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Oh, I wasn't aware he had a book on this. Will have to check it out, since I like glam-rock a lot.

My mother, who's German (she was just a kid then) remembers the nightly flyovers of the bombers on their way to Berlin and the big cities. But what I'm reading now and what I wanted to post is this: Greil Marcus - Lipstick traces: A secret History of the Twentieth Century I missed this the first time around (it's from 1989) but have this 20th anniversary edition, which is from 2009, so it's more like a 30th anniversary edition. It starts with British punk and then goes all along pop culture. I remember I read in another book (Please kill me) that McLaren had been in NY managing the New York Dolls, and that is where he got the idea of the nascent American punk, which he later took to the UK when he founded the Pistols. Of course who claims that idea is a New Yorker, but I find it totally plausible since in the early 70s NY already had its share of protopunk. But it must be said it wasn't mixed with situationist and May 68 Parisian philosophy as British punk became thanks to Malcolm McLaren, a man who openly said he wanted to make a quick buck through scandal.

That's the same I think. Or maybe it's because I don't like metal. But I always found the overblown credit he got very exaggerated.

That looks really interesting. Maybe I want it. Specially since I owned the album as vinyl and am now unsuccessfully looking for it as mp3. My hunch is it's too old to appear anywhere. But it was the cusp of Prince's creation in the 80s. I think he never did anything better.

I had this on vinyl as one of my first jazz albums when I was shy of 30. But this is UCCU-9093. And with Jim Hall too, my favorite guitarist. Now, not then.

That is a very, very fine Select.

I've got that. Got it back in the day, nearly 20 years ago from Dustygroove.

I have another great book by Reynolds called Retromania: pop culture's addiction to its own past.

I listen to this one a lot, though I have it as mp3. The Talking Heads were and are one of my favorite bands and their Remain in light is, I think, their peak album. From 1980.

My brother's girlfriend's favorite band is The Cult.

I'm enjoying this marvelous album, in which there's also his brother, Claude at piano, plus Max Bennet or Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey or Mel Lewis. And as I love west coast jazz, this is heaven. And Charlie Mariano, whom I forgot the first time around.

An album I keep returning to often lately. But I have it with the back cover of the booklet, which is Andy Warhol's cover of Vol.2, as the cover. So with this one: That one is really nice. I have it as a Japanese miniLP from Bethlehem, I think.

When I like him most is solo, but he's also good with his orchestra, which at the session I'm now includes Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster and Cozy Cole.

I had that as an LP and now as a mini LP. But I remember a different cover framed in white.

That definitely looks like something I must check out.

Today I received a set of 4 reissues from Japanese Savoy which collects I think (I still haven't heard them) this material. They're these: I wanted this, but didn't find it:

It's TOCJ 50032. One of those 1000 yen releases. From 2006.

This is marvelous Jim Hall Trio, with Carl Perkins and Red Mitchell. Maybe my favorite Jim Hall. And the cover's great too, though I'm sure Hall is inset.

That's nice to hear.

A Mosaic I like very much. I have part of this as a Japanese reissue in 1999, I think. But I'd love to have the whole box.

A superb piano trio, with Tete Montoliu. That's a really good one

I have that one (as a CD) in that black Vogue edition.

Continuing with Bill Evans. Here he overdubs himself not once... but twice!

Thanks. I think I'll have to check it out.