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The Garcia thing reminded me of my favorite dead musician joke: So this guy is a real Beethoven fanatic ... buys every recording he can find, goes to the orchestra all the time, names his dog "Ludwig," watches "Immortal Beloved" nonstop, etc., ... finally he saves up enough cash to go visit Beethoven's birthplace and all, and ends up at Beethoven's grave. Now this guy is a real fanatic, and he gets the idea that he'll dig up ol' Ludwig ... so, he digs and digs, finally gets to the casket and pries it open ... there's Beethoven, with a mess of musical scores and a pencil, and he (Beethoven) is just erasing like crazy. The guy who digs him up says "Beethoven, what are you doing?" Beethoven says "I'm decomposing!"

Jazzmoose: Just beat ya to it, huh?

I bet the Jethro Tull guy was thinking the same thing ... all together now: "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay!"

TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Bob Keeshan, dead (CNN) -- Television's Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, died Friday morning in Vermont, a family friend told CNN. "Captain Kangaroo," a children's show, featured the walrus-mustached, bowl-haircut Keeshan entertaining youngsters with his gentle, whimsical humor. Among the show's other characters were Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and Mr. Green Jeans (Hugh Brannum). The show ran on CBS from 1955 to 1985, and then moved to public television for six more years. Shows were frequently interrupted with silliness, such as hundreds of ping-pong balls dropping from the ceiling or Mr. Moose's knock-knock jokes, but the mainstay was Keeshan, who chatted with Brannum and told stories.

Eric Drooker ... anyone have one of his graphic "novels"? I have "Flood," which is pretty incredible. No words at all, just pictures, yet incredibly moving.

Hope there wasn't a "Bungle in the Jungle."

(insert dreadlocked smilie here!) Early Marley tracks to see light Thursday, January 22, 2004 Posted: 11:30 PM EST (0430 GMT) LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Previously unpublished tracks from Bob Marley's early years are to be released this northern spring, more than 20 years after the reggae icon's death, Universal Music said on Thursday. The record company said it had signed a 10-year global licensing deal with reggae label JAD Records for their early catalog recordings of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Over 200 tracks, recorded between 1967 and 1972, feature a young Marley with street attitude, influenced by the U.S. civil rights movement and beginning to explore Rastafarianism. "It is thrilling, both personally and professionally, that Universal is now able to present to fans virtually the entire recorded works of one of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th Century," Julian Huntly of Universal Music International said in a statement. Jamaican-born Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36, became a global superstar with reggae anthems such as "Stir It Up" and "No Woman No Cry." The deal includes songs composed in Kingston, Jamaica, during the early years of The Wailers, the band the godfather of reggae formed with Neville "Bunny" Livingstone and Peter Tosh. The first release is a three-CD set, which will hit start hitting the shops in March. Tracks including "Music Gonna Teach," "One Love True Love" and the Peter Tosh version of "Little Green Apples" are to be released on CD for the first time. The catalog also includes reggae classics such as "Stir It Up," "Small Axe," "Guava Jelly" and "Concrete Jungle." Universal said there was "every possibility" that more previously unreleased songs could be found. Universal Music International is the international division of Universal Music Group, part of Vivendi Universal.

cliffpeterson: I'm up in the Detroit area ... the store I go to went through the same kind of thing for a number of months ... music selection way way down ... but around Christmas time they started stocking up again and (I hope) they'll continue.

You know, the first time this thread popped up on the main page, where the title ends at "glad," I thought it was "Rock lips that make you glad ..." Now that would be a list ...

I have to admit, we let our last one sleep on her stomach, too, for the same reason. I had forgotten/repressed that. You know, some doctors doubt an actual thing called "SIDS" exists in and of itself ... they claim there's always a different underlying cause, but that some health care people just aren't looking hard enough.

... or maybe Louis Armstrong. From what I understand, he had a thing about going for the pot.

I'll second Wes "Full House" Montgomery.

... almost forgot one of the most important things: You won't believe how much it helps if you and your wife think up ways to get a little extra sleep yourselves. I know it's far from easy, but napping when the baby naps, taking turns sleeping in on the weekends, etc., will really really help you deal with things.

A couple of tips ... babies love skin-to-skin contact, so turning up the heat and cuddling with them w/o a shirt on can be very calming, for everyone involved. Also, try to get into some kind of ongoing night-time routine, where you're putting the babe to bed at the same time, and doing the same things, each night. This can include music, too. For example, with one of my daughters, we always started settling down with "Kind of Blue," another seemed to really respond to Howard McGhee's "Jazz Brothers." On the other hand, sometimes they're just gonna cry no matter what you do. With our first, we went to the pediatrician because it seemed like he was crying too much at night, and the doctor said they don't usually consider it a problem unless a baby is crying for more than 1 hour straight! After five minutes, I'm usually ready to tear my hair out. My mother said that with me, she'd just put me in the crib and go take a shower so she couldn't hear me wailing. Good luck!

Last night I came home from Border's Outlet with: Stephane Grappelli/McCoy Tyner: One on One Yaya3 Houston Person/Ron Carter: The Complete Muse Sessions all for $6.99 a disc!

for Mazzy Star and the Sundays both ... and I don't even feel guilty about it. On the other hand, I was driving my mother-in-law's car (no CD player) around the other day and heard that old Vanessa Williams sapfest "Save the best for last" on the radio ... on that one I DO have to plead guilty! I also went through a kind of girl indie pop kind of phase (Belly, Throwing Muses, Juliana Hatfield, Tanya Donnelly, Veruca Salt, etc.) that my wife continues to tease me about.

Any John Currin fans here?

Anyone else have "Flyin' the Koop" by Stanton Moore, the drummer from Galactic? Talk about getting a groove on ... I highly recommend this to anyone interested in MMW/jam band type stuff. In fact, Chris Wood plays bass on it.

Rabbi offers prayer for Web porn surfers Wednesday, January 21, 2004 Posted: 10:07 AM EST (1507 GMT) JERUSALEM, Israel (Reuters) -- An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting porn sites while browsing the Internet. "Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs that disturb and ruin my work ..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed. Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at risk. The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake.

No offense intended, but this is a pretty funny slip ... or it might explain a lot! (Check Webster's ... I think you were aiming for "well coiffed.")

Hey, RoosterTies, have you seen this yet? Nomad 2004!

I've got a hazy memory of a kind of radio that worked on the same priniciples that was sold maybe in the 1980s ... you kind of wore it around your neck like an untied scarf ... anyone else remember that?

I've got his "A better understanding" from BN and it's definitely a Sonny Fortune - Fiddle, Flute, Flute (Alto), Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Producer, Liner Notes Billy Hart - Drums Jerry Gonzalez - Trumpet, Conga, Flugelhorn Kenny Barron - Piano Steve Berrios - Percussion Ronnie Burrage - Drums Wayne Dockery - Bass He also wrote all the songs on the disc.

Johnny Rotten to appear in reality show LONDON, England (AP) -- As Johnny Rotten once snarled, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" To the dismay of aging punk fans, a British television company announced Monday that the former Sex Pistols singer and angry punk icon -- now known by his real name, John Lydon -- has agreed to appear in the reality show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" "I'm gobsmacked," said Tony Wilson, a British journalist and music entrepreneur who knows Lydon. "I'm shocked, but I have faith ... I'm sure he's doing it for the right reasons." Other punk fans were appalled. "The announcement made me feel instantly old. ... If it has come to this for the prince of punk, then mediocrity really does get us all in the end," wrote Lee Randall in The Scotsman newspaper. In The Guardian, rock critic Charles Shaar Murray said "minds boggled" when rumors of Lydon's participation surfaced. "Whatever happened to punk rock, maaaaan?" Britain's near-insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip -- no matter how minuscule the celebrity -- and love of reality TV has spawned a clutch of celeb-reality hybrids, including "Celebrity Big Brother" and "Drop the Celebrity," in which the moderately famous face ejection (with parachute) from a plane. "I'm a Celebrity," which begins its third latest run January 26 on the commercial ITV network, strands C-list celebs in the Australian jungle, subjects them to a series of icky trials involving spiders and snakes and allows the public to vote them off the show one by one. The show has proved a hit in Britain, drawing up to 14 million viewers -- nearly a quarter of the population. A U.S. version on ABC last year fared less well. There's no prize money for the winner, but previous British victors -- a DJ and a cricketer -- experienced big boosts to flagging careers. Alongside Lydon, the lineup includes a topless model named Jordan, former Olympic 400-meter runner Diane Modahl, '80s pop pinup Peter Andre, and Lord Brocket, an aristocrat jailed in 1996 for insurance fraud. They're joined by a member of a girl group, a former soccer player, a former soccer player's wife, a former BBC royal correspondent and a former radio DJ. The show's executive producer, Natalka Znak, said the lineup was "the most unpredictable cast yet." "Unpredictable" certainly sums up Lydon. As lead singer of The Sex Pistols, Lydon, now 47, helped revolutionize music with raucous antiestablishment tracks such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and the bitterly sarcastic "God Save the Queen." The group's outlandish dress sense and incendiary lyrics -- "God save the queen, the fascist regime" -- shook up British society, but the Pistols' career was short-lived. The band broke up during a tour of the United States in 1978. At their final show, Lydon goaded the audience with the words, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" Lydon went on to form the '80s band Public Image Limited and now lives in Los Angeles. The Sex Pistols reunited in 1996 -- with original bassist Glen Matlock replacing the late Sid Vicious -- for the Filthy Lucre Tour: "We have found a common cause, and it's your money," remarked Lydon. They reformed again in 2002 to coincide with Queen Elizabeth II's golden jubilee.

Thanks, brownie.