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I've got only a cheap Polydor pressing of this Me too - with the square German cover art. But it was $2 and has served me well. Something about paying $60 for an otherwise $5 LP doesn't really get my juices flowing. Mine is a U.S. pressing with Original Cover Art (I think ). Mint and nice sound for $10.

I've got only a cheap Polydor pressing of this

BTW did you ever try jogging naked? I had some problems of rock'n roll downstairs.

Agreed. The point about doping is that nobody has the guts to take the broom up and make some serious cleaning. I find ridicolous equating cocaine or marijuana to drug that enhancing performance. Let's put in this way: if they found you positive to steroids or whatever, you're out, forever, not for a couple of years. I think things can change only if they'll start to be inflexible. The son of a friend, former cyclist, was in a cycling team. Well, my friend had to took him out because the trainer was giving to his eight years old son, some strange and unclear stuff. Can you imagine giving drugs to a 8 y/o boy! When my friend discovered it he almost killed the trainer for it. That's the situation even at the lowest level of young amateur team. Disgusting!

The answer at the thread titled: "Tour de France 2007, does anybody care?" should be: "Yes, the International Commision for Doping. I completely lost interest in watching cycling in the last ten years and it was my fave "TV sport". The doping wiped off all the heroic aspects from it: suffering, strenght of will, ecc..In my teenagerhood I lived in countryside with lots of hills and mountains. I used to ride my bicycles on those hard climbings, so I had a lot of respect for les grimpeurs of the Tour or Giro d'Italia, but now? Cima Coppi, Tourmalet, Izoar are empty names, a pale memory of the past. You never know if the hero of the day will be caught drugs' positive next morning. Sad.

The first CD reissue was the same way (pulled from the LP master), they later corrected that on the digipak release...and it makes a WORLD of difference. I have a stereo "audiophile" reissue (Four Men With Beards) pulled from the original LP master, and it's awful. Never found a mono original pressing since I bought the reissue. It's so bothering that I listened to it only a couple of times in my life, and I like the session. BTW a lot of early stereo blues records are even worst: John Lee Hooker or Lightin' Hopkins singing in one loudspeaker and playing guitar in the other one. And I don't understand why they didn't correct that in the early cd reissues.

Running naked in Michigan looks like an appropriate mataphor, or a singular form of protest, for the economic situation of the State after the Big Three collapsed.

When I switched from my old iMac to my new PowerBook and MiniMac I hadn't any problems importing bookmarks from Nescape into FF. I had problems importing old mails and addresses from Ms Entourage into Mozilla Thunderbird. So my old correspondence is splitted within three different computers and two different softwares. Not a big problems, it would be if I were Thomas Jefferson and my correspondence would be of historical interest.

Maybe. I just all ways wondered about the folks who automatically applaud after every dam solo. No matter how good it was. 7/4 is right, and I have to say it annoys me. It's on the same level as the obligatory standing "O". Chuck is right too. Some times it can be inspired. After a while you end up with musicians who play cliche's because they get the cliche' aknowledgement. Agree.

No applause for me, please make donation to Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International or Organissimo Forum.

I thought a bit about the screenplay. This would be a much better one. Tom Hanks is a police officer, he is in Iraq for instructing iraqi new police. Maybe he is divorced and is in Baghdad only for the extra money. He need it for the alimony. He despises the Iraqis. He is sent to join an iraqi collegue for investigating the bank's robbery. He doesn't like the collegue. BUT the investigation will change the opinion of Tom Hanks about Iraqi people and U.S. when they discover the plot about the weapons and the mullah and U.S. administration. You could even quote Polansky's Chinatown in the end. The iraqi collegue of Tom Hanks is killed by the villains and when the poor Tom want to disclose the thruth about the dirty war, his superior says: "Forget it, Jake. It's Iraq." With a good director you could even gain some oscars from those antiamerican members of the Academy.

Steve Lacy/Gil Evans - Paris Blues

Imagine the screenplay of this movie. GWB and his gang want to buy the loyalty of one of the Big Shia Mullah's in order to defeat other Bis Sunni Mullahs (or other Big Shia Mullahs too friendly with Iran). They have to buy expensive weapons. Obviously GWB can't do it ouvertly, they could do the trick with some complex money's path from Cayman through Switzerland, but the Mullah want the cash in Baghdad, so they decided that the safest and quickest way is to put it in the bank. The loyal mullah will collect it and use it for buying weapons at the black market and, in the weapon's black market, one quarter billion is not so high, if you consider all the bribes. George Clooney and Antonio Banderas are the main guys of the business, George for the U.S., Banderas for the Mullah. They know when the money will be there, they stole the money, they know that nor the U.S. nor the Mullah can call the Police for it. You can add some nice actress and Harrison Ford or Tom Hanks as the good guy of the Agency. Close up: Clooney and Banderas drinking margaritas on a beach. Zoom out. A tropical island. Film credits. Now you choose the soudtracks.

Pretty odd for a supposed honest private bank, pretty normal for unclear business. And don't forget that in a war, everything is paid by cash, from food to kalashnikov. I agree with your first point, and that's sort of what was going through my mind. I also "get" your second point, to an extent, but it still doesn't make sense to me. How can a bank (assuming it really is just an honest bank) possibly be making money by keeping that much in CASH??? Almost by definition their equity would have to be depreciating. I think the answer goes back to your original point - it sounds like something shadey was going on at this "bank". Definitely, the "bank" would make more money investing in rare jazz records that keeping all that cash. And a quarter billion is too much even if they should have to pay all the monthly wages of the whole Iraqi civil servants. Now, if you have to buy the loyalty of some religious bosses and buy to them an army, that kind of stuff Ollie North did in Nicaragua and Rumsfeld in Afghanistan, all the cash start to make some sense. Just guessing.

Yeah the good old American Way of Life

Pretty odd for a supposed honest private bank, pretty normal for unclear business. And don't forget that in a war, everything is paid by cash, from food to kalashnikov.

Certainly make me wonder why there was so much American currency there. Why are you surprised? Did you really think that Iraq's government would accept dinars?

Those are real posts, I hardly ever see them. you mean ie doesn't display them correctly? will post here when i stumble across the next one You responded before I could finish my edit. I said real old posts. There's some kind of corruption in the database and they come out with strange formatting in FireFox. Like Greg's praying for SACD?

I have a Mac. I used Netscape since the birth of the web, now it's three years I use Firefox and I am happy with it. Sometimes with FF I can't download Pdf, so I switch to Netscape for it. Never had a problem with the Forum software...nor with its members

With the Ornettes I have given up on the vinyl and go for the 'Beauty Is A Rare Thing' CD set. Heresy, I know.. I have all but To Whom Who Keeps a Record on LP. Most are stereo, and sound good enough to me. Plus, all of them were less than $10. I premise I am talking about original stereo pressing, I don't know the later reissues. IMHO the instruments are too strongly separated between the two channels: drums and sax on left one, trumpet on right one, bass somewhere in center, though they have a good definition and a correct tone, the music lost some coherence as a whole and a bit of punch, compared to the monos I have. I mean that often Ornette is precisely boxed inside my left loudspeaker and don cherry in the right one. If my memory serves me well, but I should check it out, the worst stereo Atlantic is Monk with Jazz Messengers, Thelonious on one side, the Messengers on the other.

I'll sue you for copyright's violation. This is my lawyer: You might know threats would come from a guy in Italy. What do you mean?

You censored me, that is different. that's would be the way, but as silent composer I regret the wraps, some kind of unnecessary accent that disturbs the composition.

That's the only way to post a nonpost.

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Funny, I tried to post a nonpost and I got back a message of error. Unforgivable in a music forum. The today's tech doesn't suffer silence.