Kevin Bresnahan

I had never heard of these releases until now. Learned something new today. Mosaic box?

That means there's no power. It could be DOA or it could be that the port is not supplying any power. Have you tried plugging in some other peripheral that gets its juice from the port (like an external hard drive)? Does it work?

Does the adapter pass power as well as data? Not all adapters do it.apable Maybe I should ask what does happen with your external drive... Does is light up/power on? Does the tray open and close? Does the disc spin up? Have you tried plugging it into different Thunderbolt ports on the Mac? Are all of the Thunderbolt ports capable of providing DC power? My car only has one USB-C port that provides power. The other two are data only. FWIW, Apple products tend to do stupid shit to force you to buy their accessories. I would not be surprised in the least if Apple did something so that you can only use one of their external drives. They're done it with other peripherals in the past.

I recently spun the surround mix from the BlueRay of "Animals" and I was even less impressed by it than when i first played it years ago. So much more could have been done with this album using the full surround soundstage. This was a stereo LP that used phase to move stuff around in the stereo mix and yet when they made a surround version, they left each part stationary in discreet channels. I mentioned listening to this when I was stoned as a young man and the thing that used to be cool was the dogs barking all around you. They barked in front of you. They barked behind you. If you had headphones on, they barked inside your head. It was cool. The surround mix sticks them in one speaker and leaves them there. What a shit job they did when mixing this. I'd also add that as I have aged, the lyrics to these tunes really hit home. I've met so many pigs, dogs & sheep in my life and I realize that a large part of my life was necessarily "piggy", as was most anyone trying to make a living. Hopefully the stone doesn't weigh me down too much. I am not a big fan of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd at all. I rarely played them when I was younger & haven't found any reason to go back. If I'm playing Pink Floyd, it's usually "Wish You Were Here" or "The Wall", with "Comfortably Young" being my favorite Pink Floyd tune.

An optical drive should plug & play in Windows - no driver should be needed. Besides, it sounds like it is being plugged into a Mac in this case. One thing to consider... this drive draws power through the USB-A connection. If you're plugging this into the Thunderbolt/USB-C port on the Mac with an adapter or port replicator, it might not be getting power. Check the specs on the adapter.

9% of Amazon reviews are 1 star, with most of them saying that the drive arrived dead. I worked in the electronics industry for over 40 years and I've been told that a lot of companies (our customers) that were making cheap electronics like this external CD drive, use the consumer for "final test". It's cheaper to have you return it for a new one than it is to test it themselves. I would send it back and get a replacement or a credit. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B07DLRG9VH/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar A little while back, I got a new tower PC with a shit laptop-sized optical drive, so I bought an external case, this one: https://www.amazon.com/External-Enclosure-Generation-Aluminum-NST-540S3-BK/dp/B09SS74KCN/a4b666 And then I bought a highly-rated internal drive. I researched it quite a bit and eventually bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9FRFT7? And yes, I know that Plextor is no longer a company, just a licensed name, but this drive had decent reviews at the time.

Othello appears to be a little overdressed for the occasion.

Scullers in Boston is having difficulty getting asses in seats and has had to cancel a few shows due to lack of sales. It's not looking good for future shows either. For instance, I saw Steve Davis' We See band show up on the schedule and bought tickets in an instant. With this band: Steve Davis – trombone, Eddie Henderson – trumpet, Ralph Moore – tenor sax, George Cables – piano, Essiet Essiet – bass & Lewis Nash – drums; it was a "no brainer". It looks like about 36 tickets have sold for the 7:00 show & about 14 tickets to the 9:00 show: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/steve-davis-and-the-we-scullers-jazz-club-tickets/14172394. If that stays the same, that show is likely going to be cancelled too. Kinda bums me out.

Disc 7 of this Mosaic...

According to Facebook, his son's name is Jacob. Unfortunately, his son does not have a Facebook page himself. If his son Jacob is a musician, this is his bandcamp page: https://bandcamp.com/jacobkart

All of that is true. We can only speculate what is going on in Larry's situation right now. My comment was based on Larry's last words here, which indicated that he & others felt that he was not that far gone to dementia. I think it's safe to say that at this point, we'll likely never know one way or the other.

Larry's last updates did say something along those lines but there were lawyers involved, so maybe his wife was able to move him back permanently. If he was diagnosed officially with dementia, it would be very difficult for him to take back any sort of "control" on his own. To be honest, I'm surprised his lawyer did it that last time. I just don't get that they took away his phone. My mother was suffering from dementia near the end of her life but I was still able to call her every day on her phone and talk to her. If they had taken away her phone, I would have given her another one.

Huh. For quite a while, Dave Douglas' birthdate was nowhere to be found on line. It wasn't in the All Music guide either. I always wonder how old he was. He's almost the same age as me.

Are you talking about Dexter on Blue Note? Just reissuing the earlier box with better mastering would be 6 CDs. Add in Herbie Hancock's "Takin' Off" and it might be 7.

Renee Rosnes (1962)