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"Sonny Rollins, the saxophone colossus, 50 years later, and still blowing us away: not only with his music but with the amazing way he has modeled a humble life of self-improvement and learning. Sonny Rollins blew us away as jazz-eared tykes with his Saxophone Colossus album in 1956: it introduced the big virile Coleman Hawkins sound of his horn, also his story-telling authenticity with a marvelous Caribbean folk tune like “St. Thomas” (which he was said to have learned on his mother’s knee), and the fine-tuned intimacy of his duets with other colossi — in this case Max Roach on drums and Tommy Flanagan on piano. To this day, a half century later, Sonny Rollins keeps blowing us away not only with his records but with the amazing way he has modeled a humble life of self-improvement. Almost as famous as Rollins himself is his long spell of self-exile from 1959 to 1962 on New York City’s Williamsburg Bridge, where he played his way into new understanding and mastery of his music, and conceived among many other things The Bridge. “To me it’s always been a learning thing,” Sonny Rollins still says. Though he made mature recordings, like Time on My Hands in his early twenties, Sonny Rollins has long thought of himself as one whose dedication to music came a little late, not least because he’d so enjoyed himself as a cartoonist and painter in high school. Exposed early to the genius generation of Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell, he has said: “I didn’t have a lot of confidence that I was good enough to make it.” And here he is in his mid-Seventies, exceeding his studio performances with unbearably exciting live performances on tour (stopping at Boston’s Symphony Hall on Friday), and deigning to be interviewed, live, Thursday afternoon on Open Source..." Listen to it live April 5, 2007 at 7 PM EDST (like beginning 3 minutes ago) here, or anytime with this permanent link here

I am in there sometimes too--not as much now that all I have is the laptop, which is in the road with me during work hours. When I get a PC built up in the near future I will be a permanent fixture again.

How cool is this? I had an 8-track RECORDER...built into the Sears stereo my folks bought probably sometime around 1974. I remember making a homemade tape of In Through The Out Door that we listened to in my mothers '79 Ford Granada, which had a built-in 8 track player. And some one gave me some 8-track tapes--I know I never bought any, but I had Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo and I think some Steve Miller Band and Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog.

That was an incredibly stupid story.

Wow, Janet999! Long time no see/here/read...whatever netiquette is appropo. Happy Birthday!

Another announcement on April 1st...you're good Method. Damn good.

John Coltrane - Resolution Good "gettin' ready for work on Monday morning motivation" music....

If this were any other day of the year I would be getting out the sleeping bag and heading over to the nearest Tower Records to start camping out...

Thanks Dude! Just spreadin' the love...

Attention customers: TESTICLES That is all.

Actually it sounds like Barbarino's Travolta's more of domeass...

Cool! I saw the Heaven and Tour back in 1980... And here's the dates, starting with tonight's show. I could actually catch two shows (one at the Mohegan Sun Casino and 2 nights later in Lowell MA), but I'll probably just go to one. We'll see :rolleyes: 3-30-2007 Friday 8:00 PM Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY 4-22-2007 Sunday 7:30 PM Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, AZ 4-24-2007 Tuesday 7:00 PM HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA 4-25-2007 Wednesday 7:30 PM The Forum in Inglewood, CA 4-26-2007 Thursday 7:30 PM Coors Amphitheatre -CA in Chula Vista, CA 4-28-2007 Saturday 8:00 PM Journal Pavilion in Albuquerque, NM 4-29-2007 Sunday 7:30 PM Broomfield Event Center in Broomfield, CO 5-1-2007 Tuesday 7:30 PM Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Selma) in Selma, TX 5-2-2007 Wednesday 7:30 PM Woodlands Pavilion in Spring, TX 5-3-2007 Thursday 7:30 PM Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie in Grand Prairie, TX 5-5-2007 Saturday 7:30 PM Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL 5-6-2007 Sunday 7:30 PM Target Center in Minneapolis, MN 5-8-2007 Tuesday 7:30 PM US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, OH 5-10-2007 Thursday 7:00 PM Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA 5-11-2007 Friday 7:00 PM Tower City Ampitheatre in Cleveland, OH 5-12-2007 Saturday 7:30 PM Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI 5-14-2007 Monday 7:30 PM Times Union Center in Albany, NY 5-15-2007 Tuesday 7:00 PM Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT 5-17-2007 Thursday 7:00 PM Tsongas Arena in Lowell, MA 5-18-2007 Friday 7:00 PM Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD 5-19-2007 Saturday 7:00 PM PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ

Yes, Happy Belated Birthday Spud!!

Christian Mcbride - Uhura's Moment Return His Sci-fi has been in heavy rotation here...

Granted--No one else will ever again be born between June 22 and July 22. I wish I could destroy the RIAA.

Ewe guys! That's baaaaad!

Spring cleaning. What else? The garage is piled nigh on high--I want to start getting my motorcycle prepped and made roadworthy for spring rides as warms up, and go through the kids bikes, fix flat tires and busted pedals and the like. Probably going to be putting a bunch of that crrrrrrap filling the garage into storage so I can walk around out there. Oh yeah, and the kids have swimming lessons, dance lessons, I have some editing to do on a thing I'm writing, and maybe I'll go see The 300 with my friend from Boston after he gets back from Belgium tomorrow. And me an' the missus wanted to go to Agway or some similar gardening/aggie type place to get peat pots and other stuff for sprouting stuff for the garden--she has a ton of seed packets already, and I even bought some sunflower seed packets the other day at the supermarket in anticipation of the spring sowing. Maybe we'll order some chickens or ducks while we're there too.

Viacom sucks. So say I.

Streaming wouldn't have anything to with it either. That we can listen to an album before we buy it, find out it sucks beforehand, and not buy it?

It was a close call with Let It Bleed, but there is nothing better album in this whole wide world to drink bourbon, swill beer and chain smoke to than Beggars Banquet.

Persian Emissary: This is madness! Spartan King Leonidas: Madness? This is 0000 BeatKing!

Hopefully Methodistan will wake up in Lazarus--all he has to do is pm the mods from the link here and give them his email address and the name of his nation.

Hopefully someone will be recording this, so one could download it buy it after the show

Yeah that first vid sucked. The second one is somewhat better--I think the guess that Kedis was nodding off in that first one isn't far off the mark. I saw them in like 1989 on the Mother's Milk tour. That was their first album with Frusciante on board. Back then they totally fucking rocked. They're all old and shit now. Just like the rest of us.

Granted, but it's all in 3 cent postage stamps from Paraguay. I wish I had some potato chips.