jazzbo

It ain't braggin, if it's the truth.....

I'm sorry I missed it! I was so impressed seeing Marchel that I don't think I'll ever forget it!

I believe I have this material under a different bootleg guise. Interesting. . . especially the last parts which sort of herald a change and a move towards a more songlike structure that would be picked up "after the retirement." Would be nice stuff to have in a box from Columbia. . . and it wouldn't surprise me to see one one day. Dollars to be made off Miles=Sony eventually getting around to it.

Interesting. I wasn't bored at all anywhere. I don't know what would be so "in joke" about this film. . . . I don't think I missed anything and I've never read the book or perish the thought heard any radio shows (I am NOT a radio show listener!) I thought this was quite well done in comparison with most movies these days; entertaining, not at all plagued with random sex and violence to give it juice.

Wolff mentioned it. . . . But then he's nearly omniscient, he probalby just heard the wind whispering it to him. . .

I see they are both going to appear in "Memoirs of a Geisha."

No problem!

Okay jazzhound, once again have to differ in opinion with you. That is a great album (in my opinion!)

Why should she be mentioned in a Ziyi thread? I haven't seen much of her work, but she hasn't intrigued me as Ziyi's has.

Three 45rpm box of Metronome All Stars on RCA.

Oh yes, within the first twenty minutes. . . .

Well, I avoided the books and any BBC show. I felt completely at home in this and the social/anthropological comments it was making, felt it was clever and upbeat and not at all preachy, yet had a message. AND it essentially a clean movie (if you disregard the destruction of a planet here and there) and refreshing in that manner. I'm so glad I saw it, and I'll probably see it again soon. "So long and thanks for all the fish!"

Wow. I really really enjoyed this one. Recommended!

Wow, I have never heard this happen as the result of a preamp solid state or tube. I have wrangled with jazzhundt before about tubes and feel he's all wet. There is plenty of distortion in either hollow or solid state designs. I have had both designs in systems and the systems that I've kept have been tubge systems. . . . I'll never not use tubes. I've gotten full and tight bass from tubes, I have had reasonable life from tubes and used tubes that don't break the bank to replace and in a proper design are easy to change. I hope you get your system up and running; I really doubt and hope that it is not the preamp responsible. (I'd be very very surprised if it were).

You're welcome. Just keep the Breshnev Bears in a clean cage!

I'd run away from Weasel Gere too.

Well, I disagree with its assessement of me for the most part, I read through all the briefs about the faiths I supposedly had high percentages of similarity too, and the only one that really seemed to fit was Theravada Buddhism . . . . This test actually told more of what I did not believe rather than asking what I do believe. Like RT, I grew up in the United Church of Christ (my father was a minister his entire adult life --now retired about three years). I have actually been going to Catholic mass more often than to Protestant services the last few years. . .. My wife was raised Catholic; inlaws are devout, I find it interesting. I don't believe in personal salvation, and a lot of other doctrines. Cosmologically I think I'm more Buddhist. Here's what it says, and I'm scratching my head. I used the weighted responses too 1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (91%) 3. Liberal Quakers (89%) 4. Secular Humanism (77%) 5. Neo-Pagan (71%)

I like him. I like the emotion he conveys, I like the shakiness of some of his work because it gives it a depth, and I like the songs he chose more than some of the others' song choices. To each their own.

Many many more!

Hey I don't want to be around the big boys, I definitely dislike their style and smell a lot of the time. I didn't say he PIONEERED it Mike, quit putting words in my mouth. For all I know George Shearing's grandpa pioneered smooth jazz. But I do strongly feel he influenced a large part of the smooth jazz of the nineties. If you listen to smooth jazz (you can't help it sometimes) there are changes within what gets released and marketed through the decades.

Hey, Al I personally also feel that Miles Davis was an influence, a considerable one, on smooth jazz. . . that eighties band prefigured a lot of stuff by Najee and others . . well there you go, it's my theory.

Yes Mark . . . those 1960 or so Captain Atom stories by Ditko were some of the first comic books I smuggled in to my house at age five and six, and got me started on comics (when Stan Lee started changing the world in 1962 and 1963 with his comics I was an addict. . . still clandestinely because I WAS NOT ALLOWED COMICS til a few years later). Ditko just had this thing up through about 1966 . . . he was a master. I just purchased off ebay "Action Heroes Archives Volume One"--a DC hardback that reprints all the Captain Atom from 1960-1 and most of the 1966 return of the character. . . all Ditko on glossy paper.