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The working title was "A Basic Instinct Christmas."

The Guber Burger, smeared with peanut butter that goes all melty. Served at the Wheel Inn in Sedalia, Missouri:

I'm contacting the administrator immediately. This needs to be moved to the political forum.

I miss my black-and-white kitty named Dexter. The one on the right looks like another Dexter to me.

Sleepy John Estes recorded it quite a few years before Muddy. Honest. (Can o' worms here.)

In the classical field, "toccata" is just a category of showpieces. No set structure to them. This is one of my favorite KD cuts. A great modal, vampy thing -- can't think of anything like it in his discography. KD gets off a great solo in his relaxed later style, and Joe Henderson's solo afterward is simply killin'. Don't miss it.

The result sounds a lot like the octave divider that he was using on the guitar in '77 and '78.

Hope the cameraman got over his fixation with Kenny Clare before the film was over.

RIP indeed. The store was in the process of reopening in the West Bottoms, but the process was agonizingly slow. I was there just a couple of weeks ago and came away dismayed at the state of it. Ron didn't seem to be around. Can't tell you how many times over the decades I read about some interesting piece of music or some artist who was new to me, went to the Music Exchange and came home with the vinyl (or the CD) the same day. It was fun, and it was an education. I'll never forget it.

A chunk of 8/6/71, from The Other One to Lovelight, is on Dick's Picks 35. The booklet says that's the only portion in the Vault.

You mean you don't have the 12-CD set of all the "China Cat Sunflower" choruses strung together?

Took me a long time to separate my reactions to rabid Chet fans from my reactions to Chet's music. I know a couple of Chet fans who are downright creepy. One of them is insulted by name in "Deep in a Dream."

I've visited HPB stores in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin and Texas and come away pleased with all of them. Except Ptah keeps getting the good stuff from the KC stores before I do.

Be sure to eat at Dave's Not Here in Santa Fe.

I guess everything recorded before 1955 sucks too much to be on the list.

Here in rainy Kansas City, we held a Bird tribute at his grave today. Quite a few of the cats brought their horns. Ahmad Alaadeen, who usually plays tenor and soprano, was playing an old alto. I asked him about it, and he said it was Jackson's horn, a 1938 Conn. And knowing what we know about Bird and horns, he assumes Bird played on it too.

Don't forget the end of #15.

Wasn't aware of the new disc. Thanks, Eric! Heard Jerry twice last year, and both times it seemed he was playing the guitar about as well as it can possibly be played.

But can he play "Night Train"?

Never fear. It'll get remastered soon.

My parents always salted it. Therefore I cannot.

Hot diggity. Another thread started by a spammer from Universal.

Also a strong contender for Best Album Title Ever.

What Clem said. Fanfare's pay-for-play proclivity has been noticeable for years, and still I read it and find much that's useful. I'm sure Flegler isn't getting rich off the thing.