DTMX

"Apparently he was able to link the novel word to the novel item based on exclusion learning, either because he knew that the familiar items already had names or because they were not novel" Shee-it, the dog reads novels too? Does Go Dog Go count as a novel?

Kenny Geez Amazon.com reviews: G Force 5 Stars: May The G-Force Be Witcha, Baby!... Reviewer: Ferrara Brain Pan from Frisco, Baby This is without a doubt The Greatest Record Of All Time... Yoda sez: Greatest record, it is not. Classics in the Key of G 5 Stars: Mindnumbing Brilliance... Reviewer: Ferrara Brain Pan from Frisco, Baby This is without a doubt The Greatest Record Of All Time... DTMX: Only one of those two words in the 5 Star description is applicable. Kenny G Live 5 Stars: Pure Adrenalin... Reviewer: Ferrara Brain Pan from Frisco, Baby This is without a doubt The Greatest Record Of All Time... DTMX: Frisco Kid's thesaurus lists "adrenalin" as a synonym for "narcolepsy" ------------------ Other reviews for Kenny G Live 5 Stars: I highly recommend listening to it at bedtime To those who don't like Kenny G if you don't like it then don't buy it, and don't whine it was your own stupidity for buying it why make Kenny G fans mad because of your stupidity and The only album from Kenny that in my opinion has a great musical value

Time to break out Zorn's Filmworks, Volumes 1 & 3.

Looks like J-Hole's romancing and marrying her way through the alphabet starting at the A's. Morrie Amsterdam missed his opening.

My first thought...

Proof that there is a God. A God that hates Creed.

How many beads can you get for a quarter?

Words fail me. Creed sucks.

Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Philip Glass.

lauper verb: to suffer the most humiliating onstage indignity, yet keep on performing. "My reed split on me but I was able to lauper through the rest of the set."

Her music has always left a bad taste in my mouth as well.

At least it was a female chicken. A male chicken - well, that's just nasty.

Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Strings: Haywire. Haven't been able to dislodge it from the CD changer all month.

My dentist plays country music and once took his office staff to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. I get my tooth cleaned every six months, even if it don't need it.

or a sunny day and someone wanted to take the day off. They always called ours in on cold, rainy days - usually early in the morning so we could wear our wet clothes all day.

Mexico has an Air Force?

"And at second base, third base, shortstop and left field - Doctor Octopus!"

This is one of the first Mosaics I ever bought. Bought it sound unheard. Have never been happier. This is a review of the set that I left on a saxophone forum: The first order I placed with Mosaic was for the Sam Rivers box set (out of print) and the Elvin Jones 8-CD box set. On the Elvin Jones set you get a trio with EJ, Jimmy Garrison, and Joe Farrell on various woodwinds. The ensembles grow into quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets - and so on. There's appearences by keyboardists Chick Corea & Jan Hammer (some synth but not enough to alarm), various guitarists, bassists, brass and percussionists but the best thing about this set is the variety and caliber of woodwind players that make up the ranks. Along with the aforementioned and criminally underated Joe Farrell, there's Pepper Adams, Frank Foster, George Coleman, David Liebman and Steve Grossman. Some tracks have one reed instrument, many have two, and a few have 3 (Farrell, Liebman, Grossman). I've never heard any of these woodwind players perform any better than they do on these recordings (with the exception of Pepper Adams who was always a badass no matter who he played with). The jewel in this crown is the two CD Lighthouse set. You get all of the material from the original LP releases with the exception of the audience singing "Happy Birthday" to EJ (he was 45 that day). The line-up was Grossman and Liebman with Gene Perla (bass) and EJ - there's no piano and it isn't missed - in fact, the absence of a piano frees up the sound a great deal. Liebman's soprano solo on Donald Byrd's "Fancy Free" is absolutely scorching. And the flute work he does on "My Ship" is amazingly fluid and gorgeous. Elvin Jones is underated as a bandleader but after so many years with Coltrane he sure as hell knew how to pick his sax players. Additionally: The fusion stuff isn't that far out. It's interesting, but I kind of forgot there was an Elvin in there. But we're talking one CD out of eight. The rest of the set is some of the best of its genre. Now that I think of it, given Elvin Jones' current health, I don't think I could listen to that deleted version of "Happy Birthday" if it were included. This Mosaic has soul.

I'm holding out for the box set or the RVG, whichever comes first.

Michael Formanek has a funny story about one of his CDs getting mixed up by the manufacturer with the first batch having the cover artwork 90 degrees off (putting the leader's name off to the side below the other names) and the second batch of CDs having the correct artwork, new graphics on the CD itself - but the wrong music on the CD (some lame hair-metal band). When I ordered this CD (Extended Animation I think) he sent me both the correct CD/wrong artwork and wrong CD/correct artwork versions. Long story short - his note with the CDs had his signature incorporating a drawing of himself playing the bass. Maybe I'll scan it - if I can find it.

I think Sluggo needs a visit from the Department of Family and Children Services.

This was a nice set: Anthony Braxton Quartet "8 Standards (Wesleyan) 2001" A 2-disc set recorded live at Wesleyan University in April 2001. The quartet features Anthony Braxton (sopranino, soprano, alto saxophones), Kevin O'Neil (electric guitar), Andy Eulau (bass), and Kevin Norton (drums, glockenspiel, percussion). Includes Airegin, Escapade, Nuages, Someday My Prince Will Come, Why Do I Love You, Pujab, Duke Ellington's Sound of Love, and Lullaby in Rhythm.

Thanks to the "Worst Beatles Song" thread I picked up Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper, Revolver, and that white album.

Starless was their encore. Or the first one at least. Probably the only one since they did a meet-n-greet after the show. I was winging it home by then.

Normally I stay away from tribute bands - Mickey Thomas' Starship, Creedence Clearwater Revisited - you know, the bands with that one guy who was a latecomer to the original group in its final days plus some hired guns for the gig. Of course, jazz has its "ghost bands" playing Basie and Ellington, and groups like Sphere that explore the music of Monk. But jazz is by its very nature a creative music - so a jazz tribute would contain as much personality of the tributer (tributerator?) as the tributee, rather than a rock tribute that plays songs that "sound just like the CD (I fucking hate that phrase)". But this one I gotta recommend: 21st Century Schizoid Band. I saw them in Atlanta last night and they were great. Granted, their pedigree is better than most - four out of five members were actually in King Crimson. Peter Giles on bass, Ian Wallace on drums, Mel Collins and Ian McDonald on reeds and keys, and Jakko Jakszyk (yeah, I never heard of him either) on guitar and vocals. I went on a whim thinking it would be neat to see Ian McDonald and Mel Collins trade fours (they didn't). The band's set is made up of the main songs from Court, Posidon, Islands and Starless from Red. The music is not treated as canon - with the extra members there are some nice new arrangements. The mellotron has been replaced by a Korg, there's grand piano onstage, and doubling the size of the sax section adds some new sounds to the old tunes. I have enough Crimson on CD to choke a horse so as I'm watching the set I thought "What would make me buy a live CD by these guys (available in the lobby) since I've already got the originals?". Quite a few things: the improvisation that bridges Formentara Lady and The Sailors Tale, the 3-flute intro to Cadence and Cascade, the ass-scorching version of Ladies of the Road, Ian McDonald's flute solo on I Talk To The Wind, the new Jakko Jakszyk (yeah, I never heard of him either) instrumental Catley's Ashes, a funky Cat Food, bluesy riffs in Schizoid Man, Ian Wallace live, and so much more. Only one beef: they shoulda oughta laid off the mello-Korg and played more saxophone - and threw in some of those Mel Collin's baritone sax blues numbers like Earthbound. Thumbs up all 'round. 21st Century Schizoid Band Official Bootleg Volume Three: Live in Italy rawks. If you ever wanted to see the sax version of KC live (with extra saxophones) - this is the closest you'll get.