Herb

Happy Birthday, Paul! Since we're in the same metro area, email me, we'll check out some local music and I'll buy you a drink or something.

Innervisions. Pure Genius!!

7/4, Gibson '57's are the way to go, but if they're too pricey, try to score a used SD Jazz for the neck and a used SD '59 for the bridge. The Dimarzio's are a little hot for an archtop. I know a good tech in Jersey that may have them used and will do a good install and set up for you.

That one looks like mine! Except mine has 2 non-matching 122's.....

Most of the Monkees guitar solos were done by jazz guitarist Tommy Tedesco. He lived and died in the LA recording scene, earning himself the title as "the most recorded artist" before he died in 1997. Tommy called a lot of the musicians in, and that was probably the tie in to Shorty.

Yeah, me too! "Here I sit, broken hearted.........."

I got to see the Aviator before it was released, and saw it again after Christmas. I am a member of the organization that owns the Constellation that was shown (x 40) in the scene after all the Connies were grounded in 1946. (same plane in my signature, lower right.) It was a good movie, a bit long (3 hrs) and Hollywood took some liberties with actual history. Seemed to me the movie was all about Hughes going insane. The movie ended in 1947, Hughes wasn't that nuts until the mid '60's. The scene where he holed up in a room and peed in milk bottles should have been his Vegas penthouse in 1966, not his California office in 1946. DeCaprio was WAY better than I expected him to be (I didn't think much of him before, either). High points for me were the flying scenes during the filming of "Hell's Angels", the XF-11 (the P-38 like experimental that he crashed), flying Hepburn in the amphibian, and the computer generated flight of the HK-1 ("Spruce Goose" - which was built of birch). Going to San Bernadino Airport to shoot the scenes with the Connie a year and a half ago was fun, the crew and cast were quite nice. It was during the bad fires in the area, and the crews had to work very hard to get everything right, no smoke in the sky, no sounds of fire bombers taking off and landing, and positioning and filming our plane so they could splice together a scene of 40 Constellations parked on a ramp because the FAA had grounded them all. Four very long, hard days for them, we got out the day before they closed the airport due to the fires. Our Connie was also historically innacurate, being a later model "Super Connie", but it was already in TWA colors, and happens to be the only one left flying in the United States (now that the MATS Connie in Arizona has been sold to someone in Korea).

Stealth Maestro H. Kicks...............Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

10 CD's, 21 cassettes, 35 vinyls. The CD group will be growing until complete.

The only choice for me is the one you left out: D. ALL OF THE ABOVE

This thread grew to 4 pages in a day (I have my board settings at 40 per page). Says something about Jimmy's influence, doesn't it? RIP, man, you are the greatest. B-) B-)

I am a sales rep, I bullshit with mechanics for a living, selling them parts for big trucks. The band is a weekend/part time/for fun/therapy thing.

Yeah, but Burton didn't have Barney Kessel playing really nice stuff behind him like she did.

Great choice, Ghost! Mine, too! B-) B-)

"Only requests written on the back of $100 bills will be accepted and considered......"

Big, fast, efficient, ugly, bigger body count per crash. I still prefer the good old days when you flew with armroom and legroom and class, albeit slower.

Norman Brown was from Kansas City, Kansas. I got to watch him when he was still a kid, he ate, drank, slept, and just plain lived George Benson. It still shows, even though he has made it on his own. He's an awesome player, I just can't listen to his music for long periods of time, "smooth jazz" puts me to sleep.

I thought "Crazy" Arthur Brown died in the last year or two? Am I just confused?

Actually, Jim. I don't think he ever followed any rules!

I got this today at the Blindman's Blues Forum, today is the last day for the free promotion to install the Mackie Tracktion Recording software for free. Here 'tis: Mackie is offering Tracktion for free but the offer expires today (ie: December 31). If you don't have any decent recording software or are using old software like Cool Edit Pro that doesn't have good support for VSTi or DXi plugins, then you really should give this a try. Although I use Cubase SX, which is an over $500 program, I have done projects in Tracktion and for a program that normally retailed for $140, it is on the level as Cubase SE or Cakewalk Home Studio XL. It is more than adequate enough to get yourself into home recording before wanting more. Best of all, it's free Follow the instructions on this link: http://my.mackie.com/tracktionpromo2.asp to register your product, which takes it out of demo mode, and start enjoying.

Happy New Year, Pcao, and everybody! Nice tune! B-) B-)

I've been listening to Hammond Organ Plus on Live365.com for about 2 years. Great station!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY past due! B-)

I've got about half of those plus about 20 other Jimmy Smith albums, where does that put me in the satndings?

Hank Garland, half of the Gibson Byrdland model guitar, passed away today, he was 74. The boy could sure play jazz for a "country" picker! B-) Rest in peace, Hank.