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We will probably take day trips to the Jersey shore (and spend a night or weekend) through out the summer. Hopefully, we can find a cheap flight down to Raleigh and take a week at Bald Head Island where my dad has a place. Otherwise, it will be a staycation

R.I.P. Dwight White

Archie Shepp - Mariamar (Horo)

From the front steps of my house I can see the front entrance(the one on the back cover) of the building that housed "Pep's" bar. The building now houses a school .

From CNN... Oil settles at a record $138.54 a barrel, up $10.75, on weak dollar and forecast that crude will hit $150 by July 4.

Bonds pleads not guilty http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/base...ex.html?cnn=yes

This afternoon's listening... Silva, Alan - Luna Surface (180g Get Back re-issue) Sound was a little muddy and distant ROVA - Beat Kennel (Black Saint) Henry Threadgill - Easily Slip Into Another World (Novus)

Does this mean you don't pay for Terry Riley lps? Oh I paid alrighty but I see what you're getting at.

I got back into vinyl last year after about 10 years away from it for a number of reasons. 1. I still had about 800 records and figured it would be cheaper to buy a new turntable then to sell off the collection and repurchase all of them again in digital format. 2. A lot of the music(mostly Free Jazz)that I've really gotten into the past year is only available on LP (or MP3, which I don't do). So vinyl really is the only way I can listen to this stuff. Example - Horo isn't available on CD. 3. Money. It far cheaper and easier for me to purchase used vinyl than it is to find used CDs. I'm lucky in that I live in a big metropolitan area w/ lots of good used record stores that sell vinyl on the cheap. I've bought a lot of Black Saint/Soul Note/India Navigation/etc. etc. in pristine condition for $5-$10 on LP. Used CD stores are hard to find in Philly. I have had better luck on Ebay and Half.com for CDs than buying local. Buying vinyl online is tricky and I try to limit those purchases to items that are still sealed. 4. I really do like to listen to a good, clean copy of something recorded/mastered in analog, in analog. Vinyl is less fatiguing to my ears than digital. Today I was listening to Terry Riley's Rainbow in Curved Air. Man, the vinyl just blows away the CD. No comparison. I don't consider myself a vinyl snob. Some recordings sound better to my ears on vinyl and sometimes the CD blows away the vinyl. I still have about 1000+ CDs and purchase one or two a week. I can't really see myself living without both listening options at this point. One thing I really haven't explored yet is buying new vinyl, for the exact reason Kevin mentioned - it doesn't make sense to add an analog generation to something recorded in digital. My 'new' vinyl purchasing is limited to three BYG re-issues that sound better than my old, originals even though they are supposed to be sourced from needle drops.

Terry Riley - Rainbow in Curved Air (CBS grey two eye promo) Terry Riley - In C (CBS Masterworks grey promo)

I would love to see Tayshaun Prince in a Sixers' uniform next season. They have to blow up the team. They had a good run but the window has closed on this edition. Problem is they are not going to get a lot in return for a bunch of aging stars.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080604/music_nm/rare_dc_3 Rare Marley and Hendrix performances sold online By Ray Waddell Wed Jun 4, 9:08 AM ET Vintage concert performances by such acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix will soon join the nearly 500 recordings already available for download purchase at the music and memorabilia site Wolfgang's Vault. The additions were made possible through a deal between Universal Music Group (UMG) and Wolfgang's Vault founder Bill Sagan. The recordings include live performances by UMG artists culled from thousands of concerts produced by late promoter Bill Graham, along with gems from other catalogs and archives dating back decades. "This is a far-reaching agreement to make available what I would consider previously unreleased live performance recordings of Universal Music Group artists from the mid-'60s on through today," Sagan told Billboard.com. "It covers hundreds of UMG performers and thousands of live performance concerts." Sagan launched the Web site in 2003 after acquiring Graham's cache of memorabilia and concert recordings for $5 million. The downloadable content deal is for 10 years, with a streaming deal stretching "into perpetuity," Sagan said. If the concert is longer than 30 minutes, a full download is priced at $9.98, with concerts of less than 30 minutes at $5.98. Some one- or two-song performances cost $3.98. The site will continue to offer free streaming. "Of the 1,434 concerts that are up on the site, 488 can be downloaded right now," said Sagan. "And some very major artists will be downloading within the next 30 to 60 days." Eventually the product will be offered as CDs and vinyl under Universal's direction. "There will be physical product," Sagan said. A quick run through the site shows vintage performances for sale by artists including the Alarm, Fleetwood Mac, the Kinks, Billy Joel, Iggy Pop, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople, Poco, Steve Miller, the Tubes, Uriah Heep, Warren Zevon and many others. (http://www.wolfgangsvault.com) Reuters/Billboard

That one's an overlooked gem - at least imo. Oh I agree. I really like the vocals. They remind me of Tuvan throat singers.

Melis, Marcello New Village On The Left (Black Saint)

I'll join you because now I am committing myself to seeing the Cubs reach the promised land. They'll have to beat the best player in the game and his team without the aid of the an ump's blown HR call first. :bwallace2:

He had a homer in his first at bat vs. the Phils last night. I know the kid has only played 7 games but check out his projected stats http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=28954

Archie Shepp - Jazz A Confronto vol.27 (Horo)

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/20...omeback/?page=3 Vinyl goes from throwback to comeback Young fans say analog records sound warmer and fuller than digital music By Jonathan Perry Globe Correspondent / June 2, 2008 Monica Morgan, an 18-year-old high school student from Jacksonville, Fla., is taking a breather from scouting prospective colleges in and around Boston. She is standing inside Newbury Comics in Cambridge, scouring the bins of new LP releases by artists such as Gnarls Barkley and Bjork. Rows of colorful album covers catch her eye. more stories like this "My dad just gave me a record player, so I mostly like to buy vinyl," says Morgan. A stash of records originally owned by her mother, and now bequeathed to her, led Morgan to her latest love. "I have some old Beatles records with my mom's maiden name on them," she says. "I just like the way they sound." Almost any other decade, this scenario would have been ordinary. But the scene - a teenager perusing stacks of cumbersome vinyl in a sleek digital age that is gradually rendering the compact disc obsolete - was unfolding on a Friday afternoon in 2008. And it is one that is being replicated in small but growing numbers across the country. Although she may be an anomaly among her peers, Morgan and other young music fans are embracing the virtues of vinyl. Mike Dreese, cofounder and chief executive of the New England music store chain Newbury Comics, says his company's vinyl sales, which had been increasing at an annual rate of about 20 percent over the past five years, are 80 percent higher than they were at this time last year. "Right now, we're selling about $100,000 a month worth of vinyl," Dreese says. But why vinyl and why now, especially when even CD sales have plummeted 40 percent since 2005? Dreese blames the sterility of technology. "I think there are a lot of people who are looking for some kind of a throwback to something that's tangible," he says. "The CD was a tremendous sonic package, but from a graphic standpoint, it was a disaster. People still want a connection to an artist, and vinyl connects them in a way that an erasable file doesn't." Vinyl lovers insist that analog records sound warmer and fuller, as opposed to the brighter yet brittle digital experience of CDs. The compressed sound of MP3s, meanwhile, sacrifices both the highest and lowest ends of the sonic spectrum. "It's unbelievable how much vinyl's coming out," says Josh Bizar, sales director for musicdirect, a company that specializes in analog products ranging from new and reissued vinyl to turntables. "We're seeing this explosion of young people under 25 who never even saw an LP as a child running toward a format that was pronounced dead before they were even born. But if a title has any kind of mass appeal, it's coming out on vinyl today." The new push for records is also coming from musicians. Elvis Costello issued his new album, "Momofuku," on vinyl two weeks before the CD and digital versions were released. And the Raconteurs, led by White Stripes frontman Jack White, recommended that listeners hear their new album, "Consolers of the Lonely," on vinyl (it is also available on CD and as a download). "I prefer vinyl," says White, 32. "We talk about this backstage; as musicians it comes up a lot. It's a shame the new generation is missing out on albums - not just the sound quality, but the artwork, the experience of holding something tangible in your hands." Scores of listeners have begun to follow White's example. Bizar's firm, musicdirect, services 250 to 300 independent record and electronics stores worldwide and stocks CDs and MP3 players. But it is the company's analog-related inventory that is causing a stir: Sales of albums and accessories like needle cartridges and record cleaners have jumped 300 percent in each of the past four years, according to Bizar. Sales of turntables, which can run anywhere from $150 to $24,000 (including models that can now transfer the sound on vinyl to a listener's portable player or computer) have spiked 500 percent annually during the same time span. Indeed, huge retail outlets such as Best Buy now stock an array of turntable brands and styles that reflect the surge in both technology and demand. "They cannot make them fast enough," says Bizar. "Owning a record album is certainly a lot cooler than owning a digital subset of zeroes and ones on a computer. And the simple act of playing an LP takes a certain single-mindedness that seems to go beyond today's culture of multitasking. It's not as easy as just pushing a button." Merge Records founder Mac McCaughan estimates that for every 10 albums his label puts out as a digital download or CD, eight get a vinyl release. "It's not going to come back and replace CDs or MP3s," he says. "But if you do it right and make the vinyl heavy and make the packaging nice, it's everything that people liked about music in the first place." Then there's what Bizar calls "the collectibility issue." A limited-edition LP box set of Radiohead's 2007 album, "In Rainbows," which retailed for about $80, sold out briskly. A recent search on eBay found the now out-of-print package selling for $300. Music fan Nick Pioggia, 25, buys even more vinyl now than he did as a teenager. "I got into it because the [punk] music I was trying to find was only available in that format," says Pioggia, who also runs a small label called Painkiller Records in Boston. "No one cares about CDs anymore, but someone will still buy an album because it's got the huge artwork and is a limited pressing. That's the biggest draw." New releases are typically being pressed on vinyl in quantities of about 10,000 per title. But when it comes to the demand for lavish reissues, that number can double or even triple. Bizar says his company saw 35,000 advance orders for the four-LP edition of Led Zeppelin's "Mothership," a career-spanning collection released this spring. While that is certainly a far cry from vinyl's heyday of the 1970s, Bizar calls the demand for a bulky box set that retails for roughly $60 a pop "astonishing." As an enticement for consumers to buy a record rather than a 99-cent download of a single, artists and record labels now usually include a CD version of the album with the LP package gratis, or enclose a secret code that allows listeners to download for free the album they just bought on vinyl. The idea represents a compromise for convenience-minded consumers and artists who want their creative work to be something more substantive than a digital file. "If you're an artist," says Dreese, "you're like, 'What do I have to show my grandkids?' " No one artist has released more records since the early 1990s than Robert Pollard, both solo and with his band, Guided By Voices. "I have to have vinyl," says Pollard, who's issued dozens of records on labels large and small, including his own in-house imprint. "To me it's psychological. If it's not on an LP, it's not real. Anybody can make a CD, but as we used to say, 'Vinyl's final.' " Evan Shore, singer-guitarist for the Boston band Muck & the Mires, recently announced that his band's next Extended Play would be a "vinyl-only release." With a European tour this summer, the reasoning was simple: "Vinyl is huge in Europe." Geoff Chase, a 40-year-old "classic rock" fan from Watertown, says he stopped buying records because many older titles weren't available on LP to replace his worn copies. Until now. "What got me back into it big time," says Chase, "was that one day I found an old [stereo] receiver on the sidewalk." He took it home, hooked the receiver up to his turntable, and put on his copy of AC/DC's "Back in Black." "I could not believe how good it sounded," Chase says. "I was blown away."

Thanks for all of the great music. R.I.P.

Excellent! The Horo Dannie Richmond is another good one. That's next!

R.I.P. At the end of,"You Wear It Well" it sounds like he skips or misses a beat but somehow it just works. Ian McLagan is all over those early Rod albums as well. What a great backing band.

Sorry to drag this up again BUT I just have to share this... I was listening to the Max Roach/Cecil Taylor "Historic Concerts" double LP on Soul Note yesterday. Anyway, in the liner notes I found this little gem by Crouch, "Now that Max Roach has stepped into the arena of "free" music, it must be clear that the music is valid and that the work of the aforementioned innovators cannot be dismissed any longer. ~ Published in the Soho Weekly News, January 10, 1980. Dang. Has anyone ever asked him what lead him to his "conversion"? Does he disown his early writings?

Don Pullen - Jazz A Confronto vol.21 (Horo) George Adams - Jazz A Confronto vol.22 (Horo)

This is interesting to me, that the NBA apparently calls games differently at different points in time. And there's an implicit statement that the game will be called differently depending on how big a star the player is - star players will get the benefit of calls that lesser players won't at the end of the game. This suggests to me that if the roles were completely reversed, Kobe would definitely have gone to the free throw line had he been fouled at that point in the game with everything on the line. And this is news to you?? This is how it's always been in the NBA. Star players (and good teams) always get the call.

I really hope the Lakers win but the Celtics are deep and Garnett knows this is his last best shot. C's in 6.