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Its down by Los Angeles, out by the San Bernardino Hwy (i10), going East out of LA County. Looking at the pictures I am not suprised that this kind of place exists over there. I think I've been there.

I think these are required attire for this place.

I also see some great future avatar ideas here.

Wow, the old images search trick on Google. I've found a lot of great stuff there too, but this takes the cake!

Where do you find this stuff?

I like "Life" (and my name's not Mikey!!! ) But seriously, I think "Life" is a pretty good Neil Young album. Maybe not a 4 or 5 star album, but not any less than 3 stars (and personally I'd probably give it 3.5 stars). Well worth picking up if you find it used for cheap. (And if you like "Landing on Water", then you'll probably also like "Life". I like 'em both.) Sorry Rooster, I got confused, I was thinking of Landing On Water, the album that came right before Life. Life was pretty good. You guys have been bringing up some interesting music. I loved that Nick Heyword single you mentioned, jmjk, I'd love to hear it again. I was a big Jam fan and I dug the Style Council too. Heck, I even like Paul Weller's '90s albums. The Cocteau Twins were great. I learned a lot about guitar effects from them. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I really loved the band, Lush, that Guthrie produced. It was pretty similar to the Cocteau Twins, but more poppy. In the early 80's here in Southern California, the radio station KROQ was amazing. I miss being able to turn the radio on and here such great music. Stuff like, XTC, Bauhaus, Adam and the Ants, the English Beat, Madness, etc... It was a great time to be a kid.

It's great to see pictures of these shows! I really loved the old To Tell the Truth. These shows bring back great memories of being a kid.

OUCH! I guess soup's on at Shrdlu's. Maybe you should open a soup kitchen or something?

Yeah, the new Hollywood Squares doesn't do much for me. They need Jm J Bullock to liven it up a bit or something. Paul Lynde on the old show was the best. Gene Rayburn was pretty funny. The banter between him, Brett Somers, and Charles Nelson Rielly was great. Another show I liked was Make Me Laugh. That was a great place to see former Hogan's Heroes. :rsmile:

Here's a link to an interesting MSN article about one of these types of scams.

Thanks for the info! I only had Flight - Bremen. I've been kicking myself for years for not picking up Emphasis. I love Giuffre's music, this is great stuff. :rsmile:

I also have to say that your cd is still on my playlist. I've barely been listening to jazz lately, but I'm still listening to Organissimo (and I'm still trying to play Joe's guitar parts).

I loved Match Game too! A couple years ago I had the game show network on cable. It was a real kick getting to see that show again. I loved games shows. Since I have a 2 year old, I watch a lot of Spongebob Squarepants. Charles Nelson Reilly is great as the voice of the Dirty Bubble. :rsmile:

Good point, Rooster. I have a hard time thinking of classic rock musicians that did interesting work with 80's production. I guess the most interesting performer to me would have been someone like Robert Plant. His solo stuff was really different from Led Zeppelin, but it was interesting to me on it's own (even with the eighties style production). It also was an era where a lot of classic rockers really lost their way. Neil Young's Landing On Water is a case of that to me. The production just strangled his personality out of the music IMO. I think some of the new wave production styles were really cool in the late seventies and early eighties, but by the mid-eighties, it seemed to have become very formulaic. A band that I really liked was the Cars. Their first two albums were great IMO, but there later stuff (though it was really popular) seemed to have lost its' edge. I guess that's what 80's synths and drum machines took away from rock and rollers, to me, was the edge.

Congratulations!

Good point, Bev. I remember back in '85 Clapton released his Behind the Sun album. The album featured production by Phil Collins with that fabled Phil Collins drum sound. Yuck! Listening to that album now, it's sad to see how it is ruined by the production. If you like the sound of over effected cardboard, then that fabled drum sound is for you. Yuck! That's how I feel about most eighties production. It was fine when it was confined to new wave artists, but when you applied it the classic rockers. The results varied. Oof!

Jim, I don't know how large the readership is for this magazine, but if it is significant, maybe you should just buy the organissimojazz.org domain name and have it point to organissimo.org. www.godaddy.com charges $8.95/year for domain names. Just a thought. :rsmile:

My real guess is the clarinet.

The banjo ???

I forgot about that soundtrack. I do remember liking it. I thought Pros and Cons was pretty good, but I really hated Radio KAOs. Speaking of Waters, do you remember his collaboration with Ron Geesin from the early '70s - Music From the Body? That's some pretty weird stuff.

I feel the same way about Floyd. That first Gilmour disc was good. I remember really loving the first song on it (it's been years since I have heard it). I just can't get into the the Final Cut or the Roger Water's solo stuff and Post-Waters Pink Floyd.

Nice thread, Rooster! I love the The Dukes of Stratosphear, I have to admit I like them even more than XTC. Some of my favorite solo albums are: David Crosby (CSN) - If I Could Only Remember My Name Skip Spence (Moby Grape) - Oar Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) - Madcap Laughs and Barrett George Harrison - All Things Must Pass I have more, but I'll have to think about it. :rsmile:

Weird - perhaps. But axe murderers and pedophiles???? That is pretty creepy to be labeled that way. Maybe he was thinking of the Jazzcorner. Just kiddin'

My wife bought it. Lisa Marie is no Elvis. My wife buys everything that I don't buy. I used to get all crazy when she'd play her music for me. Now I just look at it as different music for different purposes. Her music is for the background, for talking over. My music is for listening too. Now we've got a happy house. :rsmile:

Impossible, The Jim O'Rourke is from '95, so it's more experimental and ambient than his current stuff. I used to really be into that ambient stuff back then, so I may have been biased. I don't really know how to describe it. Here's the review from allmusic.com, they can articulate it better than I can. "With Terminal Pharmacy, Jim O'Rourke creates a soundscape so calm and minimal that some people, lacking patience for the seeming formlessness, could do entirely without it, while others will find themselves repeatedly putting it in their CD player at home, work, or wherever they need warmth dispersed throughout the air. Seeping steadily from the edge of silence comes crackles, thin fuzz, and extended string tones. Less narrative than what "electro-acoustic" usually refers to, "Cede" hums at the back of your mind. Given almost a minute of silence in between, the second piece then begins; sounding like a very quiet improvisation, the instruments whisper bowed rounds, a conversation in tininess that grows bolder at moments." My favorite Jim O'Rourke albums is Bad Timing. That's him doing the John Fahey thing. You've probably heard it, but if you haven't, check it out. It's on the Drag City label, I believe. :rsmile: