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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4710820652&rd=1 DON PULLEN-Mosaic Select 3 CD RARE numbered sealed NOTE:Due to bad experiences with some buyers I refuse to sell to anybody with less than 5 positive feedbacks or non register users, only bid if you are 100% sure that want the item, ... Perhaps if this seller was a little more honest he/she would have fewer "bad experiences".

Big John - disk #3

The new Rolling Stone is probably worth picking up. It's a tribute issue.

That's the cover of "Dry", isn't it?

I picked that album up from eMusic a while back. I liked it at first, but it didn't wear on me well. Maybe I should give it another listen.

That's precisely the reason that I always hesitate to bash Rap music. I don't listen to it, but if I made a the effort to hear all the different styles, I'm sure there would be some stuff that I like.

Damn!!! I didn't know he was on that!! I was watching the beginning of it, but it seemed to messy for me, too many similar sounding guitars all playing at once(why was Eric's multi colored??), and once Jimmie Vaughan started singing I couldn't bear it any more, so I shut it off (I've never been able to like anything I've heard by either Vaughan brother). If I had known Santana was there I would have waited it out. FWIW, they did "Jingo". I missed most of the show myself and had the sound off for much of the rest of it. I did hear Joe Walsh (w/Booker T & the MGs!) doing "Funk 49", which wasn't 1/2 bad. Just about the only thing by Walsh that I could say that I like.

I don't know how well Carlos can do "jazz", anyway. No matter where he plays, it always ends up sounding like "Santana" music. He's just so intense, I think it's hard for him to blend into another style. I just saw him last night on the PBS special Eric Clapton "Crossroads" guitar festival. He had his own band and Eric sat in with them. It was no contest, really. Carlos is a fiery, agressive guitar player and Eric was just too laid-back and bluesy to keep up (although he gave it a valiant effort).

Lee Morgan BN 50's Sessions - disk #2

I like "Borboletta" a lot, too. I don't know why they haven't done a remaster on this one yet, since they've it for "Welcome" and "Caravanserai".

Except for the direct-to-disk album, all my EWs are reissues on Inner City. Still sound good, though. BTW, is "East World" the same company? I have another direct-to-disk by Clifford Jordan on that label. It's called "Hello, Hank Jones" and includes Hank, Reggie Workman and Freddie Waits.

"Caravanserai" is much more laid back than those 2 albums. I haven't listened to Lotus & Moonflower back-to-back, but I still think they are more alike than they are different. Expecially compared to much of Santana's other work after those releases. He became much more commersh. "Incident at Neshabur" is a highlight, for sure. He even throws in some "Afro Blue", if I remember correctly.

Lotus isn't all that different from Moonflower. More instrumentals and just a couple of vocals from Leon Thomas. You'll should like it.

Another album they just added is Pharoah Sanders' "Journey to the One". A superb set!

Anyone listen to Secret Machines? A friend just turned me on to them recently. An interesting blend of prog & alt. "Now Here Is Nowhere"

They do have those "Booster Packs" (discussed above), if you just want to download some additional tunes this month.

A couple of Jessica Williams albums, too.

I'm not sure why they suck, but here they are: Booster Pack 10 - 10 Song Downloads $4.99 Booster Pack 25 - 25 Song Downloads $9.99 Booster Pack 50 - 50 Song Downloads $14.99 Basically, if you use up your monthly "allowance", and you still want to download more music, you can purchase a Booster Pack.

A general rule of thumb on final selling prices on ebay is double the original price (there ARE exceptions, of course - Larry Young, Andrew Hill, etc). Just make sure that you don't put that as your starting price. It will probably NOT sell if it's listed that way.

Thursday's ...

I've got 3 EW/Inner City Great Jazz Trio albums: "At the Village Vanguard" "Milestones" "New Wine in Old Bottles" w/Jackie McLean Also one of those direct-to-disks: "Love for Sale" w/Buster Williams (the others have Ron Carter) They're ALL excellent, BTW.

Yes. Very odd. I checked all over myself. Definitely not there.

washingtonpost.com Hunter Thompson Death Blows Uncle Duke's Mind In Cartoon Tribute By Bob Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 9, 2005; Page C01 So here's the setup: The legendary gonzo journalist kills himself, with a handgun bullet through the head, while seated in his Colorado kitchen on a February afternoon. A couple of weeks later, KA-BOOM! The comic-strip character based on the legendary gonzo journalist has his head blown up in the second frame of the strip. Not funny, you might think. The kind of outrageous violation of community standards that gets cartoonists' work suppressed by editors. The kind that, if the strip does run, is guaranteed to generate outraged complaints. Except . . . This is Hunter S. Thompson we're talking about, a man immortalized both by the "Fear and Loathing" persona he created for himself and by the one cartoonist Garry Trudeau hung on him as Uncle Duke in "Doonesbury." The former was a loose howitzer who positively gloried in outraging community standards. The latter is a paranoid substance abuser currently helping the Bush administration govern Iraq. Let's face it: Neither one of these characters stood much chance of surprising us anymore. After the literally explosive "Doonesbury" strip ran yesterday, neither the cartoonist, his syndicator nor the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors -- a newspaper group that keeps an eye on such potential controversies -- reported any blowback. There were no complaints, said Universal Press Syndicate editor Lee Salem. "We've had nothing move over our listserv about it," said Penny Bender Fuchs, the AASFE's executive director. Fuchs, as it happened, hadn't seen Trudeau's strip yet. Told about it, she expressed serious concern. "He didn't kill Duke, did he?" she asked. No, Trudeau said, he had no plans to have art imitate life that way. Reached by phone in his New York studio, he said that he had done a week's worth of strips as a tribute to Thompson and that he hoped Tuesday's would not be misinterpreted. The series began Monday with a strip in which Duke and his faithful would-be spouse equivalent, Honey, suddenly appear as if drawn by Ralph Steadman, illustrator of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and numerous other Thompson works. It continued with yesterday's strip, which Trudeau described as "basically mind-blowing" for Duke. In it, he reads of Thompson's death, his head is obliterated by a sudden explosion, and then he reappears, thinking: "That can't be right. Better Google it." At which point there's another "KA-BOOM!" The Thompson strips will continue through Saturday, but Trudeau was reluctant to discuss their story line. "I hate to talk about it until people have seen it," he said. Later, in an e-mail, he pointed out a reason that his readers may not have found Tuesday's strip unusual. "I've been exploding Duke's head as far back as 1985," he wrote. "I also had a rocket burst out of his head, a flock of bats, and during Duke's run for president, Mini-D, a tiny self that conducted Duke's business, even gave speeches when the candidate was incapacitated." After he'd established his original Thompson parody, Trudeau noted, he soon moved his story line away from the writer's real life. This was in part because sticking to Thompson's personal narrative "would have been very limiting." But it was also because Thompson himself "seemed so aggrieved by the character." As well he might have. For Trudeau's Duke, in the end, is a character far more sinister than the self-created, self-destructive gonzo artist who shot himself last month. Duke has a "predatory nature," the cartoonist explained. Once parachuted into a hot spot like Haiti, Kuwait, Panama or Iraq, his "relentless opportunism" will always take over. He stands for "a certain kind of mad unconditionality. Duke is never ambivalent, never in personal conflict. His take is resolutely binary: Is this in my self-interest or not? It's a kind of weird state of grace." Hunter Thompson he's not, then -- though the writer might have seen something of himself in that last phrase.

Great Jazz Trio

Well.........good luck!