Kevin Bresnahan

As great as some of their tunes were, they really seemed to mock the music video world. Cheesy would be putting it mildly. I don't feel tardy.

Sirius/XM has switched over their "Deep Tracks" channel (channel 27 over the air) to an Eddie Van Halen tribute channel for a few weeks. I've been listening to it a lot lately and truth be told, I had forgotten some of the great tunes these guys made. Sure, there are a few duds in there too, but overall they mostly range from really good to pretty great. There is one song in particular, "Intruder", that now brings a big smile to my face when I think back to the first time I heard it. This short intro to their overplayed cover of Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" (which was often skipped over by many FM radio stations) was very unique as far as rock and roll tunes went. I remember thinking, "What the hell is this"?. It's like avant garde Van Halen. It's too damn short though.

I don't know about that... I know a lot of guys that looked worse than that and they weren't rock stars. Life crap maybe? He did seem to turn his life around later, getting cancer can do that, but by then Valerie was long gone.

This is right around when their marriage fell apart. Eddie with taped up shoes looking like a homeless dude... and seemingly proud of it. Very different Eddie from the one she married.

Aren't they still in business? It couldn't hurt to ask: http://www.chiaroscurojazz.org/

This is a new one on me... I thought I had all of Cannonball's Emarcy LPs when I bought those two compilations. Why wasn't this session on "Sophisticated Swing: The Emarcy Small-Group Sessions"?

"Warm Wave" is only 28 minutes long. I wonder if that had anything to do with it?

If what has been posted for timings is correct, this wouldn't fit onto 1 CD. I calculate 93 minutes (54 minutes for the LP tracks + 7:45 + 13:15 + 3:30 + 7:00 + 7:20 for the extra tracks).

If it's coming out as a 2 CD set, I'd say it's a safe bet that it's going to have a lot more music than this single LP.

Van Halen never said that tablature was invented because of him. He noted that some of his techniques required new styles of tabs to show just how he was playing some of his notes. I get it Jim - you don't like the guy. Fine. But can't you just stay out of an RIP thread about him if that's the case?

That looks like something that would happen if your wife was your manager.

This topic reminds me of when my sister-in-law sat me & my wife down to tell us that she was gay. My wife and I were surprised she was being so formal about it. We even said to her, "You thought you had to tell us?" We never knew how tough it was for her until many years later when we talked about that day shortly after her father, my father-in-law, died. Where we thought she was just confirming what everyone knew, she told us that many people put blinders on. She also told us that she was afraid that we would walk out and never talk to her again. After all, that's what had happened when she told her father. We were pretty shocked when that family history came out.

My 31 year old daughter called to tell me that the husband of her best friend from high school is still debilitated from COVID-19 that he first contracted in March. He's now developed cardiac issues and the doctors are worried about the blood flow in his lungs. He's having trouble walking and often can't get himself out of bed. Since MARCH. Yesterday, France had 26,896 new cases - a new record. Spain too. The UK too. The whole world seems to have learned nothing from the mistakes being made in my country.

Curtis Counce - You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce (Analogue Productions 33 rpm). This is a nice, swinging date that I've always liked. This Analogue Productions LP sounds incredible. Butler's drums sound particularly crisp. They really did a nice job with the tapes.

Thanks. I ordered a copy too.

I miss "over-the-top" feminists. If we still had them, maybe we wouldn't be in the state we find ourselves today, where many woman seem to enjoy supporting an obviously misogynistic politician who has admitted to sexually molesting random women.

Are there more copies available from the same source? I would like to pick this up as well.

Lack of class is putting it mildly. Eddie was an incredible guitarist but he had a massive ego. I've read enough stories of people's encounters with him to realize that he is not a guy that I would have wanted to sit down and have a beer with. Life is too short to deal with people like that.

Wow. There's goes a biggie from my youth. I was an early rider on the Van Halen bus, being an early buyer of their first album and seeing them on tour at a tiny (<7,000) concert venue with only about 1,000 of us in the crowd.

Nobody seems to have that commercial. It only ran that one time and it sounds like the copyright lawsuit stopped it from being shown again. I've searched for it for many years and never found it. I figured that since it was during a World Series game, but no, no footage seems to exist from this.

If there is, I've never found it. Bartz has a Bandcamp page and it's not there. There are several that are download only too.

Is there some special reason why this is in the "Miscellaneous - Non-Political" forum instead of the "Artists" forum? You can like or dislike her music, but you cannot deny that she was an artist.

I can barely read the writing on my signed LP.

Me too... I also had him sign my Connoisseur LP of "Judgement!". He wrote over almost the entire black wall of the cover.

From what I've heard, that thanks extends to Bruce Lundvall, Michael Cuscuna & Tom Evered as they supposedly tore up the old Blue Note contracts and re-did them to match current recording contracts, which resulted in artists like Andrew being able to able to make a few bucks off of their back catalog.