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yes.

Yep. We are going to need a lot of lawyers on our side, and judges.

not currently. the NYAQ tracks are pretty shambolic, I must say, though I'm glad they exist. Coral Rock and Pitchin' Can are awesome LPs.

never actually saw one in operation; they sure are funny looking. I'll go for a DL109 over a PA. Or a DR6 Shark, for that matter.

CB&Q, yes -- an interesting railroad indeed. Why not an E6? Always liked that gentle shovel-nose. great shots, jazztrain. -- to add to catesta's story, when I was a kid watching trains with my dad in Topeka, we were photographing a Cotton Belt engine sitting in the small ex-Rock Island yard. The engineer came on duty to do some switching and invited us to visit him switching sometime after my school was out. So the next week I did not only a ride-along but also got to drive the B23-7 locomotive on my own, which was very cool and very illegal! I know that the engineer was well aware that making such a memory was more important than the laws and regulations at the time.

Interesting; mine has SACEM labels but does have the original gatefold cover (it was later issued in a single sleeve). I would imagine that with Edici not being a very big label some things got shuffled around at the "warehouse"...

yeah, I posted something about this on IG; short version is I grew up in a very very white neighborhood and when I was a teen asked one of the few black classmates I had about his experience of racism, and it was basically this. Really opened my eyes at that time to something that was otherwise a completely abstract concept.

yep, noticed yesterday & gripped. thanks! On the Corner arrived the other day; discs are definitely not CDRs, really nice package as hoped for.

at a certain point on here, we will have to have some political discussions. There's just no way around talking about the fact that Black Lives Matter and that the police have been going nuts on people of color for decades. Silence = complicity.

yeah, took me years to find a nice copy and it was expensive (probably about $100 or more). Good luck. Excellent album.

oof.

FWIW, NYC is offering free testing at numerous locations; I've been out marching, and will try to get tested this week and periodically thereafter.

I mean, that to me seems like straight up fascism.

Yeah, I too think we are on the precipice of something. I hope something better eventually will be made from what this is and was.

Haven't been on a long train journey in a few years (last one was DC to NY) unless you count semi regular Metro North jaunts. I do love Amtrak though it can be a slog. Lifelong railfan here so I always try to keep up with what's happening in American railroad news.

Teda-Tibesti Instrumentale Muziek [Chad] (Opnamen van Afrikaanse Muziek)

Bummer. 91 is a heck of a run indeed.

Anthologie de la Musique du Tchad, LP 2, Maya-Kebbi Occidental (Ocora)

Sad news. He was a fascinating artist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-northern-who-as-brother-ah-became-a-synthesizer-of-sounds-dies-at-86/2020/06/01/57aa7e34-a415-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

he did; still, pretty obscure by most standards...

He was definitely into cars and a fan of auto racing. That record is awesome. Apparently he toured the concept to museums, with a film and mobile sound extravaganza. Wild. Of course Miles was into fancy cars and driving fast; Prince Lasha was, too, and I'm sure there are others.

same here. Donated most of it to bail funds.

nice record under bassist Jay Oliver's name (this is the first private press issue; it was later reissued on Konnex)

yeah, 60s reissue.

Ed Kelly isn't too well-known, but was a Bay Area fixture for many years. Pharoah is the "Friend," obviously.