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I'm listening to Lemzo Diamono's album "Marimbalax" for the first time. It's interesting. If I were to describe the music to someone else, it sounds like: 1) It was recorded at 33 1/3 but played back at 45 2) A beat drops out every so often like a skip on a record 3) The record is playing backwards. All at the same time.

Thanks. Yes, Comcast does supply our phone service.

I'm wondering whether the problem stems from the Comcast cable system, perhaps from somewhere in the neighborhood.

There's something in my house (or maybe emanating from a neighbor's house) that occasionally causes wi-fi interference. I recently replaced our phone system, thinking our old system was dying, but we hear the same interference on the new phone system. It's intermittent, but it causes problems with internet receptivity too. I bought a wi-fi extender, and that helped a little, but it still occasionally pops up. It is caused by nothing in the house that I can tell: it's not connected to any microwave oven use, air conditioning/air handler cycling, or any other appliance. I half wonder whether a neighbor is using something powerful or off-use. Is there some kind of detector available that could help me find the source of the interference?

Still, we must recall that the Avids are boots. Not licensed, artists and labels aren't getting paid, not sourced from session tapes. We can get each of the Forrests from Prestige. Just putting things into perspective.

And if each disc is wonderful, who cares how long it takes to get through a box? Just savor each performance.

Which of the Delmarks is good?

I'll always have a fondness for Mr. Baker for "Pressed Rat And Warthog" - a lovely piece of nonsense from my childhood.

What's AMA?

TOKYO—Thirty five years after its debut, Sony Corp.'s Walkman is enjoying a little comeback. But while the original cassette player of 1979 heralded the age of mass-market, portable music, the new $700 Walkman is aimed at premium buyers, as technological advances help more audio-on-the go users head upscale. The ZX1, as Sony's gadget is called, is in many ways the antithesis of Apple Inc.'s slender iPod, and the Walkman's own svelte predecessors. It has a heavy, bulky body that houses 128 gigabytes of storage for ultra-high-quality music files. Sony says each ZX1 is manually carved from a block of expensive aluminum, which helps reduce noise. "The message for our designers and engineers was: please create a good product without worrying about the cost," said Kenji Nakada, Sony's sound product planner. More here: WSJ (or Google the article's title "Sony's Walkman Makes Comeback")

Tardo, welcome to the board.

I just got a notice from dead.net that the next Dave's Picks (vol. 11) will be Century II Convention Hall, Wichita, KS 11/17/72.

Just got back from the Beat Club movie. It was a lot of fun. They used what looked like the original video feed, not the final TV show, so you saw between-song patter, false starts, and Playing In The Band was even redone (so we saw it twice). It was really valuable for the in-depth view we got of the band working: how Garcia directed the band at key moments, how Billy Kreutzmann might be the hardest working man in show business, the almost telepathic communication between band members. Pigpen looked good; the sound was great.

RIP.

This?

Interesting article about this in WSJ: Modernizing Morton.

Release date September 9: Spring 1990 (The Other One) Box

Complete Alberta Hunter on Columbia. Perhaps better suited for a Select. Still, Sony put out a video of Live At The Smithsonian; perhaps that could be included.

Release date July 29:

Wow! So Nils Winther has had the tape all along.

When the first album came out, Sire ran a full-page ad in Rolling Stone quoting from reviews the album got. Most were positive, but one from a French paper was "Merde...je detest ce disque." The first album was classic; later ones were echoes of the first. I saw them at Brooklyn College around 1979, and was convinced that the "one-two-three-four" countdown before each song was independent of the beat the song actually started at. RIP.

Spotlight Kid/Decals era rehearsal tape. Beefheart at Ungano's, 1/26/71. My first Beefheart show; I was 15.

Today, online concert footage archive Music Vault is releasing 17,318 videos on itsYouTube, give or take a few. "There are probably a couple that will fall out because we still need to go through and scrub for quality," says Bill Sagan (no relation to Carl), CEO of Wolfgang's Vault, the music and memorabilia archive that includes Music Vault along with Concert Vault, Pastemagazine.com, andDaytrotter.com. Full article here: billboard.com For example, Miles Davis at Tanglewood 8/18/70: http://youtu.be/-vT1mMg8L_0?list=PLhnmhDNF1JJgwcvV9zOXTa3WpCSRrvge5

RIP.

It was a calculus reference. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative