right on! here are some unsolicited notes from a music nerd:

-Prince just made a brand new album last year called Musicology, and it schooled my ass - musicology indeed... the whole point of it was to celebrate live music and musicianship - i don't share his fear of that, personally, since so much hip hop has embraced so much jazz, but if it gets Prince to make a new album then fuck it! the album is so good it actually scared me and i had to call my mother.

ok, did i say notes? i meant a quiz:

-ever check out Live Evil? same band more or less as Bitches Brew

-also, do you have the remastered live at the Filmore East new years eve '69-'70 double cd? there is a version of Machine Gun on there that has Buddy MIles singing this superhero-themesong-style backing vocal over the guitar solo starting around four and a half minutes... three straight minutes of maybe the most inspired playing EVER - if you have that version then you know what i'm talking. Band of Gypsies in general, though, were something wholly special, right? it's as if they encapsulated all of the revolutionary energy of the time in this one blinding moment before evverything fell apart - like when Bird and Diz added Mingus to their band, you know? Or better yet, like when Max Roach and Charles Mingus recorded Money Jungle with Elllington - just straight up subversive, you know? to me BoG are like all the sentiment and intensity behind Jimi's Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock taken out of the art gallery and turned into an hours long collective meditation/chant down... on the same cd they leave in Jimi's intros and banter and stuff and he introduces Voodoo Child as the Black Panthers' national anthem... i get chills every time i hear that shit.

of course, if you have the version i'm talking about then i'm just wasting space here...

...but just in case i'm not annoying enough yet, ever check out the stuff Miles did right before Bitches Brew with the Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams bands? my fav Miles recording of all time is actually from that period from right before he added John McLaughlin - it's called Miles In The Sky and has (freak out on this) George Benson on guitar!!!

yikes, man - sorry for the long-windedness! um, it's the withdrawals, yeah... that's my story and sticking to it.

...so let's save discussion of Coltrane for when you've decided whether or not i'm too nuts to talk to at this point

There were tons of parties around here. Especially since Rashad McCants is from this area and still has lots of family here. But you know how that goes everyone trying to jump on the gravy train while they have a chance. Anyway, I didn't get to go to any of NCAA parties.

thank you for the birthday wishes.

She's finally resting peacefully, thankfully before the courts decided to put the tube back in.

thankyou for the birthday wish

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hello cutie Thanks for the b-day shout-out

Zui is one of my favorites!!

HAPPY MOTHERFUCKIN BIRTHDAY BRO!!!

So, does that mean you're a possibility and want the contact info?

thanx for the happy birthday, how did you find my profile?

You really did lay the smackdown! The problem is that he got away and they had to put together your description and my description of him for a sketch. It really was crazy.

in other news, i want you to take some pictures of me. I am emailing you now.

thanks for the birthday wishes!
sorry to hear about your shitty weather...