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Glad to hear you are basically ok. My thoughts go out to you and your mom. Eric

Unless you get a firm commitment from them, donated material goes straight to the sale pile. You'd be hard pressed to find any LPs at all in the entire Chicago library system and what they do have is opera, classical or jazz.

Ha! Dream on! My 12 year old daughter thinks that ALL of my music "stinks". She likes the soundtrack of her life, recorded by people close to her own age. And so it goes, forevermore. I have concluded for myself only, that as long as I have storage space and feel like keeping old recorded non-jazz music, I will. There is no real way to "make money off of it," except for the odd rarity I somehow managed to accidentally keep in good condition. What surprised me a little bit is that when I decided to try to donate my old non-jazz vinyl to worthy organizations for the less fortunate, they had absolutely no interest in receiving it. That IS surprising! Bizarre, if you ask me. There must be someone who would enjoy this stuff (besides us in our younger days). The format is the real killer. Sure there is a small vinyl resurgence going on, but only among a small band of hipsters who would not be interested in mass market rock/pop. Very few people have working record players anymore, and 97% of the rock/pop is out on CD, so there really isn't that much interest.

This may have come up already, but one of the main complaints about YouTube/MySpace was that in the Terms of Service you gave away a lot of IP rights (some debate about whether it has changed but nonetheless it is still unclear if you can permanently retrieve your rights). Obviously, this only mattered if you were uploading stuff that you actually had the rights to, which is probably less than 5% of the material on YouTube. Anyway, there is a low-key competitor that is geared towards actual content creators (and not freeloaders). It's called digg.tv (Digg.tv doesn't have any claim to the IP rights, other than allowing to webcast them. You can sign up to allow advertising which allows you to be paid for your content, though the rate is so low as to be irrelevant.) I'm not directly involved, though a friend of mine is slowly loading in content that we developed years ago. One there are a few episodes up, I will post a link. In the meantime, I thought this was sort of amusing: Kyle Piccolo These are minisodes about a comic book store owner who dispenses wisdom. The geek factor is pretty high. It's shot on location at Midtown Comics in Manhattan (Times Square). I don't think I've been in this store more than once or twice (for a while I thought it was a store I visit more frequently in Union Square). (Whoops - got the name wrong, but it works in the link.)

Not too shabby a collection. Now just bust them up a bit and paste them in a frame and you have a counterfeit Arman: Typewriters Razors Clocks

I think it's a combination of generational nostalgia and the effort it took to collect that many records. Cassettes were becoming common when I was growing up and CDs finally went mass market when I went to college, and that's what I collected. I have fewer than 100 LPs, most of which I will dispose of when I convert them to CDR. I just don't have a deep attachment to them, particularly those I don't listen to.

Good questions. They seem to be picking obscure recordings across all genres. So far 3 Brazilian (2 by Jorge Ben, who is the only repeated artist so far) and a number of soul recordings. Break Through may be the closest to straight-ahead jazz that they have done so far (Funky Skull and the Bill Cosby thing are basically fusion and the Dorothy Ashby is pretty trippy). They would probably be open to another Gene Shaw release if this one sells at all. I did pick up a copy but haven't listened to it yet.

Very true. I picked up my father-in-laws collection of 45s. He was a local club DJ and most are beat. I'm transferring the better ones (stuff like Jack McDuff and James Brown and a handful of rarer items). When I am finished, I will take them to Dusty Groove and will probably have to pay them to take them and put them in their 45s bargain bin. I do have a pretty amusing photo of them sitting in the dish rack, which I will try to post later.

Balding, middle-aged overweight white guys? Last I heard (not that I keep tabs or anything ), she's dating Common, who is Black, buffed and rich, so you'll definitely have to raise your game.

Up for new additions, including LPs and DVDs. Major price reductions. And so on.

Dan: I'd be interested in these if still available. I don't need jewel boxes. Thanks. (I'll try to clean out my in-box for PMs now.) Eric

The home-field advantage is a terrible gimmick. Baseball is supposed to be the ultimate team sport, but home-field advantage goes to the league that does better in an exhibition game with players that by definition aren't going to have any chemistry. Stupid idea.

I don't think such law could restore copyright to material already on public domain, it would be a retroactive law, or ex post facto law. Such law could be enforce only to material still under copyright when the law would be proclaim. Plenty of retroactive laws passed. In the US a large amount of material that was in public domain got swept back into this ambiguous territory once the Mickey Mouse laws were passed. I was working on a poetry anthology where the earlier material was in p.d. one day and then the next, it was not and no way to trace the rights' holders (who had understandably not kept up on it past the earlier 50 year mark). The project was dropped. Maybe in another 50 years... Or I'll move to Andorra and start a publishing firm.

That's a shame. I have the Herbie 60s Sessions box, and it has great notes (the original liners are reproduced and then there is a lot of discussion of Herbie's sideman dates which I found really interesting). The album covers are in there but not a whole lot larger than thumbnails. I just pulled it out the other day and was listening to the first two discs.

Sounds like my order. So they are probably running at 58 or fewer.

I'm not sure if it was adopted, or he simply put it up for a vote. There are several Commissioners opposed to the extension. Even if it is adopted, then it has to work its way through the EU system (could take a while). So we shall see.

Yeah, I figured as much. But your average Joe doesn't, does he? ... I am reassured that those who create technology can't control it. True most people just can't be bothered, but most of these techniques can be found in under 5 minutes using a Google search. Now we are probably only a few years away from Google starting to block access to sites that encourage hacking of various sorts, at which point there will probably be an underground search engine that arises that focuses on hacks (just as there are already engines for torrents and cracked software).

Basically, anything you can view or listen to on a computer can be ripped or copied, though in some cases there is a loss of fidelity and the hassle isn't worth it for the majority of people. It can't be encoded somehow, like those iTunes files? I can think of 4 or 5 ways to rip and copy iTunes files. If there is a program that plays the media on a computer in the first place, then someone has already figured out a hack around any copy protection.

I'm on the fence on the Donaldson. I have the vast majority of the sessions. I think I am missing two. I'll probably continue to pass. I have a bunch of the others - Tal Farlow, Turrentine, Jazztet and Oliver Nelson. Not a dud in the bunch. What I will probably do is get the Basie 50s Sessions and push the Chu Berry down on my list, since it should be around for a long while yet.

Basically, anything you can view or listen to on a computer can be ripped or copied, though in some cases there is a loss of fidelity and the hassle isn't worth it for the majority of people.

Amazon.com currently stands at just over $26 if you pre-order, so I went that route. I imagine there is a lot of duplication with other cover books I have, but this still looks like a pretty interesting book.

Dan: I'd be interested in the Johnny Hodges and the Gerald Wilson. I'll see if I can get PM working from work. Thanks. Eric

Yeah, they are going pretty strong over here (I'm on the south side tonight). These ones look like they came over the Indiana border, since they are a lot more powerful than the ones you get in yuppie neighborhoods. But the dumbfucks around me are setting them off in the middle of the street, blocking traffic and generally causing havoc. These fireworks are designed to be set off in parks or basically rural areas, not in the midst of a bunch of houses (woodframe no less). I'm not very happy. This will probably be the last 4th I spend with the in-laws.

It's a pretty short LP; even when all the tracks are there, it's only half an hour long. I'm not sure, but I think some must have been pressed without "Bush girl". Don't know how this can happen, but there are complete versions out there. Maybe it was deliberate - in my view that's the best track and NOT funky like the others. MG Thanks for the info. Yes, now that I know what to look for, some others in blogland have reported that Bush Girl is missing -- and have supplied the missing track (while obviously a grey area in this case I bought the LP and the item was not complete so I have no compunction against dl'ing it). I have no idea how it happened. There is plenty of room left on Side B.

I guess this could go here rather than a vinyl thread. Anyway, despite there not being much love for Bantu Village, when DG came up with a bunch of new copies on LP I picked one up last Nov. Well, I've finally had a chance to start listening (and transferring to CDR). Side B, which is supposed to have 4 tracks, has only 3! WTF!?! Has anyone else bought this recently and found the same thing? When I've finished the conversion process I may be able to tell which one is missing. Kind of disappointing I have to say.