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Man, 102. That's incredible.

Happy Birthday Sir Duke.

Rest In Peace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

Man that was ugly. I'm starting to wonder(hope) if the Sixers will resign AI or do a sign & trade.

Has anyone else noticed that the number of vinyl auctions on Ebay seems to be decreasing the past month or so? While there are still auctions that fetch crazy prices(see above) there just doesn't seem to be that many rare or semi rare LPs coming up for auction. I usually have any where from 10 to 30 auctions that I'm watching . Yesterday for the first time in years I had zero auctions that I was watching. I would have thought that w/ the U.S. economy tanking that more people would be parting w/ their collections. I'm guessing the new rules for sellers have really pissed a lot of people off.

Hamiet Bluiett - Resolution (Black Saint)

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/n...4/myspace_music MySpace Music Sees Major Money in Free Tunes By Laura Locke Email 04.17.08 | 3:15 PM MySpace Music, the major-label-backed online service slated for a summer rollout, has grand plans of delivering "all the music in the world" for free. Once that mission is accomplished, according to MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe, the cash will follow as music fans turn MySpace Music into a money-making machine with multiple revenue streams. Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music are all on board for MySpace Music (and MySpace honchos are talking to major-label holdout EMI). The new service will strip out band pages from the original MySpace site -- which just happens to be the world's most popular social-networking site -- and stream full-length songs and videos for free. MySpace Music will peddle DRM-free downloads, ringtones, concert tickets, T-shirts and more. In an in-depth interview with Wired.com, DeWolfe spoke about working with major labels, bringing indies into the stable, taking on iTunes and killing piracy with convenience. Wired: What makes you think MySpace can successfully rival Apple's iTunes, which is now the top music retailer in the United States? Chris DeWolfe: We're not trying to compete with iTunes. A lot of people think that we are. Downloads are just one of five or six revenue streams. We're really trying to create a social community experience that our users are asking us for, and it just happens that one of the components includes downloads. Wired: So, what is MySpace Music all about? DeWolfe: It's not just a download service -- it's a service that marries the largest music community with the most comprehensive catalog of music online. Users can discover and consume virtually any piece of music for free on the internet, or if they want to make it portable they can buy it.... Modern music is all about letting users define their experience. And now, with this new model, we're letting them do that and the music industry is able to make money at the same time. Wired: Do you think the new service will change the digital music landscape? DeWolfe: I think it's going to be the central hub where everyone goes to find music. If I want to find out anything about a band that I hear about, the first thing I'm going to do is go to MySpace because that experience is going to be so rich that I won't have to go to 10 other sites to find out about the last albums they've done; to see what other fans are saying about them; to figure out when their tour dates are; to join their community.... MySpace aggregates that into one place and ... creates an entirely new business model for the music industry. Wired: Does this deal give MySpace users access to more music? DeWolfe: By far.... We have the three biggest music companies in the world signed on with us. We're in the process of talking to the fourth. We're also working with all the indie music consortiums, so by the time we launch [this summer], it should be a very high percentage in the United States.... Our main goal is to have all the music in the world on MySpace. Wired: Any clue on the size of your new catalog? DeWolfe: I know we have 5 million bands, so that certainly won't change; if anything that will go up. Virtually every artist has a profile on MySpace already. In terms of the number of songs, each artist is allowed to put up four songs right now, so that will change to be an infinite number of songs. Wired: MySpace Music promises to deliver a "360-degree music experience." How so? DeWolfe: From a business perspective, we're allowing both the artists and the labels to capture all of the different revenue streams. From a user perspective ... it's really a frictionless environment.... [say] I want to go onto my favorite artist's site, that may be Flowrida; I go onto the Flowrida site and I can listen to any song I want.... Then I can also look at a list of cities that he's going to be in and I can see he's coming to my city; I can buy a ticket directly from that site, and you know what? I'm going to want to download 10 of his songs to my iPod, I can do that directly from the site. And I may want to buy a T-shirt with his picture on it. I'll be able to do that directly from his site. Wired: So, MySpace Music plans to sell songs, albums and ringtones? DeWolfe: We will definitely be selling music downloads and ringtones. We will be streaming videos and audio [full-length tracks.] Wired: What about pricing? DeWolfe: Streaming is going to be free. In terms of the downloads, we're going to do some experimenting. Wired: Will feature-length movies and TV shows also be sold via MySpace? DeWolfe: I think it's definitely a possibility, but when you're running a site of this size you sort of have to pick and choose what your strategic objectives are, and music has always been a part of MySpace's DNA.... In terms of doing this with other content, we may, but this is a major step. Wired: Four years ago, MySpace conducted focus groups with users to find out what their "dream music service" might look like. Based on that user feedback, is MySpace's community willing to pay for music downloads? DeWolfe: Definitely. We have 110 million unique users [per month], so it's not really a niche community. Virtually everyone I know on MySpace has an iPod; there's no reason they wouldn't be buying music. I think one of the issues in the past has been people have been engaged in piracy and stealing music because it was really convenient. To download a song on MySpace Music will be so convenient, we believe they will pay for it.... There's going to be a lot of impulse buys. Wired: Will you be giving the old-school record companies a larger percentage of sales than Steve Jobs does? DeWolfe: [Laughs] We're not announcing any financial details. Wired: What are Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music getting out of this deal with MySpace? DeWolfe: CD sales are down 20 percent year over year, so we've created a revenue model that helps them recapture some of those lost sales. It's a first step in pointing them towards the digital future. Wired: Is MySpace viewing this as an all-encompassing, multitiered, revenue-generating platform similar to the ones that concert promoters like LiveNation are pursuing? DeWolfe: I think it's a bit different than what LiveNation is doing. I'm not super familiar with LiveNation's business model, but I think they're making big bets on a few different artists and monetizing all their rights. It's sort of similar logic, I guess, but we are doing it with millions of different artists on our site. Wired: Is MySpace Music looking to get a cut of the indie bands' T-shirt sales and other merchandise? DeWolfe: We're going to provide everyone a platform to showcase their music, to sell their music, tickets and merchandise -- similar to how eBay may do that. So, in providing that platform, there will probably will be a small fee or commission associated with that. Wired: Is MySpace Music open to giving equity deals to digital distributors such as The Orchard or Ioda? DeWolfe: We're open to extending our equity deals to the right partners, but at a certain point, you can't extend equity to everyone. What we originally set out to do was create a platform where every artist in the world would not only have a free promotional platform like they do right now -- we're providing a free service -- but also to create additional revenue streams for them. Wired: Will unsigned bands on MySpace Music have a way to participate in the ad revenue? DeWolfe: We don't really have the mechanism right now to develop an affiliate program or a payout structure for millions and millions of bands.... We started with the major music companies, and we're talking to the consortiums because the indie bands are really the heart of MySpace -- it's how MySpace Music started. We value their contribution, and one of our initial missions was to help artists that didn't get signed by major labels to create a living based on their art. We first did that by creating this free platform where they could get fans from all over the world that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to reach; and provide a platform for those fans to become friends with those independent artists. And when those independent artists go on the road, they can sell out their shows and make money through touring and merchandise and tickets and all of that. We're trying to extend those revenue streams to the independent artists. This is all meant to be a very, very positive movement for them.

Yeah. Lakers sweep the Nuggets. Atlanta beat the Celtics again?

According to the ESPDISK site the new re-issue of the Cherry Vol.2 is a digipack. Sounds like you were looking at an old one.

The 32-year-old McCready was sentenced last September for violating probation from a 2004 drug arrest and was released from jail last Dec. 30. The violation occurred in July when McCready was accused of scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest at her mother's home in Fort Myers, Fla. She still must serve two years' probation.

Report: Clemens had relationship with Mindy McCready http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_...dFnW54AeVX34494 Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported. Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed a long-term relationship but told the newspaper it was not sexual. "He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Hardin said. "He's considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her." McCready's lawyer, Lee Ofman, said he did not have any comment on the Daily News story. Clemens was 28 and a married father of two when he first met McCready, the newspaper reported. The story, which appeared on the newspaper's Web site Sunday night and in editions Monday, quoted several people who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation. The revelation could undermine Clemens' reputation, which is central to the defamation suit the former pitcher has filed against former personal trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee contends Clemens used performance-enhancing substances during his major league career. "If true, it's just another example of Roger's pervasive prevarications which will be at the core of any defamation case," said McNamee's attorney, Richard Emery, in an e-mail to The Associated Press. The newspaper said Clemens sent cash to McCready to help her with legal issues and reached out to her when she was in jail last year in Tennessee. The 32-year-old McCready was sentenced last September for violating probation from a 2004 drug arrest and was released from jail last Dec. 30. The violation occurred in July when McCready was accused of scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest at her mother's home in Fort Myers, Fla. She still must serve two years' probation. McCready had a No. 1 single in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time." Hardin did not respond immediately to an e-mail from the AP.

It wouldn't be an issue if Shaq could shoot FTs.

Sixers/Motown Oldies What the hell happened in the 3rd quarter?? I turned the game off w/ the Sixers up by 14 w/ 3 minutes to go in the 2nd. By the time I'm done putting my son to bed I turn the TV back on and the Pistons are up by 8 in the 4th. WTF???

My haul for this weekend... Vinyl Braxton - FIVE COMPOSITIONS (Black Saint) Braxton - FOUR COMPOSITIONS (BS) Chris McGregor/BoB - COUNTRY COOKING (Venture) Sam Rivers & Dave Holland - VOLUME 1 (IAI) Frank Lowe - DECISION IN PARADISE (Black Saint) Abdullah Ibrahim - WATER FROM AN ANCIENT WELL (Blackhawk) Ted Curson - TED CURSON AND CO. (India Navagation) Lacy/Rudd/Carter/Harris – TRICKLES (Black Saint) John Payne Band – BEDTIME STORIES (Arista) CD Byard Lancaster – LIVE AT MACALESTER COLLEGE (Porter) V/A – AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST (Analog) Charles Tyler Ensemble – VOYAGE TO JERICHO (Bleu Regard) Khan Jamal & Dylan Taylor - FIRE AND WATER (CIMP) James Zitro – ZITRO (ESPDISK) NEU! – NEU! (Astralwerks) Harmonia - MUSIK VON HARMONIA (Lilith)

Not that I know of. Have you tried playing the CD on another player? Did you read the post you quoted? Whoops I guess not. Ha ha.

Was this a recent acquisition? If I remember correctly you had been trying to hunt this one down for awhile.

Henry Threadgill Sextet - Rag, Brush, and All (Novus)

Not that I know of. Have you tried playing the CD on another player?

Seriously? I had always heard that the max timing for one side of an LP was around 22-24 minutes give or take a few seconds. Any more time than that and the grooves would be too crammed together and the recording would sound like shit. Not sure where or when I heard that but obviously this is not the case. This album sounds fine to my ears. I'm guessing that the shorter timings had more to do w/ economic considerations than aural ones.

Why do you say that? I noted that I listen to less and less 'avantgarde' and 'free jazz' in these days. It's getting more and more difficult for me to follow the lines of the musicians, at some point I loose the road and I find myself in a unpleasant and unknown sound mess. Maybe I am only distracted by my own thoughts and I follow them, instead of music. It could be a temporary lapse in concentration about music in general, it will pass, I hope. Surprised you find Complete Communion particularly difficult. I've been listening to jazz for over fifty years and am frankly most at home in the era of Pres and Bird, but the swing and emotional intensity of CC just carries me along. Now, if you said you found Cecil Taylor or Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz hard to listen to, I'd be less surprised! True, CC isn't the best sample. It's more a general mood I am into right now. I spoke out because I was listening to it. In these days I wouldn't dare to spin a late Trane or Cecil Taylor record. Strange as I'm having the opposite reaction at 44. In the past three or four years all I want to hear is the Avant Garde/Out/Free stuff. I can't remember the last time I pulled out, say, an early Blue Note, and gave it a spin. One drawback of becoming an adult is that I have much less time for dedicated listening. Music is usually playing while I'm doing other things. I find that it is very difficult (generally) to have out/free stuff on in the background if I'm not completely focused. If I can close my eyes and give it my undivided, I really like it, but I just don't have the time to do so. Definitely harder to find the time to have undivided attention for listening to music w/ a 3 year old in the house. I have to bike home at lunch everyday when he's at school to get in a quick album. I don't even dare spin any vinyl if he's rumblin' and tumblin' around the house. That Threadgill album from my previous post above I actually finished up last night after he went to bed. So at night after he's gone to sleep I get to go down to my man cave and listen to CD's on my computer while I catch up w/ email/internets. Luckily for me my wife actually likes about 90% of what I play.

AACM BOOK RELEASE CONCERT "A Power Stronger Than Itself" by George Lewis A Panel Discussion with Members of The AACM AACM Book signing by the Author, George Lewis Concert Performance by The AACM ALL-STAR TRIO featuring: MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS (piano) / GEORGE LEWIS (trombone & electronics) / WADADA LEO SMITH (trumpet)! Friday, May 9th at 7pm The Community Church on NY 40 East 35th St. (bet. Madison & Park Aves) www.AACM-NEWYORK.com

I don't know if they were unmotivated or what. I still think the Pistons will win the series but after watching that game you have to wonder if the window for Detroit is closing. Rasheed and McDyess looked older than 33 years old tonight. Your not going to win many games when your starting 4 & 5 combine for 4 points and 8 rebounds.

OK I broke down and ordered African Scream Contest from DMG. They have the best price that I've found $15(+ $4 for S&H). That's $8 cheaper than I've been able to find it anywhere else.

WOW! Sixers are up by 21 on the Pistons in the 4th. edit: make that up by 23 w/ 6:24 left in the game.

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