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You got the circumstances correct, but the place was Cleveland. . . . Freddie showed up twenty minutes after they decided to start, they launched into "Maiden Voyage," a couple of mugs heckled Freddie, he walked off the stage and the other four quickly ended the tune and bowed out themselves. Waited weeks to see a weak thirty minutes!

These are GREAT cds. .. the color and emotion in the playing are just wonderful. I agree though with Dave to an extent; 8 times out of ten I'll reach for those later quartet dates before the duo, just easier listening, the swing is killer. . . .

I was pretty excited about the VSOP material when it was first released, and even saw the VSOP Quintet tour once (one disasterous concert experience, really!) BUT in the last five or ten years I listen to the recordings. . .and they do little for me I'm afraid.

I bought this when it came out, listened to it a few times, was not really impressed or moved, and haven't visited it in a looooonnnnnnnggggg time.

I heard gunfire in my neighborhood in Philadelphia growing up. Once a bullet fired by police at robbers at the corner store to the right of our house went through my parents' bedroom window late at night. I've fired guns in Africa, and hunted a bit. Never felt good about taking even animal life, especially as easily as pulling a trigger. Then we drove through Mocambique once to the ocean, that lovely pure Indian Ocean, and saw a burning village, deserted, but my brother and I swear we saw some bodies lying in the smoke as we peered out the windows of the Land Rover. My dad didn't stop! A few minutes later we passed a patrol of armed men marching rather raggedly and laughing away, obviously elated and buzzing from adrenaline. I'm certain these men had just burned that village and killed villagers. I'll never forget how I felt! I hate guns. I've never needed to have one, and I pray that continues.

Not just no, but HELL NO. I hate guns.

The nineties Savoy/Denon series of excellent cds included one cd of Big Maybelle material; currently the Savoy/Atlantic series of cds has a two cd complete Big Maybelle offered.

I think it's all organ trio, no overdubbed strings. Haven't pulled it out in a while and went to look at it and it isn't where I thought it was . . . story of my life! It's good, some of it really fierce, but I like her orchestral and her more overtly spiritual work for Warners a tad more.

Actually this started out as an ode to a Freddie King lp, and an observation that a number of the licks on this sixties lp are regurgitated pretty well by EC in the seventies. I'm neither nuts about EC nor as harsh toards his work as some here. But considering some of the tangents that threads take here by many board membrs this discussion of EC is nothing spectacular in a red herring way. And hey, we could talk more about Freddie King and it wouldn't hurt my feelings! I doubt the two Atlantic cds are still in print, but they're awesome: Freddie King is a Blues Master and and My Feeling for the Blues. They've got cats like Wess, King Curtis, Joe and David Newman, Latiste and more on board as well.

Witches and Devils and Vibrations were also released on Debut after My Name is Albert Ayler. I had been thinking that the "First Sessions" lps had appeared on Debut, but I guess not. Those sessions are amazing! These first recordings are the ones that remind me of the 1964 Mingus in part.

I too am intrigued by Hindu/Tibetan etc. art.

Ancient art of Egypt fascinates me.

Poles like these are powerful to be around!

I like Manet quite a bit.

Yes, I wish I knew about this label as well. I was struck listening to Ayler's earliest recordings that had originated on this label by how much they sounded in ways similar to the Mingus music of 1964 with Dolphy and Jordan. . . .

Many of us have seen Roger Dean's paintings. . . .

Kelly Freas has done some interesting paintings. . . .

Here's a nice one! Page this is from: http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/thecat/

Ah, "The Cat"--I love that little guy; I know him most from the illustration they use in the "This is Jazz" series of sets on Jazzology: The Cat is waiting outside the maternity ward an expectant father and looks at his watch and shouts out "YIKES! I'm about to miss THIS IS JAZZ!" I'm pretty sure that if you scanned that illustration into your computer and say put it on your desktop you could then upload the image to Organissimo to use as your avatar. . . .

Oh Gosh, I couldn't tell!

Alright fine, believe me, I'm not jesting about paranoid wives, and maybe I have a limited sense of humor. Don't mean to offend you, but don't want to be a part of your continuing little jollies either.

Please don't see this as a flame, but an honest report of my feelings about the matter: No, jeez louise it sure is important to contribute, and I do, it's just all you ever seem to do here on these threads, to me, is ridicule someone, or make some sort of joke that YOU think is funny. And I'm not even talkin' about your OTHER personalities when they appear which you think are a lot funnier than I do. I've donated to campaigns, and I've talked to a lot of fellow voters. It may not have the results that I desire, but I feel like I'm doing something else besides being a "funny guy." And I don't post on a lot of these threads because. . . well I get my humor elsewhere.

Yeah another funny.

She appears to have stopped recording, but I don't fully know why. I really like World Galaxy, Trancendence and Eternity (and the Impulses of John's that she "worked over"). . . wish I could hear those not on cd.

NO, the real innovator in playing USA styled guitars is Buck Owens, especially that 1976 Bicentennial Martin guitar he sported (not pictured here)