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Guinea became an independent country on my b-day...

Not if you're from the south.

Eugene's great. I like his playing and writing and sense of humor. That bathroom incident could've been worse. When I used to manage a band, he was the opening "band" one night. He was going to stay at my place, but when I found out that it was to include his wife and children, we made other arrangements. At the concert that night, he was using our speakers and promptly blew them out - big delay until new speakers could be found...

Thanks Jim! This is really generous of you (and the rest of the guys)! Hope the gigs keep flowin' in for the holidays (and after!) Have you been slipping these tunes in on your recent gigs? How's the response been?

I think a minute or two is a nice compromise. I had a problem with the current function once because I, first, answered someone's question in the "what are you listening.." topic and then tried to post what I was listening to and it would just glob on to the previous. I missed the info about the 5 minute delay and so I thought that it was a incompatibility problem. Anyway, I'd vote for the compromise.

Yes. Sun Ra was one of those "fixtures" in my growing up stage. Some of this was due to my mother's interests. In his "Sonny" days she had occasionally gone to the Club DeLisa. I'm trying to figure out who it was that she used to love to go see. (I'm mixing up Red Prysock, Arthur Prysock, and Red Saunders in my brain at the moment). Anyway, Sonny would "fill in" on some nights. Also, she very possibly saw him even earlier performing on Torrance Ave in a suburb of Chicago known as Calumet City. So my interest started as a child. Many of the Saturns had practically no information on them. I have some in white covers with and w/o center holes... some in a garish brown-gold...some with squiggles done in colored pens that would emanate from the center outwards...and so on. Of course, I'd buy anything that came out on other labels as soon as I could and living in Chicago it wasn't too difficult to go down to the JRM and pick up, say, a recording on Horo. The first performance that I remember was in '72 at an Ann Arbor festival. (Art Ensemble played too). I think it was around Sept 9, (a step-sister's b-day), but my mom claims that she took me to see him before that, but you'd think that I would remember that. Anyway, many performances after that and in cities outside of Chicago - even here in the Dallas area - well, Ft. Worth to be exact. A truly amazing man with an amazing gift. My wife (who'd seen him too) cried buckets of tears when he died.

After well over a dozen performances seen and nearly 150 recordings later, I can safely say that your assessment is truly accurate.

This Boucq character looks a little like Dr. Benway.

Geben Sie mir Ihren Zylinder - ich glaube ich muss kotzen!

La tête me tourne.

Thanks for your kindness !!I think Chaney said "Busted" cause you now know (from the link) that he really isn't 18. Now, for my being 17...

At that time, Vince Wilburn will be here:

Hi Steven, One thing that you have to realize about all of us: WE'RE AGELESS!

Yeah, I know what you mean! picked up too: - J. J.Johnson: Willie Dynamite - Shaft In Africa Soundtrack - Dillinger: CB 200 & Bionic Dread couldn't help it. ...but did you actually listen to the Heatherton?

Great classic stuff on there. too hard to choose the best, but these are exceptional: - What Time Is It - My Baby - The Vidiot - Flibberty Jib - I Used To Think... - Bury-It-Yourself... - ...She and He - Reaching Into In - Fireflies and more...

Oh MAN! Many thanks for pointing this out!!! ...and extra tracks too! My records are so worn. My mom and Nordine were friends, so he was an occasional visitor to our home. He was major inspiration for my getting into broadcasting in the 70's. It's nice to see that he was fully involved in this release and that something complete - well, the Dot recordings anyway - is released during his lifetime. It's ordered! Thanks again Jim!

You mean to say that there's no swinging in New York?

EEEEEEWWWWWWW!

Record high today! Old record was 83° The sun is down and it's still in the 80's!

It seems that he's C & G PDQ!

I bet your criminal mind is already overheating thinking of the evil possibilities this offers.No, actually it's my primeval mind that's trying to wrap itself around this concept.

Wait...they can take the face from a dead person and transplant it?

Yeah, well it's not cutting it today. I tried to post something and it keeps adding it to my previous post

Still having probs with the new set-up crashing. It seems to happen when there's even the slightest extra delay in a page coming up. It's crashed 6 times in the last 15 minutes. Getting worse each day. Technical: Mac OS 10.4.3 in Safari. Anyone else?

At Last FM, I got these for Savatage (you may know some of these bands?): (just doing my own, I got Dark Tranquility, Dio, Saxon, Accept, Bruce Dickinson, Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Evergrey, Pain of Salvation, and Steve Vai as the first 10 tunes).