AfricaBrass

That's where I live. I used to have all my music categorized, now it's just alphabetical. To me, music is music.... I was just listening to my OJC Moondog CD the other day. Anybody who dresses up like a viking and doesn't pillage is alright with me.

Thanks for the links! One of my favorite things to do while growing up was to listen to the old time radio shows that the local station played at 9pm every night. I used to use a streamripper program to make mp3s of shows that I'd listen to on the web.

I don't remember the drumkit, but that's wild. Although those cartoons weren't of the highest quality, I loved watching them when I was a kid. The first time I ever heard "Tomorrow Never Knows" was while watching the Beatles cartoon.

That sounds cool! If I had to put my life in either Paul or Ringo's hands, I'd take Ringo anyday.

It makes perfect sense to me why he might have been miserable. I was talking to someone of a conservative religious nature recently and they made a comment about homosexuality being such a problem. This person said that it's a choice. I asked her why she believed that. She said that she believed it because now it's popular. In her opinion that's why you see so many gay people all of a sudden. I explained to her that there have always been homosexuals and the reason you didn't see many in the past is because their health and livelihoods depended on keeping it a secret. This had never occurred to her. Man, I loved Paul Lynde's humor. He was always a highlight of every show he was on. I too, remember when he passed on. I was thirteen and it was my sister's birthday.

I hope you have a great birthday!

I used to listen to this CD all the time. Gesualdo - Tenebrae: Performed by the Hilliard Ensemble

My addiction started in '95 with my purchase of the Larry Young and the newest Mosaic release, the Complete Blue Note Lee Morgan Fifties Sessions.

I don't need the Dexter Gordon, but everything else on this list would be FINE BY ME! Give me these four and finish the 10" Conn series and I'll be a VERY HAPPY CAT! :rsmile: :rsmile:

Wow! That looks like a cool trip. I would have killed to be able to do that when I was a kid.

Wow! It's so weird getting older and seeing people you grew up with pass on. It seems like it's happening all the time. We have those Johnny Carson DVDs and they're fun trip down memory lane.

Thanks! That looks really cool. I'm off to check it out.

Congratulations! I'll check it out.

I hope you have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I hope you have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I couldn't tell for sure - it's so small. Actually, as long as this is about Dryden, the cover of "Surrealistic Pillow" was re-cropped at the waist because there's a noticable bulge in Spencer's pants I didn't know that!

Yeah, I've got that version and the version with the offending digit removed. I guess that was pretty punk in 1967. You can see it on the photo above on the washboard.

DrJ - I'm a big Moby Grape fan. Been one for many YEARS! I'd suggest checking out their first album. I really think it's a perfect record. Basically, you had four vocalists, three guitars, groovin' bass. They had talent to spare. On the guitar front, you had Skip Spence playing rhythm (in his own cool style), you had Peter Lewis fingerpickin' and you had Jerry Miller playing great lead. On the vocal side, you have great harmonies on every song, plus most members took turns on lead vocals. My favorite vocalist being Bob Mosley (who was the bassist) who had a huge vocal range and sang quite soulfully. Ghost mentioned Skip Spence. He is one of those casualties of rock (like Syd Barrett). The story is, during the sessions for their second album in New York, Skippy was dating a witch and taking too much acid. I guess the combo didn't serve him well and he attacked another band member with a fire ax. He was arrested and spent six months in Bellvue. Upon his release, he drove a motorcycle to Nashville and recorded the album Oar in a few days, playing all the instruments himself. He never really recorded much after that. A couple years later he appeared on a Moby Grape reunion album, but he wasn't nearly as present as he had been on their first album. I'd highly recommend the first Moby Grape album and Spence's Oar. There was a Moby Grape compilation called Vintage put out by Sony around 10 years ago. If you see a used copy, I'd grab it.

A heavy cat?!?

This heavy?

How heavy? This heavy.

Good point! Heck, Balin couldn't even handle Slick and Kantner.

Here's another quote from the press release: I never knew of his jazz background. It makes sense to me now, seeing that he wasn't as heavy handed as some of the other rock drummers that came after him in the band.