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IMHO 'Who's next' is the best of all albums, 'Tommy' is great, (and if you have a decent vinyl early UK pressing one the best sounding records of his times, like Who's next' and 'Q'). 'Quadrophenia' is a great album too, probably a more coherent story as whole then Tommy. Not sure about the movies, long time since I looked at them. My only problems with 'Q' is that I love motorbikes and hate motor scooters, so I would be a rocker, not a mods, if we speak about transport.

I assume so. Why not? Because in some cases, like the infamous 'Terminator seeds', cloned plants do not produce seed, so you have to buy it for every harvest, that means that if you, for any reasons, don't have money to buy them, you'll not have any harvest. This is not the case with 'natural' agriculture. Because nobody can foresee wich type of desease can occur to a cloned animal. AFIK cloned animals have a lack of immune defenses. Yes. I'm not sure why this is relevant. Guy Is it relevant because, when most of the farming will be cloned, because it will be proved to be profitable in the short term, you'll have to pay some sort of hidden copyright to few big Corporation who have enough money to afford biotech. Anyway I didn't see any comments on my thoughts followin the questions. Should I assume that you don't agree with them?

Some questions for Guy Is cloned animals able to reproduce by theirself? Are they strong enough for resisting at diseases? Do we have the right to know what we are eating? Who own the technology and the patents for clonig? Until now, farmers usually buy selected sperm from selected bulls from selected purposes: milk or meat. We naturally selected animals during centuries for some specific purposes, some animal were multipurpose, for example in the mountain regions of the so called 'third world' cow must be strong enough for carrying a plow, for resisting the adverse climate, disease, ecc. It happened the same with agriculture. In poor countries the intensive and specific agriculture push small farmers on the global market and violated the natural tendencies of a kind of soil. The results can be good or disasastrous. If I start to grow a plant that needs a lot of water in a semidesert countryside, I'll need more water, and if I have a prolonged dry season the farmer loose all. Or if the prize of this specific product fall in the global market the farmer loose all again. That's why we had for centuries a differentiate agriculture, you grow eggplants, that need a lot of water, and lentils for dry seasons. The disappearance of a big range of plants and animals because of profit could be not such a big business for us in long term. Scientists know it and they start to collect plants on the way of extinction because of ultra specific tendencies of the market. As every businessmen can explain you, their goal is profit in a short or midterm, otherwise they will be fired. Long term issues like the survival of the planet or the poor farmers is less important then dividends at the end of the year. When I was a baby, back in the sixties, we all thought we will have started a colonization of other planets, foresee natural disasters, produce robots that relief the life of people, clean and secure energy. And look at world now. I am not against scientifc progress, I am for it, but I want that the people, and the people we elected in a democratic election, can control it. I want that WE, the people, are well informed about it , consequences, etc. I don't want to leave the future in the hand of a bunch of Big Corporations out of control.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,723...w=wn_politics_1 After reading this I don't know wich smilies I have to use. Maybe this

Terry Riley A RAINBOW IN CURVED AIR, CBS UK pressing. Bought today following a suggestion from my preferred records' dealer. It sounds interesting. .....and a bit boring So I spin Sticky Fingers, zip cover, US pressing.

Here there is another opinion: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...taly/index.html As someone wrote down: If you do not see beauty in defense, you cannot understand the essence of the Italian game. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/sports/wcwrap.php

I am not so 'into' football to judge the 'the best player in the world', actually I just followed the WC. Creativity is hardly recognize in a defender, or goalkeeper, that's why all the prizes usually go someone's else. And in the year of WC, you have to do a great championship in order to get the prize. Look at Ronaldinho, he missed the chance at WC. IMHO Buffon should have had the prize, for what he did during the whole year and at WC.

France Loves Materazzi After All France Football magazine shelves World Cup controversy and lists five reasons for making up with the Italian footballer. PARIS – A few days ago, it defended Golden Ball winner, Fabio Cannavaro. Today, it is inviting French fans to make their peace with Marco Materazzi. In its last two issues, the influential France Football magazine, organiser of the Golden Ball award, has undertaken a far from easy task in a country that has yet to digest the Berlin World Cup Final. In the edition published last Friday, the bi-weekly carried an editorial under the headline “Cannavaro, Peace and Love” dedicated to all those – including a number of French managers – who cried scandal at the trophy going to the Azzurri captain. After the FIFA verdict that crowned Cannavaro the best player in the world, France Football wrote “Managers and journalists together, same battle, same verdict, same Cannavaro”. In the issue currently on the newsstands, France Football invites French readers to “make their peace” with Materazzi, the “provocateur” who needled Zidane into losing his rag in Berlin.“In this Christmas period”, says the magazine, “France Football says that you can love the great Marco”. Five reasons are cited:“He had an outstanding World Cup”; “He’s technically very good”; “He has the gift of being frank”; “He’s a man with a heart”; and “He loves France”.Accompanying the article is a photo of the goal scored by the Italian defender with a splendid overhead kick during the Inter Milan-Messina game on 17 December.“Holder of the record for Serie A goals scored by a defender in one season (12 with Perugia in 2000-2001), Materazzi is capable of displaying great skill, as he did with his acrobatic scissors kick against Messina, or his own goal from forty metres against Empoli last spring”. France Football devotes two pages to the Zidane-Materazzi affair, with a photo of the notorious head butt and a caption for the former captain of the Bleus. “It was his last second – the second too many – that marked 2006 and will be remembered for the next twenty years. But it was also the one that all those who admire Zinedine Zidane, and all those who love football, never wanted to see, or comment on, or attempt to explain”. Zidane refuses to talk about the episode.Materazzi immediately offered to make up but then said he was no longer willing to do so, in view of the Frenchman’s attitude.He even denied that he would go to Zurich to meet Zidane and make it up with him at the FIFA World Player ceremony. “I’ve got three kids”, said Materazzi the day before, “and tomorrow is their day.I prefer to be with them”. English translation by Giles Watson www.watson.it http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/20...materazzi.shtml

I beated my step son on his playground. I bought the Mobile Fidelity LP of Nirvana's Nevermind (at times), recently we had a A/B comparison with his iPod hooked at my tube pre amp. It was a no contest The only problem is that when I am not at home sometimes he play my Led Zeppelin's records for his friends. I suspect for impressing girls. We had a big and confortable sofa in front of the loudspeakers. Actually I don't know what counts more, Jimmy Page or the sofa?

So they are bought the copyright of our memory. Watch out, someone will buy the recipe of the apple pie, or try to get a patent for sunday's bbq. One of these days we will have to pay royalties for everything.

Many, many thanks Dmitry! Every Christmas I am attracted by a trip to NY, and I have dozens of friends who actually do it. I don't know why I never did. Sure I'll do it one of these Christmas. BTW, US is one of the few places I knew better from books, movies, music and I visited it for a very short time. During my life I spent more then one month in Canada or Mexico and few days in US. Maybe with the next administration Anyway I haven't any intention to die before having a look at the Grand Canyon and the Monument Valley. John Ford still rules in my youth.

That's what my wife asked for yesterday's dinner. Funny, my wife wanted gammon & salad, then turkey & etc, then chocolate trifle. (I passed on the trifle and went for mince pies and Courvoisier cream.) MG I mean after the shrimp cocktail, raviolis stuffed with codfish, dressed with a sauce of dried tomato and black olives, and several traditional desserts.

That's what my wife asked for yesterday's dinner.

After an after lunch spinning old Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holyday' records for the joy of the grandmother of my step son, I am going to homage Mr Dynamite. Live At Apollo, King mono, first issue, a little worn out but... RIP Sex Machine. BTW, I don't think that he will have any peace even after life. He didn't like it in this world, why should he does in the Other One?

I don't much care about Jimmy Stewart's political ideas. He was a superb actor! And Charlton Heston was also excellent in a number of films (including 'Touch of Evil, 'Planet of the Apes', among others). Too bad about his politics! As for John Ford, he was the greatest film director. Period! My 2 cents! Heston was a good actor in some movies, Stewart was great in almost all of his acting. F*** about their political ideas, I watch their movies, they don't ask me to get elected. And, as Reagan showed us, you don't have to be a good actor for being a president, good or bad, he's gone now, if up or down depends on your political and religious opinion. I think Ford was one the greatest of all times, but I think he is in good company in the director's Heaven: Kubrick, Wilder, Hawks, Fellini, Truffaut, Welles, Bunuel, Hitchcock, ecc.. I can imagine how they can stress the Big Producer up there for getting the holy budget for their celestial movies.

I don't much care about Jimmy Stewart's political ideas. He was a superb actor! And Charlton Heston was also excellent in a number of films (including 'Touch of Evil, 'Planet of the Apes', among others). Too bad about his politics! As for John Ford, he was the greatest film director. Period! My 2 cents! Heston was a good actor in some movies, Stewart was great in almost all of his acting. F*** about their political ideas, I watch their movies, they don't ask me to get elected. And, as Reagan showed us, you don't have to be a good actor for being a president, good or bad, he's gone now, if up or down depends on your political and religious opinion. I think Ford was one the greatest of all times, but I think he is in good company in the director's Heaven: Kubrick, Wilder, Hawks, Fellini, Truffaut, Welles, Bunuel, ecc.. I can imagine how they can stress the Big Producer up there for getting the holy money for their next celestial movie.

Exactly, the artistry of classic film directors like Capra, Ford, Hawks, Wilder, ecc was the ability to add their touch and shadow of doub and darkness even in the strict formulas of that kind of movies.

This remember me the famous statement of O. Welles: “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

Hey, Jimmy Stewart was one the greatest, even he supported Reagan. I couldn't say the same for Charlton Heston. And Capra was one the great, (actually John Ford was the greatest film director of classic US movies, Wilder, and all the european immigrants do not count as true 'american' directors IMHO). If you don't know this movie you're missing a piece of history of your country.

I just received as present from my wife 'Rolling Stone's Guide 500 Greatest Album Of all Time', I started with the first one, now I am at number four. Probably the same number of Single Malt's glasses. Merry Christmas to everyone. Have a Nice Vinyl New Year.

It has run once already and will again tonite. Sure, maybe in the United States! You americans b*****d...oops, it's Christmas, you americans b..lessed people, you never get old with your f*****g, oopps again, fascinating cable TV!

Merry Christmas to everybody, but, according to different Time Zones, which member should have started this thread?

This is the first Chritsmas that I couldn't find any TV channels that will broadcast Capra' s 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

James Taylor JAMES TAYLOR Apple, his first album , italian pressing. Not bad at all.

...and I'll stick with my Analogue and Classic reissues