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TWO DOLLARS!

You mess with a bull, young man, you get the horns.

I thought this image fit here somehow.

I'm green with envy. Wish I could be out snowboarding in the freshies!

Nice work. For those who don't know, pencil portaits of this nature are extremely labor intensive, and and looking at doubleM's work I will say he has some excellent control with this particular medium. Beautiful contrast, which is the real difficulty with this technique!

Greetings White Lightning. Don't you mean moonshine?

Nice. I haven't been boarding in a month, I'm jonesing big time.

That's an excellent point. Hip-hop does *not* derive from the blues, even though there are some superficial connections (the tradition of boasting). What is known as "R&B" or "Urban" music today has little to do with the blues as well. The odd thing is that both hip-hip and R&B are based on sixties and seventies soul and funk, both of which had their origins in rhythm and blues and gospel. You have to wonder: How did the bles get lost in that particular translation? Every contemporary hip-hopper owes a debt to James Brown. James Brown definately had his roots in the blues. Where did the blues go over the years? As for Stefon, I respect his opinion. He's a great musician, and his music epitomises contemporary jazz. One could argue that hip-hop also incorporates the blues tradition of irony though on a verse to verse and even grammatical basis as opposed to building up a story to a final "I know her sister will." Hip-hop incorporates battling, which appears to have a tradition in jazz as I have been reading about these tenor sax battles; music as sport. Were there ever blues battles? Crossroads? Those are some real stretches, I know. Hip hop is a patchwork, a collage. It is comic books and comedy, real stories and slang; it has an ongoing dialogue and its own set of aesthetics. It is rejected by the music establishment in the same way the painting establishment at first rejected collage. It is rejected for similar reasons--a sample is not created, it is a found object. Just like with collage, quality is determined by the amount of thought put into the selection of the found object. Just like collage, it is a tremendous departure from the root aesthetics from which it was derived.

http://cgi.cnnsi.com/football/nfl/superbow...elway01.LRG.jpg I think they had to special-order the helmet to house that melon!

I love the blues, even though I share little experience with those who created the blues I like. I'm sure little in my life has resembled the lives of any of the great bluesmen, yet I can "feel" the sounds. Maybe it doesn't "mean" as much to me as it might to another more personally connected to the music, but Albert King's "I'll Play The Blues The Blues For You" and "Feel Like Breakin' Up Somebody's Home" get a lot of play time on my stereo. I've got the Robert Johnson 2cd (haunting stuff!), a Willie Dixon, a Muddy Waters, some Nina Simone, and some good compilations, but its tough to jump into collecting blues while collecting jazz. I have smaller collections of r&b, funk, rock, hip hop, reggae/dub, ambient...they all suffer at the expense of my jazz collection. I was really into Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin in my early teens. They were really the gateway artists which opened my ears to blues-like sounds as much as that might irk blues purists to read. One of the things I love about having all this great old music is to enlighten people who think it is all about "beats." Drum machines ain't got a damned thing on Mike Clark! :rsmile:

Thanks all around for the recommendations. Y'all should see the book of print-outs I have of recommendations. My mom saw me going through the monstrous stack with a highlighter and muttered something about "A Beautiful Mind"...

Whoa, I was being flippant because I didn't think it was really all that serious. Sounds like real harrassment. I am at these boards to learn. I am so thankful there are very well-listened and good-natured people around to talk about this art form with. I love the brains that lurk in these areas, sorry you have run into such an impass... :rsly:

I remember there being a thread about this duo, something about them being great. Now I have this track called "Topsy" that is just KILLING me it is so good. Tell me more, please!

What's the music all about? Is Tyrone one to look for?

It's a family affa-air. It's a family affa-air.

I got your back PD. Shrug him off. He'll get over it.

I must say I am definitely in the camp that dislikes the cover art on these, but I agree the music is fantastic. I have been meaning to to get more but usually these are in the $18.99 range which often deters me. I have a Charles Kynard, a Boogaloo Joe Jones, and an Idris Muhammad from this series and I like them all.

Thanks GOM. Gotta love those Collectables twofers. :rsmile:

I really dig Oscar Brown, Jr., I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for Tells It Like It Is. I have Sin & Soul and Movin' On. I've never heard the original "Please Send Me Someone To Love", but I do have a version of it on this:

When I think of my social life, Boo Radley comes to mind. Guess I need to get out of the house! I go home from work, I throw on some jazz, and I start working on my art.

I got to watch Scrotum, whoever made it is twisted!

Carneys...small hands....smell like cabbage.

Boney Back Davis on the set! B)

Father: "William.....move your head. Look at the size of that boy's head. I'm not kidding it's like an orange on a toothpick!" Tony: "Shh. You're going to give the boy a complex..." Father: "Oh that's a huge noggin'. It's a virtual planetoid. Has it's own weather systems!" Father: "Head. Paper. Now. Move that melon of yours and get the paper if you can. Hauling that gargantuan cranium about. I'm not kidding, that boy's head's like Sputnik. Spherical but quick, pointy in parts. Oh that was off-side wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow!"