Spontooneous

If I said "Pigs and ponies!" here, would any Zappa fans get it? Currently stuck on 6-10-73. No messing around in the first set; this time they mean it from the git-go.

Even the worst of the Soul Note covers was better than this.

Don Van Vliet Mamie Van Doren Milhouse Van Houten

See discussion in Didu One-Note's other thread here.

John Fogerty Saul Zaentz Vivian Vance

For some reason, Doug Watkins leaps out at me like no other bass player. Maybe because he had about the best intonation of anybody.

"All the materials in the JazzMeBlues projects are available for distribution through the Internet according to license # 341 – AVI 29/04/2004 of the ASDAC and the Internet Society. Under the license terms, ASDAC pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Republic of Moldova "On Copyright and Related Rights". " Anybody else have the suspicion that Moldovan copyright law is kinda like the Liberian law for licensing oil tankers?

Oh, I get it. Don't ask questions about The Great Respected Dead Masters. And don't ever try to open a new line of honest discussion about one. How useful, to jazz scholars and fans alike.

Oh, my! Thanks, Lon! Love the Copenhagen '72 clips, even if the sound isn't synched. (Note that on Jack Straw, Bobby sings lead all the way.)

My choice for Masterhit of the Week...

They threw him out of the pizza biz because he kept stealing the flour, I think. But seriously, folks. Search around on the Web a little and you can find a couple of Bit Torrents of that Playboy After Dark video. (TC gets more screen time than Pigpen!)

Mine, too. As far as I know, never made it to CD. 'Twas Hannibal HNCD 9301. Doggone it, I saw a duplicate copy in a cutout bin a couple of months back. Didn't get it. Next time I'm in that part of town I'll check again.

Little if any, I'd bet. Williams made the first recording of it, and in bygone days bandleaders often got co-composer credit, even when they didn't deserve it. (That's how Benny Goodman's name got on "Stompin' at the Savoy." And that's how Elvis Presley got composer credits on a lot of his hits.)

Be aware that the LP version of "That's The Way I Feel Now" has significantly more material than the CD. (So I never bought the CD, and now I wish I had...)

And Enrico Ravel.

No, dawg. Luigi Dallapiccola is my man now.

Hey, y'all, I just checked out some happenin' music from this new cat, Arnold Schoenberg. He's up and coming, and you'll hear lots more in the future. Check out his web site here. Just wanted to spread the word. It's phat like you wouldn't believe! Peace!

The late, late edition was thrown on lawns, in a pattern I don't understand. My parents got one. A co-worker who lives about five blocks from them got one. Another co-worker who lives three blocks from that first co-worker didn't. I didn't. Apparently nobody thought to print extras for machines, convenience stores, etc. We're still (right now) getting calls from people demanding a "corrected" paper. They're out of luck. A third edition is extremely unusual. We haven't gone that late on anything since the last presidential election. The time before that was the election of 2000. Here's the most remarkable thing about last night: When the corrected edition was ready, only about 14,000 papers remained in the press run. And 20,000-plus erroneous papers were on the loading dock. This cost-cutting company, which complains about the escalating cost of paper, consented to pulp those 20,000-plus papers and print new ones to replace them. That'll probably never happen again.

It's a whole new interpretation of "Dolphin Dance."

Looks like this "Adderley" character needs to settle down. He's nowhere near as organized and efficient as this "Coltrane" fellow. Meanwhile, this "Davis" needs to get with the program and put some pep in his step. There is far too much wasted space here. (Wonder how the Evans solo would look?)

Beckerman doesn't mention the role that a governor eager to be seen in a happy photo op and eager to be quoted about a "miracle" in the world press played in confirming the wrong information. In fact, we held off on printing the information when it was sourced to the families. We didn't run with it until after the governor confirmed it. EDIT: Out paper ran an unscheduled third edition to get the story straight. About 40,000 papers had the news right. (That's out of about 200,000.)

Wasn't just the families saying they were alive. The governor of West Virginia announced it -- a fact he seems to be conveniently ignoring today.

The newspaper I work for has just printed hundreds of thousands of copies that say "Miners Found Alive." Many of them are in people's yards already. And now this reversal. All in a span of a little over three hours.

Sure. The post-holiday selection is looking mighty thin. At least it did yesterday.

Where you gonna find a Borders store with three Cellar Door boxes?