Kevin Bresnahan

That's the Artist House material that reverted back to Laurie, right? She is selling all of that material digitally on bandcamp: https://blueplatespecials.bandcamp.com/album/artists-house-sessions-complete

The funniest thing about colored vinyl is that it makes it almost impossible to grade the record without playing it so the collectors of these things have no idea what they're getting most of the time. I have to admit, I can't see scratches or even dirt/dust when I play them. I do have to add that today's colored vinyl seems to be made much better than the stuff from old days. Back in the 70's & 80's when I was buying a lot of vinyl, I avoided colored vinyl and especially picture discs, because they almost always sounded terrible and wore out quickly. I remember when someone gave me a picture disc of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the picture had a hazy look to it from being played so often and it played back with rice crispies throughout.

I do agree to a certain point but I thought that this one was particularly cool. As I said, the music isn't all that great to my ears and I wasn't planning to buy it on vinyl at all but this pressing caught my eye, so why not? Besides, if I ever decide that I don't need this in my collection, I will not lose money on it. No matter the reason, many of these VMP pressings are getting crazy money on the secondary market.

I'm not usually a fan of these isolation tracks, but I thought this one was interesting.

Damn - I would like this for my wall but what is with that sticker? I get that they wanted to remember the concert where they got that autograph but why not just slide a piece of paper into the LP sleeve instead of sticking a sticker onto the cover???

Music From The Motion Picture Juno (Rhino). Orange transparent vinyl. I think I bought this because my daughters liked the movie but I don't remember playing it much. Pulled it off the shelf this morning and figured "What the heck". Some "spoken word" type singing that reminds me of Laurie Anderson's work. I can't believe that this LP is currently selling for over $50. I guess vinyl is hot right now. Here's a song from this LP. Almost sounds like a kid's singalong at times.

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin' (Blue Note/Vinyl Me Please). I bought this for the cool-looking vinyl. The music is just so-so in my book.

I still don't understand why Mosaic had to reverse this image. They could have used it the right way and cropped it accordingly.

Adults have to get tetanus booster shots. If all of the people refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, refused their tetanus shots, I imagine we'd be hearing about 10% of the people dying from getting tetanus by now. It's a horrible way to die. But we don't. Because they do get their tetanus shot when their doctor tells them to because they can die from it. And for the record, the tetanus booster shot is the second most painful shot I've gotten, second only to the Shingles vaccine shot (that I just got a few months ago). I still plan to get one every 10 years.

Nice CD. This is the only affordable way to get McDuff's "Hot Barbeque" on CD. The only other CD releases were in Japan and they are out-of-print and expensive these days. Am I the only one who is having my last post showing up in the edit box? I post to a thread and when I go to post something new, my old post is sitting there. I have to delete it to post something new. Very annoying.

Jim Alfredson - In Memorandom (Big O Records). I also have the bonus track, Snowform", that was available for a short time as a download. I do enjoy this recording and play it often.

Ravi Shankar - Ragas Hameer & Gara (Deutsche Grammophon).

A few years back, I started running out of shelf space in my LP racks and I noticed that if I pulled a few records out of their PVC sleeves, I could fit another record onto that shelf. I started pulling all of my records out of their sleeves and picked up enough space for about 30 more LPs. I now only l use sleeves on my most valuable records and there aren't many of those.

Sleepy Night Records? Are they legit? Miles was a Columbia recording artist in 1971, so shouldn't the back tray mention that?

Over on the Hoffman forums, they're singing the praises of this date, with a few going on especially about audio quality on the LP version.

Tim Warfield's Jazzy Christmas

I actually liked that one less than I thought I would. Of the two Prestige "Holiday Soul" LPs, I prefer Bobby Timmons' version to Patterson's. If it's Christmas music played on the organ, I would recommend Barbara Dennerlein's "Christmas Soul", Jimmy Smith's "Christmas Cookin'", organissimo's Christmas downloads (if the downloads are still there) or Harry Allen's "Christmas in Swingtime". I might also say to check out Joey DeFrancesco's "Home For The Holidays", but it's only available for big bucks right now. Or you can listen on You Tube:

I went through the entire list. It was extensive and there were some cool LPs in there. But many of the autographs were... weird. He had band members sign LPs they played on and not their leader dates. It just seems weird to me to bring a Roland Hanna LP to a Larry Coryell and George Mraz show to get them to sign it. Why not have Coryell sign one of his own LPs? There are a lot of them like this. BTW - just go to Dan's link and click "Completed Items".

If an artist or their estate owns the masters, they can stop it from coming out. Not true when the masters are owned by a label like Blue Note. The label can release it if they want.

Pim - this plea for a "middle ground" does not sound like that at all. Maybe it's how you are saying it, but it comes across as if you think no one should be forced to vaccinate. That is not any sort of middle ground. It is contradictory to the general public's need and contradictory to the science. When something contradicts the majority, that is not the "middle", that's an extreme. One of the problems with this world today is this supposed desire to move everyone to the center, implying that it is what everyone wants. We don't want that in this instance. We want to end this pandemic and the way to end it is for everyone to get vaccinated, everyone keep their masks on when indoors, and everyone keep their distance until the numbers drop and we get over this. Instead, here in the US, we have parents picketing school boards demanding that all social distancing be stopped, all masks go away and that kids diagnosed with Covid should be able to attend school. That is not in any way, shape or form any sort of "middle ground". That is just plain nuts. But you're asking me to allow them this belief because that is your definition of "middle ground"? I'm sorry, but we'll have to agree to disagree.

I just went to go play this on my work PC just to remind myself what it sounded like. It turns out that I disliked it so much, I never even ripped it to mp3 for my work PC.

Vaccines have overcome literally every major disease that's come our way. No more polio. No more Small Pox. The list goes on and on and on. It is not that hard to overcome a virus once the scientists get to work and create a vaccine to combat it. It's just hard for some people to understand that.

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