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Hope it was a great night, Todd/Heather. My apologies: my wife came down w/ the flu, so I was home w/ our kids. Todd - all the best. Sorry I missed. Got time to get together this week?

While I have another commitment that night (50th anniversary for my wife's aunt/uncle), I'll find a way to drop 'round to buy Velvet a round. Cheers!

They're simply in my best all time live recordings. Yup, and all from my youth (and guitar based). I think cases could be made for both the Deep Purple and Johnny Winter records - both popular, important. The Free is an unappreciated gem, but very influential. 'Course RS focuses as much (or more) on cultural import than musical import. Yeah, Focus is silly, but Akkerman's on fire on that disc.

missing: Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool Deep Purple - Made in Japan Free - Live! Focus - Live at the Rainbow Johnny Winter - And/Live Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour (yes, I'm old)

Dude...

Gilmore (NYC improviser) or Gilmour (Pink Floyd)? Both badass... NYC Dave: http://www.davidgilmore.net/ http://www.myspace.com/davidgilmoregroup

Ritchie Blackmore Allan Holdsworth Ollie Halsall Paul Kossoff Andy Powell David Torn John Abercrombie Jeff Beck Lenny Breau Adrian Belew Jimi Hendrix Bill Connnors Richard Thompson etc...

Well said, Brad. I really enjoyed last night - while I only caught the first set (was a long day), I'm looking forward to listening to the CD. Both masterful, diverse players that showcase a broad range of timbres.

From Linsey: On Thursday, November 22nd, Mike Essoudry and I will finally be releasing our disc. I, for one, am pretty excited about the whole thing, and I hope that you'll be able to make it out to help us celebrate. The show will be at the Avant Garde Bar (135 1/2 Besserer) and will start at 8:00pm (a little earlier than our usual time). There will be a $5 cover charge. The show will feature: Mike Essoudry - drums, percussion, clarinet Linsey Wellman - alto/soprano saxophones, bass clarinet about the album: In their first album together, Linsey Wellman (alto/soprano saxophone) and Mike Essoudry (drums/percussion) combine to explore the possibilities of tone, rhythm and melody. Over thirteen tracks and nearly an hour, they embrace stasis and movement, meditation and exuberance, delicacy and amplitude. Their improvisations and compositional sketches look both forward and back, to the ever new possibilities of instant creation, and to sounds, themes and evocations as old as humanity itself.

Goodness - I also certainly hope everyone's OK.

Tonite We're Gonna Rock You Tonite

Bump for tomorrow...

Yeah, they're great...

All About Jazz - Ottawa show review: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=27213

It was indeed an incredible show last night - best I've seen/heard McLaughlin. Tremendous interplay by all over some complex material - badass players, all. You can tell they've had this on the road for a bit... Really firing on all cylinders. Intense, but moments of real subtlety too. Awesome!

There are lots of tix still available for the Ottawa show. While retailers may not have a ton on hand, there's plenty left according to the OIJF.

From Adrian at Tetra Speakers: Hi All, The Saturday night House Concert at JACK's house with Francis is now almost fully booked. For the first time ever Francis has agreed to add a second night. We now have Friday the 28th to add to the fun. If you have any friends that might be interested please pass this on. And check out the 2 Canadian flags here... http://www.francisdunnery.com/concerts.php Note that Francis will have a merchandise table (believe me, your going to want some CDs at least) and that all the proceeds from merchandise and tickets sales go directly to Francis. JACK is putting this on because we love you and we love Francis too! Reservations: 613/226-3550, adrian.butts@tetraspeakers.com Tix: $30 Hope you can make it, JACK (Jena, Adrian, Cameron, and Katie) More Francis here... http://www.aquariannation.com/Francis%20Dunnery/FrancisDunnery.htm Poster: http://f3.yahoofs.com/users/42f1061dz5aa4124d/a4bcre2/__sr_/b243re2.jpg?ph4Pp.GByVjFKxHK

WooHoo! I'm in!! ...and, yeah, tix left - ignore the Ticketmaster ordering glitch (but - man! - how many sales has the JazzFest lost due to this?)

Thanks Velvet!

Bump - I'm looking forward to this...

Ulrich Roth (early-Scorps lead guitarist) was incredible.

Jazz legend Terry Clarke, of course (Jim Hall, etc.). Corky Laing/Mountain local Bruce Wittet free jazzer Chris Massey Graham Lear! Jeremy Taggart/OLP Skip Prokop etc...

What a drag... RIP.

Right on. Gotta pick this up...

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