Matthew

Local jazz station, KPLU, will have a special on Floyd Standifer this Sunday, January 28 @ 1:00 p.m. PST. Here's a LINKY-DINKY. PS: The Chewster might have to set his alarm to wake early Sunday.

Well, since Alexander was brave enough to admit to liking these two, I'll step out and publicly admit that I love the song Roy Rodgers.

Great music, is great music, no matter who does it. Stewart was a major artist in his prime, with that unforgettable voice, his solo work, and with the Faces, major props from me. Just seems to have lost his way as an artist, and I'm afraid the glory is long gone. I went on a major Elton John SACD binge about a year ago and bought all of EJ's SACDs. Fantastic stuff, pop music doesn't get that good that often. I guess there's a "coolness" factor at work since both aren't considered "cool" in anyway, shape, or form now -- which is a shame because a lot of wonderful music is getting overlooked.

Yeah, I'm afraid it is. I always fade in-and-out over the Dead. Sometimes I can't get enough of them, others, it's like: "Do I really need to hear Playing in the Band or Not Fade Away another time?"

You can stream Disc 2 of the set here: http://www.musicbox-online.com/media.html scroll down Thanks for the link, I must be off the Dead right now, I heard nothing to make me want to go out and buy it. Maybe later on I might get back on the Dead bandwagon.

You know about this, right? Oh yes, but what do I need that for? I have several copies of each of those novels. Not trying to agitate any consumerist fever--just thought you'd be happy PD is making it into the LOA. I'll probably get the LOA version. I've always wanted to dip my toe in the Phillip K. Dick pool.

Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones. Great line up, love James Spaulding, but no matter how many times I give it a try, it bores me.

Hey, the 80's weren't that bad

To get SoundScan you have to pay big-time bucks to subscribe. Maybe someone here is on the inside of the industry and can access the figures. The figures would probably be surprising as to how few units are sold for straight-ahead jazz. I remember from the old BNBB that Blue Note would delete a cd if it didn't sell 500 units in a year. I doubt that Sonny, Please sold more than one thousand. Compare that to the Bee Gees box set, which according to someone who had access to SoundScan sold over four thousand units in the first couple of weeks.

Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond. Really been thinking about Syd a lot for some reason.

Mine was JuJu. I was listening to the cd when I signed up. When I came over here I decided to follow the example of other boad members and use my real first name.

AAJ is a nice site, but I rarely post there, mostly lurk. The only other forum I really post on is the Steve Hoffman Forum, for my rock fix. They even post about the Beatles there every now and then.

Usually, not much going on during football. Though strangely enough, I've logged on at various points of the day and night, I've never come on with no one else logged on. Be it 1:00 a.m. PST, or even 2:00 a.m., someones always looking in. Wonder if anyone has been on by him/her self.

No tv for me. I'm just sitting here listening to Wish You Were Here.

James Bladwin had a preacher say something similar in Another Country. Great minds think a like....

I'm another one of those BNBB people that followed the call to the dark side -- went by JuJu.

Oh my! I'm listening to disk one of this box set as I type... this is some nasty stuff.

What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves 1976-1977 H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams in the Witch House. The Complete Philips Recordings. Pink Floyd: Ummagumma

Evil Americans doing bad things to the Japanese. I guess in your world Nanking never happened.

Yeah. If you followed the AFC in the 70's, especially the AFC West (I lived in San Diego), Davis/Raiders were the ultimate Bad Ass of the NFL. Heck, I even remember those old AFL Raider vs. Chargers games at Balboa Stadium. It's is very sad to see Davis go out like this.

To go off-topic. I love those old pictures of jazz musicians and gangsters with baseball players in the 20' & 30s; Big Bands even had teams that played against other Big Bands. It would be an interesting articles about the connection between Jazz and the Negro League, I think that musicians like Ellington gave financial support at times to teams.

Of course, the 1961 season was when "The New Washington Senators" began their season after the "Old Senators" became the Twins. So, I guess the stats could be schizophrenic on this point.

I don't know why you think this page shows that WJ's statistics belong with today's Rangers. For one thing, according to his ESPN stats page, Johnson threw two no-hitters in his career, yet they aren't listed under Rangers pitchers who threw no-hitters. That would be because Johnson's Senators became today's Twins, where Johnson holds just about every team record. Since it shows the 1961 Senators as part the the Rangers history, if you keep going down, you'll eventually reach the years for Johnson -- in theory, at least. But, either way, those old Senator are like the St. Louis Browns, long gone, alive in memory and history books.

According to ESPN, the Texas Rangers.

Is there a linky-dinky for this?