Spontooneous

A little promo here for DP 19. This one starts out as a fairly average '73 show (that's better than faint praise, since the average in '73 was especially good). Then, at the end of Set 1, the "Playin' in the Band" monster almost slips out of the band's hands and heads for frightening territory. You can hear the whole band get scared and retrench, as one, to the out chorus. Set 2 gets off to an almost routine start. And then in the "Dark Star," they go back to that scary place that "Playin" touched. They explore it, tame it -- conquer it. The beauty of "Morning Dew" is hard-earned after this one. In short, Disc 1 and Disc 2 good, Disc 3 off the hook, off the meter. Also my favorite DP front cover art.

Only if Annie will work with me.

Proximity to an underground after-hours fetish club would be nice. I'm just bein' realistic.

It all depends on what the meaning of "meaning" is.

After Crouch's last public lecture in Kansas City, I can imagine that. Somehow I missed a Kansas City appearance by Crouch. When and where was it? What did he say? It was virtually unannounced; maybe they didn't want to drive the audience away. Crouch spoke before the Charlie Parker Memorial Concert with Charles McPherson and Tom Harrell at the Gem a couple of years back, or was it 2003? This man who supposedly has spent much of his life researching a Bird bio got up and spoke for about 15 minutes -- a rambling, aimless, incoherent discourse about Bird's supposed sexual prowess and little else. It was the longest and most uncomfortable 15 minutes of the year.

After Crouch's last public lecture in Kansas City, I can imagine that.

Mine's OK. My "Night of the Cookers" set is backwards, though.

I'm enjoying the Enja "Impact" right now, in a burn from Tom's LP. (We made this before we knew about the impending reissue.) A beautiful date. Compares well to any other Music Inc. recording.

First four letters of "Neidlinger" rhyme with "wide," I'm told by someone who says he's played with Buell.

After an extended trial on these fluffed-up charges, he will surely achieve his release.

Wasn't that pattern a sweater on The Cosby Show?

Nailed it there, Ed.

That St. Louis 1969 download has maybe my favorite "Other One." Is that Garcia on steel guitar near the end of it?

Aww, c'mon. You clearly haven't heard enough bad solos. We'll give you some recommendations...

I'm sorry. Were they the same primitive light effects that were used a little during Bobby Watson's set to everyone's annoyance? And was the sound any better than the hideous sound they gave Bobby?

Yes, please clarify the pronoun. And tell us some more stories about Sangrey.

linkety-link-link-link

I was going to stay for this set, but it turned ridiculously cold out there on the festival grounds, and I wasn't prepared for that. So I split. My spy who did stay for the set tells me it was a mess. But he's prejudiced against that sort of thing.

He's got the best-sounding stool.

He's your Uncle Morty too? Wow. See you at the family reunion. Thanks for this.

Then there's my cat, who was chased back into the house by a small, young rabbit.

No more new Ligeti works! That's hard to think about. RIP.

Note how lukewarm the official statements are. (Vince was "competent.") Maybe the Usenet commentator got it right after all.

Laa Laa Tinky Winky Po

"Get Up With It." It was a foldout cover. The "For Duke" was inside, not on the front.