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Good one! Read all of Macdonald's novels about 35 years ago, & hadn't revisited them since. Decided that now would be a good time to do so. I read them all about twenty-seven to twenty-five years ago. I re-read one a few years ago and enjoyed it. Since I'm nearly done re-reading all Chandler (for the fourth time perhaps?) I may grab one of his down soon.

Interesting. New Road Trips too. Generally, I ignore this period, though I've been told that this period after Jerry's "return" is hot.

Good one!

Press release about the October releases of the Whitmark Demoes Bootleg Series two cd set, and the Mono lp box set. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bob-dylans-the-witmark-demos-set-for-october-19-release-along-with-first-re-release-of-the-original-mono-recordings-101378479.html These are now available for preorder on Dylan's site and amazon.com

My sister sent me the Gevalia coffee grinder for Christmas one year about sixteen years ago. Still use it to grind my coffee, all the time. I have become addicted to an organic coffee grown by a collective of growers in Mexico supported by a local Austin company that roasts the beans here. Amazing stuff. http://rutamaya.net/ I used to try a lot of different coffees from Africa, Asia, Americas. .. but I quit experimenting about ten years ago.

Metal and Prog Rockin' in the Free World

Veronica Mars, Season Three. I really liked the first season, I thought the second was pretty good. . . this one. . . a bit of a letdown.

Thanks for mentioning Jack Maheu, very good clarinetist.

Get up and at 'em James!

Okay. More and more I see these guys as more and more devious and shifty (even Lane is joining the dark side!) and look for hidden motivations even when (or perhaps MOST when) their actions seem to speak loudly for themselves.

I agree Allen, that was sort of what I was alluding to in my post #18. The limitations of those low power single-ended triode amps, indeed, and I would bet that Barnard KNEW those limitations and used them with intent. That's my bet, wasn't there, can't know for sure.

Bets has been off her rocker for a WHILE! Do you guys think Sterling was really that hellbent against the Japanese clients? Or was it Sterling trying to assert himself. . . he's just been sitting off to the side with Lucky Strike, and belittled by them at that, while the others are hustling and bustling new business. . ..

Well, in blues, heavy metal, hard rock, etc. the distortion is often INTENTIONAL. That must seem right to you, yes? In jazz, organ jazz, with the best players. . . I would think it is also most often intentional. Wouldn't you think that an accomplished, working, touring, recording organist would KNOW when his equipment is failing, or a recording engineer when he's overloaded an input, etc.? I would assume intentional more often than not. I really LIKE the sound of distortion mixed with clean sounds. I'm guessing you don't. It's a nice color, it's part of drama.

I just got an email that my four sets have shipped from amazon.fr

I think you'll like the Debut material a bit more, less Third Streamy.

John La Porta is a favorite. Really nice ideas. And sound. And I really like Tony Scott, especially late Tony Scott.

I think in the musics we listen to and perform its genesis may have been to replace notes or infer notes that aren't where they might be. . . notes in the cracks or notes not really "right" in the Western sense. And they are colors and thicknesses used as if they might on an artist's palette. Works done with distortion present from the beginning are statements. I'm turned up to eleven, my pain is intense, I'm not like you are. A clean version might be like a clear painting of a man standing there mouth wide open; a distorted version may be that famous painting of The Scream.

I'm watching Rubicon too, last night's at the moment. Great show.

Many many happy happy returns!

Many more happy happy ones!

Glad you had fun.

I'm quite fond of Ernie Caceres' work on clarinet. . . . I've a piano- and trumpet-playing friend, Mel Winters, whose dad used to lead a territory band in this region of Texas and for a number of years hired the Caceres brothers; to Mel Ernie was "Uncle Ernie."

I think The Long Goodbye is one of his best. . . certainly outshines all the others written in the fifties to me. I'm a BIG Raymond Chandler fan. When he was at his best hardly anyone could touch him.

Personally, I'm not that impressed by any of those covers.