Kevin Bresnahan

In the mid-90s, I had a friend who bought a case of complete sets of Fleer baseball cards. The individual sets were packed in a plain cardboard box with plastic tape that had "Fleer" written on it. He was told to never open it because it was worth more that way. He paid some outrageous price but said it would appreciate. I looked at the box, looked at him and said, "You just bought a cardboard box". Crazy. He assumes that what is supposed to be in there is in there. It'd be funny if it was just someone with access to a Fleer tape roll. As for stamps, I used to collect stamps so I know what happened to that market. The "bible" for stamp values, Scotts, decided that since everyone automatically discounted their "book price" by 20% to get actual value, they simply reduced all of their book prices by 20% so that their book would be correct. The market continued to take their book price and discount it by 20%!! In the end, it was better to mail your unused stamps than to sell them. I remember using stamps issued throughout the 70's and 80's as postage for almost a year. Later, Kevin

I believe Abouttime.exe is a spyware program. That's the one that loads when you go to a website and a pop up window comes up saying "YOUR CLOCK MAY BE WRONG". BTW, I see where you have DirectCD loaded. Unless you really use this application to make formatted CD-RW discs for temporary storage, I'd recommend dumping it. It's a resource hog and interferes with your burner drive boot properties. I wish I never installed that POC software back in the old days. Kevin

Oh, I guess my post didn't come across right... I have this date and I like it. What I meant with my post here was that if I had known it was rare, I would have bought it for trade bait. I usually buy hard-to-find stuff and put it in a rack above my PC. When someone posts a "looking for" thread, I usually pm them telling them I have it. I used to go the eBay route but I got sick of the hassles. Besides, I'd rather get it to fellow board members. Thanks for thinking of me though. Now, if you ever come across a reasonably priced Shorty Rogers Mosaic... Definitely drop me line! Kevin

I bought a bunch of music yesterday. Charles Mingus - Ah Um (SACD) Art Blakey - Drums Around the Corner Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background (yourmusic.com order) and some rock stuff The Zombies - Greatest Hits (SACD Hybrid) Aimee Mann - Bachelor # 2 I'd been thinking about getting those MoFo SACDs by Mann and this title is one of them. I wanted to hear some of it first... eh, it's OK... certainly not worth MoFi money! I think I liked Mann better on the 'Til Tuesday discs. The Duke date is very nice. "Piano in the Foreground" is also in my yourmusic.com queue. BTW, I had to move "Piano in Background" to the top of my queue because yourmusic.com sent me a notice that it was going away so anyone thinking about this title should hurry up. "Drums Around the Corner" is a very nice date. I have avoided Blakey's drummer discs because I figured they'd be boring. I'm glad I got this one. Lee Morgan plays some steamin' solos. I also picked up the Connoisseur of Frank Foster & George Wallington for connoisseur series500. I'm glad I found someone that wanted that... I hated seeing that sitting there. I grabbed a bunch of oop Connoisseurs for trade bait but I still have to think about what to do with them before posting a list. Later, Kevin

Jim, the graphics look new and there appear to be extra features, but at the bottom of the screen, it still says V1.3 final. Shouldn't that say V2.0?

Can someone explain to me these two statements: "The fidelity is superb,with no intrusive distortion, pops, clicks,or background noise of any kind." and "This copy is unplayed!" Not even that great of a date in my book. I do know that Tome Evered once told us that Jutta's records have always sold well in Japan.

Damn, for that kind of money you should just find someone to bur... oh, never mind. As Michael Cuscuna always tells me, don't worry, it will get reissued. Everything does. All it takes is time. If you just "have to have it", $75 is what it takes on half.com. However, I'm betting a copy would go for less on eBay. You know what's the worst about this being on half.com? If someone had it in their "wish list", it could have been sent out by the seller already. How does that work if the price is too high anyway? Am I the only one who thinks a CD on "half.com" should be sold at a discount? What does the "half" mean here? I didn't know this was that rare. I have seen it around but didn't pull the trigger. I guess next time I'll grab it. Kevin

I will apololgize if you tell us all what the result of these "offers" were. Tell me I'm wrong and you got someone with a used copy that you're buying and I'll gladly apologize. The responses in this thread don't look like offers to sell. My skin may be thin on this issue. As I've said, lately there have been a lot of people looking for stuff that aren't "looking" for it. I can over-react.

And my last reply to this... connoisseur series500 replied that at least one of these two titles is available cheaply. Clearly from the ignoring of his post, it wasn't "cheap enough". Likely what is "cheap enough" is $0.19, or, the price of a CD-R. I have a copy of "Brown Sugar". I don't particularly dig it. Had the tone of this thread not turned the way it did, I would have likely offered it at a price far below what I paid. Once it became clear that this would likely have been uneeded, I didn't send that pm. BTW, I have been seeing this practice a lot lately. People post looking for a CD title, I pm saying I can get or have a copy available and the usual response has been "Thanks, but I got a burn".

For sale or to burn? Doesn't anyone come on this board looking to buy these things any more? so you are against trading? Trading CD-Rs? Of available music? No, I'm not into this practice. I have exchanged CD-Rs with people of LP burns and I'll probably continue to do this. Jim asked people to stop doing this. Just because this thread has it all with the "wink-wink-nudge-nudge you know what I mean" kinda stuff, we all know what's going on.

and if you bothered to read my first post you would have seen me say: "import prices are outrageous" Then don't buy it! And guess what? You won't have it! You are not "entitled" to this music just because you want to hear it. If it's too expensive, then you can't own it. I'd love a Ferari. As Jim said in a recent thread, "Swap" does not mean "swap CD-Rs". It never did mean that.

For sale or to burn? Doesn't anyone come on this board looking to buy these things any more?

Eric, PM member John L. John has relocated from the US to France, back to the US and is now in Russia. He should know a thing or two... or three or four. Good luck! BTW, hope you don't have any wine to transport. That was one of John's biggest headaches. Kevin

Why the frowning face? I did say it was down the street...

. ..good deal on the Watkins!!! There's one in a used bin in a store down the street from from me but I looked around on eBay and didn't see a demand. Is there one? This place also has the Frank Foster Conn. Kevin

Wow, "But Not Farewell"... not often seen. Very good Greg Osby and Robin Eubanks on that. I'd grab that in a second if I didn't have it. Kevin

If it's that live date from Copenhagen, I have a tough time even hearing Mobley during some of those solos! I still think the guy who recorded that date was a big NHOP fan. He seems to have NHOP way up front in the mix and from the sounds of it, he was taking it off a soundboard so he could have done it differently. Those grunts and moans in between notes also appeared in Jackie Macs solos around that time. I wonder if these effects weren't simply "in vogue" around then?

Jim, I think I hear the Mobley that you're talking about on the Wynton Kelly two-fer from the Left Bank Jazz Society date. I've been spinning this date a lot lately. This is where I hear Mobley stretching beyond his normal style, like he does a bit on "Third Season". However, unlike on the "Breakthrough" date, he doesn't seem to chop off each riff with a gasp that sounds like he's out of steam. The chopped off riffs are there, but they are agressively bitten off and spit out. As I said, Cedar is still with us, maybe someone can ask him if Hank was a little loaded. He most certainly wasn't high, if we are to believe his quotes in John Litweiler's 1973 DownBeat interview. I still think comparing the solos on "Breakthrough" with the solos on something like "Live at the Left Bank" give the impression that Hank couldn't sustain the notes. Out of breath, drunk, whatever... maybe even on purpose. I still don't consider this a high spot for my favorite tenorman. Bertrand, that's a very interesting observation about Lee's death. That had to reverberate with these guys. They played on so many dates together during the previous 15 years. It had to be tough.

I'd say this is the guy lost his knife after he pissed his way out of an avalanche... or was it after he accidentally cut off his penis instead of a chicken's head? I always forget which guy this is.

I've recently started getting back into my old rock and roll collection and decided to become more active at Steve Hoffman's forums. That forum has a hyper-strict "no politics or religion" policy. It's awesome! I now interact with a bunch of people about music without having my mind play tricks on me. ... Kevin, don't listen to this guy... you know he's politcal fruitcake, right? I would love to see the political forum gone. Later, Kevin PS. Hoffman's FAQ under "Unacceptable Post Content" Please do not post any content of the following nature: 1. Politics 2. Race 3. Religion 4. Abortion 5. The Morality of Homosexuality / Gay Marriage 6. Gun Control 7. Unauthorized advertisements and/or solicitations outside of the Classifieds Forum without the express consent of SH Forums are strictly prohibited. Marketing initiatives whether direct, indirect or veiled are also strictly prohibited. Example: posting in a forum as a sales rep for ACME LP Cleaner, saying "You guys should check this out, I've tested them all and ACME is the best!" without revealing that you are, in fact, an ACME reseller. 8. Links (or requests for links) to sites that sell (or trade or contain) bootlegs. 9. Trades/requests for CD-R’s of copyrighted material. 10. Debates about who's right: the objectivist or the subjectivist. This includes debate over whether "your ears are better than an ABX/DBT test, and vice versa. 11. Nudity / pornography / blatantly obscene material 12. Links to "Warez" (pirated software) or "Warez" sites 13. Spelling / grammar corrections. If you feel you must correct another member, contact the person via email or though a Private Message. Note: an exception to this rule would be pointing out to someone that they have misspelled an artist's name (for example, Stevie Ray Vaughn instead of the correct Stevie Ray Vaughan); a name correction can be posted on the forum. Still - keep it polite! 14. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, PLEASE DO NOT POST MESSAGES USING ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS! THANK YOU! :-)

Mike, I'm away from the disc right now, but don't the liner notes of "Breakthrough" say that this band, minus Davis, was a "working unit" prior to making the album? I could swear I read that someplace. Cedar's still around. Maybe someone could ask him how the whole date went down. When I saw Cedar one time, I mentioned how sad Mobley's playing made me on this date and he said something like, "Yeah, Hank was in tough shape around then". He seemed to know what I meant. I once talked to someone who saw Mobley playing live around this time and they said that as weak as he sounded on "Breakthrough", he was weaker live. Almost inaudible. The guys' lungs were shot in the end. Does anyone know what caused this? Emphysema maybe? Kevin

I have my doubts that Mobley's playing on this date was all his own idea. After all, Cedar Walton is the leader of the date so ultimately he decided to bring Mobley into the studio. I do find it odd that he brought Davis in as a second reed player. Davis rarely recorded with Walton again. He almost seems like insurance, which, to my ears, paid off nicely. I don't hear Mobley doing anything on this date other than trying to play a tenor saxophone with bad lungs. He sounds out of breath, not out of ideas. Hadn't he already had at least one lung operation by this time? Or was that to follow soon afterward? I guess if hearing a favorite of yours stretch to try to make his voice be heard as he gasps for that last breath is something you like, this is for you. It really bums me out. I'd much rather hear Mobley when he could hit those notes. It's not like I hate this date, but I just feel like Mobley's discography didn't need this mediocre date. He had so many great performances. BTW, there are many recorded instances of an artist trying his damndest to stretch beyond his physical means. Stan Getz's "People Time" is a favorite of mine. Like "Breakthrough", I hear one of my hero's trying to match his earlier playing and not making it. Unlike "Breakthrough", the failure isn't as noticeable because Getz still sounds like Getz. There are times during Mobley's solos on "Breakthrough" that I can't tell it's him. Later, kevin

"Jazzcritic" posted over on All About Jazz that they talked to someone in Blue Note's marketing department and was told that the decision to hold back "Basra" was Pete La Roca's. I was told almost as much but the people I talked to were less specific. They mostly blamed the war for causing some people to worry that this title might upset some. As for the covers, from the beginning of the RVG series, Blue Note has been using new scans of original LP covers for the CD artwork. Many have come from Bob Belden's private collection. Later, Kevin

Chuck, if you had heard me when I first made this search... I was laughing like hell. I figured it was cosmic payback that my posts would get attributed to Weizen for the little bit of deleting I did. Not that Weizen and I are very musically apart and we both both drink good beer but we certainly have differing political views, to say the least. And here I just found this used copy of "Hootin' and Tootin'" that I thought you were looking for... Later, KJB

Awesome!! There they are... right in IE. That's weird. This is the first time I've had problems with Firefox and Organissimo's board software. Problem solved. Later, niveK