paul secor

I'm sick of reading about remasterings and remastering geniuses. Let me know when they record some new music instead of messing with the same old stuff.

I assumed it was just a misuse of a word - someone wrote infamous & meant not famous. Hope that was the case.

Anthony Quinn The Mighty Quinn Mighty Mouse

The Pillsbury Dough Boy The Michelin Man Bob's Big Boy

Colin Dexter: The Remorseful Day Inspector Morse's last case

Bought the same two within the past couple of weeks. Good choices!

Fabio Flabio Chris Christie

3 for $1!!! You must be the luckiest guy on the planet.

No comment. The photo speaks (volumes) for itself.

Completely forgot to list the first jazz record I bought - Clark Terry's Duke with a Difference. I had no idea who Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves were when I put it on the turntable, but I soon found out.

Colonel Mustard Leroy Vinnegar Paul Butterfield

James Cotton Little Walter Walter Horton

All the Best!

Inspired by some of the discussion in the LP/CD collecting thread: I got to thinking about how many recordings I've bought without hearing something first, reading about the artist or record, being hipped by a friend, or having prior experience listening to the musician. Giving a quick look through parts of my collection, I found that most of my purchases weren't made blindly. That's probably not a great thing since it leads to a good degree of safeness in my listening - I'm comparing my listening to someone like rostasi's listening here - but, like most of us, my funds and time aren't unlimited. I did find some recordings that I bought with no prior experience with the artists/records and that opened new worlds for me: Von Freeman: Doin' It Right Now (Atlantic) - Found it as a cut out in Truck Stop records in Kingston, NY in the late 70's. I'd never heard of Von Freeman before, but when I played it I heard something completely unique and I was hooked. Lyn Halliday: Airegin (Delmark) - If I'd heard of Lyn Halliday before I can't recall it, and his name certainly had made no impression on me. Picked this one up somewhere because it was on Delmark, was by a tenor saxophonist, the tunes looked interesting, and the cover photograph made it clear that he'd been through a lot. Boulou & Elios Ferre: Pour Django (Steeplechase) - Steeplechase was on a roll from the mid 70's to mid 80's. I saw this, was somewhat familiar with Django's music, and decided to give it a try. Right away I heard that they weren't just Django copycats, and I've bought everything I could find by them since then. Etoile de Dakar: Absa Gueye (pam) - Bought this because it had a wonderful photograph of a drummer playing a small drum and totally into it. The cover was wonderful & the music turned out to be better. East Africa: Witchcraft & Ritual Music (Nonesuch) - Another one bought because of the cover - a photograph of two people's painted bare legs that look like some kind of bizarely designed pantyhose. Seeing it made me wonder what kind of music would go with that image. I'm not that much into modern field recordings, but when one is as good as this one is, I'm happy to hear it. Jesse Winchester (Ampex) - A bit of a wild card, since I did see on the back cover that it was produced by Robbie Robertson & that he and Levon Helm played on it. I was listening to The Band a lot back then (1970), but again it was partly the cover that grabbed me. Front and back covers were the same - a photograph of a guy who looked like someone that Walker Evans might have photographed in the South in the 1930's. When I got home and opened up the gatefold, the same photograph was on the two inside covers also. I dug his voice - tho Robertson distorted the sound of it - and his songs and I've been a fan ever since. Anyway, I thought it might be interesting if others shared some serendipitous discoveries that they took a blind chance on. edit - just realized that buying blind was not a good phrase for me to use when cover photographs influenced me in buying a number of the records I listed.

Chicken Little Little Richard Rich Little

Another for Richard Pryor's records. Even after all these years, I can't stop laughing when I listen. Saw (& heard) Professor Irwin Corey a few months back - he was still great at 96 years of age - and played his "I Feel more like I Do Now" LP a few days after that. A funny, talented, and wise man - something that can be said of most great comedians. Jean Shepherd's record's - I know of three, not counting his reading of Robert Service's poems - are good, but they don't hold up to my memories of listening to his WOR radio show back in the day. Shep wasn't a comedian - if you had to put him into a box, storyteller/raconteur would be a better description, but he put a lot of humor in what he did.

Happy Birthday, once again!

Made a visit to Sally's Place in Westport, Ct. & picked up a number of things, including: Borah Bergman/Roscoe Mitchell with Thomas Buckner: First Meeting (Knitting Factory Works) Muhal Richard Abrams: Vision Towards Essence (Pi) Saw First Meeting there almost a year ago, but passed on it. When I went there today, it was still there. Good news for me, but the fact that it sat there for a year is depressing.

No complaints here. Made an order last week & got everything within a few days.

Malik Sealy Seal Charlie the Tuna

Charles Laughton Charles Ruggles ZaSu Pitts

Owning is easy. Listening to, learning about, and coming to know music will take a lifetime.

Another one I didn't want to read. Thanks, Mr. Anderson.

Looks like a worthwhile cause.

Richard Jefferson Richard Hamilton Phil Jackson