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Randy Macho Man Savage Doc Savage Brut

The excellent Cien Fuegos reissue of BALLS (FMP):

Crisco Quentin Crisp Rice Crispies

Brotzmann, Vandermark, Heberer, Pliakas, Rothbrust, Wertmiuller. Damn!!

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Light in August Lie Down in Darkness Darkness At Noon

Venus Aphrodite Venus in Furs Sacher Masoch

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Culture Vulture Kulturkampf Mein Kampf

Lerner & Loewe Slow Learner Slow Boat to China

Raytheon Monty Python Pythagoras

I had this wine with some Italian food recently and it really impressed me: La Carraia; a Sangiovese from Umbria:

Stingaree Stinger (missile) Sting Ray (Vette)

Happy Birthday GA!! I wish you many more GUESS WHO posts!

That does seem too long, although shipping back and forth to the UK might have taken up a couple of weeks in itself. (I assume NAD repair i in England?) You should ask North Country when they sent it. It's one reason I buy locally. For my last CD player repair, the dealer loaned me a comparable CD player until mine was ready. You might ask North Country if they have a demo model they can loan you while the repair is being done.

You forestalled me Jim! Nam! Apocalypse Now! Ho Chi Minh

My Name is Earl My Name is Legion His Name is Alive

OK, not solo bone, but one of the more interesting trombonists is Roswell Rudd, and you might want to add "AIRWALKER" to the list. It's a duo with bassist Mark Dresser. Rudd has a lot of excellent small group recordings but I don't want to get too far from the premise of the thread.

One of the things I envy Chicagoans (I lived there for 14 yeas BTW), is the Umbrella Festival. There have been some darn good line-ups. Butcher did 3 great nights at the High Zero Festival in Baltimore last month.

Sanford & Sons My Three Sons Third Rock from the Sun

Everyone from Aristotle to Horace to Edmund Burke to Tolstoy to Adorno has had their say on "What is Art?" and "Who Is an Artist?. So I recognize there is quite a lot to say about the subject, and it would be hopeless to cover the subject here in any meaningful way. I am basically just voicing objections to what I consider slack or easy ways to talk about art. For example, I don't think just because something or someone is "warm-hearted" that that makes it art, admirable as that might be as a social sentiment. Ditto concern for the audience, uplift, social good, patriotism, etc. Art may be none of things and still be great art. I suppose I'm a Modernist by inclination, and say that art is for itself. As for the artist, that label is slapped on a lot of folks, but time sifts the pretenders out and eventually we see who matters more clearly. I'm not arguing for the great man (or great woman) theory of art as Bev suggests, which posits that great men (it's a sexist perspective usually) move history in certain ways. I posited the idea of the great artist as an aesthetic construct rather than an historical vehicle. Again, I take a Modernist view that importance is not in social effect, but in the art itself. This is actually an old-fashioned position now, as post-modernism seeks to erase the concept of the single, creating artist. That just does not accord with my understanding and apprehension of art: music, literature, painting. Artists can be influenced by a 1000 things, as we all are, but we all have not written "Ulysses," or painted "Number 8, 1949," or composed "Le Sacre du Printemps."