jazz fusion is a movement in music, that I have to say, often leaves me cold. Yeah, <I>Bitches Brew</I> is great and other masterworks of the genre obviously resonate, but shows like a rare appearance by guitarist David Torn that I caught on Tuesday night at Joe's Pub are less than thrilling.
Hendrix and Huckleberry—heavy party animals!
Queen Bagheera reigns on my parade.
Les Edelberg writes: "First, wanted to thank you for the Jacques Brel link yesterday. He's always been one of my favorites and I still listen to my original vinyl copy regularly. I think this clip is even more powerful than the one you posted Monday."
Whether it does or not, you know you're going to. Eskie lists 60 things worth shortening your life for. I must be boring—only about 10 appealed to me, although I did find #s 38 & 39 intriguing.
An otherwise quiet afternoon is given an asterisk, a big fat exclamation point, by our sale of <a href="http://ssl.blueearth.net/primedia/product.php?productid=53&cat=0&page=1… BACK ISSUE AVAILABLE</a>.
Via the <I>OC Register</I>'s Tim Magnan. File this under "too much information." Also, keep out of the front rows.
At 200,000 tracks, maybe so—but it only occupies 800GB, so he's using compression. My meager 12,000 track library eats a little over 200GB, using ALC.
Is that even possible?
<I>The Smithsonian</I> has a nifty slideshow on Harry Houdini. It's mostly posters, but the action shots are worth checking out.