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Oh, good to hear this! I was thinking that it may be pretty good - and I'm testing while narrowcasting which probably makes some diff. It's $19.95 and I understand that the "point" is just about 1/3 mile from me. Rod --- Now playing: Tiny Fuller - Shock

I'm still going 'round and 'round about this - should I spend the extra or not for cable. I can't really complain about my DSL. They "promised" 1.5/384 and I get about 2.7/496, so I'm happy, but I'm thinking of doing the research again on cable. I think our friend JSngry had some probs with...was it Verizon?...at one time? R --- Now playing: Jackie McLean/John Jenkins - Alto Madness

Yessir..me too! I don't understand this. Are you saying Mr. Ricky that you have to turn your computer off and on to keep connected? That's a funny story 'bout the guy who turns his modem off because it may overheat Instructions: "To maximize connection speed, leave this modem on for at least 10 days after DSL installation is complete." I began imagining that it was making this imaginary groooove in conceptual space Rod --- Now playing: Virgil Gonsalves Sextet - Yesterdays

Oh, yes! sorry I'm late too! Hope you had a music-filled day of joy!

I use Speakeasy too, but I've been accessing it the past few years thru this site. I agree with David about Comcast. I reluctantly went with SBC (now AT&T again) after they cut my phone off accidently one full weekend - and they weren't even my phone company at that time! But after a few months of research, I went with them afterall because of their price and service. Of course, I've heard horror stories from others, so I could just be one of the lucky ones. Wish I had more upload (449) for the rodcasts tho...

If you think of him next to Elton Dean and think of the different directions that the Soft Machine personnel went, it's pretty sad really...

Thanks Mike. I'll keep that in mind when I'm back there this summer.

Hoosier daddy?

Mike, is that the Saturn located on the Zeil or is there another one elsewhere?

Thanks for this! See too: All Your Candy Are Belong To Us

Yeah, it'd be nice if the first three were re-released - officially, that is - with nice sound, etc. Supposedly Ralf and Florian will get around to it someday, but the first two albums had a different feel and maybe a different approach is wanted when it comes to cleaning 'em up. There are some CD boots out there of this stuff, but it'd be nice if some cleaned up versions would surface. Don't know if you have the time to sit down with the DVDs of M-M, but you'll notice an even more laid-back pastoral feel to all of these great songs being performed in concert. The visuals they use now have a smoother feel - less jerky - a gliding feel with lots of old footage of German railway lines, Tour de France visuals, etc. It may be just because they're just older guys now. Of course, Kraftwerk has almost always emphasized beauty in their music - beautiful melodies without being maudlin or cloying. Normally reculsive, here's Ralf Hutter doing an interview with the annoying BBC DJ Gary Crowley back in '03: Hutter interview (24:28 / 23 MB) Rod

Wasn't here when this topic came around the first time. Always've loved these guys - thru the various incarnations - since the Organization days. ALL of the stuff I could get my hands on for the past 35 years: 8-tracks, LPs, cassettes, books, posters, T-shirts, CDs, DVDs, downloads... even a promo cassette of "Techno-Pop" which was never released and various versions (German and American) of the other recordings. I've seen them, I think, 4 times now - starting in the mid 70's. In high school, I used to drive the rednecks CrAzY with this music! Do you have this great Notebook version of Minimum-Maximum? Great stuff! Thanks for bringing them up again, Rod

Congratulations! I'm pretty envious. Are you sure about your comparisons? I played Musser (and studied off and on with Burton) and I always thought that the Deagan sound was actually brighter - usually a bit too bright for my taste actually, but I did all the wrong things to vibes anyway. Rod

...as a "where are they now" kind of topic... Was just watching a documentary in the ol' archives here on Philo T. Farnsworth (the inventor of electronic television) and noticed his son Russell "Skee" Farnsworth playing upright bass. I seem to remember a couple of latin recordings that he's played on and possibly arranged(?), but anyone have any more info on him? Is he still working in music nowadays? Thanks, Rod

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Fucking totally missed the point and it doesn't look like it's gonna change. OK, no more "hundred word essays." but, lastly, concerning this quote: Yes, I DO take this into consideration! ...and I'm eternally grateful to those who turned me on to Chuck's label in that very way (and the BYG, and the ICP labels, and....), because if they hadn't, I wouldn't have gone out and BOUGHT every fucking NESSA recording ever made! and I never would've had the enormous respect for him and his work and shown it by getting others to discover his label too!!! Just amazing....absolutely amazing that this idea just goes ZOOOOOOOOM over so many heads of a group of people who can take apart the solos of various musicians, but can only see this issue as a "ugh, you have my music...ugh, you steal..." simplicity. Damn right, music's hard work - and especially for a non-Pop musician...all the more reason to think very carefully before you plop down those thousands of dollars for your recordings. Damn, if you're concerns are feeding your family and you just can't wait - that you gotta have your return NOW - then maybe you don't have any business spending thousands of bucks you can't afford to spend if you're not willing to let your CD do it's business! I need a place to go where there's not a bunch of paranoid backward thinking grandmas. waste of time... goodnight.

I want to know how many here have original paintings on their walls?

I'm not spending that kind of money, but I've been doing close to what you said for years now. Friends and business acquaintances both. If making money directly from your first CDs is the goal, then this is sheer folly. This is not the purpose of making CDs. As I said before, your CD is your "business card." When you spend $10,000 on recording CDs, you can't think, "Damn, I better sell a lot of CDs!" If you actually did make money - hell, break even - you'd be considered an overnight success, - it'd be great if that actually happened, but it's quite foolish to expect this. What you should be asking yourself before you spend the money is whether the future benefits will pay for these discs - short term and long term. Jim, if your band was doing some old boring "bar-band" crap, then I'd say that spending $10,000 making a record would be a waste (of course, there's some real crap out there, so, who knows...), but when you get signed (I predict: after your next CD), it's at that time that you say, "Damn! That was money well spent!" ...and not because you got your money back on either This Is the Place or ...Boogaloo Sisters, but that both of those recordings were great enough to perk up the ears of listeners/broadcasters/et al. all over the US (and, soon, elsewhere) thereby getting you the gigs that you might never have gotten. THAT'S where the 10 Grand goes! How many extra paying gigs did you get because of these discs? How much more money did you make as a result of radio stations, magazines, word-of-mouth, etc interest in these discs? Maybe, you've only made a couple grand more from these extra gigs in cities that you've been trying to get in to, but the money comes as word grows. So, in the same way that it's myopic to think only of the one-to-one "cash from CD" benefit, it's equally short-sighted to confine this discussion to the ideas of what's "right and honest" (as if there's a solid ground of meaning) or using the tired "where do we draw the line" cliche. I don't draw lines. I follow curves. It's people in favor of the mass-murdering psychoses and pathological lying of the criminal Bush junta who draw lines and get us in the mess that we're in today. I think that the larger picture is being ignored in favor of easy wrap-up push-button statements about "stealing" and "theft" and words such as "illegal" and "pirating." I think that we owe it to ourselves to look beyond this and, like the above example, see the larger picture - hopefully without the influence of the powerful elite.

Yeah Alexander! Quit breaking bread with your brothers! Next time, tell him to buy his own damn bread! Can't be putting those breadmakers out of business you know!

Could your friend send her over?

Hahahaha. This is hilarious! A very unbiased opinion. eh, hem... yup, they sure do! Yeah, those extra choices are just making it so difficult for the robber barons. I mean, what happened to the good old days when music was one of the main and few chioices of electronic/home entertainment? Yeah, instead of charging less for the crappy ones! Gimme, gimme, gimme... they will continue acting like neanderthals and fight for the right to have more big cars and luxurious soirees... No decrease there eh?