LouieB

I have seen some crazy shit round here over the years including stuff I initiated myself, but coming in and asking for personal advice (as opposed to venturing a half assed opinion about politics, music or something else), without really giving accurate information is just begging for trouble. Don't ask for advice without having an open mind, giving a relatively complete story and taking everyone's opinion as their opinion. Someone needs to close this because you fucked up. End it now!! LouieB

I am on record as NOT being in the just let them die already...(ask ikol...) But just for the non-record, if you come on a threaded discussion board and ask for free advice, you get what you pay for. And if it is YOUR issue and you couch it as the GF, expect people to take YOU at your word. You did a disservice to your significant other. Have a nice weekend and a nice life with her.....seriously. LouieB

Well just for the record...the dump her was a lame attempt at humor, but the sentiment was not lame at all. Human relationships are wildly complex and no simple suggestion ever fits. All of us continue close interpersonal relationsihps because we can't let go. Letting go may well be the most difficult thing there is. LouieB

Actually I think they might carry cassettes at Laurie's or more likely they still carry them at Best Buy. I know the guy who fixes my hi-fi stuff has some. I can find one around I am sure. Making actual mix tapes used to be so much fun and so much work. I haven't dont that in years. Anyone who has never done it, should try just once in your life. LouieB

Let's get a room....(btw, it isn't just us suggesting this..in fact others have made a point of this too....) Again, not trying to cruel, but there are other folks to have a long term relationshiop with (it may not seem like it...), but you really only get one family. It is time for the GF to start coming around; that isn't kicking someone who is down at all, it is a dose of reality. If this is a problem with one member of the family that chronically has hated all the GFs all they way along (is this the story??) then yea, put your foot down and risk alienating that person so they come ar

Not kicking, but let's get real for a moment; separating out this request for advice from what the future holds. Long term relationships are very stressful even under the best of circumstances. It is a cliche to say you ont only mrry a person, but also their family, but it is very true. Unless you are willing to drop your family, you are pretty much stuck dragging your significant other to family events, which include not only holidays, informal get togethers, but also weddings, funerals, christenings, bar mitzvahs, etc. If your significant other really hates your family and they are forced

I did, but wasn't serious. However family problems can doom a relationship or at least make it difficult. LouieB

I still have my cassettes, but all of them are full. Will check out places for new ones. Meahwhile Jack White certainly has integrety, but he is also a multi-millionaire. Many struggling bands will still have to record and mix their albums on computer and then distribute their music via the internet or CD in order to get their product out to potential fans. Some will find the money to press LPs, if only to entice those hip fans who want to buy LPs instead of CDs. Just curious. How many LPs did Wilco sell of W(TA) as opposed to CD? I am going to guess even to LP savvy Wilco fans, they

I haven't added much to this lately, nor has anyone else. I have two suggestions not unlike other suggestions. Take a ride up Lincoln Avenue. Start just north of North Avenue and drive all the way to Lincolnwood. Along the way you go through some of the most interesting neighborhoods in the city (many mentioned in other posts) past great stores, restaurants, bars and clubs. If you only have a limited amount of time to see the city and want to experience it in a hurry this is good way to go. Actually you could walk it, ride a bike take the buses or drive. Hopefully some others will ch

Agreed. Since most people don't even know new music is coming out on LP it is unlikely that the CD is disappearing any time soon. (I feel like the proverbial broken record...) Sure LPs are selling at record levels now and probably will be for the forseeable future (at least as long as the artists are willing to give away free digital files), but in the long run LPs will also decline. Actually I could use some blank cassettes, anyone know where to buy some??? How many folks here even have a cassette recorder any more? Even today while stopping in at Lauries and buying the new Nels Cli

I don't know anything about this story but since you mentioned it......Charley Patton and Willie Brown...(Sadly Willie Brown was not recorded with Robert Johnson.) And also while we are at it, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. LouieB

Hopefully the guy can comfortably retire after this tour. LouieB

I got to thinking about this yesterday. While Horne's performances were informed by jazz, she was not really a jazz singer per se. Clearly she came up during the time when jazz (swing, etc.) was a dominant part of American popular music, but she was far more than a jazz singer and really more of a pop singer, with the ability to act, dance and charm the heck out of everyone. Her social activism was also a major part of her life. Calling Lena Horne a jazz singer is sort of like calling Harry Belefonte a folk singer; those labels are far too narrow for such over sized talents and personali

Deep Blue Organ Trio (Chicago, IL) I have seen these guys several times at jazzfest here in Chicago. They are a pretty standard Hammond B-3 type of group, with the stand-out member being Bobby Broom on guitar (drums is the third part of the trio.) They play a regular gig at the Green Mill which is down the street from the Riviera. Not sure I would go all the way to MA to see them, but as part of the rest of the lineup they are pretty good. LouieB

Dump her.... Not really, but if she hates your family it will only get worse with time and always be a problem. LouieB

Someone needs to start this thread.... A true groundbreaker. LouieB

Cole, like lots of alternative/indie type rock figures had his day and then faded away. He was certainly good. But maybe not all that good. And just like the afterward mentioned Jules Shear, someone I collected his records for the hell of it. Long ago here I threated to start a thread of all the artists I have sitting on my shelves that either were popular, barely popular or lost in the mists of musical time. It is a cautionary tale. Those artists that were hot hot hot, are destined to be dead cold someday. it is like my mention of Graham Parker in a thread not long ago. He was ho

And sadly they can't use it in concert anymore... LouieB

And as usual I am chiming in. I have collected a whole bunch of Jules Shear albums, all of which I like better than Lloyd Cole. Cole is coupled in my minde with Richard Lloyd for no other reason than their names are similar. Go figure. Most are pretty easy to get both the LPs an CDs. Shear on the other hand is a very good songwriter and his albums in general, both with the Polar Bears and by himself are good, if not outstanding and classics. the Eternal Return (I think is the name of it, but I will check when I am at home) is his best. The duets album is interesting. I have an EP of

I suspect if you don't like him now you won't. I have these and a couple others I think and none of them are that stunning. They are all just "okay". LouieB

I guess you had to be there.... I think I was a time or two...can't remember any more. LouieB

Yea, me too. Great stuff. Ah for those glorious days when folks were odd and strange without any irony or self-consiousness. Sadly those days are gone forever. LouieB

Which part is odd? That they choreographed their song or that they all dressed the same or they wrote tunes you could sing along with? LouieB

For all the hype about 180 gram records, etc, I am jus amazed that there are any issues with these LPs. I played two very old LPs from the early days of LPs yesterday and they didn't skip a bit. Go figure. LouieB

Any picture of the cover available? I guess not. LouieB