AfricaBrass

Another warm welcome back from me, Brownie! Enjoy your break! Please remember you are missed here.

I love that album. I haven't listened to it in a while, but I played it non-stop for a couple of weeks when it was released.

I love your show. It's like a jazz history course. If I knew someone interested in learning about jazz, I'd send them the link to your show archives. Thank you!

I like this one too. I say you alternate the moose avatars. Keep us on the edge of our seats.

That's a really good question... If it was a recording I loved, I would buy it. The jazz label could give me real value for my money, example: The Uptown Mingus set. I'd buy that even if I'd had the recordings. Maybe the official release would come from higher-generation tapes. That would be a plus. I've listened the downloaded Cherry album and there's a lot of hiss on it. I can't imagine a label releasing it in this quality. I'd be upset if I bought it and it sounded the way this shared recording does. Even though the Grateful Dead allows shows to be shared, the official versions usually sound much better.

I'm partial to the album cover, but any moose themed avatar would work for me. You are the jazz moose, so you've got to have a moose up there. It's the 11th commandment. "Thou shalt have a moose avatar is thouest is known as thy Jazzmoose." You can't argue with that...

I love Quick Draw McGraw!! Eeeevun (to quote Snagglepuss). He seems to have that Pete Townshend move down...

I understand. I really am not condeming you in any way. I've purchased boots in the past. My only concern is that efforts will step up to stop file sharing of unreleased recordings if the true owners of the music see that people are making money off of it. When I go onto easytree, it's like a dream come true. I remember wanting to find live concerts. I found this guy named Ed who would sell cassettes for $15 a pop. I bought a few and the quality sucked. The guy wasn't in it for the music, only for the money. I remember paying $25 for cds by bootleg labels that are now being shared for free. I do believe this kind of stuff increases interest in the artists and in the end helps them. Look at the Grateful Dead; their open policy towards tape trading and file sharing has made them bigger than ever. The people who engage in collecting this music also respect the band and thwart attempts to share officially released material. When bands/musicians respect their fans, most fans, in return, respect them and their wishes.

Just because you get it for free doesn't make you any better than the person selling it. The real fact is that this stuff shouldn't be circulating at all and if you buy it, trade it, sell it or whatever in reality you are all wrong to do so. I don't know about these trees or whatever, I just bought them from the guy on ebay because it was fast and $10. I'm wrong, he's wrong, we are all wrong technically. So make a decision to enjoy these recordings or not but unless the artist has authorized the release we are all dealing with music we shouldn't be. I never had a problem with you about buying from this guy. My problem was with him for selling things that are being shared for free. I know we have no right to some of this music, but I don't see anything wrong with sharing it, as long as it is not for profit and as long as it doesn't take away sales for a legitimate product. I'm grateful to musicians that allow sharing of their music and I want to respect their wishes in that we only share it, not profit from it. It's a two way street; sharing this music does keep it alive. A lot of it might be lost if it wasn't for fans who traded live recordings. For example, a few years back the rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service released an album of a live concert from 1968. I believe they got the tapes for that concert from underground traders. I read an interview with their guitarist about how when he asked for cds of shows, they were sent to him. I collect this stuff because I love the music. I've never profitted or would ever profit from it. Another example, I have hundreds of Grateful Dead shows, yet I've also purchased 95% of the Dick's Picks series so far and plan to buy the rest in the future. I have purchased all their other archive releases also. I think file sharing of unreleased material is the greatest thing. It gets the music out there and also takes the profit away from most of the bootleggers. It takes away the reason for bootleg labels in the first place; they know their bootleg will be shared by file sharers. All the have to do is sell one copy for the bootleg to become a shared item. This takes all the demand away for their products.

I bet they will sound really good.

Al the DVD is really good... now I have an idea how to repay for that Allman Brothers... OooooooooH!! You got it! I've got a few things to mail next week...

Wow! I wonder how that things sounds. I have a '96 Taylor 410 which I love.

Man... that thing works!

Hans, It is GREAT to have you back!!!

I agree... Rest assured, Jeff, you'll never be on my ignore list! Thank you, Peter! :rsmile:

This really sucks! I'm sorry if I played a part in any of this.

I'm sad to see the ignore feature implemented. At least I'll know why no one answers my post anymore...

Be careful with that thing, Ron. I hear they make people go blind, get hairy fingers...

I haven't tried the Gripmaster. I usually do an exercise where I put my first finger on the first fret, second finger/second fret, third finger/third fret, fourth finger/fourth fret. I just go across the fretboard this way and then move down the neck, one fret at a time.

I'm glad to hear that. I was about to send him an email. It would be awful if Couw left the board.

Wow! Thanks for the tip, Brad.

Probably a pretty good idea. Since I already own the McLean Mosaic, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't buy a Conn with just Consequence on it. But if it included all the High Frequency tracks too, I'd certainly give it some thought. I'd buy it too.

I like Brubeck. My favorite recordings of his are with Paul Desmond. I don't listen to him that much, but I still gave him a thumbs up. I saw him perform around 10 years ago and really enjoyed it.

I do not know why it is you can say this to me and nothing happens! Che. Because he has the right to say what he will, just as you do, as long as he's not threatening you. This is the kind of stuff that happens when we don't treat each other with respect. It illustrates why we don't just come into this place and say whatever we will. It's your right to, but there's always a consequence. This is the time to rise above, apologize to each other and move on.