Cliff Englewood

I must say I am always a bit suspect about people who come on here and post mainly in the politics form, there must be loads of purely political fourms on the WWW, why go to a Jazz board to do so, Bixieland never really posted in the music threads and when did it was usually asking fairly ill informed questions.IMHO.

What's the vintage of your L5N/CC??? And what are those CC pickups really like??? My L5 is a '66, which was special-ordered with the CC. CC's are somewhat tricky animals to control, but to me, even if you have to sacrifice some aspect of the sound to control noise, they're still magical. I recommend this article: http://www.kokomomusic.com/pages/corner.html also interesting: What makes a Charlie Christian pickup a Charlie Christian pickup? Thank you for posting that link. I've literally been scraping together bits and pieces of technical information about CC's for years, and this will add nicely to what I already had. By the time I get it all figured out, I'll probably be playing another instrument... like a harp. Nice one, I'd love to have a Gibson with a CC pickup, I think the desire for one came from this photo below, I think it's an ES-300 with a CC added. If it was good enough for T Bone, it's good enough for me, although I doubt I'll ever own one like his. :(

I'm not sure it's possible to get much cheesier than this. The fact Gibson would be a party to this charade does not speak well of them. Hendrix must be spinning in his grave. Up over and out. I think Gibson kinda went the cheesey route a while ago when they basically give anyone that was ever near a Gibson their own signature model, although this is a new low.

That is maybe the most fucked in the head thing I have heard... today.

The Decca session with Perk, Montrose, et al is included in that Jazz-Lab 1 & 2 release minus the PC-PJJ duo track! Cool, thanks for that. I remember being a bit disappointed with that one but I haven't listened to it in ages, I'll have to re-investigate it.

IIRC the aforementioned Bill Perkins is on some sessions with Grass, maybe with Mr PC and Philly Joe??? I think I had it, might still do. :unsure:

Can we get a solid confirmation of this? Yes, this does not seem possible. The smaller booklet is 68 pages and contains the following; 1. Song Index 2. Ladies Day by Gary Giddens 3. Literary Lady by Farah Jasmine Griffin 4. Discography 5. Production Credits Did the first big one have a track by track analysis as well? Yes, by Michael Brooks, if I remember correctly. Yes, they were by Brooks, and were the same liner notes that accompanied the individual "Quintessential Billie Holiday" volumes that Columbia put out in the late 1980s/early 1990s. So they were not new ones commissioned for the big box???

What's the vintage of your L5N/CC??? And what are those CC pickups really like???

I'd say anything with Bill Perkins is worth checking out. He's one of my favorites.

Great, things just can't get any worse for Liverpool, or can they??? Gillett points finger at Rafa.

Hmm... I think most of your corrections make sense, but it was Freddie King that was a major influence on Clapton (not necessarily to the exclusion of Albert, but Clapton has made it very clear that Freddie was a huge influence on him). Anyway, this whole thing sounded like a string of incorrect assumptions, so I just did a little online searching. It appears that it was Harrison, not Clapton, who dubbed the guitar "Lucy". The Gibson website suggests that Harrison named it after Lucille Ball... the iconic redhead... (?!). At this point, I'm prepared to NOT believe anything I read about this story. The guitar in question was originally a goldtop owned by Rick Derringer, who had it refinished in red. Clapton got it from Derringer, and then gave it to George. Excellent bit of guitar based sleuthing there, likewise, I never remember reading about Albert Collins calling his axe anything at all, a bit strange Macdonald would make such a big goof there. BTW, I wish someone would give me a vintage Les Paul. A further BTW, Macdonald doesn't mention the whole bit about the guitar in the earlier versions of the book, it's only in the third edition. Strange that he would add something like that in and then get his Alberts mixed up.

It might be but the Doggett book is specifically about the break up of the Beatles and all the sundry suing and counter suing that went on afterward. It really does show them in a not too flatering light. As I mentioned above the only one of them that seems to be genuine is Ringo, the other 3 seem like a right bunch of wankers. I'm sure people will nit pick about certin facts and the chronology of his story does jump around a bit but I am finding it un-put-downable. I should finish it tonight.

Great news on "Shout!", I look forward to it when I get around to it but the Doggett book is just so bitch-tastic, so far, the only one of them that is coming out of it with any sense of decency is Ringo, or Richard Starkey as he now prefers to be called. It's not for the faint hearted, and if even half of it is halt true....

Another Beatles book to get upset about, I'm 4 chapters in and it's fucking brilliant, very, very juicy indeed. And for absolutely no reason what so ever...

I really hope he does know something that we don't, I really do. :unsure: Villa are currently 1 up against City, scored by the Honey Monster Dunne.

Hmm... I think most of your corrections make sense, but it was Freddie King that was a major influence on Clapton (not necessarily to the exclusion of Albert, but Clapton has made it very clear that Freddie was a huge influence on him). Anyway, this whole thing sounded like a string of incorrect assumptions, so I just did a little online searching. It appears that it was Harrison, not Clapton, who dubbed the guitar "Lucy". The Gibson website suggests that Harrison named it after Lucille Ball... the iconic redhead... (?!). At this point, I'm prepared to NOT believe anything I read about this story. The guitar in question was originally a goldtop owned by Rick Derringer, who had it refinished in red. Clapton got it from Derringer, and then gave it to George. Excellent bit of guitar based sleuthing there, likewise, I never remember reading about Albert Collins calling his axe anything at all, a bit strange Macdonald would make such a big goof there. BTW, I wish someone would give me a vintage Les Paul.

I agree with your first point, Macdonald does not like the fact that somewhere in the 60's, "Pop" turned into "Rock" and to an extent he has a point, that "Rock", although some of it is excellent, did produce some real shite full of really lazy, excessive noodeling. However after listening to "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" a few times I am starting to come around to the idea that it's George. It's just there are a couple of words that really don't sound like Paul's voice, even Paul doing a bad impression of someone. I'm nearly sure anyway.

Tamir Cohen is an Israely guy and he really made a very big step forward since he joined Bolton. His father, Avi Cohen, played for Liverpool from 79 to 81. Yes it was pretty much as you say, I think Chelski just about deserved the win, I just couldn't see Liverpool scoring at any point during that game, no one was supporting Torres, Riera did very little and I would rather have seen Yossi come on earlier to be honest. 3 losses in the league already this season, I'm not happy with that. Benitez needs some new ideas and quick. :angry: The main problem with Liverpool is that they are not a stable team. It was not the same team who scored 6 times only a week ago. But Arsenal was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G this afternoon!!! I think Bolton's manager Gary Megson said Tamir Cohen only cost him something like £37,500, or something like that, it was mentioned in the commentary, good value if it's true. I don't know why Yossi keeps getting dropped, if Kuyt/Lucas/Carragher can play every game then why not Yossi, he always looks a bit more dangerous on the ball then others in the team, home or away. Benitez says they're still in the title race, I'm not so sure myself, I think we will all know more after the African Cup Of Nations, that's going to hit Chelski hard.

Does this help your appreciation any? I don't know why but I have grown to love that song over the years, I don't know many people that like it though, even the other Beatles hated it. It might have something to do with "Abbey Road" becoming a firm favorite of these re-masters. It's just sooooooooo Beatle-y. I know you're joking but that will actually happen. I really am looking forward to the mono versions of the earlier albums. I've been listening to a lot of Beatles lately, and I think they reached their highpoint with Revolver, and after that, I see a decline in the songwriting, with the production overwhelming the music at times. I know that goes counter to what the vast majority of Beatles fans feel, but there is something so attractive to the Beatles up to Revolver, that it fully holds my attention. For me, something gets lost after Revolver, and what that "something" is, I cannot put my finger on, but their music looses some of its attraction for me. Well you're not really alone there, in the Macdonald book he puts their career into three stages, "Going Up" which is everything up to "Revolver", "The Top" which is basically all the recordings from "Revolver" up to the end of "Pepper" and "Coming Down" which is everything post "Pepper". The problem that you cannot put your finger on just may have been too much drugs, by them not you. :tophat:

Yes it was pretty much as you say, I think Chelski just about deserved the win, I just couldn't see Liverpool scoring at any point during that game, no one was supporting Torres, Riera did very little and I would rather have seen Yossi come on earlier to be honest. 3 losses in the league already this season, I'm not happy with that. Benitez needs some new ideas and quick. :angry:

Lucky, lucky Man U, they were just sooooooooooo lucky.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Hall un-plugged for most of the album? It certainly sounds that way. :unsure:

If you can only get one, get "The Western Suite", it's maybe the best of all the Giuffre "3" albums with Hall, but there's not much to choose between any of them, they're all excellent. It took a bit of time for this music to sink in, with me any way, but when it did you find yourself wondering why more of a big deal isn't made about it. The versions of "Blue Monk" and "Topsy" are so enjoyable, especially "Blue Monk", I love what Hall does on this in particular, it sounds like nothing special but it's just so perfect.

Yes, especially that little bit of comping he does in the interlude between Desmond's and his own solo on "Bossa Antigua." I love moments like that! Desmond and Hall were great together! I haven't read the whole thread but just on the whole Jim Hall comping thing, count me in as one who loves it, if you want to hear it at what is, in my opinion anyway, it's best, check out his work with Giuffre, especially "The Western Suite". I don't know if it's the extra responsibility of being the only "traditional" rhythm instrument in the group but he really puts in a shift, with unpaid overtime, on "The Western Suite". :tup

Does this help your appreciation any? I don't know why but I have grown to love that song over the years, I don't know many people that like it though, even the other Beatles hated it. It might have something to do with "Abbey Road" becoming a firm favorite of these re-masters. It's just sooooooooo Beatle-y. I know you're joking but that will actually happen. :cool: