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Can we request "Abrasion" as a Conn candidate anyway?

PredatorX on NatGO.

I like the title they chose for the McLean; Abrasion's got a nice ring to it.

True, it is Ozzy afterall. I suppose if you went to see Gallagher you'd expect the same.

OMG!!! It is soooo baaad. If I was in that audience getting sprayed with that crap that Ozzie was shooting out of that hose, I would've been furious!

Sounds like a Coen movie within a Coen movie. Just reading what Dumpy Mama said and I found myself cracking up all over again!

Closer on dvd (wife's idea)

I'm with you on that. Contrasts looks very interesting on paper.

Happy Birthday Karl! Hope you come back and post here!

Right! Good call. Dance with Death is an excellent date. I don't think Farrell here blew me away like he did on Passing Ships, but it is an overall excellent date nonetheless.

Thanks for posting that!

I really got hip to Joe on Hill's Passing Ships-where he comes out with both barrels blasting. Since then, I've aquired Moon Germs, which is quite good, and Elvin Jones' Puttin' It Together. Would like to hear some more CTI material, but so little of it has seemingly seen cd reissue, especially with Moon Germs slipping back out of print; what a shame.

I "retouched" mine with a sharpie.

I meant mortar. Man, you guys are tough!

Right this moment I'm enjoying ED Thigpin's music. The next moment could be someone else.

Yeah, I've given up on Borders Brick and Mortor stores. They can have 90% off and I'll end up walking out with nothing.

Yes, but maybe instead of focusing on all the stuff they got wrong, we should all stop to think of all the stuff they have done right, 5 baddies out of how many goodies??? I'd agree on most counts, but some of these errors are blatently bad, like printing old covers for the RVG series with "retouched cover to come" on it??? Someone is definitely not looking when this stuff is in the final stages.

Not really adding anything new, but I really miss perusing bins and finding gems or a disc that I wasn't planning on buying. I would sometimes make a trip out of it and hit 5 or so stores and I would be out all day. Those days are long gone execpt for the occasional trip to Half Price or the Exchange. In Pittsburgh though, there's a store frozen in time called Paul's CD's, with the post-college owner playing non-commercial music with a small crowd hanging out at the front counter with coffee and talking non-stop about music-all kinds of music. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears: there are actually stores still like this? And this place actually has a REAL jazz section, stocking FMP's, ESP's, CIMP's, Emanem's, Hat's, Leo's etc, etc, which takes up the entire wall of the store! I'm not in Pitt so much anymore but man, whenever I'm in town, that's the first place I usually go to. Truly a rarity these days.

Happy Birthday!

Thanks for that! Did Ra hold on to the tapes for over 10 years and released it on Saturn in 1976? Do you know perhaps how Stollman got hold of the tapes? Marshall Allen maybe?

See some new ESP reissues are slated for 4/1. Here are the ones that caught my attention: Ronnie Boykins The Will Come, Is Now http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/3026.html But its the Sun Ra that really raised my curosity: Sun Ra featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/4054.html Was this an original ESP date or is this something else. ESP indicates it wasn't released until 1976...does anyone have any further details? Thanks! HG`

Idol, then the Office later.

Black Pearls and Ole Coltrane this evening.

Eric Dolphy I'd think would qualify.