungry' Hardy(Both of these guys are in the 4th of July hot dog eating contest at Nathan's in Coney Island every year, and both are over 300lbs.) The winner of the contest was a 130lb. woman! I forget how much she ate,but it was a good pile of that stuff!
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If the Bosox make the Manny/A-Rod deal(I would if I'm Theo Epstein), they rid themselves of a guy who is a great hitter but nothing else, and someone who may have ticked off a lot of other players on the team. In return, the Bosox get a guy who can hit as well as Manny, but who has a superlative gloveand some clue when running the bases, for a cost of about $5 mil a year and three additional years. I hope they don't make that deal because I'm a Yankee fan and this deal would make the Bosox better. But whither Nomar? Do they try to move him to second? Do they try to swing a deal? Any deal would be difficult because Nomar is only signed up for next season.
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A-Rod playing 81 games at Fenwayper season, with the Green Monster lookin' him in the eye? We could be talking about mass quantities of homers!
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Dan,
For right now it looks like a good deal for the Bosox- give up very little and get a very good pitcher in return. However, Schilling will not waive his no-trade clause without an extension, so that means three more years at $12 mil+ per year. What will he have left in two years when he's 39? Will he be successful switching leagues?
I'm a Yankee fan, and I'm glad that he won't be a Yankee. Steinbrenner was about ready to give up Soriano, Nick Johnson and a Steinbrenner grandchild to be named later for Schilling. If the Bosox get him, at least Steinbrenner can't make a bad deal for Schilling. Of course, there a re a lot of players out there...
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I'm going over my sister-in-law's house, in Brooklyn and only about 20 minutes away. There's supposed to be about 20 people, so I'll be making two turkeys, a few pumpkin pies, some cake and a few other goodies and then loading it all into my little car with my wife and son . I do get to go home and sleep in my own bed, so that's nice. But it is a lot of work with all the shopping and cooking- Thanksgiving morning finds me hard at work in the kitchen around 7-8 A.M. and continuing until we leave around 3P.M.
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Don't forget the James Brown! When my son was two I started playing JB for him, and he loved to sing along to 'Make it Funky'(easy lyrics), 'Say it Loud...', etc. When he was in first grade he was asked what his favorite singer was and he wrote JB! He's eleven now and taking saxophone lessons and starting to learn a little bit of Bird!
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Can a liberal Quaker vote for Bush, or is that only conservative Quakers?
VSOP: A Tribute to Miles(Qwest)
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CJ Shearn,
If you had posted something last week about this, I saw two cd sets of the(I believe) very first VSOP performance on Ebay. It was originally issued as a double-album in vinyl back around 1977 or so, with two sides with the Shorter/Hubbard/Carter/Williams group, and the rest devoted to the sextet with Henderson/B. Williams/Priester/Maupin/Hart and his funk band. That set holds a sentimental value for me, as I was at that concert. I bid on both sets, and lost one to a bid of $52.66, then won one for $25.00! It is available as an import, so if you have some $ and an import connection(This sounds like a drug deal!) you can get a hold of it. Check Ebay if not, or in addition. As I recall(I haven't heard the music in a long time), the Quintet stuff is smokin' and Tony Williams stands out particularly, but Hubbard is not far behind him.