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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:

Man, those titles didn't last long at all. Maybe BN isn't doing as well since they shut down their bulletin board and alienated many of their supporters. I guess all those Norah Jones fans aren't buying their other releases.

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:

Great point, Shrdlu, about Red Garland. I feel the same way about him. He was one of the first jazz musicians that my wife liked. I tried and tried to get her into jazz, but I put on one of his trio albums on Prestige and she loved it. :rsmile:

I couldn't agree more! Instant karma's gonna get you....

I've got a few things on the Tzadik label other than the Zorn stuff. I really liked Jim O'Rourke's Terminal Pharmacy cd. I haven't listened to it in a long time, but I used to dig it. One Tzadik release I implore you to avoid is: John Zorn's "Songs From the Hermetic Theatre" - I think it's the worst cd I ever bought. This is coming from someone who has over 20 Zorn cds already. It actually inspired me to start an anti-recommendation thread: Anti-recommendation thread I don't even think there are drugs out there that would make this album sound good. :rsmile:

Ouch! I'm a little burnt on AfricaBrass myself. I've played it too many times.

Nice picks Clementine! I dig Wynn Stewart and the rest. I'm glad you're a fan, Jazzmoose. I really love those old Buck Owens albums. I'm also a huge Merle Haggard fan. I'd say any of his Capital albums from the sixties really have that Bakersfield thing down. As a guitar player, I'm really drawn to the guitar players of this era. These guys aren't necessarily Bakersfield, but were from SoCal. You have to check out Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant. There are some great compilations on the Razor and Tie label. Jimmy Bryant is my favorite guitarist EVER. Another guitarist I really like is Joe Maphis. His cd Fire On the Strings is good. If you like country/rockabilly, check out Wanda Jackson. Joe Maphis and Buck Owens played guitar on her early Capital Sides. There's a great compilation series from Europe. It's called a Capital Rockabilly Party. There's 3 volumes and it has a great cross section of fifties rockabilly/country. If you like newer stuff, I'd check out Dale Watson, Redd Volkaert. The Hightone label does a lot of new Bakersfield style country. There's so much... I love this stuff! :rsmile:

Matthew, I respect your courage in admitting that jazz gets played out for you. I'm in the same boat. I've probably listened to about six jazz albums during the past three months. Right now, I'm on a Bakersfield country and Chicago blues kick. :rsmile:

I have 2 tattoos. I got the first one 15 years ago and the second one 12 years ago. They're not as crisp as they were when I first got them, but they still look good. I'm not worried about them bleeding together because I believe the modern inks don't bleed like the old ones did. The first tattoo was on my left upper arm and it is a Native American Medicine Wheel. I designed both of them myself myself. My second tattoo is on my right calf and it is an Ouroboros (which is a snake swallowing itself). I used to be quite the uber-pagan. It's funny now because my tattoos have nothing to do with my beliefs now. Sometimes I think they trip people out sometimes in the circles I travel in. If I had the choice to do it over again, I wouldn't. It's not that I'm ashamed or anything, but I just don't see the need for them. They served a purpose for me back then, but mostly they function as a bookmark for a time in my life. Permanent is a long time. :rsmile:

I'm a big Costello fan too. I would also recommend the Rhino reissues. I've had both the Columbia and Rykodisc issues also. Growing up, I never was a big Elvis Costello fan. I liked his hits, but I had never ventured into his albums. I bought Spike when it came out, but it didn't really grab me. The album that made me a HUGE fan was Mighty Like a Rose. I saw him on the subsequent tour (beard and all) and was blown away. I think I learned more about how to sing from listening to that cd. I have everything he's put out, but I haven't heard north yet. I'm a little nervous that it may be Juliet Letters Part 2. My favorite Costello album is Imperial Bedroom, but all his previous albums are also killer. I've really been getting into Get Happy lately. It's cool to see so many Elvis fans around here. :rsmile: