[Can anyone recommend any classical saxophone?]

Forgive me if it has already been mentioned but Anders Koppel's Concerto for Saxophone 1 & 2 do a great job of combining modern classical with jazz.

[AMAZON - Free $2 MP3 credit]

Thanks! Just applied the credit to Dave Edmunds' Repeat When Necessary.

[R.E.M. CALL IT A DAY]

I remember when WRAS (radio station of Georgia State University) played their first single "Radio Free Europe" backed with (I think) "Sitting Still" on the Hib-Tone label. Then they re-recorded it for IRS records and it was so much weaker and polite. Followed their career, but the only recording I ever bought was the underated "New Adventures in Hi-Fi".

[Honey Badger Mania]

I don't know if it has anything to do with this thing but the honey badger came in at number one on this list.

[what's your flavor ice cream?]

About ten years ago, in the Midtown area of Atlanta I had some blueberry buttermilk ice cream and it was awesome. Have no idea where I got it. Haven't had it since.

At least I *think* I had it...

[QT's Pulp Fiction]

"I'm an American. Our names don't mean shit..."

I finally got to use this line a week ago when a Vietnamese girl asked me what my name meant. Just rolled off the tongue before I even had a chance to think about it.

The following year I married her. Now her name don't mean shit either.

[20th Century piano concertos!!!]

Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto (1958). Had forgotten how much I enjoyed it until it randomly popped up on the iPod the other day.

[Happy Birthday Berigan!]

Happy birthday, fellow metro-Atlantan! So what's it been - about a year? What's up with that? And why is it 'happy' birthday? Couldn't we just shorten it to 'birthday' the same as we say 'morning' to people at the office? I mean, we don't wish anyone a 'bad' birthday, or even a 'mediocre' birthday. What about a birthday that's just 'par' - not great, not bad - just breaking even?

/seinfeld off

Catch you next year Conrad.

[Happy Birthday DTMX!]

Whoa - another year? Really?

Thanks to everyone. I hadn't even thought about my birthday this year. Got a 9 month old girl at home and a month-late project at work - no time for anything that doesn't involve either. And I don't get over to this board enough, that's for sure. Still, this place is my online watering hole, a place to drop in now and then and listen to the conversations - and occasionally participate.

Thanks again,

Doug

[Cancer took my wonderful wife last week]

I am very sorry for your loss. Your wife's courage throughout all of this is remarkable and should serve as an inspiration to all.

[The Functionally Illiterate Are Offended By The Grammys]

Lawrenceville, GA? Where I work? Well, at least they didn't shoot anyone this time: Link.

[Happy Birthday Berigan!]

Slappy Burpday, dude!

[Something's Happening Here/What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear]

And I don't think Fairies are that heavy.

But they do wear boots.

[Happy Birthday 7/4!]

Happy belateds, 7/4 - or is it 8/4 now?

[happy Birthday JSngry]

Dragging in a little late to say happy birthday, Jim. May your post count forever soar!

[House honors 'Kind of Blue']

The resolution recognizing the album's 50th anniversary passed on a 409-0 vote.

I wonder if Ornette's The Shape of Jazz to Come would get a 409-0 vote...

[Happy Birthday DTMX!]

Thanks, everybody. Damn - the year just flies by. A year ago I was a music-centered 44-year old bachelor with nothing more pressing than playing music, buying music, reading about music and listening to music. Now I'm a 45-year old married man with a pregnant wife, a dog that bites me everytime I feed it and a music room that is being converted into a nursery. And I wouldn't change anything.

Except the dog.

Thanks again.

Doug

[Kanye!!!!!]

Speaking of Kanye West: Atlanta Flooding

[Can anyone recommend any classical saxophone?]

I also recommend Glass' Saxophone Quartet Concerto (orchestral version).

If you like the modern stuff (lots of dissonance) these two by the Rascher Quartet are good: Europe & America

Something a little jazzier is Michael Colgrass' Urban Requium for 4 Saxophones and Wind Orchestra.

[Complete Villa-Lobos string quartets box]

It's well worth it, even at the original boxset's price (which is what I paid a while back ).

[Memorable TV Themes]

Hawaii Five-O.

[What's the funniest thing you've seen at a concert?]

Kinda dumb, but in 1981 at Six Flags Over Georgia some garage band was playing a set, surrounded on all sides by drunken teenagers on "Senior Night". After finishing an AC/DC song the lead singer engaged the audience thusly:

Singer: Anybody got a request?

Drunk Teenager #1: Saaaabaaaath!

Singer: We're going to do that one a little later - anybody got any other requests?

Drunk Teenager #2: Get off the stage!

Singer: Yeah, we're going to do that one later too.

Then they played "Bridge of Sighs" which no one requested, but it was still nice to hear.

[Earliest Known Sound Recordings Revealed]

I'll hold out for the RVG edition.

[What's on the Queen's iPod?]

No Anarchy in the UK?

[Dom DeLuise has died]

Noooooooooooo!

He was the best part of the last part of the Cannonball Run movies...