AndrewHill

I'm sorry to hear about your loss Larry (and you too, Jazzbo). I can't imagine what you guys are going through. I hope though that someday you will be able to find a will and a way to let music come back into your life and hopefully the pleasure of listening to music will help alleviate the pain and grief that you must be experiencing.

Deadly Components (5/12/08 episode) will be on today at 3pm.

I agree here too. Its not a 'maintenence need' where a human needs things like food, shelter or water to survive, but more of an 'actualizing need' which develops a human's personality, creativity and values. True, but if you think about what happened in another 'extreme' conditions, like Auschwitz, you can see that music, as well as other 'artistic' forms and 'unessential' activities, were part of the psychological survival strategy in order to preserve self-esteem as human being. In those conditions, absolutely. One needs to grasp onto whatever they possibly can to survive.

I agree here too. Its not a 'maintenence need' where a human needs things like food, shelter or water to survive, but more of an 'actualizing need' which develops a human's personality, creativity and values.

Would this be a more appropriate question at the myspace site (I am a "friend" there ). But when I looked at the blogs, there's no directions. Anyone from the Pitt area maybe can help me out?

I don't own anything by Dickerson (just haven't gotten around to exploring his work yet) but my respects nonetheless. RIP.

Picked up the Lewis earlier this year and man, what a record! Lindberg's The Catbird Sings, is another killer disk. I'd like to recommend some drummer-led disks: Beaver Harris 360 Music Experience: Beautiful Africa-has McIntyre and Moncur in the front line who play superbly. Andrew Cyrille: Good to Go: A Tribute to Bu-has some great James Newton.

Curtis Amy-Dupree Bolton: Lonely Woman off Katanga! Man, this album has knocked me sideways since snappin' it up yesterday, but this tune in particular though just has this swaggering blues line that is smokin'! Don't know how else to describe it.

Definitely buying the Grimes! Nice to see the Logan back in print. I think the Calibre from 2000 was the last pressing.

Yeah no kidding. I would've been petrified being in that plane.

Another episode's on in 40mins

Thanks Bruce and Montg! Yet another terrific date from this elusive series!

Had Machine Head and used to warm up playing 'smoke on the water'.

Its been an unseasonably cold so far this month. Time for a warmup

Yup, stuff's going OOP right and left. A real travesty.

Yeah, those 10 inchers. I had almost everyone in my hand back in '98 and put most of them right back (what the hell was I thinking?...oh yeah, they'll be around for awhile )

Up. Ate at IHOP with the fam this morning and there's a cd exchange a couple of doors down so I check it out and low and behold they have a copy of Katanga sittin' there for $5!!! It even has the OBI strip. As soon as I got in the car, I popped it in and was astonished how good this album is! Its been said before, there really isn't a bad one in the bunch. Now all I need is five more, and I'll have'em all!!!

EXCELLENT day at my local used cd shop (the one where I nabbed a boatload of VEE's earlier this year): Curtis Amy/Dupree Bolton-Katanga-PJ/WCC...for $5!!! and its mint, not a cutout with the obi! John Carter-Fields-Grammavision...for $2.50!!! Gerry Mulligan Songbook-PJ...for $2.50!!! I yelled out 'holy crap!' in the store when I saw the Amy, and the clerk behind me was like, 'I don't get what's so great about that.'

Amen to that. L&L is looooooooong overdue.

I think the way it works (and I pretty sure there's some threads on this topic, though I'm not sure where, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong) is that the Conns are given an additional pressing if sales are good. If sales are poor, then they let the stock run out (or they turn into cut outs, etc) and they go out of print. So its my guess that My Conception (depsite the fact that it is an excellent disc) didn't sell well and went OOP. It seems that these kind of decisions are made quickly as the 10 inchers and the West Coast Classics, have shown. So my advice is that as soon as you see somthing, grab it, because you never know when you'll see it again. -_-

This dream was a nightmare...if you're a golfer This time I'm playing golf with the current president and he is able to tee off from the tee box like normal, whereas I was forced to tee off on this tiny patio with beams, furniture and stilts in the way. Everytime I move a patio chair or try to put my tee in a little whole in the patio floor, I can't swing my club properly because there's no room or something's in the way. So I huff off to the side where there's a grassy patch and I start twirling my club like a baton and then the grip becomes unraveled. So now I'm trying to figure out how to put my grip back together and the president is laughing at me. I could never figure out how to fix the grip so finally, I head back to the patio, because I still cannot use the tee box and I just take my best swing at the ball and it lands like 10 yards away from the patio and the president thought this was pretty funny too. Then I woke up.

You're right, but I try not to dwell on that, rather be thankful for all the really remarkable work he WAS able to put out during his all-too-short career. I don't like to dwell on that stuff either, but yeah he did record some fine albums in his short life. I'm having a hard time finding a copy of "My Conception." It was his "lost session" and I really would like to own a copy. Any suggestions where I might could find other than Amazon. If you live near a Half Price Books, the European edition of 'My Conception' has been showing up there as a 'cut out.' I've seen a copy at the two store locations where I live.

Playin' some Clark this morning, and after listening to a couple of dates, I still think that Cool Struttin' is probably my favorite date (has alot to do with McLean) with Sonny's Crib after that. The tunes and solos are pretty tight on these dates, and like McLean on CS, I think Chambers is really swingin' on Crib, and I find myself listening to him more than the other players (yeah, even with Trane there-strange huh?). Good stuff all the way around. Honorable Mention goes to Leapin' and Loapin', yet another solid date.

Well funny enough, the same thing happen to me last night that happened to you on Wednesday. Around 6:45, my wife pops in a movie (Cloverfield) and the next thing I know its 8. I think in Wednesday's episode they said that maybe the pilot suffered from a 'vertigo-like syndrome' where the pilot couldn't discern up from down, right from left. Like you said with the 'moonless' night, the pilot became disorientated and unfortanetely, we know what happened next.

"QUOTE The National Geographic Channel goes Out of Control to explore the technological advancements that make our roadways safe. Follow state police officers to learn some of the specialized techniques used to apprehend a fleeing vehicle. Study the amazing stopping power of runaway truck ramps and examine the science and safety measures implemented in the cement median. At any given moment an automobile can go out of control but thanks to modern science, we have what it takes to shut them down." Well maybe its a plane that's taxieing down the runway and perhaps the plane is taxieing faster than its supposed to, hence the highspeed chase of the fleeing plane, then we can juxtapose that scenario with an automobile and compare notes.