Matthew

Towers of London when they had built you did you watch over the men who fell Towers of London when they had built you Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell Darn that Andy Partridge...

Thanks Dan.

Listening to a great concert: Grateful Dead Live at Hollywood Palladium on 1971-08-06. Band seems to be on fire for this one and in great spirits. They're even telling people where to stand for the best sound when they tape.

Another question is people have the time. Do you eq your downloads? Use the RIAA EQ Curve? Or do you just fiddle around with the eq until it sounds good? I'm using "GoldWave."

So, if I have 1-6, I opt for the 2nd choice above. I think That's what I'm doing.... hope it's right

Okay, I can stop hyper-ventalating now... Fuzzy Warbles The Price Is Right ! Date: 31/08/06 To halt the frenzy of activity and conjecture with regards the Collectors Album prices, we can now reveal the following. Fuzzy Warbles Volume 7 and 8 will be released on 25th September and from the Ape Store ONLY you will be able to buy the following variations (all prices ex VAT and shipping) - Collectors Album ONLY (+ bonus CD/booklet/stamps) - £9.35 Collectors Album + Vol 7 & 8 - £25.52 Volume 7 & 8 - £10.20 each Collectors Album + Vol 1-8 - £66.32 You will also have the option, only at the time you buy the box, to complete your Warbles collection by buying any combinations of Volumes 1-6 at a special price. The Collectors Album will only be available from other retailers and on-line stores as a complete boxed set from 16th October in UK/Europe and 10th October in USA. Nice to see the boys doing the right thing here.

I don't have any Coltrane K-2s but I do have the SACDs, and to my ears there is, of course, some drop off in sound, not enough for me to want to trash the box, or to go out looking for updated disks. IMO, the Coltrane box sounds very good, and it is more of an "Old School" master. What I mean by that is the cds don't have the fingerprints of whoever remasted the cd all over it. For me, some of the newer stuff, it sounds as if whoever is remastering wants to let you know that he/she was there, and notice how wonderfull I am, and let me eq the heck out of the treble, and boost the bass, etc. On the Coltrane box, the sound is more mellow, smoother, less attention grabing than you hear now-a-days. As you can tell by my comments, I really like the sound on this box; that, however, is a combination of my personal taste and my system. Results may vary of course.

Now if I only knew how to prepare the concert for upload. Sorry, can't help you there...

Maybe. But Rhino seems to like to reissue/repackage stuff. Maybe Filmore West 1969 complete set? After all, Rhino has never released the set...

Art Pepper: Smack Up. At least I didn't receive and it was on my 7/21 order.

PS: The Elmo Hope session Informal Jazz is smokin'.

Mine finally arrived an hour ago and I've been playing disk one. Very nice sound, not muffled, seems very open, nice detail. Booklet is very good also, Prestige did a first class job on this from the looks and sound of this box. This is an ab-sol-ute steal at the price. Hate to see what it'll cost on Ebay in a couple of years. Glad I have it.

Bitching! I did it, and I'm listening to a CDR of Miles' concert from Denmark 11-04-69. Mega cool, thanks a lot US and Dan. Sound's not too bad either!

Love the internet. Don't have, don't want, never will have, a cell-phone. Bah humbug!

Thanks for the replies , have to go out and buy some blank cds to give it a dry-run...

You don't want to extract an MP3 to a wav file. MP3s are condensed and lossy formats that can't be saved by returning them to wav. Your CD burner should recognize MP3 files and you can just burn them direct to disc. That looks easy to do, the My Music file has a button to click for that very thing. Two more questions, if people don't mind. 1. I keep reading there can be a loss of sound quality when you transfer to cd, something about a loss of numbers, any reason to be concerned about that? 2. Am I correct, to use an example, that I wanted to download the new Sonny Rollins cd off of his site, same procedures as all the above?

Thanks, that seems to be working. I'm saving it to My Muisc file. How do I do the wav. thingy, I'd love to have stuff on cd. Thanks a 1,000,000,000,00,!

Dumb question: How do I save music files to my hard drive? Example: I would love to save the Miles Davis concerts that appear on Darkfunk.com, but I can't figure out how. Some with Gratefull Dead downloads, I can stream all these but I can't figure out how to get them to my hard drive to save. I know, hopeless.....

I'm thinking of picking up chess again. What are some good websties for chess?

I am, in a very twisted way, laughing at how the jazz gods are toying with me. My Coltrane box arrived at the Fed Ex depot, fifteen miles from my home, Friday, and it's still hasn't been delivered. I could drive there and pick it up in twenty minutes. Amazing how slow Fed Ex is.

For all you XTC fans out there, me, and maybe two others . Here's the latest from the boys.. The Ultimate Fuzzy Warble Date: 16/08/06 'The Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album' brings together over 100 songs from XTC frontman Andy Partridges' songwriting archive. Recorded over the years, whilst Andy and XTC were signed to Virgin Records and later to the Idea and Ape labels, the material is spread across Eight Volumes featuring songs and alternate versions of many XTC favorites that never made it onto the respective final albums or never made the cut when the final tracklistings were decided. There are also songs Andy never got to complete that he’s re-visited and finished off especially for this Fuzzy Warbles Series. Each disc has a unique Fuzzy Warbles stamp cover artwork and the collectors box to keep them all in is designed to imitate a stamp album. There is even a bonus CD, Hinges, which features 9 extra tracks only available with this set. Inside each box is a landscape oversized booklet, in which Andy gives a fascinating insight to his recording process with 'A Brief History of Home Taping. Describing his earliest experiences of recording music at home and the excitement of those first recording sessions it all makes fascinating reading, tinged with just a hint of regret as to how the songwriting process has become so bland as recording technology makes things easier and easier. The final piece of the Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album jigsaw is your own sheet of Fuzzy Warbles stamps to play with, if, anyone could ever dare to part with them! Release date for the Collectors Album is 16/10/06 Of course, the question for those of us who have all six FW's right now is: WTH? Does this mean we have to shell out big bucks to get two cds & ep worth of stuff we don't have? The boys says it's all going to be straightened out -- it better be or I will be royally pissed-off!

You're in trouble now!

No shit! Now here's a surprise -- and to think the idiots behind this told Mrs. Ramsey before she died that there was a suspect! What a fiasco... BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors decided not to charge John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, his lawyers said Monday after a TV station reported that the schoolteacher's DNA failed to match genetic material on the 6-year-old girl's body. "The warrant on Mr. Karr has been dropped by the district attorney," public defender Seth Temin said outside the jail. "They are not proceeding with the case." Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy's office did not return repeated calls from The Associated Press. "We're deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong," Temin said. Earlier in the day, Denver's KUSA, citing two sources close to the investigation, said that hair and saliva from Karr were tested over the weekend at the Denver police crime lab and that he was ruled out as the source of the DNA taken from the crime scene. Investigators have said male DNA was found in blood spots on JonBenet's underwear. Other physical evidence in the case includes a ransom note, the garrote used to strangle the girl, a boot print found outside the Ramsey house and some indications an intruder could have entered through a basement window. The schoolteacher's arrest in Thailand a week and a half ago was seen a surprise break in the decade-old murder mystery that had cast suspicion over JonBenet's parents. But Karr's bizarre account — and his apparent fascination with the little girl's death — immediately raised suspicions that he might be an obsessed follower of the case who confessed to a crime he didn't commit. Among other things, Karr's relatives insisted that he was with them, celebrating Christmas in Georgia and Alabama, around the time the child beauty queen was found strangled and beaten at her Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996. They said that if Karr had not been with his family at Christmas, they would have certainly remembered it. In an interview with the media in Thailand, Karr said that he was with JonBenet when she died and that her death was an accident. Asked if he was innocent, he said no. In an interview Monday with MSNBC, Gary Harris, who had been spokesman for the Karr family, said of the DNA: "I knew it wouldn't match." Karr has been "obsessed with this case for a long time. He may have some personality problems, but he's not a killer," Harris said. "He obsesses. He wanted to be a rock star one time. ... He's a dreamer. He's the kind of guy who wants to be famous. Ramsey family attorney Lin Wood had no immediate comment.

Sonny Rollins plays Kim. Dig the Converse High Tops.

I'm still trying the internet to find out the order, no luck though, but thanks to all for looking. No big deal if it's not out there, it's a great album as is and Mr. Sangrey has a great post on the sequencing of the lp. It's one of those session that would have been great to put out as a whole, kind of like what Verve was doing a couple of years back. It's one of the few sessions that I would be interested in hearing the whole tape; the musicians working things out, etc. Just a side note, but I also think a mono mix would improve things a bit, it just seems that the music is a little too spread out.