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Then within five years, the industry will be fusing it with spork music.

My favorite part of the questionaire: 5) What direction(s) do you think jazz music needs to take to become more popular? a) It needs to fuse more with other genres (e.g. Rock, Pop, Latin) b) It needs to embrace modern technology (e.g. Electronic Jazz) c) It needs to be rebranded (e.g. New name) d) It needs to become more commercial

For me, the best part of the Pigpen numbers comes when the improv snakes away from the original groove and he has to deal with the crazy stuff the band is throwing back at him. There are some dandy examples from his last hurrah, the Europe '72 tour -- the "Rockin' the Rhein" set has some amazing Pig moments.

"The insertionists are in their last throes..."

You're thinking of the literary movement, Les Insertionistes, that Hemingway dabbled with.

A lot of good nights on that tour. That first wave of inspiration that came from adding Keith was a big one.

Yeah, but still an all-time great Scarlet>Fire. A friend of mine was at the Madison show and is still crowing about it.

You might want to consider buying a new copy from Chuck Nessa, best source for this Uptown label.

I know a pianist who played with Ware in Chicago in the '50s. One day I tried to steer the conversation toward him: "How was he to work with?" I was shut down by the answer: "Strung out."

Indeed. Maybe Stockhausen Verlag will rethink the way they sell those things. Hey, both those wire service obits are really bad, aren't they? One of my favorite late-night listens is Gruppen, loud as heck. I'll do that again tonight.

I'd recommend uTorrent over BitTorrent any day. Just as reliable, but doesn't hog your computer's resources.

So maybe it wasn't such a good idea to get my chicken a friendship bracelet for Christmas?

Yeah, but who's got my big food?

Sorry to hear it. Wow, somebody got away with this in broad daylight?

Haven't heard that particular model. But the one Numark I have tried had so much rumble that I don't want to try anything else from that maker.

It's a slow healing process, and the depth of the feeling always manages to take you by surprise. Sounds like she had a good life in a loving home, and she's happy about it now. Lost my cat exactly a year and a week ago, and I still think I hear her around the house. (But the mice went away after she died. I think she and the mice enjoyed each other.)

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A few here.

That Reiner Brahms 4 is the stuff it doesn't get much better than.

An external HD full of Dead here, and even more archived on DVD-ROMs. As for CDs, I started out with slim cases, but now I'm moving over to the envelope method.

The torrent sites have a fresh new edition of 11-11-73. This one is mandatory. There will be an exam later.

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I feel your pain, Matthew. Some high-quality boots of those four shows have kept the pain manageable for me.

Not to mention the Nono-Ono-Eno electronic collaborations. (But seriously, folks. I'm a big fan of "sofferte onde serene" and "como una ola de fuerza y luz," and the much earlier "Canonic Variations." Haven't been able to get into "Fragmente -- Stille an Diotima," though. Maybe it's time to try again.)

Life, friends, is boring.