Kevin Bresnahan

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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My current desktop picture. Auggie, the old guy on the left, died last week so while this still brings a smile to my face, it's not a completely happy smile. That little guy in the middle is now 2 and is one crazy dog.

But that's what is wrong here. "People" - and I'm including politicians here - are making decisions based on bogus information while the doctors and scientists stand off to the side scratching their heads at the insanity of someone getting their medical advice from Tucker Carlson instead of reading the multitude of studies filled with data saying that this is the best way to go. If Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization today, we'd still have dummies listening to some talking head telling them that pasteurization is bad and that no one should force it on them. And we'd have people dying from diseases caused by consuming unpasteurized products.

Sold. Thanks for looking. I am running out of room on the shelves, so I am beginning to sell off a few box sets that I just don't get to play much these days. Next up is: Woody Shaw - The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic MD7-255) 7 CDs - all played once or twice and in NM condition. The box/booklet (#1989) is also NM. $180 including USPS Media Mail shipping to a US address. Shipping outside of the US would be at actual cost via USPS. PayPal required although I do have Venmo now so we can talk if that's the way you want to go. Thanks for looking, Kevin

Dan - you have hit the nail on the head! You are correct that the masks are mainly to prevent me from infecting others which is exactly why EVERYONE should wear one! If I wear one and I am infected, my chance of infecting someone else goes down. Ditto the guy walking toward me in the store. Ditto the lady picking up a loaf of bread next to me. Ditto the guy.... well, you get the point. If everyone was vaccinated and everyone continued to mask up for just a little while, we'd probably be out of this thing by now. But no. Instead, we either get a bunch of people being told, "I'm vaccinated so I don't need a mask." or the anti-vax/anti-mask crew with their "I ain't getting vaccinated and I ain't wearing a mask." Strangely enough, the result is more cases. Who would've thought that? Oh, I don't know - maybe every scientist studying these things?

Which brings up the most important aspect of the anti-vax movement - they almost always combine this denial of the benefits of being vaccinated with a belief that no one should wear masks. It's as if they WANT everyone to get sick. It's truly bizarre. I am vaccinated and boosted and I still wear a mask when I'm in a store. I know that being vaccinated reduces my chances of catching COVID and that if I do, I'll likely not end up in the hospital or dead (as long as I don't lose that lottery). It doesn't matter. I don't want to play that lottery game at all. So I mask up and lather up with hand sanitizer in the car every time I go shopping.

You're right - I'm not remotely contradicting Steve - I shared data that directly contradicts his assertion that children are "not that susceptible in any significant way to serious illness". We can argue back and forth over "significant" but again, if it is your child, it is VERY significant. Kids can & do get COVID and they can and do get very sick. Yes, it is at a lower level than adults but it is not something any parent should ignore. I play the lottery. I play even though my chances of winning are minuscule. The same goes for COVID only it's a lottery you don't want to win.

From https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm?s_cid=mm7036e2_w " Among 3,116 hospitalized children and adolescents with COVID-19 during March 1, 2020–June 19, 2021, for whom complete clinical data were available,827 (26.5%) were admitted to an ICU, 190 (6.1%) required IMV (a respirator was needed), and 21 (0.7%) died. Among 164 hospitalized children and adolescents with COVID-19 during June 20–July 31, 2021, for whom complete clinical data were available,38 (23.2%) were admitted to an ICU, 16 (9.8%) required IMV, and three (1.8%) died. I would say that if you were the parent of one of those 24 children that died of Covid, you would not say this.

Audio equipment has advanced dramatically since the days of mono. Just because something was released to be able to be played back on a Close & Play, it doesn't mean it sounds better that way.

The company I work for (based in Massachusetts) sent out a note asking those of us who can do their job from home to do so until "the middle of January at the earliest". I am still unsure what that means to me as there are things I can do from home but supervising 5 people who go in every day is hard to do remote 100% of the time. I am a bit lucky in that they don't need a lot of hand holding but I still like to be there for them when they need me. I am so sick of this shit.

I also made a CD of "Landslide" from that Blue Note box set. I even created my own artwork. I also had the original LT LP and I picked up that TOCJ CD a few years back. It is a very good LP even if it is made up of bits and pieces of sessions.

We had to put Auggie down on Friday. Liver failure brought on by liver cancer. He had a rough last couple of nights but he's not in pain any more.

My wife works in a NH middle school and she's seeing a large number of kids out with COVID. It's the Thanksgiving bump. Next up will be the Christmas bump. It seems like it might be just a matter of when she catches it from one of her kids, as NH's governor refuses to consider any measures to reduce the rate of infection. NH now ranks #1 among states for new cases per 100,000 people - 94.1 daily cases per 100K people. Maine, my state, is #2 at 76.1 per 100K.