Man with the Golden Arm

Worrrrrrd Ladddie! This quote's just rrrife with photoshop poscabilities in my wee widdle bwain.

i picked chicken...all's well sunday mitsuru - order the CD!

Jurgen... Thanks, that's something new to me??? Very funny stuff eh! Well part might be from the bio as far as the Happy Meal connection. Oh yeah obesity and lung disease...that's where it's at!

Oh, I didn't click there. I was too excited to explore the page. Yes those too... too toy like but that is how it is... the client usually picks the odd duck. They have yet to embrace my favorite but I hope to twist their arms a bit. Man those are some weird sell sheets they got going. I love the photo montage in the background. I think that this company is selling as secondary to the client. And then the 'name' splashes? Like it's some freekin' Dali watch. Hee hee... I'll take it! Well that's a bio that I wrote up. Unfortunately the copy writer in the states edited my original because she "thought I would be perceived a little 'too weird' for that market". Man if that's just not a completely un-Japanese way of thinking I don't know what is! It's for the land of cutesy-porn, rope-bondage and sea-cucumber eating!

1000 YEN or about $8 and Black Nylon... cause it won't burn. A client had three containers of it in HK that got dumped from a failed utility-knife project so the Japanese contact had an idea to make some good old ashtrays similar to the bakelite or glass trays of yor. Well after dashing off some wackiness these became the first two. More to come I do hope. At least some good (?) is coming out of that habit that they love so much in the East. Now if I could only get a hold of a gross of em.

As we all spam away I did a google today and find a couple of my designs on a page from Japan. Quite bizarre looking stuff I must say but just for grins give it a look. SMOKE 'em if ya got 'em!

And as for trust I can remember a couple of times when Hiroshi will give you the quote and then you get busy and might pay him the next day and promptly receive his reply of thanks and that the "package was dispatched yesterday". I even sent a defective CD back just last week that was received and acknowledged for a credit within four days. This must be a completely Japanese phenomena! And we should all do so well across the board. Hiroshi has Karma.

Some serious "apart from that" it sounds like. Recalls that first RVG batch and the "Something Else" title where the spread was screwy to me. So this looks like a no go for the upgrade and they probably did not tweak the end cut job on "Tune Up" either.

DUDE... Green Bay Packers balls!!!! Gotta love those although I figured the dimples might be holes. and as rusty as I am I think i'll need to defer to some of those Lady Precepts... looks like daley plays those too! How is the feel?

Making fun of my photoshop skills? Forced perspective! Those babies are 100 compression... the kind RVG uses!

got this recent pic... only adulterated by me for the general audience!

As well... so Reinier, and i will take your word, on a scale of say one to ten how much better is the VeeJay set of Shorter/Morgan than the old (and illegal) Blue Moons??

and lookee here. the Devil Woman with an oud and a burka!

oh yeah...that's a beauty!! ever see any of his recent drawings from the French country-side? Snoid worthy!

and then...

since we're shanghai-ing this thread here's my favorite Crumb of his later years:

a bit like this but without the chops.

and I vonder vether Herr Doktor ever dropped any tabs un dug into ziss??!!! on eBay now. I love the current hi bidder moniker..."kingbullock"

Great comment above Michael. While not musically inclined myself (and will leave any real educated commentary to those of you in the real know), my one feeling is that the piano still "sounds good" when played bad, if you know what I mean. There is a bit of built-in positive affirmation with that instrument versus others - that is sooo important for getting the kid involved. When our daughter first started to play the recorder this year her few years of piano greatly enhanced her ability but that sound that comes out of that thing was not even up to her tastes, and she is eight. I'd much rather be in the kitchen listening to her roll out some new left hand boogie-woogie followed by "Fur Elise" (as was this morning) than some attempts at squealing horse hair!

I've only recently discovered the Tubbs as well. That rendering of "Round Midnight" on the BiT is just fantastic! It was the two live dates from Scott's that are just so essential. They are right up there with the live BN Blakeys and the newly listened to BMG Wilen / Dorham at St. Germain. These Fontanas are now available as really expensive and no doubt cheesily wrapped Japano-minis at Dusty Groove. The two sets should be re-issued for the normal public as a double and should stay in circulation with all the greats. The 'doorbells' on "Down in the Village".... ooooh baby! Big thanks to P.D. who tipped me in the right direction of the Tubby when I first started exploring promptly after the Gilles Peterson "Impressed" disc, and no doubt he will weigh in on this thread. The other easily gotten Tubby (and Reece) is some of his side work on Victor Feldman's 'Suite Sixteen'. Thanks for starting up a Hayes thread in earnest. I'll be lurking here.

Ron and Lou manage` :

Please tell us if he offered you a "sammich"?

Not to tallk to myself here but this just landed and I have got to tell you that it must be up there with that feeling when Rooster Ties cracked open "Conflict". I've only gone through this once and most all is new to me save for the couple tracks that were on the Giles Peterson. Worthy of every Dusty Groove-ism you could throw at it! It's that good!!! Michael Garrick (disc 2) !!! Now I know what Bev's been talking about. More than 'Impressed' here. CD Universe is offering this for $20 and change and then I believe it will be released come May as two single discs for regular prices.

I just opened a CD Universe pack and it contained "Sweet Honey Bee", which was phenomenal, and I have just put the spin on Lateef's "Golden Flute". Well I gotta say, regardless of the fact that the Pearson is from vinyl, that in comparison to the other RVGs we've been getting and considering that the Lateef was recorded right in the Van Gelder Studios in '66 that this Impluse makes those RVGs sound like hooey! It is just phenomenal. Absolutley perfect!!! And for $7.19 And now track #8 "Head Hunters" is right off of "Sweet Honey Bee"... man how'd they do that?

He's been promoted.