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I'd love to read that. Shall I PM you my email address?

You can see their Isle of Wight performance on "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue". I'm not sure if this is their entire performance, supposedly it is. It's only 20 something minutes, but there were zillions of bands playing that festival so they probably did short sets. The sax player is Gary Bartz.

Cool to see this mentioned. I was listening to it today. Actually, it's still in my player. Maybe I'll hit play again. Jim Keltner gets into some really unorthodox drumming on this one.

Monk w/ Coltrane will forever be one of my top 5 albums no matter what comes out between now and the end of my life.

Eugene Chadbourne can be pretty out there. One of his guitars has a toaster for a body. I've seen him make toast while playing, then play guitar with the toast and then hand the remnants of the toast to an audience member seated next to me...someone I knew, who later told me the toast was delicious. When he leaves behind the schtick and plays the guitar in a more conventional manner it becomes obvious that he is a very talented guitarist. You could almost say Eugene is a comedy version of Nels. If you're a big Zappa fan I think this would be worth going to see.

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In my experience, religion does not claim to be able to do those things, so why should we expect that from a rock?

The Wurlitzers I've seen have typically been in the $500 to $700 range. They're still somewhat easy to find. The problem with them is that the reeds break if you are heavy handed and can be difficult to replace. Once you find replacements you have to tune them, which involves working with solder.

I was in a band with some guys who had these things. They never managed to find the good sounds that may or may not have been available. I think it takes a lot of tedious knob twiddling and button pushing to find the best sounds (even if all you're trying to do is pull up a satisfying distortion sound). I can't blame anyone for not going through that lengthy process. Unfortunately, the result is usually digital pedal board = goofy sounds.

You can see a few Zappa plays Zappa performances and several bits of Dweezil playing Frank's parts on the "Classic Albums: Apostrophe & Overnight Sensation" dvd that came out recently.

They have a lot of good albums. I've always held "Sister" in high regard.

Aside from the first album, which I don't care for, I think the Coral have produced some fine albums. I hope I'll get a chance to see them in concert not as an opening act.

Several of the most beautiful songs I've heard in the last few years have been Fairport songs. Teriffic band. Thanks for the story. I had never read a detailed account of their crash.

There's a small possibility I have two copies. I had two at one time but I think I gave one away. If I still have an extra I'll give one of them up. However, It'll probably be a week or so before I have a chance to dig through my old magazines and find out if I have it or not.

Here's a copy. $8. http://www.jklutherie.com/index.asp?PageAc...mp;ProdID=69104

PBS has been kicking ass with the documentaries lately. Even the ones on subjects I have no interest in at all (hair shows, synchronized swimming) have been well done and entertaining. The Les Paul doc they aired a couple weeks ago was outstanding. The ferret one was kind of dull, but I only saw the last 30 minutes which focused more on the owners & ferret competition award ceremonies (where everyone seems to win) than the ferrets themselves.

You can find it on ebay fairly often.

Not yet. Their website content is not up to date with the magazine content.

Pretty cool interview. His new Singers album is reviewed in the same issue. At the end of the interview it says you can read (ar watch?) more of the interview at guitarplayer.com (or guitarplayertv.com) but I could not find it on either of those sites. However, I did find a 2 minute clip on guitarplayertv.com of Nels and Glenn from one of thier shows.

You blast the wax out with a water sqeezer.

I might try these. I play drums, so I wear earplugs a lot. Sometimes the plugs compact the wax into my ear. Ear drops work, but I have to use it three or four days in a row. From what I uderstand, the candle method clears it up in one use.

Gogo mentioned Ennis. Ennis would be the perfect place to stay for the last day/night before flying home (assuming you'd be flying out of Shannon Airport). We made the mistake of staying in Shannon on our last night. The folks we stayed with were nice, but Shannon was a generic US style suburb with no pubs and only a mall w/ chain restaurants.

Everyone seems to. We took a double decker tour on new years day 1999. Nobody got off at any of the stops, except the Guinness and Jameson stops. The bus completely emptied at the Guinness brewery, and 90% of the bus got off at Jameson.

DEFINITELY go to Dingle. Killarney Nat'l Park was very nice. http://homepage.eircom.net/~knp/ We wish we had spent one more day in Galway and one less in Dublin.

Yeah, from what I've read, it creates a vacuum that draws the wax out of your ear and does not dump more wax in.