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AFAIK the only commercial TT that can track your record is Simon Yorke Design, (you are talking about vinyl, aren't you?). It's the TT they have at the Library of Congress and in other major public library. You may contact Mr Yorke through his website and ask him where you can find the nearest transcriptor for you. http://www.recordplayer.com/

Nothing, I like even my Lou Reed's Dynaflexes...

Thanks for posting it. Really interesting...and sad. I grown up with album...

Hard times for Ebay and its customers, does anybody remember the fakes BN auctions? http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...amp;hl=padovese The Wired article link: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/herding.html

Santana LOTUS Dutch CBS...OMMMMM

I too, wish to be 'light'

Mosaic Quebec/Hardee set disc one. Considering this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1 I rented the staff who did this http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070316/ennew...rt_070316060322 to handle the record

When I was a boy, we had something like seven dogs and an innacurate number of cats. My mom used to get from our butcher all the spare parts of meat and bought big sacks of rice for their meals. Cheaper and healthier then pet food. edit: spare and old bread is fine too. At least for the countries that consume a lot of bread, like Italy or France.

my lack of stock knowledge would kill me trying to do that. I realize a lot of people don't have the time to devote to learning the markets, which is why my initial comment on this topic was a bit arrogant. I have to say that it is a little frustrating to me that a lot of stock prices are now driven more by funds that they belong to than fundamental valuation! Does it depend on the broading market? I mean that now you can buy stocks from Pacific Area as well from East Europe. Since the Financial Market became so huge, nobody has the global knowledge of it, not even the "experts". So funds are the easiest and safer way to go also for banks and they sell funds so they have an earning anyway. Am I wrong?

Like I said, I'm not complaining. Being a full-time musician means I can be a stay-at-home dad to my daughter, something I would not trade for all the money in the world. When I was growing up my dad worked his ass off so my mom could stay home and raise the seven of us. I think it is important to have a parent at home, but all too often people can't afford to do so and that's a shame. I don't really care about money. As long as we have enough to pay the bills and put food on the table, I'm happy. It has never been a goal of mine to be rich. So I guess I'm a success! Wise man.

Yeah, well we have to pay that in addition.... Bizarre, because I thought that above $$$$$$$ usually you don't have to pay for that...

does this mean that the only musicians that survive on music are those that are in the educational field or give a lot of private lessons, or the few that are plugged into the system? Pretty much. To paraphrase Corey Christiansen, who I played with last December, the only way for a jazz musician to make it these days is to teach. I don't teach because I am self-taught and I don't really know how to explain the things I know. Plus there are not too many people who want to play jazz organ. Thankfully, my wife has a decent job with benefits, but even she hasn't gotten a cost of living increase in 2 years (due to poor management at the top). But that's another story. I just sold one of my Hammond organs yesterday so we could pay the mortgage. The gig scene has been absolutely awful since the first of the year. I've played a grand total of 7 gigs since 2007 started. But that has more to do with Michigan's terrible economy than anything else. I should go into demolition. I just read they are going to raze two more GM plants here in town. EDIT: To say I'm not complaining. This is the life I chose and I enjoy playing music. it's one thing to sit in a club or put on some phones and enjoy so many wonderful musics, with little or no expenditure on my behalf, without realizing this music is too often someone's lifelong passion, pain, and sacrifice. my sincere thanks, guys. stan getz said that music cost him everything he ever loved. Now, that makes sense! And what he said, thanks guys

does this mean that the only musicians that survive on music are those that are in the educational field or give a lot of private lessons, or the few that are plugged into the system? Pretty much. To paraphrase Corey Christiansen, who I played with last December, the only way for a jazz musician to make it these days is to teach. I don't teach because I am self-taught and I don't really know how to explain the things I know. Plus there are not too many people who want to play jazz organ. Thankfully, my wife has a decent job with benefits, but even she hasn't gotten a cost of living increase in 2 years (due to poor management at the top). But that's another story. I just sold one of my Hammond organs yesterday so we could pay the mortgage. The gig scene has been absolutely awful since the first of the year. I've played a grand total of 7 gigs since 2007 started. But that has more to do with Michigan's terrible economy than anything else. I should go into demolition. I just read they are going to raze two more GM plants here in town. EDIT: To say I'm not complaining. This is the life I chose and I enjoy playing music. Interesting post... ... or repost

Sorry for the digression, but FICA in italian means C**T, so when are saying "you pay FICA on the first $x of income, not on income above $x..."

Depends on the field. Plenty of people from my grad program went on to wall street and became millionaries very quickly. Exactly

Partially agree, often you get richer working for the man...and following the points, at least in my case

Actually if you're already seriously rich, you could ignore a lot of the points, w/o make a dent in your heritage. I mean I doubt that Donald Trump or Bill Gates check out their bank account at the end of the month. They have a general stuff for it. On huge less dimension when I owned a small film production company with some trustes/friends (well, ex-friends ), we had experts that take care of all the aspects we aren't accustomed, they were well payed for it. Consider the ending titles of a movie, all that huge list of credits, no way to knowing all the issues involved in a movie production. The executive producer is a tough job, not easy to find a good one, and not cheap. Same for the distribution and promotion. Chuck, in his field, probably know well of what I am talking about.

So wich would be the price for my vinyl set?

Freddie Hubbard RED CLAY CTI.

Point 3 does not apply to italian forum members. At least about smoking. Healt care is for free and house's prices depends on different factors then smoking, usually because we use to renow the house after purchasing it. Generally speaking I agree: for being rich you have to really want to be rich, so you have to care about all the above point. BTW I don't believe that everybody can get rich simply following the points. For example a mental weak guy, a poor guy without any instruction, and often even an honest guy like a policeman or a a civil servant, will never become rich without some kind of luck or dishonest tricks. Nobody has the same opportunity. It seems to me the same old story of "American Dream", "Land of Opportunities", etc.. About getting rich have a look at the book: Matthew Josephson "The Robber Barons" (1934), maybe a little dated (and too "roseveltian" for our rep friends), but it whorts a reading. On the other hands the wealth of a country depends on too many factors to reduce rich people to greedy and bad men as Josephson often seems to do.

Curtis Fuller with Red Garland New Jazz, mono with Sonny Red in gorgeous shape.

Vogon Constructor Fleet? I'll spare you my poems

Hybrid will be my next purchase, when I'll have to replace my old one. Considering the time I keep a car, probably it will be a hydrogen fuel car.

Bob Thiele/Gabor Szabo LIGHT MY FIRE ABC Impulse! stereo with ABC cover and orange Impulse! label