AfricaBrass

Your feelings are hurt and you have hurt the feelings of others. This is the perfect time to make up. There is no reason to keep hurting each other. Please, I ask all involved if we can just show some grace and forgive past hurts. If we can do this, things might get back to normal around here. I know you are all decent people. That's why I like it here so much. Please, let's start over and start friendships right now.

Is there any chance we can all shake hands and start over again. It's LOVE DAY We may have different politics, but there's no reason we can't all be friends.

Please! Let's cool down. We're here to talk jazz. Jazz is good. Remember.

That's me, btw, in case some are not aware of it. You're all welcome to bring me some love. First thing would be to stick together a bit... (thanks to John B!) Oh. Hi Flurin! I've always known you as the King. I don't think you're a bully. Your loyal subject, AB Here comes some love... Thanks Jeff! I can really need it. I'm feeling awfully cold at this moment. I'm really sorry. I hope you know you are among friends.

That's me, btw, in case some are not aware of it. You're all welcome to bring me some love. First thing would be to stick together a bit... (thanks to John B!) Oh. Hi Flurin! I've always known you as the King. I don't think you're a bully. Your loyal subject, AB Here comes some love...

Maybe I am dumb. I just figure some are negative in general, others are positive, and the rest are in-between. I have always tried to stand up for those that were being treated unfairly, but I guess I'm missing something.

Daniel, you know I think highly of you. There seems to be a real push to define the type of posts that we make around here. Is that part of what's going on? I never really thought there were any rules to posting, except to be friendly and respectful. Is this part of the frustration? I've sensed an undercurrent and I'm just trying to get a handle on what people are thinking. I don't mean any offense.

Yes, AB. Big, wet, sloppy smooches all around! * SMACK! * I'm here all the time because you people are my friends. All of you.

I'd love to see this list. I've seen disagreements here and there, but I had no idea of the scope of the frustration.

Lord of the Flies Tony, do you have any more good pictures of Camilla as a horse. I'm still laughing about that last one.

It is FREAKIN' time for another LOVE DAY! Any takers?

Just for my understanding... Who are you referring to?

I feel the same way, Joe. I've typed three responses to this thread and I deleted everyone of them. I'm grateful for all the good times and good friends I have known on this board. I hope it sticks around, but I completely respect the band's feelings.

I just developed a new found respect for T Bone walker! As you can see I'm only pulling a "half-bone" as we call it, and I nearly split my pants and fell over trying to get up, nearly crushing my guitar!! T Bone, you da MAN! I'd STILL be on the floor and my guitar would look like Cecil Taylor's piano. Nothing left but splinters.

Wow! That must be an amazing recording. I'd love to hear that.

Go T-Bone!

So, basically the prosecution had people who claimed that Blake discussed having his wife killed, but couldn't make any connection to the crime other than the circumstantial evidence and the fact that it wasn't exactly a strong marriage. I tend to agree with Allen - the prosecution didn't have much of a case and apparently they couldn't push the ball past "beyond and to the exclusion of all reasonable doubt". I'm 100% with Dan on this. Not to mention that the two main "people who claimed Blake discussed having his wife killed" were a paranoid delusional coke addict and a paranoid delusional meth addict, both of whom have other proceedings pending against them in the same jurisdiction... I was just joking around earlier. If I'd have actually been on the jury, I probably wouldn't have been able to find him guilty either. He's definitely guilty of bad acting as a little kid in the Our Gang comedies, but I think there was too much that you could reasonably doubt in this case.

I remember that. So, you never found it?

If that is Aric; I give him a LOT OF CREDIT for creating THAT user name and possibly apologizing to Jim.

The theme from "Baretta" just doesn't work anymore. He didn't have to do his time.

I view this all as a form of performance art. It's quite entertaining. I've viewed Aric as a brilliant performance artist for a long time. Now SS1 is working his art. It's beautiful. This stuff is too good to be real. I wonder what the name of this piece is?

Dowd was incredible - a great loss... -_- I never knew about Dowd's contribution until I saw that recent film about him. Wow! Thanks again for all the information!

My best wishes go out to you and your family, Berigan. I hope you are all feeling better soon!

Are those 11's, Jeff? I think you told me before, but I forgot. Yes, I'm using 11's on my Epiphone Casino and had them on my DeArmond jazzbox. I like flatwound 11's. On my non-flatwound strung guitars, I used D'Addario XL roundwound 10's.