"Sal Monella" wrote

.. But almost all that jazz has been re-issued
as CDs anyway. So I've been concentrating on out of print and
semi-impossible to get vinyl R&B, of which I have a zillion,
like...........to many to name. Actually I guess a lot of that
has been re-issued too, but it's maddening to buy now, because each
CD has one or two good cuts at most, and then lots of useless
crap.


Remember, I'm cheap. Add the fact :-( that I've lost so much
hearing to shotguns and dog whistles I'm 'legally deaf' in California and
I'll take the time to digitize and live with the clicks, heck, can't hear
'high fidelity' anyway. So far I've done well over 100 albums and have at
least twice that left ... hoping to have it all on an iPod for my
Montahoming trip in mid-May.




I saw Ray Charles live at Dillon Gym in Princeton NJ in 1962,
when I was 13.



I went to HS in Hayward, Ca and for several years before I could drive I
used to
ride the bus to SF and hang out at City Lights Book Store on Saturday, then
go to the Blackhawk that night, taking the late Greyhound back home. It
was a jazz club that had a cage like area where under drinking age kids
could sit. I saw a lot of big name jazz musicians there, over those
early teen years.