BFrank

Yes.........to everything you said.

A bunch of Timeless albums arrived today, including George Coleman, Bill Evans, Mick Nock (W/M. Brecker), Rick Laird (w/Joe Henderson), Tete Montuliu, Chet Baker and others.

FWIW, I've been keeping an eye on Amazon MP3 downloads and they frequently have at least a couple of albums available for $1.99. That price only lasts for a day or two so you have to be fast. The other day I DL'd Jackie McLean's "Fickle Sonance" for that price. Right now you can get "Live At The Regal" by B.B. King.

LPs or CDs?

I'm sure they're worried. BTW.........anyone interested in an MP3 download of "A Fickle Sonance" - it's on sale today for $1.99 at Amazon.

Does it seem like BMG is getting desperate lately? I've been bombarded with "deals" on a weekly basis for the past month or two. With sales of CDs dropping precipitously, they must be starting to wonder where their future business is coming from.

Yes.......worth getting. It's basically an expanded version of "Cry of Love" and "Rainbow Bridge". Supposedly, it's the next album he intended to release. If you like those albums, you'll like this. For Band of Gypsys fans, I would also highly recommend (I think Lon would, too) the Dagger release "The Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions". These are very loose and fun jams that the band did in advance of the New Year's shows. Pretty decent quality recordings, too. If you're familiar with "Loose Ends", some of that album was taken from these sessions.

Glad you rode it out OK, Agg!

No hitter is crazy enough, but the fact that they were the "visiting" team against the "home" team Astros in Milwaukee in a stadium filled with Cubs fans is just SURREAL.

The Boss, in particular, seems like a handy little device that has LOTS of features.

Anybody have any experience with (relatively) inexpensive recording equipment? I would just like to have something to record ideas and possibly a little multi-tracking. A couple that I have been looking at online are: Boss BR-600 Tascam GT-R1

I'll take one, too! Anyone got a spare $1,800 for me??

Isn't it 'Invaders From Mars,' the B&W film with the spaceship drilling into the land behind the house and everyone keeps falling into the hole and having an operation to implant a device to control them?. That's the one! I saw that many times over on TV as a kid, when they had Chiller Theater and my local station would play the same movie about 3/4 times in a row. That was another movie that scared the crap out of me as a kid. There was the creepy-looking head in the glass bowl also. Yeah, that one scared me, too. Very creapy, somehow.

How come most of the movies named here are cheap sci-fi flicks?

I like Joe Beck on those albums. Apparently they're sampled quite frequently, too.

I remember really liking this as a kid. It doesn't hold up as well as I would have liked, but it IS a John Huston film.

Enjoy!

HELLyeah!

No "Follow Your Heart" from the Joe Farrell Quartet album? (which also should be on CD)

That's a feature that has been showing up in a lot of sites these days, so you should probably get used to it. You can still type in whatever you want and ignore the suggestions. BTW, anybody download "Chrome" today?

Been listening to "The Adams Effect" lately. Smokin' album - especially considering it was his last and he had only 14 months left.

Wow. Excellent. Looking forward to THAT! "John the Gun", "Late November", awesome ...

I was (and still am) a big WH fan. He was one of the first guys I checked out, and I played in a group in high school that played a bunch of Crusaders tunes. Wayne was a big time disciple of JJ (as most trombonists are) and had that big, fat sound that drew me in. I still listen to the Crusaders now and then. WH is a soulful MF! I bet Wayne has a closet!

Interesting article about Rickenbacker.

Anyone mention Wayne Henderson? He had some chops back in the day ...