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Oh yeah, Naked City. Definitely challenging/abrasive. Well, duh, I totally spaced on an opportunity to pimp Nels. Some great stuff that might appeal to Rider is the Scott Amendola Band. I like "Cry" best. Or, just check out any album Nels plays on that was released by the Cryptogramophone label.

You must've heard wrong, because his couch isn't leather. It looks sort of like this:

You should see Tony Iommi's couch in this dvd.

Is Zorn in Last Exit? I've only heard their live album, which Zorn doesn't play on. I'm kind of out of the loop when it comes to newer jazz artists. But, if you're into MMW, etc. you might enjoy things like Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi, Sextant, Fat Albert Rotunda or Crossings. Or his Headhunters band. Also, Miles Davis's electric period. Live Evil, Tribute to Jack Johnson, Bitches Brew, etc.

Let's just hope Mick Jagger doesn't try to one up them by announcing a Stones tour, pulling Woodie away from Rod.

Please note the major edit I made in my post. I probably should have made a new post rather than editing. I don't think the Experience was, or set out to be, the first jazz fusion band. I do think they created a new and very heavily and obviously jazz inflected sound which inspired others to explore similar territory, eventually winding up with Miles stating his intentions to do something new, which wasn't really new at all. He was just the first to say what he was up to, which somehow got translated through the course of history into Miles inventing a new genre.

Of course it does. EDIT: To be more clear, I should say that Mitch bringing jazz rhythms into that particular group, with a guitarist who clearly had a harmonic sensibility approaching, if not equal to that of a jazz guitarist, does constitute jazz-rock. Had Mitch been in a band with someone who just played root-five power chords, then no, it probably would not constitute jazz-rock.END EDIT. The opposite, bringing rock elements (i.e. the beat) into jazz, is basically the definition of jazz-rock fusion. Fusion guys wanted rock energy with jazz harmony. Hendrix and Cream (though I think

Mitch was playing jazz drums (i'm not talking about solos) with Hendrix in 1966. That predates Miles bringing rock into his music. EDIT: I should say 1967 and not '66, since "Third Stone From the Sun" is the most obvious example of Mitch's jazz drumming from the first Experience album, which was mostly recorded and released in '67. That's still two years before Miles incorporated rock into his music...I don't mean to take anything away from, or dismiss Miles in any way. I love him, I just think he just get's more credit than is due when it comes to "fusion" music. He did. After M

He (and a handful of his contemporaries) also deserves way more credit for jazz-rock than Miles Davis. Sorry Miles, but you were at least two years behind on that one.

I just got a dog a week ago. She hasn't gtten up to much shenanigans yet, but she found a small dead snake in the road the other day while we were on a walk. We tried to divert her attention elsewhere, but she managed to rub her face all over it before we could get her to move along.

Mitch Mitchell was my main inspirations when I started playing drums in ninth grade in 1989. RIP Mitch.

I didn't read this thread, so maybe this has been discussed, but it's my opinion that if GM had not killed the EV1 they'd probably be posting record profits right now. I wouldn't give them one cent without a laundry list of conditions.

I don't really miss going to big concerts.

Agreed. Terrence is an assclown. Nick and Starr do seem to be among the more competent and confident racers this season. I'd like to see the couple with the screwed up marriage do well. They seem like they're putting a lot of effort into the game and into fixing their relationship. Aside from the old hippies who were obviously destined to lose right off the bat, there were no oddball teams to root for (or against) this year like there have been in previous seasons (Kynt and Vyxsin...love her!, the hippies, the "my ox is broken" guy who got arrested in Africa). I also agree that Family

I'm hoping to put together a computer based setup in the next year or so, but for the last couple years I've used this setup with decent results. Certainly more than good enough to make demos and save song ideas: Tascam Portastudio digital 8 track (this cost me $499 w/ a condensor mic two years ago, but you could probably get one of these for $200 now): With a Shure SM57 and and Audio Technica AT2020 ($100 large diaphragm condensor mic. Mine came w/ the recording machine as a package deal). With just those two mics, I've been able to record all the typical rock band instruments fai

I like this one better than West. I REALLY wanted to like West since at the time I was practically obsessed with anything Bill Frisell played on, but it never held my attention, so I canned it.

I guess that means you had plenty of beer.

I hope you had a lot of BBQ and beer. I'm thinking George Hurley can put away a lot of both.

Awesome. That reminds me that Watt was playing a Squier bass that he borrowed from an audience member (or maybe it was the opening band) at the gig that was recorded for the Firehose "Live Totem Pole EP".

Me too. Sorry Watt.

My dad has cable and watches Fox all the time. He lives near me, so I visit fairly often. Therefore, I get to watch Fox News regularly.

I don't have cable or any of that crap, so I watched NBC and PBS. I like Jim Lehrer's crew. After a while PBS was getting too analytical. That was a good thing during the debates, but I was tired and I just wanted to see the numbers come in. NBC provided the numbers and it was the station that gets the best reception in my house, so they won. Brit Hume is the worst person on television. EDIT: ok maybe that's rash, but he's beyond awful.

The number of "I'm a Georgia Voter" stickers I saw today on my lunch break was really incredible.

I voted last Monday in Dekalb County, GA. It took two hours. On my drive in to work this morning at 8:20 I passed a voting precinct a block or two away from the various MLK historic sites. There was a line of approximatelty 100 people outside. No telling how long the indoor portion of the line was. Local news is reporting that lines are moving faster today than they did in the early voting period.