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I believe it is. Also there is a link for a page called "Extra Raw" on a google search that won't open for me, but the breif summary page mentions "Eleventh House keyoard musician, the blind Mike Mandel". . . .

Neil Peart

Looks like it according to this page: http://www.ski.org/Rehab/DBGilden/JWilliams/acknow.html Yes, those old synths. . . have been enjoying the 90 minute or so "Making of Poptical" section of Ed Motta's dvd where they are in the studio recording "Poptical" and one of the three keyboardist is playing/programming an onld analog synth and it all looks so fun! They get some great keyboard sounds on that ablbum!

There are so many great jazz drummers that it's not surprising that in a "Favorites" thread hundreds and hundreds don't eventually get mentioned. Frank Butler contributed strongly to many great sessions! I love a lot of the prebop drummers . . . Baby Dodds. Wow. George Wettling, a Dodds fanatic himself. Zutty Singleton. Sonny Greer--very unique, Sonny. As the lovely Elis says, Jo Jones. . . swung as hard as anyone ever (and was the Mayor of TasteTown). Dave Tough. Gene Krupa. Kaiser Marshall. So many!

Okay Guy, I'll try not to respond to their baiting! Maybe my Nance cd will be waiting for me at home tonight. . . .

Just don't get me started guys. . . I really dislike the whole RatPack concept of cool, musically and extramusically.

Yeah, and I just don't like his work. It's me. I do think that his personality---especially if you watch him live often---intrudes into the work in a different manner than a lot of the instrumentalists you mention; their personalities don't seem as pronounced in the music as Sinatra's does to me. He SOUNDS like the kind of asshole I hate to be around. And so I don't hang with Frankie. . . . I can recognize his importance, though I think others (Pops, Bessie, Billie) may ultimately be more important for American pop and jazz music. But I just don't like him.

"The Job" eh? Now THAT was a good show!

What he said!

Yes, "Piano Portraits" and "I Love a Piano" . . . good stuff indeed.

My guess is that Reiner's source is Michael Cuscuna himself, he's been close to him lately!

Wow, this is wonderful music, and this is going to be a bullseye Select!

AND MANY MORE!

Bought myself an early birthday present. . . . Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Masters, Volume 2 1952-1958

Looks great! Nothing like Sims in quartet when he is ON and in great company!

though I didn't buy this two in one packaging, bought the two separate cds (great thick booklets)

Yes Patricia, that's a FINE lp!

Yep, and if I walked and walked there was a store that sold "cut outs' (the top half of the cover was cut off) of older issues for five cents each!

I so wish they had done a Ditko Gobby in Spiderman 1!

Ditko still trips me out. I think he took an Eisner influence (just my guess) and really found a personal style. . . .

Orion was cool. I scratched my head at a lot of those Kirby DCs when they came out, but Orion was cool!

I know what Jim means, and I try to phase that out and listen to him more; he rewards listening even with the frustrations. I dig all those Clef and Verve Songbooks, especially the Clef with Ellis in the trio. My opinion of him has been evolving the last three years or so.

Looks as if a fun time was had by all (or should I say a "hot" time!) Thanks for sharing!

A number of those I bet never get to theaters. . . . Just a guess. Okay: re: Sue Storms couture: it's only at the beginning she has to strip to be invisible, and she expresses momentary discomfort at the trend, all for laughs. Reed discovers that the uniforms they wore into space had also been affected by the cosmic radiation and were "unstable" so that Sue's would turn invisible with her, his would stretch infinitesmally, Johnny's wouldn't incinerate, and Ben's would withstand his galeforce farts.

I grew up at a great time: I was six or so when FF #1 hit and my youngest uncle still had boxes of comics in the attic of my Grandma's house from the fifties (Batman and Superman and lots of monster stuff) AND a complete collection of the first decade of "Mad." Man oh man, I can remember how exciting it was to walk five or six blocks to get the latest issue of "Strange Tales" or "Tales to Astonish" to get my Dr. Strange and Thor fix! I managed to keep up with comic universe til I went to college and a bit in college, with interest that flagged. . . I think the last excitement I had was Conan in the Barry Smith years, and then it all seemed less important and I read more fiction novels and history books. . . . In the late sixties I got hooked on "The Spirit" by Eisner due to the Harvey 25 cent giant reprints, and then I followed all the Spirit I could from various other printings, Kitchen Sink etc. I still would like to really have the first decade plus of The Spirit in the bound books DC is now putting out. . . I just have never justified the cost when there are Mosaics and Uptowns and Dick's Picks to buy. . . . But I think if I had to take just one comic series to a desert island Dr. Stephen Strange and Denny Colt would have to fight to the finish for me to take the winner along. . . .