As one or two of you may have noticed (or not! :-), I've stopped posting to new threads for many months now. But Slipknot1's thread idea is something I had once thought of starting myself, right around the time I cut way back over here. So I feel justified in making this a semi-regular exception, and will enjoy doing so since it concerns music and not gear.
On the TT: British Invasion night with LP's from one-shots Ian & The Zodiacs, and a couple from two-shot'ers The Zombies. (No intentional "z" theme here, it just worked out that way.) Last week I saw The Zombies for the second time since Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent rejoined forces again about three years ago. They're currently out touring with Arthur Lee & Love (also the second time I've seen them in the past year), who I must say surpassed them as the opening act on a double bill right out of my grooviest 60's dreams.
In the CD (home and car): Art Blakey titles (The Big Beat, The Witch Doctor, Mosaic, Buhaina's Delight, Orgy in Rhythm [all Blue Note], & The Jazz Messengers [Impulse!] ) recently added to ever-growing AB collection are in constant rotation. Rudy van Gelder was a busy busy man. I grew up across the street from a friend whose father actually knew Bu, from back when he worked as maitre d' at a long-defunct NY club called the Cork & Bib where the Messengers used to gig. When he was alive he used to tell the story of how once when the band crashed at his pad for the night they were so bleary-eyed, they left the next morning having neglected to pack AB's drums in the van; after they got a couple hours away they realized their blunder and had to double all the way the back again to retrieve them. Nothing but the posh life for those beboppers in the 50's folks. C'mon now: how cool is it to be able to say, "I remember the time Art Blakey left his drums at my house"? Fagedaboudit!
