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At best he's half the player Kirk is. This could be debated, but I'm not going to give the board any bait with this one. I will say Roland wishes he was half the composer Shorter was I do know that. How do YOU know what Rahsaan wishes? I'm not sure why it's necessary to rank them. Different players, different approaches. Apples and oranges. Both are great and have contributed a lot to the music. Not to be pedantic, but RRK is gone and can't wish anymore.

Johnny E, I felt badly that I didn't get to see you last time in Brooklyn, but I can definitely make one or both Brooklyn gigs. See you there!

I remember reading his columns when I was about 10-12 years old and he kept me reaching for the dictionary-he had a HUGE vocabulary! That said, while his columns were well written, his politics were quite odious.

The first concert I went to was Santana at the Fillmore East(August 1970), and the opening act was RRK! I was 14 and didn't get RRK at all. Three years later I was lovin' his music. Bill Graham did stuff like that, having Miles open for Neil Young, etc. I haven't looked, but the concert that this thread started on might be on Wolfgang's Vault.

Thanks to HBO making episodes available on On Demand a week in advance of their airing on HBO, I do know what happened to Omar. I won't spoil it for everyone else though. Yeah, On Demand is great, I have it at home. However I am travelling and can't get it here. You can give me a hint, I promise not to tell. Marlowe: "That's some Spiderman shit."

Pollock, If you're in exile here it's a hell of a lot better than Elba.

I saw that show and I was yelling at the TV, "You can't be THAT stupid!!!" It seems that she really is THAT stupid.

Welcome to the board Danimal- as you'll find out, this is a great bunch when you get to know them a bit.

It can't be- just ask Goodspeak!!

"I'm not giving her the needle,you give her the needle"

The new stadium will be called CitiField(insert subprime joke here), but as I've pointed out to some Met fans, if they play lousy it will be known as Shittyfield.

I went to see it with my 15 year old son last week. He was disappointed with the movie- I think he expected more. I liked it quite a bit even though it was sometimes hard to feel any sympathy for some of the characters(Yuppie Scum). Good monster movie and a worthwhile accompaniment to a large bucket of popcorn.

....Shouldn't Al Davis be on the "Pre 20th Century" list?

Bobby attended Erasmus Hall High School on Flatbush Avenue, where he was said to be friendly with Barbra (then spelled “Barbara”) Streisand. He dropped out to concentrate on playing chess. The school is now closed. The school was actually closed as Erasmus and reopened as a few small schools. My wife is a graduate and a sister also went there. here's abunch of other famous Erasmus graduates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Hall_High_School

Baseball: Yankees At 8 years old(1964) they won the pennant and then lost the World Series. I thought they'd be back soon-NOT! had to wait until 1976 when I was 20. I was a Yankee fan through the Horace Clarke years. Football: Giants They used to play at Yankee Stadium Basketball: Knicks(FIRE ISIAH!!! MAKE DOLAN SELL THE TEAM!!!) Hockey: Rangers, but I don't follow the sport much at all

Well,then, it's not unanimous...

Mark, My best wishes to you- I hope that everything works out OK for you and that we get to see your sterling wit again soon.

Happy Birthday to a great gal!!(I'm an old bag so you undertsand it's meant as a compliment0

Please post the list or PM it to me- I may want to buy some. Thank you very much.

Happy Birthday- may the strings be with you!

Berigan, Your friend needs a new lawyer ASAP! Anyone with ALS should be a slamdunk for disability. You're being a real friend to this guy, which is probably what he needs badly, someone who is not out to fleece him or abuse him. I hope everything works out OK and I applaud you for doing the right thing by him.

Hello all, I saw this yesterday and got a good laugh at it. Note the name of the group! http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/rhymes.asp?date=20080102

Here's what Tom Hull had to say in today's Village Voice: In the reissues category, I missed out on Mosaic's lavish box sets, but hardly had time after digging through Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History [1895-1950] (WHRA), a book lavishly augmented with 36 CDs, divided into four cramped boxes of nine each. Deliberately anticanonical, he doesn't get to Louis Armstrong until the end of disc nine, and doesn't let bebop hold court while Kid Ory's still cooking. http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0801,hull,78770,22.html

I went to a concert in Central Park, NYC around 1972/3 and I actually saw Brownsville Station('Smokin' in the Boy's Room' was their one and only hit) opening up for someone else I can't recall except thet their music was very unlike Brownsville Station. The drummer had one of those gigantic kits with double bass drum, double and even quadruple everything else. For their whole set he only played the hi-hat, snare & one bass drum- all the rest was for show only! After a few tunes and much booing, the singer said" I hear you guys yelling 'You suck', but we're gonna keep playing" Right after he said that they launch into another tune amid much booing, and some guy near me threw an apple at the stage and it hit one of the unused drums in the drummer's set, split in half, and half of the apple hit the drummer square in the forehead!!! This of course led to a standing ovation for the guy with the great arm!!! So even though the music was awful I did get entertained.

It could be worse- they could go back to Buffalo for one of those 28 inch blizzards!