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yes, it's true: i'm getting older and forgetful. at times i'm easily confused. was there a thread about an upcoming grateful dead box set "Complete Europe '72" that got taken down? am i confusing this forum w/ another i may have seen it at? have i forgotten how to use the search function on this forum correctly? did i take too much acid in the 80s? i'm not kidding when i say i'm sorry for this posting as it may be a complete screw-up on my part. i can't find an appropriate emoticon for "embarrassed" so just imagine i placed one here...

good to hear that mark shim is still at it. amazing player w/ a terrific sound. i thought i remember hearing that he was having a hard time a while back getting work. again, very nice to hear that he's at it!

sounds good GA. i missed that part...

i was under the impression from the process that i'd be getting a somewhat instant email that had a code. i haven't received an email yet. anyone else have thoughts? is it strictly a "hard copy" card in the mail? i thought i remembered reading at the site that it would be available for use tomorrow...

thanks GA! just got mine. i buy stuff from amazon pretty regularly so this is terrific. buying $20 for $10? yes please! thanks again...

definitely a sad news story. however, knowing the creativity, motivation, spirit, and respectful nature of the current group of creative artists in the chicago scene i'd bet that they'll pull something good out of this bad event.

i love this video about as much as i can love anything that's not a friend or family member: Tiny Desk Concert hope some folks around here enjoy this stuff too. keep on the lookout for the neil young cover...

not sure if this is cool with everyone here, and you are probably all already aware, but there are two other downloadable recordings out there of concerts by what i assume is the same quintet. one is from 11/3/69 (Salle Pleyel, Paris), and the other is from 11/9/69 (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). for my ear, they're good recordings and great performances. i don't know the exact date of the concert this thread was started for, but maybe these two others are later? cheers...

bumparino... all reasonable offers considered.

happy birthday nate! you da man

i'm w/ the above quoted opinions. the girl's performance was the only thing i can think of to actually praise. she was terrific. everything else in the film left me flat. sometimes i get the feeling that the coen brothers are too interested in archetypes and style. ie: in True Grit they became enamored with "the western," or "revenge," or "headstrong girl," etc... and forgot that these genres/styles/archetypes are only useful when they help to flesh out a good story. my impression is that they spent too much time on technique and stylization, and left the characters/story behind expecting to make up for that with detailed archetypes and visuals - like an awesomely garnished plate with no main course. that almost never works for me. imo, truly great westerns like Unforgiven or Shane make it clear that True Grit is nothing but slightly above average.

Life. Truth. Reality. oh, i see. That comment, sir...

i've just read through most of this thread and apparently elvis was possibly "lying" about something. can anyone here succinctly, in non-sarcastic, straight-forward literal language describe what he was lying about? i honestly don't understand what's going on here yet...

cool durium. i have only one cd w/ jesse: here and now. i believe it's his debut from a while back. it's definitely one of my very favorite straight-ahead, swinging be-bop guitar trio/quartet recordings. i listen to it quite often. favorite tracks: "the best things in life are free," and "bye bye baby."

success!!! rostasi, you have a PM...

wow rostasi. amazingly nice for you to do this for me i'm trying it now. looks like it'll take a while to download and then we'll see. thanks...

oh well. i'm giving up. thanks...

hey rod: even though it won't play for me, thanks again. but just for me to sure, are you saying that you can watch the vid you posted above? it's not clear from what you've written (in my mind, "getting the link" doesn't mean the same thing as being able to watch something. i know - i'm anal...) this one won't load for me either. has everyone else who has looked at this thread been able to watch the two vids rostasi linked to without problems?!@#$%

got my Territory 5 New Horse today - fast and bulbous thanks Chuck. coincidentally, i also unexpectedly received the current Signal To Noise side by side w/ the cd from Chuck. so i guess thanks go to Nate too

thanks beri. that one actually played (i found that one before but didn't play it because the site had a big, dark, all-screen-encompassing pop-up ad that i thought looked pretty suspect...), but wouldn't allow me to download to my realplayer - which is what i wanna do! my download function on my player is working so if anyone else can find another place this vid is at i'm still in need...

is it playing for you rostasi?

i joke w/ my family every once in a while about how good i am at using google to find whatever i'm looking for - and i am pretty good at it. but i can't for the life of me find that clip/video of philip glass on the colbert report doing that segment called We Are At War. this kinda stuff is usually a snap to find. if anyone can direct me to where i could find this i'd appreciate it. or, if anyone knows why it has been taken down from seemingly EVERYWHERE, i'd also appreciate it. i assume there was some legal issue w/ the segment but i can't find a discussion about that either. i know i know - it's a weird thing to wanna track down but... wtf

in a word - blech. nearly unwatchable and embarrassing. had to force my way through to the end. in addition to feeling stiff, the video imo is also not very well crafted and seems like the most crass type of blatantly cynical marketing/demographic ass-kissing. the music is pretty lackluster too. this band has been around a long time and i give 'em props for being excellent players and having what it takes to make it in a very difficult business. but i've always gotten the feeling from them that too much of their energies went into figuring what would sell, or what would have broad appeal instead of simply digging into themselves for the music. then again, they made it as professional musicians and i didn't. as far as "fun" goes - thinking that your own definition of fun should be someone else's is hugely lame. while i assume they certainly had fun making the vid, that doesn't always transfer into it being fun to watch, which is pretty obvious from the responses in this thread. and a lot of the people in the video actually look like they were told to try to look like they were having fun. what could be less fun than that? director to people in video during shoot: "Ok, now have fun. Alright, that was pretty good. Now act like you're real hip and down w/ the jazz. Well, that was alright I guess. Now act real goofy. Now go back to hip..." that's painful. oh well... it reminds me of someone telling you to just "smile and cheer up" when you're obviously feeling real bad about something. i always wanna crack someone across the face when they do that i would much rather have someone say to me, "Shit man. That sucks," then tell to just smile and cheer up when i tell them that something's wrong. real nice piano playing throughout though

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