AfricaBrass

What about cruelty to silicone?

I didn't get the memo on that!

Thanks Jacman! The winds are supposed to die down. I sure hope so! BeBop, that's terrible. I'm sorry for your loss. I couldn't even imagine.... You had the right idea to get out of California. I hope your girlfriend will be okay. Texas, here I come.

in leu of thanks, have her box up some of your CDs and ship em to me. Good thing she's not reading this because she probably would.

Coitenly!

Yuck! This is the dark side of American Choppers. I guess I don't want a motorcycle anymore. My wife will thank you.

Thanks Bruce! As far as I know the Beetle problem is really bad in the San Bernadino mountains. There's a lot of fuel up there around Crestline.

That's GREAT news, vibes!

I'm glad you're okay, Dave! That must have been pretty frightening. I hope you stay out of danger. Vibes, My best wishes to your parents, I hope they make it okay!

W E L C O M E ! Come on in! The water's fine.

Thanks for asking, Berigan! We're doing fine where we are, but the smoke is pretty bad. We had to go out to the desert and Saturday and went through on the 15 Saturday afternoon and later that evening. It was pretty awful. There were two fires going on either side of the freeway. I think we were some of the last people to get through before they shut down the freeway. We live near the mountains ourselves and I just hope nothing starts out by us. It was amazing how far down into civilization the San Bernadino fire was burning. We were really shocked by that as we went by. I feel so sick for those affected. Please pray for us out here.

ss1, If you don't have this yet, get it! It's Dizzy with Chano Pozo from 1948 "Gene Norman Presents Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band in Concert"

"I've had a rough night and I hate the F$#%^N' Eagles." -The Dude Me too! I LOVE the Big Lewbowski! The Dude is the best!

Thanks Jazzdog! I'll fix it right now. Edit: Fixed! Yes, it is true! The only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!!

I remember being kind of burnt out on the BNBB in the months before it closed down. The Misc. forum had just gotten too ugly for me. I wasn't posting much anymore (I used to post there under the name Blake). But when it went down, I felt so angry, it was like losing your favorite hangout. I think I'm still a little ticked off at BN still because of the way it was handled. I really think the Organissimo board is like a BNBB that has gone through it's teenage years and has grown into something really nice. I find that I have learned more here than I have in a long time (on ALL subjects ) and I just genuinely like the people here. I remember Wesbed coming over to the AAJ when we had first settled there and extorting us to come here. Well I did, and though AAJ is a great board and Mike Ricci is a great guy, I'm glad I stuck around here. It's kind of like the story of the Three Bears, this bed is "just right".

I went to one of those meetings a few years ago too. Normally, I'd have avoided it with a 10 foot pole, but the friend who invited us was one that we really held in high esteem. I did the same thing that you did, Uncle Skid. Upon arriving, I started asking, "Is this Amway?" I kept getting told "No" - It was only later after having endured a couple hours of PowerPoint presentations that the dreaded "A" word was mentioned. Our friend seems more poor than ever, I guess QUIXTAR, the internet shopping mall didn't work out for him. I did notice that he sure has a lot of Amway product around the house (reminds me of my childhood).

Welcome Aftab! Hey, I know that dude! This board is everything the BNBB should have been I hope you have fun here. :rsmile:

My guess is about 30 days. As for Feurio, I've heard great things about it too, but I couldn't get it to work for me either.

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've read an interview with the owners of the label and they are just a couple of record lovers like the rest of us (but with more of a penchant for the bizarre ).

You're welcome! I hope you have a great birthday! At least it's on a Friday. Edit: To remain true to this thread, I only got 3 right.

Happy Birthday, maren!

I'd vote for that too! As for the bop innovators, the truth is, I don't really enjoy listening to early bop as much as I enjoy hard bop. This is not to say that I don't appreciate or respect what they were doing, but I like the feel of hard bop more.

I totally agree, Bruce! What I've done in recent years with the advent of CD-Rs has been to create Beatles' compilations of certain years (I know - ultimate geekiness). I've got a combo cd of Rubber Soul, Revolver, and the various singles of that vintage. It's great to hear songs like Rain along with songs from Revolver. Sometimes, I've thrown cool bootleg tracks in.

This was a hard choice for me. I ended up going with "Progressive '60s (post bop and hardbop)" but pre-bop was a close second, and classic Blue Note 50's would have been third.