Son-of-a-Weizen

Just heard this for the first time last night. Wouldn't say that it falls into the 'priceless gem' category....but it's for sure in the 'Damn, that's a nice sounding cd!!' category.

....btw, will the Japanese version/packaging for this Prestige set be a carbon copy of the domestic? Anyone had a chat with Mr. H. Tanno? Due out 7/26/06: Victor VICJ 61371(New) Davis,Miles(tp)/The Prestige Quintet Sessions 8000 Yen

Too true. In 20 years time they'll look like spent Doublemint chewing gum wrappers while the well manufactured Japanese boxes for sets like Garland '@Prelude' and Miles '@Blackhawk' will be fine.

I gave this one a quick spin when it first arrived and was pleased as punch. Now that the initial giddiness has worn off and I've finally gotten around to spending some quality time with the LP and putting it up against other versions, I'm fast switching gears and am moving in reverse. Up against an older Toshiba (non-JRVG) cd version (TOCJ-5885) that sounds alive and has some electricity zipping through it, the LP -- while warm sounding -- is seriously light in the high end dept. On 'Phil T. McNasty's Blues' for instance, you can hear Taylor's cymbals...nice & crisp. Burrell sounds so much clearer on the cd that it's no contest. Same with Byrd who sounds like he's at arms length and not playing inside of a hall closet. I kept playing the track over and over thinking perhaps that I'd missed something....trying to convince myself that there's no way in hell that a 12-year old Toshiba burn is acing this brand new Classic Records classic. I've gotta face facts though --- unless of course I try to pin this on the older Denon TT with the Audio-Technica 440MLA cartridge that I just had installed 3 months ago.

The weirdest thing is what happened after that sucker crashed. That's some cause & effect for ya. Record meteorite hit Norway As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. Peter Bruvold witnessed the meteorite streaking across the night sky. PHOTO: PETER BRUVOLD The map shows the meteorite's direction of fall (the arrow) and the possible impact area over Troms and Finnmark counties. At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok. Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his mare Virika was about to foal for the first time. "I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash. "I heard the bang seven minutes later. It sounded like when you set off a solid charge of dynamite a kilometer (0.62 miles) away," Bruvold said. Astronomers were excited by the news. "There were ground tremors, a house shook and a curtain was blown into the house," Norway's best known astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten.no. Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms. "This is simply exceptional. I cannot imagine that we have had such a powerful meteorite impact in Norway in modern times. If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb. Of course the meteorite is not radioactive, but in explosive force we may be able to compare it to the (atomic) bomb," Røed Ødegaard said. The astronomer believes the meteorite was a giant rock and probably the largest known to have struck Norway. "The record was the Alta meteorite that landed in 1904. That one was 90 kilos (198 lbs) but we think the meteorite that landed Wednesday was considerably larger," Røed Ødegaard said, and urged members of the public who saw the object or may have found remnants to contact the Institute of Astrophysics. Aftenposten's Norwegian reporter Nina Lødemel Aftenposten English Web Desk Jonathan Tisdall Email this article Print this article Most tipped Record meteorite hit Norway Mooning can mean expulsion Norway dumps Wal-Mart stock More Muslim contact Angry hare attacked dogsled Norway wants answers Police warn against hoarding cash More flight delays Apple iTunes gets fight in Norway US Embassy evacuated Most read Record meteorite hit Norway Mooning can mean expulsion Regrets nude photos Police warn against hoarding cash Norway dumps Wal-Mart stock Norway wants answers US Embassy evacuated More Muslim contact Arctic fever(Bildeserie) More sports nudity

JEEBUS!! How stupid can one teen girl vinyl lover get? Pretty damn stupid!!!!! I like the layout here. I think Allan should use this same outline -- with a minor alteration -- as a long term thread vehicle to zing people who spend too much on eBay BN vinyl?

...and then, upon learning that it's all a ruse, she doesn't say 'Yo, gimme the $%#@ passport!' ?

So the Mom doesn't actually put a call in to the family to check it all out in advance of the bus stop hook-up? Am I reading this correctly?

Merlin looked too much like a boy scout in that one though.... ...a better one imo.

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Weizzy: Thanks a ton for the pictures. I was in a used bookstore Tuesday and, on a whim, I bought Jim Bouton's Ball Four, which I hadn't read since I was a teen-ager (only read it 1,000 times back then), and I'm loving it. The cards brought back stories of a lot of the players pictured. No Bouton card though. My pleasure. Sorry that the scan was so weak. Used a camera and had to reduce it down to that 100 mb level. I need to figure out how to upload pics to a site and then post.

Nice! got any old dick allen or richie ashburn? Oh, that's right! I forgot that you're originally a Philly guy. Ya know, I don't have his Philly card.....just the Cards & White Sox ones. Toward the end, he was something of a bad penny, wasn't he? ...traded around to 3 or 4 teams in as many years I think?

I bet my twin Bubbas could kick their ass.

<<<several days until the steel cools to retrieve Hickman's remains.>>> So how do you do that? I used to go up to Beth Steel at Sparrows Point... fascinating process....but like MWGA said, 'Bosch'like and no margin for error.

Probably the thread you saw? Milt The cd has popped up several times on ebay during the past 90 days or so.

Nada. If you're low on the Bounty paper towel cardboard tubes, go ahead and toss those cards into the kids hampster cage for the little fellas to chew up. They'll love you for it!

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....a few '70 cards that Johnny might get a kick out of. Got the team pic hiding in the box somewhere.

Ahhhh, so these ones will be the 20-bit jobbers? I see. Picked up those Super HD-K2 24 bit-ers back in December and wasn't aware of the fact that they'd been given a lukewarm reception. Interesting. Makes sense that they'd go back and do another 20-bit run for those particular Evans/Rollins titles. Does that mean that I need to sell mine off too??? <<<Such is the world of Japanese reissues, it's not uncommon to have two or three versions of a title on sale at the same time competing with each other!>>>> Ain't that the truth!!!

Right, I see your point about the mid-price structure and all.....but I guess the thing that strikes me as odd is the Evans and Rollins ones listed above. All of those Evans titles and several of the Rollins (Saxophone Colosus, Tenor Madness) were released as mini-lp K2s just six months ago (December, 2005) for 2,415 Yen? I'm just surprised that they're spitting 'em out again so soon...and for 600 Yen cheaper. If they fly off the shelves, I should think that they'e at least keep the price stable at 2,415? Ehh, whaddoiknow?

It's just the 1st track......some seriously whompin' bass there. Back to these Japanese releases, I'm still trying to figure out why they're selling these paper sleeves for 1,800 yen? These Victors have always been priced at 2,400 Yen and above, so what gives????

Is there a tentative release date?

I had my Audi stolen in broad daylight from a manned U.S. Senate Parking lot located about 100 yards from the Senate Bldgs (not some far off parking annex). Turns out the guy wasn't so swift after all -- he made an effort to disguise things a bit by covering up one of my bumper stickers w/one from his favorite D.C. radio stations......but then he left the plates on. Capitol Hill cops nailed him 16 blocks away when he parked it outside of his rowhouse.

Nice find! .......now you owe me two Erdingers for stealing my record!

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