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If you think that females do not pee in sinks, you never attended the large Milwaukee music festival, Summerfest.

I saw a copy of George Duke's Muir Woods Suite CD at my local used music store. It looks potentially interesting. George and a small group are accompanied by a large string section. There are some unusual comments about the album on amazon.com Listeners have written in that it is one of their favorite contemporary classical works. I usually find the amazon.com listeners' comments to be useless. These comments are not what I would have expected though. Has anyone heard the album, and if so, what is it like? Is it worth buying a used copy of it?

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A friend of mine tried to sell 10,000 jazz CDs on ebay, by twenty five per week. He developed several loyal buyers, one of whom finally contacted him and offered him $45,000 for remainder of the entire collection. So there are some people with the cash to buy these large collections.

I thought that your topic title was a sarcastic reference to a recent news story about Ms. Spears walking around naked in a high end Los Angeles clothing boutique and then having loud sex with her boyfriend in the store's dressing room.

I can't see your first suggestion. There is just a red X there. Can you provide the album title? Thank you.

This is not a jazz question, but I wondered if the members here could help me. I have heard small amounts of James Booker's recordings on the radio. Can anyone recommend some CDs or LPs by James Booker?

It is interesting that someone mentioned Madison. Did you mean Madison, Wisconsin? I visited my brother there in the 1970s and went with him and a large group of the other men on his dorm floor to an all you can eat fish fry dinner at Crandall's. I don't know why I remember the name. It was a big mistake to go with a group of men from a dorm. I often wondered during the meal if mankind had evolved much from its prehistoric origins. Most of the men (term used loosely) ate at least 25 fried fish. Several men ate so many that they could not have been hungry any more. The owner and his wife came out and looked at our table with disgust. They switched us to some poor quality fish, which did not taste very good. I was sure that none of us would have been welcome at Crandall's after that. Nothing needed to be said.

The lyrics of Jefferson Airplane's "Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" are close to A.A. Milne's poem, "Spring Morning". Mr. Milne is the author of the Winnie the Pooh stories.

Excuse me Mr. Clementine. I am new to this board and it may not be appropriate to ask a question such as this one. What is the writing style that you are using? It is unusual. Is there a name for this specific style?

That is a very interesting explanation, Mr. Goldberg. I guess that is not your real last name. I am not sure if ashamed is the right word, but a concert I did not really want to attend was a double bill of Cheap Trick and Queen, in the mid-1970s. I took my younger sister to it on her birthday. She loved Queen. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was a hit single at the time. She was thrilled. I was bored. What surprised me was that Queen was not very good live. I had heard some of their songs on the radio. They could not play them live so that you could make out the melodies. I remember that Queen's singer kept throwing firecrackers on the stage as he sang and danced around. The firecrackers would go off as they hit the ground.

Thank you for the friendly welcome. Do you mind if I ask you what "The Magnificent Goldberg" means?

I don't know if I am ashamed of this, but it was bad. I saw the rock group Stories in concert in 1973. They had a big hit single that year, "Brother Louie". If you are old enough, you probably remember the chorus, "Louee Louee Louee Lou-eye." They could not sing or play. They stood on the stage and moved around, and the singer opened his mouth, but nothing came out that any one could follow or understand. It was like gibberish, for the vocals and the instrument playing. After a few songs almost everyone in the audience left.