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  1. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    Basie Jam #3 (Pablo)

    I'm normally not a big fan of Granz's jam sessions, but this one fit perfectly into my life tonight (with the exception of an overwrought Joe Pass solo on the last tune). Even though this record was recorded in 1976, it has the feel of a session from 35-40 years earlier where the musicians were playing for their own enjoyment.

  7. the trouble with stuff

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I have a messenger bag I carry onto airplanes, small enough to fit under an Airbus 319 seat. Aside from a 5X7 storage locker full of books and recorded music and things I kept after my mother died, that's all I've got. Oh, and four perpetually full Post Office Boxes. And my sister has my piano.

    Whoever it was that said "he that dies with then most toys, wins" will certainly triumph over me.

    I think that, in many ways, you may triumph over most of the rest of us.

  18. Where are you buying your music today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I also have never and never will pay for downloads.

    So, if there's no other way to buy the music you love, you'd all prefer not to have it at all?

    I honestly can't understand that. All my record-buying life, it's been between difficult and impossible to get most of the music I've wanted at different times (perhaps because I've seldom lived in the right places). I'll put up with anything - jam on vinyl, trashed vinyl, cracked but playable vinyl, muddy K7s, to get the music I want.

    MG

    I have no interest in downloads either. I have enough music in some physical form - for me that's LPs, CDs, and some 45s - to last me for the rest of my life. And there's still music that I want to listen to that's available in physical form. If I miss out on something that's only available as a download, so be it. There are more important things in my life than worrying about having everything I think I might want or need.

  21. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

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    Saw the film that was made from this. It wasn't bad, but I imagine the novel is superior.

    I've only just found out that there was a film. I've put it on my rental list with Lovefilm. As the beauty of the book lies largely in its verbal felicities, I won't be able to draw direct comparisons between novel and film. I'll watch the film for its own sake.

    I'm putting the novel on my to-read list.

  22. Greed and the record industry

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by paul secor

    So? He got his work done, it was damn good, and it survived to be heard.

    "Tell me again - how did Charles Ives make a living?"

    "Making a living" destroyed his health and left much of his work undone. Your comment, "So?", is pretty uncaring, perhaps even ignorant, given those circumstances.

    I'm sure you'll have some sophistic answer, but I'm not interested.

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