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  1. 6 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    Have we still not hit 100 in Austin yet this year?

    It might not be official, but I heard the weather gal on a local station mention 3-4 days in a row at 100.

  2. I'm pretty sure everything was tracked to stereo or even mono, because to my knowledge The Beatles and Geoff Emerick were trailblazers of sorts by going to 3 tracks.  My guess is that the RVG recordings sound great for very simple reasons:  the artists were terrific, they were prepared, RVG knew the room and his equipment, and he was able to mix on the fly.

  3. 18 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:

    I am curious as to what JimmyJazz thinks of Rudy Van Gelder.

    He recorded/engineered/mastered/cut just about everything he was involved with, and the old original Blue Note/Prestige/Impulse stuff is very sought after because of that “RVG sound”, but it seems like other engineers think he’s pretty overrated.

    He’s influential, if nothing else.

    I'm not really qualified to comment -- he mostly recorded out of his house in NJ and kept his "secrets" . . . secret.  The records sound great for the most part.  I certainly wouldn't call him overrated.

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  4. 34 minutes ago, UTCzech III said:

    (btw, saw the Cavvies last night in Mesquite, liked their show a lot, just curious, a lot of their shows seem to feature "manhood" or "brotherhood", intentional or just coincidence?)

    Not coincidence, but probably not entirely intentional, either.  Just deeply ingrained.  I'm just glad the horn line is on a serious push back to the top of the heap.  They sound fantastic this year, and I think the book is better than ever.  They aren't doing the things that will max out GE or visuals, but I don't care, they do what they do the way that they always do it.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    How did I just watch the open on the nbc sports app with dtvnow credentials?  

    I don't know.  I was able to stream it on a computer -- presumably, I could have done so on TV but all mine are older and don't really play nice with the internet -- so I assume the real disagreement is between local affiliates and AT&T.

  6. I was pretty "eh" about losing KXAN while the 2 fought it out, because the only NBC programming I watch tends to be local news (Jim Spencer Tornado Boner FTW) and then some crappy in-season programming that I can live without . . . but this weekend it occurred to me that The Open from Northern Ireland wasn't gonna happen and I got a little ragey.

  7. This appears to be an issue in select cities, not nationwide.  I'm a DirecTV subscriber and can still get KEYE (Austin CBS).

    Now, I can't get KXAN (Austin NBC), so I'm all about raging on the bullshit that happens between networks and distributors on a fairly regular basis, but honestly, I'm not sure which entities are more to blame.  At this point, though, it appears that CBS is still available throughout most of the US for AT&T customers.

  8. 33 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    hahahah, holy shit, trump does the white power hand sign.

    Totally not the white power hand sign.  It's just Trump showing how he lacks a racist bone in his body by evoking Eddie Murphy's reboot of Buckwheat:

    Image result for buckwheat ok sign

     

  9. 40 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    i'm also eager to see how jim jordan and matt gaetz smear the wall with feces.

    Well, we know Gym Jordan won't wear his sportcoat, at least for long, and he'll probably roll up his sleeves, and he'll definitely act shocked and outraged at the injustice playing out in front of him.  And then he'll ignore over a hundred young men being sexually abused by an associate.

  10. A little anecdote:  I took my wife and 2 younger kids to New Orleans a couple of years ago.  We stayed at the Royal Sonestra in the French Quarter, and when we were checking in I heard some pretty terrific jazz trumpet wafting out of the lobby bar.  My son is a trumpet player, in the 8th grade at the time, and I asked if he wanted to go listen.  He did, so we got the gals settled in our room and went back down for jazz and drinks (a scotch for me, and a virgin Jack & Coke for my son . . . so Coke).

    This trio was smokin' hot.  I couldn't believe how good a hotel bar band could sound at 3 PM.  I went up during a break and spoke with the bandleader, whose name was Ashlin Parker.  He was super cool, happy to talk to my son about trumpet studies, etc.  It was just a great experience.

    So later on I googled "Ashlin Parker", and you know, he's just a fucking Grammy Award winning trumpet player who has worked with tons of greats including stiffs with names like "Marsalis" and "Blanchard", and oh yeah, happens to lead the jazz trumpet studio at University of New Orleans (and has a masters degree from that school to boot).  The dude couldn't have been 35 years old.  Just fucking brilliant.

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  11. Yeah, I have nothing against Maynard Ferguson the player, it's just that his own band seemed to turn into sort of a circus act, especially after "Rocky".

    I don't think he was with Kenton in the 1960's or beyond, anyway.  But yes, that's the kind of big band I really like.  Thanks.  Not sure that's the best performance -- there are some clear intonation issues -- but for sure that's a style I really like.

  12. I think the guy who helped campaign against David Duke is spot on.  His point is the same as what many of us have been saying -- there is no swaying the base, you might as well argue with a fencepost or my wife.  It's all about voter turnout, and targeting the young voter and the apathetic voter is the winning strategy.  It's ridiculously simple.

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  13. Good topic.  I know a bit about jazz, and played it in HS, but I'd like to learn a lot more.  I have a good collection of the classics, mostly 50s/60s bop, etc. (Davis, Coltrane and the like), but certain styles appeal to me more.

    In particular, if anyone could recommend great options (both the recording and the performance) for these I'd appreciate it:

    -- piano trio (piano, upright bass & drums)

    -- big band (real firepower like Maynard Ferguson but without the histrionics)

  14. What's not to love about a juiced-ball opposite field pop slam to take a 4-run lead in the 10th?

    Things are about to get a lot more interesting -- 3 each against Houston and the Cubs after this Pittsburgh series.

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