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A while ago, I got a USB turntable on a whim and have been recording old
albums

Today I found a couple ( Mingus and John Handy ) recorded at the Monterey
Jazz Festival at performances I saw, back in '64 and '65

It's amazing how sometimes a smell, taste, .... or some music, can bring
back floods of long forgotten memories ( mostly good :-)



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"Larry L" wrote in
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It's amazing how sometimes a smell, taste, .... or some music, can
bring back floods of long forgotten memories ( mostly good :-)




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Larry L wrote:
A while ago, I got a USB turntable on a whim and have been recording old
albums


I bought a little mixer (can vary input this and that) and I've
been doing much the same. 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.

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

I thought I was sneaking into a basketball game. I opened a secret
window in the weight lifting room, crawled across the squash courts
and then walked upstairs from the locker room, with square shoulders
and a practiced, arrogant look--like I belonged there.

What I found instead, instead of a basketball game, was....well...it
made me what I am today :-)

"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.

On Jan 31, 5:04 pm, "Larry L" wrote:

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.

In New Yawk, at Birdland, they called that the Peanut Gallery.
I saw Monk there once....and a few other such groups. And then,
in the mid-60s, LSD music from S. Francisco put jazz out of bidness.
....not that I didn't like Country Joe McDonald and all those other
totally weird groups.....like the Anonymous Artists of America,
the Ragamuffins and the Darma Ding Dongs. But they weren't
worth the end of widespread jazz music.

There were some good parts to the 60s. And lot's of bad stuff,
like Nixon and the war and the demise of our best music.

"while-one" wrote


There were some good parts to the 60s. And lot's of bad stuff,
like Nixon and the war and the demise of our best music.



Man, that is the truth.



Much of that period was NOT good. I didn't answer Steve in this thread
with his "don't remember much of the 60's" joke because I never find it
funny. I lost several friends to drugs. I won't get personal enough
to cover most of the memories I have of that time on this forum, or with
anyone but my closest friends, for that matter.

But, one vaguely amusing 'claim to fame" I have is that I stopped taking LSD
before it was made illegal, another is that I went to genuine Ken Kesey
"acid tests" where he put it in the kool-aid for all to try.

Really however ..... No, I don't think stoned or drunk are "cute" ... been
there too often and know the truth.




Recently, my kid was thinking of a transfer to Berkeley, so the family went
there to check out the campus. I didn't attend school there but have a
history there. I could still point out the places where we'd been tear
gassed to my son .... as he and I talked and each tried to understand why
his generation didn't hit the streets over Iraq.




As for the music, I went to the original Filmore ( size of a small high
school gym ) several times and saw groups that later became big ....
including Big Brother and the Holding Company ( Janis Joplin) It
doesn't take much to impress a stoned brain ... now or back then ........
and that "music" and nearly everything since ( imho ) was twelve steps
backwards from Miles, and Coltrane and Monk etc.



It was a tough, traumatic, time for me and for many others.



Larry L ................. sorry for the maudlin self indulgence

Larry L wrote:

But, one vaguely amusing 'claim to fame" I have is that I stopped taking LSD
before it was made illegal, another is that I went to genuine Ken Kesey
"acid tests" where he put it in the kool-aid for all to try.

Aaah the sugar cubes, wrapped in tin foil.
The Triple-A band (the anonymous artists of america)
were the band at most of the acid tests.

I remember once, when living in a teepee circle at the tripleA,
in southern Colorado, when some diggers showed up with an early
video recorder (we had extension cord plug in mounted on a power pole)
that displayed on a black and white TV. They showed us a
sequence they filmed of some hog butchering. They were
radical vegetarians and they thought this video would
turn anybody into a veggie.

But we had a hog we needed to butcher, so we kept
asking them to back it up and re-run it at certain key spots.
I'll wager I was one of the few people ever,
who lived in a teepee and tied flies in it.

"Steve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:21:16 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

I didn't answer Steve in this thread
with his "don't remember much of the 60's" joke because I never find it
funny.

Sorry Larry.
It was trite anyhow.

Not trite, just an old joke. Jokes get to be old jokes for the obvious
reason. If someone who prides himself on his absolute inability to get
along with human beings fails to see the humor (which is, after all, an
exercise in humanity), so what?

Wolfgang

"Steve" wrote


Sorry Larry.
It was trite anyhow.


Oh, Steve, I didn't mean my comments to in anyway insult you. The "I was
so '****ed up' ... joke" is simply a part of our culture, of ROFFian
culture, for sure. I'm the odd man out, not you ... I don't find such
jokes "bad" ... I simply don't find them funny, either.


Larry L

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:04:14 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:


"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'm not offering definitive legal advice, but if I understand it
correctly, it's not illegal to download music (for personal use) if you
already own a "hard copy" and retain the hard copy.

TC,
R




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.