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This is one of my favorite albums of the time. I have posted some reviews below - "too perfect", "too well-crafted", "flawless" LOL ... What the hell are these people complaining about? **** Alone Together Dave Mason Blue Thumb 19 Released: June 1970 Chart Peak: #22 Weeks Charted: 25 Certified Gold: 2/7/74 Like Traffic's new album John Barleycorn Must Die, former Traffic member Dave Mason's Alone Together is a good album -- careful, well played, occasionally brilliant and well-conceived -- but like John Barleycorn, Alone Together never breaks its vinyl bonds and soars. The songwriting talent of Mason remains undiminished on Alone Together, and his easy fluid voice, long in Traffic vocalist Stevie Winwood's giant shadow, is used to maximum effect. This is, of course, the marbled LP, a brilliant burst of color spinning on the turntable, the grooves barely discernible so the needle seems to be floating across the record. Maybe the next step could be a little cartoon around the edge of the record, like those flip-the-pages funnies, or a slow inward spiral so you could be literally hypnotized by the record. The music is vintage Mason, veering here and there towards commercialism but never quite getting there, slick but not offensive. Falling in line with the rest of Great Britain, Mason chose old Delaney and Bonnie sidemen for the session, including Leon Russell, Jim Keltner, Carl Radle and Rita Coolidge, plus old Mother Don Preston. Russell, as always, is much in evidence, and his piano (if it is him -- the album doesn't say and we have only internal evidence), particularly on "Sad and Deep As You," is masterful. The high point of the album is clearly "Look at You Look at Me," a song Mason wrote with Trafficker Jim Capaldi, whose tight, urgent drumming on the cut moves the song along with descretion and skill. Mason's singing is simply superb. The other exceptional cuts are "Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave" (Mason is not, between you and me, a great song titlist), which features the best wah-wah guitar since Clapton's initial exposition on "Tales of Brave Ulysses"; and "World in Changes," with Mason's deceptively simple lyrics pulled along by some brilliant organ work. High commercial potential on the album is represented by "Only You Know and I Know," which has a rick-ticky rhythm reminiscent of "You Can All Join In." It's really a trivial song (like others on the album, particularly "Waitin' On You" and "Just A Song"), but it will sound great on a tinny AM radio at 60 miles an hour. But the album is more potential than realization. It is, in a very real sense, flawless, but, as Paul McCartney is beginning to learn, great music is much better than flawless music. - Jon Carroll, Rolling Stone, 9/3/70. Bonus Reviews! Mason with help from friends Jim Capaldi and Leon Russell proves his mastery of the rock idiom once and for all. The lyric content and music content of every song catches the senses of the listener and creates excitement. There is no doubt about the power of this album, and it should prove a top chart item. - Billboard, 1970. Further reading on Super Seventies RockSite!: Album Review: Headkeeper Album Review: Traffic - Welcome To The Canteen I know, the real heavy in Traffic, great songwriter, poor Stevie is lost without him, Delaney & Bonnie on tour, rakka-rakka-rakka. I love "Feelin' Alright" myself. But I've never wondered for a second what it means, and only when the music is as elemental as "Feelin' Alright" can such questions be overlooked. I mean, songs have words. This is both complex and likable-to-catchy, with a unique light feel that begins with the way Mason doubles on acoustic and electric. But he doesn't have the poetic gift that might justify his withdrawal from "games of reason" in the immodestly entitled "Just a Song." Songs have words. B - Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, 1981. Mason's first solo effort after leaving the legendary Traffic, Alone Together is a good, but not great record -- too well-crafted, too safe. Nonetheless, his reputation as a composer, guitarist, and singer of the first rank is both merited and in evidence here. In addition, Mason is supported by first-rate musicians who work effectively together. The highlights include "Only You Know and I Know," "World In Changes," and "Look at You Look at Me." The sound is essentially equivalent to the LP. B- - Bill Shapiro, Rock & Roll Review: A Guide to Good Rock on CD, 1991. Mason's debut solo album remains his best effort, due to well-crafted tracks like the hit "Only You Know & I Know" and an appealing easy-going rock sound that presents a nice blend of acoustic and electric instrumentation. * * * * - Rick Clark, The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995. Alone Together is a bit deficient in the lyric department (always a Mason problem) but offers music so perfect that here, for once, that shortcoming can be overlooked. There's more forward momentum here than on all his Columbia work combined. * * * * 1/2 - Steve Holtje, Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, 1996. http://www.superseventies.com/spmasondave.html

I remember liking the album below. Didnt he play with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends? Dave Mason?

The Gift - John Adorney From the cd 'Beckoning" on the Max label. It's a new age thingy that's spinning off the satellite station...

Bold Brady still hungers for Super success Fri Feb 4, 7:07 AM ET By Tom Pedulla, USA TODAY New England Patriots (news) owner Robert Kraft will never forget the young man who approached him as he left old Foxboro (Mass.) Stadium in June 2000 at the end of a day of minicamp. "We haven't met. I'm Tom Brady." "I know who you are," Kraft replied. "You're from Michigan, and you're our sixth-round draft choice." "Yes," Brady said, "and I'm the best decision this organization has ever made." Kraft smiled and moved on, but the confidence and determination conveyed by the 199th player taken in that year's draft - a pick coach Bill Belichick felt offered too much value to be ignored - will always stay with him. The owner told his family that night about the self-assuredness of a quarterback who was not at all certain to survive the roster cuts. Kraft delights in the retelling, with Brady about to lead New England against the Philadelphia Eagles (news) in Super Bowl XXXIX with a chance for the Patriots' third NFL title in four years. The two-time Super Bowl MVP, playing with a heavy heart after the death of his 94-year-old grandmother Wednesday, would be 9-0 in postseason starts. (Related item: Brady's grandmother dies) If the youngest quarterback to win two Super Bowls delivers again, at 27, the drumbeat to compare him to boyhood idol Joe Montana and stamp him as a Hall of Famer after four seasons as a starter will intensify. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=...ccess&printer=1

Music Artist Biography: Leon Russell By Jason Ankeny The ultimate rock & roll session man, Leon Russell's long and storied career includes collaborations with a virtual who's who of music icons spanning fromJerry Lee Lewis to Phil Spector to the Rolling Stones. A similar eclecticism and scope also surfaced in his solo work, which couched his charmingly gravelly voice in a rustic yet rich swamp pop fusion of country, blues and gospel. ttp://star103fm.com/p/music/biography.cgi?artist_id=5327

The whole thing is disgusting. These people are all un-American and should be shipped to hell.

The Chemical Brothers are best known for fusing techno, house, and hip-hop and then marrying those genres to whatever is in fashion. The results are always top notch - this is a terrific album

Except he's a piece of shit thug. Didn't he murder someone too? I'm not sure on that, but I think so. No. The conspiratorialists have tried to implicate him in the Biggie Small/Tupac Muders, but he did neither.

I gave em getstapo salutes as a teenager and they couldnt do anything about it *** Speaking of improoper hand signals, lets not forget: http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?&act=ST&f=81&t=9538

CollegeHumor.com on the Superbowl: Super Bowl Sunday is once again drawing near, and unlike Superman or Super Nintendo, this day is actually great. What to watch for? I’m no Terry Bradshaw, but these storylines could be huge in the big game. God healed Terrell Owens:Apparently I misread the entire Bible, and when Jesus said, “Love thy neighbor,” he meant, “Be thou an egocentric, homophobic asshole. As long as thou can breakest away from double coverage.” And we’d been making fun of Christian Scientists for listing God as their health insurance. Just don’t call it the “Holy HMO,” it sounds too much like “homo.” The halftime show will offer few surprises. The NFL just axed Latino rock sensations Los Lonely Boys because their drummer was caught carrying a joint. Instead, we’re being treated to convicted international drug smuggler Paul McCartney, the man responsible for Wings. Because in America’s heartland, it’s not your crimes that matter; it’s whether or not you’re white. Philly fans take things a bit too seriously. I live in Philly, and 85% of my Catholic neighbors say they’d be willing to see the Pope’s medical condition deteriorate from “stable” to “dead” if it ensured an Eagles win. Tom “Jan” Brady is pretty good. The announcers aren’t going to let you forget this one, even if it means exaggerating a bit. Before kickoff, they’ll treat you to the story of how Brady cured cancer and wrote the classic song “Blame it on the Rain.” Plus, he was a Gap model! Then again, so was Sarah Jessica Parker, so apparently you don’t have to be attractive to get that gig. Final Score: Eagles 31-24. I don’t know if it will happen, but if I didn’t make this pick, two guys named “Rocko” from South Philly are going to break my thumbs. Ordinarily not a big deal, but Dr. God’s surgery schedule looks pretty tight this week. Update by Ethan on Feb. 5th, 2005 http://www.collegehumor.com/

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Posted February 2, 2005 12:29 PM. Man gets probation in potato-gun death URBANA, Ohio (AP) — A man was sentenced to three years probation after admitting he fired potatoes from a metal pipe contraption that exploded, killing his brother-in-law. Judd B. Coffey, 32, also must perform 100 hours of community service for a charge of possessing a dangerous ordnance, under the ruling Tuesday by Champaign County Common Pleas Judge Roger Wilson. http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/news/updates/11144.html

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Reactor a maze of hallucinogenic layers Posted: 01.27.2005 Metropolis Records/TECHNICIAN Jake Seaton It may quite possibly be inevitable that with Juno Reactor's every release, the UK-based sound system strikes gold in its fading genre of Jungle-Trance. Labyrinth is the fifth full-length album -- not including Luciana, which was a 61-minute Jungle opus -- from Ben Watkins, the pivotal member of Juno Reactor since 1994. The album marks a four-year point of little turn-over from Watkins besides his contributions to The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions soundtracks, with which he worked closely with producer/engineer Don Davis. Read more here: http://technicianonline.com/story.php?id=010925

Music Reviews by Nicholas LoFaro February 03, 2005 John Frusciante, "Curtains"/New Folk Music From Chili Peppers Guitarist John Frusciante was with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the early '90s and carried them through their albums "Californication" and "By The Way" after Dave Navarro left the band after 1995's "One Hot Minute." After almost dying from drug addiction in the starting days of the RHCP, Frusciante left the band and went off to recovery. His brush with death and his struggles with personal ambivalence and relationships have given him enough force to create solid and recognizable music, both with RHCP and as a solo artist. For fans of his past two solo albums - "To Record Only Water for Ten Days" and "Shadows Collide With People" - "Curtains" will meet expectations, but for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers who have never heard Frusciante alone, don't expect the sounds you'd hear on a Chili Peppers album. Frusciante as a solo artist is almost entirely folk-oriented, and the funk and fusion, as well as the hard rock, elements of the Chili Peppers are absent from the guitarist's work. http://www.collegian.com/vnews/display.v/A...3/4201ce976b937

Jackson Goes to Court: to Moonwalk or to Tiptoe? By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: February 6, 2005 LOS ANGELES ON Day 1 he looked angelic in his white three-piece suit with a rope of jeweled baubles at the waist and a gold armband. On Day 2 he chose a black suit and a red shirt accented with a choker pendant, a brocade vest and a royal crest. As his trial on charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy began last week, Michael Jackson did not play the part of the criminal defendant ordered by his lawyers to buy a respectable suit and tie. Instead he was his flamboyant pop-star self. With the trial expected to last as long as six months, court-watchers seemed to be in for a long parade of Mr. Jackson's music-videoworthy outfits. But some criminal defense lawyers, including some who have represented celebrities, question this not-so-incidental aspect of the defense strategy. Wardrobes do not make or break cases, they said, but Mr. Jackson's choices are an important piece of the image projected to the judge and jury who will decide his fate. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/fashion/06JACK.html

Still in Play Selling out or selling soap, classic rock gets a new spin as the modern ad jingle BY CHIP JONES TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Jan 30, 2005 If you could travel back in time to the late 1960s and landed outside the recording studio of the Jefferson Airplane, it might, as they used to say, "blow your mind." Imagine giving the band's lead singer, Grace Slick, a glimpse of the future, such as the ultimate fate of their song "Volunteers of Amerika" which proclaimed in 1969, "Look what's happening out in the streets/Got a revolution got to revolution." The song was considered so seditious that their record company refused to put the complete title on the album. Eventually the title was cut to "Volunteers." That was only the start. "One day," you tell the shocked singer, "your song will be used in TV commercials to sell stock for a company called E*Trade and cell phones for something called nTelos." Read more here: http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satel...d=1031780532392

Word that the four original Meters have agreed to reunite April 23 at Jazzfest is music to the ears of funk fans. Starting in the late 1960s, keyboardist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter Jr. and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste defined slinky New Orleans funk with a succession of classic albums. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/ind...68510191480.xml

Letter From Ethiopia Decades After His Death, Bob Marley's Vision Unites By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, February 5, 2005; Page C01 ADDIS ABABA -- Under the Rastafarian yellow, green and red flags unfurled around the city to celebrate what would have been reggae hero Bob Marley's 60th birthday, African Americans from Brooklyn, draped in the continent's colorful dress, came together with Ethiopian royalty returning from exile and dreadlocked Rasta pilgrims from Jamaica, England and Japan (yes, Japan). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...8-2005Feb4.html

50 Cent fans will want to mark their calendars for February 13, when 50 guest stars on the animated series "The Simpsons." MTV reports that during the episode, called "Pranksta Rap," Bart sneaks out to see 50 Cent in concert. Then to avoid getting grounded, Bart fakes his own kidnapping. http://netmusiccountdown.com/inc/news_article.php?id=7407

Friday, February 4, 2005 Singer Kinky Friedman begins run for Texas governor By RALPH BLUMENTHAL THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSTON -- As threatened, Kinky Friedman, the gadfly country singer and humorist, declared for Texas governor yesterday as an independent candidate in the 2006 race, saying, "The choice should be something besides paper or plastic." Appearing live from the Alamo in San Antonio on the Don Imus television and radio show broadcast nationally on MSNBC, Friedman, 60, said that although "a fool and his money are soon elected," he had high hopes of beating the Republican incumbent, Rick Perry, who "appears to be more interested in ironing his shirts than ironing out the problems of Texas." "I'm a Jew," said Friedman, who provided a rabbi for an invocation, "trust me; I'll hire good people." He said he had received 37 write-in votes in the Iraqi election. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/210720_kinky04.html

Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor Fri Feb 4,10:49 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts. The pair were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs after neighbor Wanita Renea Young, 49, filed a lawsuit complaining that the unsolicited cookies, left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../odd_cookies_dc **** Unsolicited Cookies!!!!!??? :reallymad: :reallymad:

It's So Cute! He's Going After Junior's Backpack! Fri Feb 4, 2:25 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters By Astrid Poei TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian couple has launched a business offering worried parents (or concerned employers) private drug-detection services that will search homes and offices for everything from marijuana to heroin. Russ Rathy of Pense, Saskatchewan, started the home-based business, Crusader Resources, along with his wife, after buying a young German shepherd trained to sniff out drugs. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e_canada_dog_dc