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Well, this is a sweet little amp. Clear clean tone, especially in pentode. I like the triode mode, chunkier tone and breaks up faster when you crank and bear down. I don't think any of you would take this into a gig larger than a small coffee house one but for practicing and for jamming with a few pals, nice! You can use this amp as a practice amp for a bass guitar too, and it even works okay with my bass violin though that huge thing feedbacks wildly! On top of that. . . I bought another guitar. I wanted something "ES 335"ish. I looked all around and couldn't find a Gibson I wanted to afford. Even used they were pricey and even ones with minor problems were pricey. So I was at a few places and tried a few things. The only thing I really liked about a few Epiphone Dots I played was the worn finish on one and the price on both. . . ended up at Guitar Center and really liking the '72 Telecaster Thinline Reissue. Wow. What an easy playing guitar, a neck you just glide along! And the "Wide Range" Humbuckers really do give you a lot of ES 335 sounds but with that Fender "thang" at the core. So it's very bright, but if I dial all the midrange out and the bass up at the amp then you really do get those nice warm blues and jazz sounds. It's a really fine guitar! Now I can put my Breadwinner in for some sprucing up and have the Tele to plunk on in its absence. I got the natural finish.

Right, plenty of those in Ethiopia when I was there. There was a huge Embassy staff, lots of AID, about 850 Peace Corps persons (my Dad was a minister turned Peace Corps person), and thousands of US miltary persons and dependents. We were training and equipting the Ethiopian Army on one front, and to a lesser degree developing agriculture and commerce. Then a handful of years later, the Ethiopian Army took over and reversed it all. . . .

Bob shared this with me earlier. . .GREAT stuff. I just ordered a copy from JR--good price.

Sure, all I'm saying is the concept is already tried and tested with them, and I agree your suggested course would be a good one. I'd like to see them do another blues set or two.

I've had several versions of the individual cds and the sound on the Mosaic is better, but the individual cds (especially the Blue Moon versions) are pretty darned nice sounding. Yes, there's a few more takes in the Mosaic set. But you could live with the individual cds and not look back, honest.

I found this online here http://everything2.com/e2node/You%2520may%...%2520me%2520Ray "You may call me RJ..." came from a brief late-70s craze, a character named Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. in actor/comedian Bill Saluga's repertoire. An example, from a US variety show sketch: Johnson, dressed like some time-warped 40s hipster gone slightly to seed, and talking in a voice not unlike that of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer is introduced to someone at a party. The person calls him "Johnson", and off we go... Aw, ya doesn't have to call me "Johnson"... You can call me "RJ", you can call me "Ray", you can call me "Ray J"... One of those "you had to be there" sort of things. As Saluga was introduced to each person at the party, the whole thing repeated itself. The show itself was short-lived (I'm thinking it may have been Redd Foxx's), but RJ lived on, with a disco album, and television commercials like an early one for Anheuser-Busch's Natural Light beer. Before RJ-mania, Johnson was a character on David Steinberg's program in Canada (also short-lived); the cast included various Toronto Second City people, many of whom would go on to worldwide fame as part of SCTV. Johnson! The name's Raymond J. Johnson, Jr., but ya doesn't have to call me "Johnson" - you can call me "Johnny", you can call me "Ray", you can call me "Junior"... <b>I remember that bit well because I used to say to myself "You don't have to call me Lonson."</b>

Well, that's a good suggestion Peter, should give it a shot.

Pretty amazing Chris, I know what you mean, I never thought I'd find this year book (and the one for the next year). Those two years at that school were an amazing experience. I think I went from there to three even more exciting years at Waterford-Kamhlaba School in M'Babane, Swaziland. What an eduction in every sense of the word! http://www.waterford.sz/ Here's little Lon in Addis in 1968: And no I was not rolling a spliff.

A set of obscurities from a given label that otherwise would not see the light of day. . . . Wasn't that the concept behind the Capitol, and Columbia Swing box sets? So yes, hope they keep it up. And there's still mileage for Mosaic in my opinion in the pre-bop years of jazz.

This has been discussed on the Sun Ra Corner thread since last year! These are cdrs. There are a whole series of releases from the label Transparency that are sold via email or on ebay, this is about their sixth such release, all the previous being single or double cds, and this was followed by a nine cdr set. The sound isn't as great as you would expect. But the music is great if you're a late '70s Ra fan.

Hackett, disc 2

How bout this for a sig?

It is a really nice set. Glad you are enjoying it! (Especially since I sort of clued you in to it, and if you hadn't I would have steered you wrong!)

Coltrane, Impulse Vol. 2

THAT'S ONE HELLUVA DEAL ON HELLUVA SETS!

Did anyone say "get this disc purely for Mezz's playing?" I like it. I'll have to spin it again soon. Sure it's not as essential as the King Jazz sides (which are not essential for Mezz but sure are for some killin' Bechet and Ladnier!). But it's interesting.

Well, now I've seen, heard and READ everything!

I spun that this morning too before going to work. The second box of "albums" on Impulse is out today.

Welcome! Stay!

This is an excellent series of releases: http://www.yazoorecords.com/comps.htm

Congrats! I know you'll tell us all about it!

If you like Mezz you might like the Mezz. I do.

That Savoy date is very nice. . . .It's too bad there aren't many more Urso sessions available, now there won't be. An interesting player. Rest in Peace Mr. Urso.

I downloaded the very neat Budd Johnson "JPJ Quartet," and the "King Oliver Heritage Band" which is a lot of fun!