Neal Pomea

Ferris Fain (he was fairest but was oh so vain) Juio Gotay (Polio Bowtie?) Zoilo Versalles Amos Otis (like a Jerry Reed song down in the swamp) Horace Clarke

I would try to find the Victor recordings of 1929-1930 of Henry Allen and His New York Orchestra. Biff'ly Blues, Everybody Shout, It Should be You, Roamin', Sugar Hill Function, Swing Out are classic songs. http://www.redhotjazz.com/hallennyo.html

Major Swindler (Though he didn't make it all the way through the Texas Rangers farm system, my brother in law played college ball with this guy. (All conference, too!). He is now an educator. Guess he couldn't make it in business or politics with a name like that.)

Interesting theory, but I wonder how it takes into account the fact that people can appreciate some forms of instrumental music but not others. Jazz but not square dance. Opera but not mariachi (for the person who doesn't understand Italian or Spanish), etc. Shoot, in my own case, Cajun but not particularly Zydeco, though I understand the lyrics in both and they are thought of as related genres. And country music fans who don't like bluegrass....

I loved his bit about how people can get crazy in restaurants, barking out orders as though we are Roman emperors. "WINE! Bring me wine!" Or, upon seeing a lobster in the tank, "I'll have the little one. He amUUUUUUses me." We've been using that joke at my house for years. In a nice way...

Master Pimp Pa Schmoove with his dime:

Shout out for Ice Master King Slick!

Nice letter, Lazaro! On another note, if a musician's work is performing music, I would like to know why a recording is considered a performance. It is not. It is just a record of one performance, maybe several performances spliced together. It's no more of a performance than me audiotaping myself at work, then playing it back and claiming that it is me performing my job. I can't mail in my tape to my boss and say "See, I am performing my job." I need to perform my job over and over again. The musician needs to, also, in my view. Why the special meaning of "performance" for musicians, actors, etc. ? I think that if the public looked at it this way, they would wonder about this stretch of the language and the success of the music lobbies' special pleading. As much as we want to support artists, this stretch of the language that makes copyright the means of economic support is just too much, tending toward absurdity. IMHO. True, you wouldn't pay a thing to hear a tape of me performing my job, in contrast with a musician's performance. I just mean that this should be covered by contract law instead of playing around with the language to make it a thing covered by copyright law. The Supremes went down a slippery slope a long time ago when they called playing back a recording a performance.

It's easier to copy an FM transmission on cassette and listen to it later. I don't know how to copy a stream. If I did, what is the difference between the two kinds of copying?

Nobody pays attention to mass media anymore. It's too popular.

I would get it into the hands of an organization like the Red Hot Jazz archive who can digitize it, stream it, and share it, within the bounds of copyright law. If not Red Hot Jazz, then some other organization. If he had any Cajun material, I may be interested. PM please.

Belated birthday wishes to you!

Booker, Eric, Richard, Ed, and Mal (at the Five Spot) Thanks to the person posting on Lester and Billie! Also, Hall and Evans.

Django and Stephane

Fats and Tadd

Sometimes the technology can be so puzzling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU

For me it means something like "WTF". World Taekwondo Federation? Well, if that's what the young people are saying these days....I guess I have to go along

What does that emoticon, , signify? I have used it not knowing it meant anything special.

Keep movin', movin', movin', Though they're disapprovin', Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide! Don't try to understand 'em, Just rope and throw and brand 'em, Soon we'll be living high and wide. My heart's calculatin' My true love will be waitin', be waiting at the end of my ride. Move 'em on, head 'em up, Head 'em up, move 'em out, Move 'em on, head 'em out Rawhide! Set 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, let 'em out, Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide. Rollin', rollin', rollin' Though the streams are swollen Keep them dogies rollin' Rawhide! Through rain, wind and weather Hell-bent for leather Wishin' my gal was by my side. All the things I'm missin', Good vittles, love, and kissin', Are waiting at the end of my ride CHORUS Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on Move 'em on, head 'em up Rawhide Count 'em out, ride 'em in, Ride 'em in, count 'em out, Count 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide!

Well, I succeeded with my first project! I may not have done it the easiest way, but at least it worked! Select a track. Determine the start and end times of the segment to be broken out. To do that, click the play icon and note the clock toward the bottom of the graph. Next click the Set icon. Enter the start and finish times. Click Ok. Go to File at the upper left and click Save Selection As. This saves it as a wav file. Once saved, click the title, right click and select Convert Audio Format. Save as an mp3 in the desired folder. I will have to play around with equalizing the sound. I followed suggestions to save at 90% capacity but it didn't really change anything in this instance. I guess that means the sound was already optimized?

Originally on Takoma, reissued on Lost Lake. Same album. Don't see it on the Concord site. They acquired Takoma along with Fantasy.

I would like to find these. I have Oceans (on Lost Lake or Windham Hill). He and Baden Powell influenced John Fahey's bossa nova phase in the early 1980s.

That's very helpful, Dan! I think I am at the lather, rinse, and repeat stage! I gather that I need to put all my markers for start and end first, and go from there? Do you just hear it in real time and do that at the breakpoints, or zoom ahead in the main window by moving the vertical lines right and left? Also, I am only seeing the Main and Control windows, but not the Sound window. Do I even need to see that at this stage, or is that something to see after editing, to judge the levels I should use? I understand your points about normalization. I will play around with that. I suspect that there will be a lot of floor noise as they were live recordings from a reel to reel.

Thanks, Dan. Turns out I was looking at Multisequence instead of GoldWave. I just now got Goldwave and saved a music file of mp3s as WAV files. Yes, I think my goal is like JSngry's. I have some homemade cds I would like to edit. Some tracks are 24 minutes long but they contain 5 or more songs. I want to break them up into their individual tunes. And if possible I would like to equalize the sound. It goes from loud to faint. Originally recorded on a cheap reel to reel, I believe.

I read the Get Help material with Goldwave to get started and did not understand a bit of it. It doesn't seem to even find where on my computer the file is coming from (Audio CD (F:). If this is so easy, can you tell me how to get started? Thanks.