Kevin Bresnahan

One of the most obvious ones:

About a month ago, we noticed mouse droppings in our bread drawer. Throw away all the bread, sanitize the drawer and put out (no kill) traps. Next morning, I catch "the" mouse and set him free in the woods. Just to be sure, I set it again and the next morning, I catch another mouse. Off he goes to join his buddy a couple miles away. I set the trap for a 3rd night and wake up to an empty trap. Ahh, they're all gone! Wrong! A week later, we find more mouse droppings. I set the trap. Nothing. I set two more (no kill) traps and not only don't I catch it, it gets the bait out! Last night, I finally had to set up a couple of "snap traps" (lethal). This morning, I wake up to find the bait gone and no dead mouse. Tonight, I'm going to use peanut butter to make it lick the spring release. Wish me luck. If this doesn't work, I'll have to go with a sticky trap (shudder). I hate sticky traps. They are so nasty. Kevin

I think we'd need more information to help you out. Is the CD player in a rack? Is the rack heavy or light? Is the CD player near the top or the bottom? When you tried the tennis ball trick, how many did you use? (I would think that 4 halves - 1 near each corner would be best) If you pick up the player while it's playing, can you gently move it and get it to skip? Light taps on top? Light taps on the side? All in all, the old CD player is likely on its way out. Unfortunately, you might have some trouble replacing this machine with a decent one. A few months ago, my brother asked me to pick him up a decent 5 CD (only) player and I eventually had to go with a Denon factory refurb.

Spinning "Kind Of Blue" on blue vinyl from the Legacy box set. It's OK but not enough of an improvement over the CD to make it a "must have". The only reason I got it was because I paid $25 for it during one of Barnes & Noble's crazy 75% off sales back around Christmas.

When I was in Germany, a joke I heard was: What is the difference between Coors Light and making love in a canoe? None. They're both fucking close to water.

Um, I beg to differ, amigo! Man, when are you going to bring one of these mini kegs up this way? I'd love to help you finish one. Personally, I prefer Ayinger or Erdinger with Tucher as a fall back.

If it's a Windows machine, try SharePod. I really hate iTunes as it attempts to take over all aspects of audio reproduction on my PC. I have never transferred any music to my iPod with anything other than Sharepod,

I've saying for years that the EU copyright limit would change for The Beatles but this is ridiculous! 1963 is the cut off? Really? The exact year that the first Beatles LPs were cut? Oooh, that's a surprise. Why didn't the EU simply create a Beatles exception? The US copyright law revision has been termed the "Mickey Mouse Law". I see no reason why this shouldn't be called "The Beatles Law". And BTW, when The Beatles come up to the 70 year limit in another 20 years, watch how quickly the EU changes it to match the US's 95 years.

I'm pretty sure all of them have been on CD. "Live At Mt Fuji" used to be very hard to find.

Perhaps it's because it was sorta 'artificially', and not 'organically' created? OTB was made-with-a-purpose, and that seems a different process than a musician deciding to put together his own band, starting with a couple of copasetic players, and growing from there. Not that the players were in any way deficient, it's just that they didn't have much personal involvement in it... Kinda like The Monkees or The Partridge Family?

I thought I read somewhere that this band was formed for the Mt Fuji Blue Note tribute. Wasn't that the one that Alfred Lion went to just before he died?

There's a new puppy in the Bresnahan household...

All I know is that you'll never get an answer from the Steve Hoffman forums. Every time someone asks what's going on with these SACD reissue programs, especially is you ask if Steve is involved with the Blue Notes, gets their post deleted in short time.

Pro-Ject, Music Hall and Denon all make decent USB-equipped turntables. Of these three, I would look at the Music Hall first, Pro-Ject second and Denon last, mainly because from what I can tell, Denon's USB output port is limited to lower bit rate CBR mp3. Stupid move if you ask me. If you want to move up the chain and still want USB capability, you could always get one of the Pro-Ject, Music Hall (and others) phono pre-amp with a USB output. They're only about $50 more than the ones without USB. Kevin

Who the hell would want to buy a 78 record from an artist like Bessie Smith with Wynton Marsalis's autograph on it? That is just so bizarre.

Did everyone catch the video review that someone did for the 3 wolf/moon t-shirt? Funny. My link

That shot was altered to remove the beam structure of the studio - see the pic in Ubu's post. Here's a 2nd shot of that band:

Harry Allen is playing at a small local club in Methuen, MA (The Sahara Jazz Club) tonight. I've seen him there several times and he's always put on a great show. I want to go, but I can't find anyone to go with me. Solo is OK, but I prefer having someone to share the experience with afterward.

As long as you definition of "real" includes CD-Rs and photocopied artwork... that's what my copy of "The Believer" from the Billy Harper fan club "label" was. Don't get me wrong, as long as Billy OKs it and makes some $$ off of it I'm good. But I do worry about the longevity of unknown CD-Rs. Later, Kevin

I've always wondered if selling this many CDs on eBay increases your chances of getting stiffed. I keep reading all of these horror stories about sellers who send off CDs and LPs to unscrupulous buyers who simply say, "I never received the item" and get their money back. Zoltan - how are these sales going?

Lucky them. About the only one of these that I sip occasionally is the Blue Moon Belgian White. Most of the others would never make it into my shopping cart. I used to drink Foster's Lager until they started making it in Canada (while prominently displaying "IMPORTED" all over the can).

Now spinning Tony Kinsey's "An Evening With Tony Kinsey "Mr. Percussion"". Some great Tubby Hayes on tenor & flute here. If you're interested in a new copy of this LP, be forewarned that it is a limited edition of 500 pressings.

I am talking about people holding onto a tiny little niggle of doubt and rationalizing that doubt into "not guilty" when it is obvious that the person *is* guilty. What small facts give jurors "doubt" is amazing. What's funny is that they almost never add any doubt to the defense testimony, only to the prosecution. BTW, I'd like to add that I don't know if that's what happened in the Casey Anthony trial, just that I am unable to be surprised by any verdict in our justice system any more. This goes both ways. I've read some horror stories of convictions that are just as bad as this. Juries can and will continue to be fooled by the lawyers. Playing with "reasonable doubt" is easiest card a defense lawyer can play. Listen to a few closing arguments and watch them play with that word "doubt".

Chuck, although you don't add any "smilies", I assume you're joking. I've asked Michael Cuscuna about this a couple of times and he says that if the tapes are handled properly, they can be played back many, many more times. Do you not agree with him? If I think about how many times I played back one of my favorite cassettes or VHS tapes, I realize that it takes and awful lot of wear to hear a difference. I can only think of a couple of VHS tapes that I wore out (Disney movies for the girls) and that was after probably 75-100 playbacks, with numerous long pauses in there.

That's the key - reasonable doubt. It is almost universally misinterpreted by many jurors as "any doubt at all". During the case where I was the foreman and we couldn't come to a verdict, the judge came in at the end of the first day and explained (again) that you can have doubts and still find the defendant guilty. He said that most jurors misinterpret "reasonable doubt" to mean "no doubt". I got the impression from him that "no doubt at all" has become the mindset of today's juries.