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Well the NFL is a league of felons and if Ray Lewis can still play I guess you have to let Vick back. The thing that gets to me is that Vick with his first NFL contract instead of buying a house for his mom and some nice cars bought a dog fighting compound. Its differnent then being completely stupid and brining/firing off a gun outside a night club or beating your girlfriend half to death (not that those are acceptable either) but this was a case of not doing something very stupid and wrong this was very pre meditated and wrong. I know some people who went to his compound and they were pretty shaken from what they saw, one example was seeing the claw marks and blood on the sides of swimming pools of dogs trying not drown, and this was from people who have done animal recuse and worked with abused animals their whole lives. The NFL can do what it wants but there is difference between between someone who makes a mistake and what Vick did.

never bothered me, it can also be interrupted as giving others respect by giving them their time in the spotlight.

'If I Only Could Remember My Name' as one of the great albums of the era" Second that. The track Laughing is one of my favorite songs of all time. As a Mill Valley resident while there is indeed a Tamalapis High School for some reason I don't think he is referring to that in Tamalpais High. The Gene Clark solo album White Light is worth checking out.

I saw him a month ago he looked and sounded amazing for someone who is 82.

Roddick played the game of his life today, had his serve broke ONCE all day and loses. Anybody not named Federer or Nadal who had to play Roddick today would have lost in 3 or 4 sets. Roddick was amazing, I feel sorry for the guy. Roger with 50 aces! Damn, what a great match today. To have today after last years final, just wow.

I will be done with emusic next month. It looks like the way things are going with them dropping my dl's even more for next month and with the new album pricing I will get two albums a month for 12 bucks. I can do better just digging for used cds, I don't mind paying for mp3s when they are priced right but no thanks. There are two things I want to grab that are o.o.p and expensive and then I am out. It was fun while it lasted.

I am trying to take the approach of instead of what you had compare it to the way it is. Take the CTI catalog for example. If I want Joe Farrell Moon Germs which has four tracks its going to cost me 12 credits. That sucks compared to that it would have cost me four credits in June. With my account that record comes out to about $3.50. Not great.. but I haven’t been able to find it on vinyl or cd anywhere in the bay area (I missed it when the last re-release came out thinking I would grab it later) for the last two years. My options on Amazon are either buy the MP3 for 9.99 or a used cd for 21.99. In that respect 3.50 is a deal. I did some digging last night and grabed some single CTI tracks like Deonato’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun. Geoerge Benson’s So What and Gentle Rain, White Rabbit and California Dreamin. But I have those on vinyl already and I was happy to just cherry pick the single tracks I want. I also grabbed Herbie’s Hang Up You Hang Ups and Steppin' in It. Sometimes the 12 disc download works in your favor like the Glen Gould Bach English Suites which are 22 tracks for 12 which are amazing and I love. The thing that is different is that your less wiling to just take a chance on the unknown now but bargains can be had. Willing to give it another month to see how it plays out. But yes 24 credits for Big Fun and making all the Soul Notes that are 2 or 3 tracks 12 does stink. I think something like 2 tracks cost you 4, 4 costs you 8 would be more accepting to handle.

Well the new Sony drop is interesting at a quick look. The Good: Glenn Gould - Preludes, Fugues and Fughettas - Expanded Edition (is this worth getting btw?) is 30 tracks but will cost you 12 credits. The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings by Ahmad Jamal is 21 credits and only costs you 12. The Bad: Miles Davis - Big Fun which is 8 tracks will cost you 24 credits. The later kind of pisses me off as I was looking forward to having Big Fun in digital format (though my vinyl copy is fine). If anybody finds good deals on 20 plus multi track discs please post them.

For all the abuse from "Real Deadheads" that say EVERYBODY who loves the Dead only want to pay a lot of money for whole shows and for any other customer service issues dead.net/ Rhino may get, I just want to say I couldn't be happier with them. My order came the day after it was released and I payed for the cheapest shipping, I had no issues with the discs and the remastering is incredible, add the fact that its June 18 1974 which is one one of my top five shows ever and it feels like Xmas. Great remasters from May 77, Feb 68 and June 74 in one year is too much. I couldn't ask for anything more from Dead.net and Rhino this year.

ECM still manages to put a out few great releases every year that make my best of the year lists. Last year for example the Marcin Wasilewski trio album was sublimely beautiful, Nik Bartsch's Holon was a blast and ECM put up money for him to tour the states so I give them credit for that and Jason Moran pumped some life and excitement into Charles Lloyds latest live record last year which felt almost out of place for ECM. That said however for a label that use to call itself the "creative label" it seemed like do a injustice to some of their newer artists by forcing them to have a certain samey ECM sound. Example being Mathias Eick - The Door. The live stuff I have heard from his band doesn't sound that much like the album. Not sure if he toned it down to fit to the label or the other way but it makes me hesitant to pick up the new Arve Henriksen because I am afraid they might limit his creativity, plus the reviews I have read of it makes me feel like I have heard this type of record before from ECM. It probably wouldn't be so noticeable if I haven't been getting into so much of the early to mid 70's ECM releases which was definitely its golden age.

I can see that. Not sure how it did commercially but Kuhn's Live At Birdland from 2007 was very well received critically and deservingly so. This one is coming out next week and I am thinking about giving it a chance, looks intriguing: After featuring on a dozen albums with Carla Bley for WATT/ECM, Movements In Colour is Andy Sheppard s first leader album for ECM. The British saxophonist heads a specially-assembled international quintet in a program of buoyant and strongly melodic self-penned pieces. Sheppard s elegant saxophone and the strongly-contrasting guitars of Paricelli and Aarset are lifted up by the rhythmic drive of Arild Andersen s muscular bass and the crisp, dynamic tabla of Kuljit Bhamra.

Vulture Bone Flute Neanderthal's earlier stuff was better, once the whole cave got into him he started to sell out. Plus he took away from the talents of Slovenia Bone Flute Neanderthal, I mean come on he was so much better. Just ask Clem. Seriously. Cool find, thanks.

As a kid I loved Side 2 of The Hissing of Summer Lawns with the title track and Shadows and Light. I didn't realize at the time how brilliant they were but I knew they were good. Funny to look back now growing up in a California berb and not getting what that song was really about until I left.

Over in misery baseball land that is Oakland, the A's are honoring their last WS championship tonight and McGwire and Canseco turned down the invites. hmmmmm.. good read on McGwire and Don Fehr's retirement

For those keeping their accounts the Lyman Woodard releases and others on the Wax Poetics label just dropped. Cool! http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Lyman-Wood...d/11486373.html

Agree, Amelia alone could make it my favorite Joni Mitchell album, Larry Carlton is fantastic on the whole record, even the songs I like a little less than others. Keep waiting for a nice remaster re-issue of it. Pat Metheny has a nice extended guitar solo after Amelia on Shadows and Light if you don't have it. "People will tell you where theyve gone Theyll tell you where to go But till you get there yourself you never really know Where some have found their paradise Others just come to harm Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm"

Have a new one to add to the list. Calima - Diego Barber Guitarist Diego Barber w/ saxophonist Mark Turner, drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier. Fans of Egberto Gismonti and Ralph Towner will want to check this out. Beautiful stuff. Some of it uptempo also. On Sunnyside Records.

Mine showed up, if memory serves from when I borrowed this back in 97 the second disc was especially impressive. I am sure its all great but I remember I kept coming back to that one. Playing it now its coming back to me, disc 2 alone is worth the 16 bucks. Thanks a million Lon!

and I'd like to second that sentiment ! 3rd that sentiment. I feel for all of you and have been there.

"Pitching, defense and three-run homers"! thats what I was getting at. less focus on the fundamentals now. You never saw a Earl Weaver team lack fundamentals. Those early 3 peat Oakland A's teams and early 70's Reds teams did everything right. Take the extra base, fielding the position, getting the runner over, get the run home with an out instead of taking the 3rd strike because your waiting for your pitch to drive out of the park, knowing what every option you have available for the situation. Players now just focus on getting power numbers and the bigger pay check. Or maybe I am just getting a bad brand of ball in my area.

I have had the advance for a while and I dig it. Not ground breaking but it has a nice breezy retro 60's Blue Note feel (swing check, bluesy at times check, but no boogaloo check), good energy from some young players with nice compositions. I would imagine in a live setting the tunes really take off. I recommend it for those that want some good inside/outside with more focus on the inside contemporary jazz. Pretty much anything McBride does is at least worth a listen in my opinion.

So you don't think the game has suffered from it and the waiting for the 3 run homer? I never saw him play and he never hit 70 HRs but most people consider Willie Mays the best ever. You should read Juicing the Game by Howard Bryant. He mentions the demise of Sosa not caring about anything but focusing on home runs. Obviously Cancesco is Sosa to the extreme. If I could vote for the HOF I would never vote for McGuire. Not becuse he roided but because he only did one thing well.

Same here.

I think if your baseball and Selig its wise to limit the release of the names to a trickle. I think the whole list would overwhelm enough people to say screw it I will never support baseball again. I also imagine there are are some big market player names on there which would also effect marketing. While there are several young future superstars like Morneau and Mauer who play for the Twins who are clean Joe Six Pack may just say well if Big Pappi is on the list then screw them all (not saying Big Pappi is on it, just throwing it out there) who the hell is Monreau? Screw em all. As for Sammy being on the list, well no duh. Worst part about Sammy is that he came up as a five tool player, great in the field, could steal a base hit for average but he decided to become just a home run hitter. Sadly the state of the game is that hitting 50-60 jacks gets your more money then stealing bases, hitting for average, assists and moving the runner over.

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