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Alberty Ayler, Goin' Home, on Black Lion. Never saw it anywhere else, got it for about ten bucks total on ebay, not bad for a first experience. After that it was probably some NOS vacuum tubes. . . .6922 types from Siemens.

A friend of mine in Ohio used to look for cheap "fender flappers" (cars that had rusted out from the winter salts from the bottom up) with excellent hoods and dashboards. His take was if you look out over the wheel and see the hood all nice and new looking and a nice new looking dashboard. . . it was a nice new looking car!

Come on NEXT WEEK! Or rather NEXT WEEKEND. . . my copy may have arrived by the weekend of Sunday the 10th?

I'll agree with Big Wheel, and actually I think my favorite of the final half of his career is the "Confirmation" box set. . . Just beautiful beautiful stuff.

I have a Japanese stereo cd of Angel Eyes. . . . So glad that I do!

David, glad you checked in and all is well. Nice avatar too, I always dig that painting (which you showed me first!)

Details: Disc One: Eye of the Hurricane, 9:51 Teardrop, 10:23 Domo, 12:10 Para Oriente, 7:33 Pee Wee, 8:13 Total time: 54:49 (intros by Herbie are not included in song times) Disc Two: One of Another Kind, 21:05 Fragile, 9:06 Stella By Starlight / On Green Dolphin Street, 7:11 Total time: 41:13 (intros by Herbie are not included in song times)

Horace couldn't think of anything polite to say about their fashion sense. . . .

As far as I know/can tell it was meant to be stereo. It's in the Konitz/Marsh/Tristano Mosaic. Beautiful sound!

LAL, some nice stuff in those discs! Me, today NOTHING! I'm pleased!

It's a task! I try to listen to the newest stuff in, but I also try to listen to stuff I've had a while, I've been mixing and matching. I take about ten cds a day into work, and listen to a few at home before and after work. . . . I'm just barely "getting the job done" of listening to everything sooner or later. Looking forward to retirement! (Five years to go before retiring with the state and then I'll still go off to work probably so I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to! Can you take them with you?)

Heck, they really ought to name it "Turnaround Phrase!"

Bertrand, there is more than enough live material to spill over into two cds (about 100 minutes maybe?) on the Japanese copy I have, and no studio material. . . . I can post details tonight when I get home. I like the sound on the Japanese cd, it's "mellower" than the new one which is crisper. . . .

Well, Richard Horsely's books may be quite interesting to you . . . he deals with the Jesus movement within the political and religious cauldron of the time, which was boiling fiercely and spilling over the edges. Hugh Schoenfeld also has a number of books that would be along the lines of what you are after, "The Incredible Christians," "The Easter Rebellion" and a few others, but harder to find these days. And the Burton Mack would be a good read.

Looks good! I especially like that band "Copia Controllada"!

To further complicate the issue, if the French cd is a single cd, I have a two cd set from Japan that I recently bought from Reiner (thanks R) which I think has the medley-duo, and one version of all the other songs I believe, rainstorm versions.

Well, I haven't read this work and looking at a bit of reader reviews at amazon it looks as if it would be etnertaining, but not exactly what I would grab next. What are you really hoping to read about? The gospels in context, within the environment that they were produced? Just New Testament material? Gnosticism? An overview of what scholars think about the texts? As an introductory volume of a general New Testament quest I can recommend Burton Mack's "Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth" is an interesting starting point, will make you think, will help you to find a vantage point to look further into one side of the coin or another. I have found Michael Grant's books on Paul and on Jesus to also be interesting to begin an inquiry. . . they'll give you a historical perspective that sums up a traditional historian's attitude up to the middle of the last century or so. Another good book along these lines is "Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus" by Richard A. Horsley, John S. Hanson. Quite good overview of the diversity of political and religious thought around the time of Jesus. If you're interested in Gnosticism, Jonas' and Rudolph's books are the best primers, and I really like what Elaine Pagels has written about Christian Gnosticism in "The Gnostic Gospels" and "Beyond Belief," etc. The book that bowled me over when I read it after reading about a decade's worth of books about christian origins was . . . "The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity" by Hyam Maccoby. POWERFUL . . . it seemed to mirror my own conclusions about Paul and gentile christianity.

Yes, my order history says the same thing! I'm a little like Mulder, and a little like Scully. . . . I want to believe. . . but. . . !

All these Tristanoites seem to feel that somehow, just somehow, Lennie is watching all the time!

I got this in the mail this weekend as well. I LOVE the sound. . . a killer example of early stereo done well, and there is a little too much audience noise. . . but that makes it like being there. As Jim says, Warne's playing is beautiful. As is Joe's. I really like this!

Is this REALLY going to be out tomorrow? (Ya never know with Columbia!)

Anybody else have an opinion to help the Marine?

However this is not always a safe assumption to make, that early stereo is bad. There are beautiful examples of early stereo. . . check out any of the earliest Columbia stereo recordings for example. . . FANTASTIC. Also check out nonbiglabel work such as the live Tristano date with Konitz (in 1955!) and the recent Marsh at Dana's Point (excellent stereo recording in my opinion, a little too much audience noise but that too has its pluses).

The advice here is good. Exercise can help. . . and it can be as simple as a long walk through the neighborhood (if you have that sort of an environment) . . . . Just getting out of your four walls and being open to different surroundings can help get your mind on a different track. There was a period of time eight years ago when I was being attacked by someone at work who had turned the best job I ever had and still now wish I had into a nightmare, my wife had come down with a serious delusion and we were separated by a thousand plus miles and even more distance really because she believed if she returned to our homes the cats and I were in danger, and I felt as if the world was crashing in on me. I made it through by a variety of methods, one was persisting being my wife's best friend persuading her to change doctors, which she did and led to a proper diagnosis and eventual mental health, a return to this town, a career with the University and a much better life for us both. Another was toughing out round after round of conflict resolution with this coworker, which led to Human Resources asking me to come to work for them because they wanted me in their team and did not at all believe the accusations (falsely) assigned to me by my attacker; that job move led me to a better career path (though I've never since enjoyed my work as much as I did at that job before the troubles began out of the blue!). And finally I became interested in the life and work of Krishnamurti and began to read what biographies of him I could find, which I found fascinating, and very helpful . . . . His nihilistic approach and his belief that one has to extricate oneself from the conditionings of the world and family to find the right path for oneself was very explanatory to many facets of my life and very strengthening. I had almost given up on my marriage and almost lost my job, and instead things gradually turned to the better on all fronts. So get some air, evaluate what is positive and fan it to a better flame, and explore some spiritual or artistic material that seems to "speak" to you. . . . My two cents! I'm hoping all improves soon, my best to you.

I'll leave that to you.