response 46 of 124:

Jan 16 05:25 UTC 2002

Don't know.  Presumably a remastered AQUALUNG, Tull's 4th album, 
would be the next reissue to come out; the CDs I described in 
resp:44 were Tull's first three albums.
 
In the past, the story has always been that a good-sounding AQUALUNG
has been impossible to deliver because the master tapes, which were 
kept in Ian Anderson's personal custody, had deteriorated badly.
Guess we'll see what comes next...

response 48 of 124:

Feb 6 06:19 UTC 2002

  Oh?

response 50 of 124:

Feb 12 21:05 UTC 2002

Nobody else has gotten one of the new music quarters yet?

response 52 of 124:

Feb 12 21:48 UTC 2002

Haven't seen one, but the US Mint had some groovy pictures. This is the
Tennessee state quarter, correct? Louisiana will also have a minor musical
theme.

response 54 of 124:

Feb 13 00:00 UTC 2002

Yes, the Tennessee quarter is honoring country music, with a guitar and 
a fiddle.   I've only seen that first one myself.

response 56 of 124:

Feb 13 17:07 UTC 2002

I saw one of the Tennessee quarters a week or two ago.  I was with some people
who actually cared, so we spent a few minutes with a magnifying glass trying
to figure out if the piece of sheet music on it was actual music, or just
looked like it from a distance.  We concluded that it wasn't, since the staves
only had four lines that we could find.  

response 58 of 124:

Feb 16 04:15 UTC 2002

Maybe the missing 5th line is the result of inbreeding?   ;)

response 60 of 124:

Mar 21 05:28 UTC 2002

Well poot.  I had thought the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame show was going
to be broadcast on VH1 on Thursday night.  But it was Wednesday, and 
I missed it.  I was really looking forward to the Talking Heads set, 
too.  Did anyone see this?

response 62 of 124:

Apr 29 18:22 UTC 2002

Note for Twila: there is a new Baba Yaga CD!  I'd been trying 
to figure out how I was going to get a copy of this, and today I 
learned that Cliff has it at cdroots.com.  There is a bio of the 
band at http://www.cdroots.com/fono-baba.html which tells more than 
we ever knew about them before; it's been over a decade, I think, 
since their previous album.   Irish and Hungarian rock instrumentalists
and a small choir of Russian folk singers.

response 64 of 124:

May 20 21:26 UTC 2002

Ken, in re: resp:61 and Patty Griffin ...

You might enjoy reading the (over-the-top?) article in this week's 
Austin Chronicle. Patty is the cover girl for this issue.

http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2002-05-17/music_feature.html

response 66 of 124:

Sep 2 00:11 UTC 2002

Apparently Peter Gabriel has completed the album UP, just ten years
after his last studio album.  (Where I come from, we call that 
"retirement."  :)  )  rollingstone.com has a review of it
(they didn't like it much) and amazon.com is taking orders for 
late September shipment.

response 68 of 124:

Dec 9 03:43 UTC 2002

Sorry I haven't been holding up my end of the conference lately.
I haven't been in much of a mood to write, except for Grex's party
chat.
 
I had an old-fashioned CD pigout at the used CD shop Encore today. 
I went to get a few inexpensive opera discs for a friend's child 
who is expressing interest, and I found a big pile of stuff 
which I might end up keeping instead of giving away.  

The chosen opera was AIDA sung by Tebaldi and Bergonzi
with vonKarajan conducting, and we might end up keeping that; also 
there was an anthology from a BBC show called "Listen to the Band"
which is all brass music, which Leslie thinks looks interesting.
There's been a series of anthologies from this show, according to 
amazon.co.uk, and much of them are out of print.  :/

Well, I still have some cheapie opera anthologies I can send along 
for the youngster.
 
Background shopping music was first, an instrumental Sandy Nelson LP.
Kind of kitschy fun; Allmusic.com cites Nelson's drumming 
as a significant influence on surf music and Keith Moon.  
I don't remember the title, it probably doesn't matter, though
there were some nice 60s covers on that specific album -- 
"Time Won't Let Me" (originally by The Outsiders) was the one I remember.

Second background album was a Stiff Little Fingers
anthology.  I have only the faintest recollection that such a band
ever existed, but sadly I have reached the point where I'm now 
nostalgic for the 1980 punk sound.  S.L.F. sounds a lot like 
second-rate Clash, so I bought the anthology out of the store's player.

response 70 of 124:

Dec 10 00:28 UTC 2002

You'd be surprised. At my band's gigs people go nuts for the Dead Kennedys
and Ramones tunes.