The Chameleon

Nice! The Jawdag B-Day bash. Count me in for the mosterjam that will most surely insue.

In the Hooch? for real isn't that gonna be toosmall?

and fix the title of this post.

Where's BradM when you need him.

What a dull unawakened world it would be withiout Albert Hoffman's discovery. I owe this man a debt for the non-stop good times I've had since first partaking in his little discovery.

...keep going for the next 100!

...Imagine he didn't dicover it, very possibly no Grateful Dead...unthinkable and scary.

Hey headz up Skanks...The Chameleon Project is the special guests at the What the Thunder Said Show.

We were looking for a chance to team up with these dudes and we'd love to welcome them back to the T-Dot.

More to follow....

P.s. Smoothedsheddar is right. JazzFM won't touch anyone not in the Toronto Jazz mafia (i.e Faculty formt he local Jazz departments at York, Humber, Mohawk etc..or those they directly endorse) I've been trying to get them to play anything my band does for years. I even went to all those schools. Tough go.

Mad Respect and a massive Big Up! to you on your day!

Keep on holding down tha bottom end!

Steven Harper is Bush part two. If he gets in he will be bending over for George W. Bush in no time. And to make matters worse I'm sure there will be no lube!

PLEASE GOD NO!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!1

Lou Rawls, the smooth-voiced, enduring singing star whose career traced a line from gospel to jazz and pop, died early yesterday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 72.

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Lou Rawls in 2001.

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Lou Rawls poses with his award at the 1972 Grammy ceremonies.

The cause was cancer, said his longtime manager and publicist, David Brokaw.

Successfully modeling himself partly on his friend Sam Cooke, as well as on Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, Mr. Rawls was a suave entertainer who appealed nearly equally to black and white audiences. He became best known for the unmistakable, mentholated baritone end of his vocal range, especially as heard on his biggest hit, "You'll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine)."

After his greatest successes, in the 1960's and 70's, Mr. Rawls became something of an elder statesman, raising millions for black colleges; providing a recognizable face in movies and on television, and a familiar voice for cartoons and commercials; and continuing to tour as a singer. His songs are still as likely to be played on jazz and easy-listening stations as on rhythm-and-blues and gospel outlets.

Born in Chicago and reared by his father's mother, Mr. Rawls began singing at 7 in the choir of her church, the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church. His singing became known around town, where he had what would become an important connection: Mr. Cooke, with whom he sang in a group called the Teenage Kings of Harmony.

Later Mr. Rawls joined another local gospel group, the Holy Wonders. In 1951, he took Mr. Cooke's place in the Highway QC's, staying for two years. In 1953, when the Chosen Gospel Singers came through Chicago, they hired him, giving him his first exposure on a recording, in 1954. He later sang with another group, the Pilgrim Travelers.

In 1955 Mr. Rawls enlisted as a paratrooper in the Army, and upon his return to civilian life, rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers as a lead singer. In 1958, while the group was touring with Mr. Cooke - who by that time had crossed over to the pop charts with "You Send Me"- both Mr. Rawls and Mr. Cooke were injured in a car accident that killed Eddie Cunningham, Mr. Cooke's driver. Mr. Rawls was in a coma for several days. After his recovery, he often said he felt he had been given a new life, and new reasons to live.

Like Mr. Cooke, Mr. Rawls was then leaning more and more toward secular music. (He sang on a number of Mr. Cooke's records, and can be heard singing low harmonies in the Cooke hit "Bring It On Home to Me.") In 1959, having recorded some singles of his own for the Candix label, he was performing at the Pandora's Box in West Hollywood. There the producer Nick Venet heard him, and soon signed him to Capitol Records, where he spent a decade.

His Capitol debut, in 1962, was "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water," teaming with the pianist Les McCann for a set of blues and jazz standards.

In his performances during the 1960's - a good example is "Lou Rawls Live!," a hit record from 1966 - he became famous for his monologues, sequences in which he would just talk over a chugging vamp, leading into and away from a song's refrain. In 1966 he had his first R&B No. 1 single, "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," and in 1967, he won his first of three Grammy Awards for the song "Dead End Street."

"I was born in a city that they call the Windy City," his drawled spoken sequence on that hit song began. "They call it the Windy City because of the Hawk, the almighty Hawk. Mr. Wind. Takes care of plenty business, round wintertime." Mr. Rawls talked about growing up fighting, bootstrapping and shivering through cold Chicago weather for almost half the song's length; then he broke into an impassioned, rugged, baleful cry, rough around the edges and imperturbably cool at the center.

Having also won the public admiration of Mr. Sinatra for his pop singing, Mr. Rawls signed with Philadelphia International, the label run by the producers and songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. In 1976 the team made Mr. Rawls's signature recording, "You'll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine)," a lavish ballad with disco rhythm. As a single, it sold a million copies and reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts.

That same year, he became a spokesman for Anheuser-Busch; it was his voice heard intoning the slogan "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all."

In 1980 he started the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon, a yearly television event that raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the United Negro College Fund.

Mr. Rawls also acted, appearing in about 20 films, including "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995), and many television series. He lent his voice to children's television shows, including "Garfield," "Hey Arnold!" and "The Rugrats," and provided the voice of the grandfather on Bill Cosby's animated series "Fatherhood." From 1989 to 1992, he made three albums with Blue Note.

In 2003 Mr. Rawls moved to Scottsdale, Ariz. On Jan. 1, 2004, in Memphis, he married his third wife, Nina, a former flight attendant, who managed his career for a time. In 2004 he learned he had lung cancer.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Rawls is survived by their son, Aiden. He is also survived by another son, Lou Rawls Jr. of Los Angeles, and two daughters, Louanna Rawls of Los Angeles and Kendra Smith of Los Angeles, and four grandchildren.

Over the years, Mr. Rawls's hits ranged from material that recalled rough roots, like "Tobacco Road" and "Natural Man," to the good-humored flirtation of "Fine Brown Frame" and the romance of "Lady Love." In another sign of his versatility, he released a Savoy Jazz tribute to one of his early pop models, "Rawls Sings Sinatra," in 2003, the same year he released "How Great Thou Art," an album of gospel and spiritual favorites.

Here's hoping Jimmy will release a solo album and tour soon. I really want something all Jimmy, not rehashing Zeppelin. As much as I love Zeppelin I need something new from the master.

you're either a genetic freak or an early cross-breeding Raelian experiment.

And also I probably am a genetic freak. I also think the purple font protects me

Hey if I write you a "JBP" theme, will you play it?

chameleon i'm the same way! if i go out and get absolutely smashed the next day i'll wake up at eight or so and be ready to go!

the nights i choose to stay in and do whatever it is that i do when i stay in and go to bed early, it's a guaranteed noon wakeup the next day.

it is weird and i've thought about it a lot. my friends are baffled.

i'm not going to question in though in fear of losing it. thank god i don't get hangovers like the ones my friends suffer from.

ps. do you drink lots of water? that could contribute to the lack of a hangover. i drink close to 3L per day.

Yes I do drink tonnes of water and I never go to bed drunk. I am also not 30 yet so, maybe that's it or something..although I'm close to thirty (a pierced up freak never tells his age.) I also treat my body fairly well (except the part chemicals and booze), I eat well, and go to the gym 3-4 times a week. I also think it really has something to do with me not drinking beer. I used to drink beer when I was like 17, then I stopped 'casue it always bloated me out and made me feel like crap.

I'm not questioning this genetic luck. Just wondering!

Here's to us pro party monsters! Keep on livinm' it up.

Ok this is weird and it has affected me my entire life.

When I go out and drink (3 cocktails or more..I don't drink beer) and party with various intoxicants. I feel great the next day refreshed and ready to go. Isn't it suppose to be the other way around?

On the other hand if I go to bed early and stay at home..I have to drag my ass out of bed and I'm not on my game until about noon.

Perfect example was last night.. I was fairly bummed out and bitter as usual..so some friends of my took me out to a hot Thursday night spot in Toronto. I had 5 cocktails and smoked a couple joints and went home. I woke up at 8:10am feeling refreshed and in good spirits. I am also more productive at work today?

What gives? Anyone else experiece this? Does this mean I really do need more alchahol and drugs to be happy?

You thoughts appriciated. :crazy:

Who is in Wildfire, Jaydawg? Also, what type of music will you be playing?

Who's pumped? I am!

Hello 1st 'scheduled' sick day of the year!

What's this Revival place all about?

Revival is a club on College st. in Toronto. Usually it hosts club nights and DJ events. Once and a while it puts on concerts. Decent venue holds about 400 on the main floor and another 75 on the balcony and another 200 in the basement.

Should be a good show.

[color:brown]Dr. Phil provides a calming and reassuring force in my twisted little extistance. But not for what you may think. It doesn't seem to matter what he says, it's just his tone and barratone southern drawl that seems to put me at ease. I just listen to the rhythm of his voice and my troubles seem to melt away for a while. It's kind of like taking way more liquid acid than you planned on. At first your kinda worried but then the massive body buzz comes on and you have no worries.... Wow! maybe I should dose to watch Dr.Phil.

Tonight's the night!

[color:crimson]I hear the Jaydawg is unbeatable at this game.....

Don't most play HDCD cd's but to get a true HDCD player, you gotta spend boatloads?

No you don't have to spend mad loot! You can get a DVD/CD combo from future shop (mine's a panasonic CD/DVD F87, It only cost me $200 or so.) Anyways it plays DVD audio 5.1, HDCD and other formats. And because it's HDCD (meaning it has the logo printed on the player and reads to that standard). you get the real deal. Other players can read the discs, but only play them as regular CDs.

Call pricebasher,ca and he'll wheel ya' a deal I'm sure.

Silver Dollar. Cool!

I heard the tour was super-fantastic. Keep up the good work!

Mr. Slippery...how do you ever expect to see magnum at a show? He's a professional studly private detective. Being in disguise and incospicuous is his business.

Maybe Magnum sees you but you don't see him?

If I see him though I'll tell him you looking for him.

Dude i serously hope you look like Money Mike. Please come see me if you make the show.

We'll toast some Chrystal!

A big thanks to Mike and Jambands.ca for sending me my won copy of the recently released "Grateful Dead: Fillmore West 1969 set"

This 3 disc set is awesome. Very nicely packaged, kida like a hard cover book. Great photos and liner notes too.

But most of all the sound quality! Holllllyyyy FAAAAAAAKKK!!

You can hear a pin drop. It is so clear you can hear band members talking to each other in the background, while they adjust thier equipment.

i have heard these performances before on CD from inferiror sources and there is no comparison.

This entire set is in HDCD, so when you play it in a player equipped with HDCD (which mine is) it's unbelievable!

It's so clear you can almost see the music....oh wait maybe I spilled some liquid on my hand while making those cubes?!....

I've said too much.

Peace, Thanks Bouche!

Oh wait Jaydawg.......do I smell a [color:red]MONSTERJAM? Hope so, maybe I'll come out!

Pizzeace in tha' hizzzouse!

That pimp looks like he's 3ft tall?

Hey the guitar player looks like this local Toronto Breaks DJ Marty McFly.

Anyone see this too?