http://www.theflue.org/forum The 'flue en http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20472#20472 20472@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 42 - Cherry Chimes Message: Mixed Tape 42 "Cherry Chimes" is now available!REDD HOTT!~c Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:45:12 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20471#20471 20471@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 40 - Anniversary Bliss Message: Mixed Tape 40 "Anniversary Bliss" is  available - but today is the last day! OOPS!Grab it while it's HAWT!~c Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:16:12 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20470#20470 20470@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Off Color Humor Message: P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke of the Week, from Hacob, in Pasadena, California:A man absolutely hated his wife's cat and decided to get rid of him one day by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park.  To his surprise, he saw the cat walking up the driveway just as he was returning home. The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the beast out and headed home.  Driving back up his driveway, there was the cat again!  At last he decided to drive a few miles away, turn right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right until he reached what he thought was a safe distance from his home and left the cat there. Hours later the man called home to his wife: "Babe, is the cat there?"  "Yes," the wife replied. "Why do you ask?"  Frustrated, the man answered: "Put him on the phone. I'm lost and need directions!" from car talk:mrgreen: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:06:23 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20469#20469 20469@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: The Hell with this. Message: Perhaps we just post links directly to the iTunes store, and forego Linkshare and their antiquated pile-o-crap they like to call a "web interface". I know that's a metric tonne of revenue that we'll be missing out on, but something we might have to live with.~c Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:21:07 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20468#20468 20468@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Off Color Humor Message: P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke of the Week, courtesy of Dave Nolan, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio: When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune. One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away.  "I may look like just an ordinary guy," he said to her, "but in just a few years my father will die and I will inherit $200 million.” Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and, three days later, she became his stepmother. :mrgreen:from car talk Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:03:56 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20467#20467 20467@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Off Color Humor Message: P.S. Here's this week's Lame Joke of the Week, courtesy of Tom Hunt: A little, silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started." Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?" The little silver haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster." Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table. He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster." He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep sigh ............ "Let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box." :mrgreen: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:57:17 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20466#20466 20466@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: The Hell with this. Message: Until we find a better solution for link generation I give up. I've lost WAY too much time struggling with something that use to be fun to do. Now I burn lots of time fighting to find the songs that I want to share with whomever is left here at TheFlue.org.I thought a break would help, but it's just illustrated how much better my life can be without LinkShare (A Rakuten company™) driving me mad with useless link search results.Stoopid SotD… Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:19 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20465#20465 20465@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Stormy Monday Blues - Big Joe Turner Message: Stormy Monday Blues - Big Joe TurnerJoseph Vernon Turner, Jr., more commonly known as Big Joe Turner (6'2" and 300+lbs) was also known as The Boss of the Blues. Born in Kansas City, Turner first discovered his love of music through involvement in the church. Turner's father was killed in a train accident when Joe was only four-years-old. He began singing on street corners for money, leaving school at age fourteen to begin working in Kansas CIty's nightclub scene, first as a cook, and later as a singing bartender. KNown as The Singing Barman, Turner worked such venues as The Kingfish Club and The Sunset, where he and his piano playing partner Pete Johnson became resident performers. The Sunset was managed by Piney Brown and featured "separate but equal" facilities for white patrons. Turner would write "Piney Brown Blues" to honor Brown and sang this song throughout his career.At the time Kansas City was a wide-open town run by "Boss" Tom Pendergast. Despite this, the clubs were subject to frequent raids by the police, but as Turner recounts, "The Boss man would have his bondsmen down at the police station before we got there. We'd walk in, sign our names and walk right out. Then we would cabaret until morning."Turner and Johnson hit New York in 1936 and appeared on a bill with Benny Goodman, but things didn't work out. So they returned to Kansas City until they were "discovered" by talent scout John H. Hammond in 1938, who invited the boys back to New York CIty to appear in one of his "From Spirituals to Swing" concerts at Carnegie Hall, which were instrumental in introducing jazz and blues to a wider American audience.From New York Turner made his way out to Los Angeles in 1941 where he performed in Duke Ellington's revue Jump for Joy in Hollywood. In 1945 Turner and Johnson opened their own bar, The Blue Moon Club. 1951 saw Turner performing with the Count Basie Orchestra at Harlem's Apollo Theater where he was signed to a recording deal with a new label, Atlantic. Turner hit it big in 1954 with "Shake, Rattle and Roll,' which not only enhanced his career, turning him into a teenage favorite, but also helped to transform popular music. Although the Bill Haley and His Comets cover was a bigger hit, many listeners sought out Turner's original version and were introduced to the world of rhythm and blues. Turner, now 43 years old, was suddenly a rock star. Big Joe was recording hits on both the rock and blues charts.Things quieted down for Turner by the early 1960s and he went back to blues and jazz work. He recorded through the 1980s, appeared at many music festivals. Big Joe's career stretched from the bar rooms of Kansas City in the 1920s (at the age of twelve when he performed with a penciled on mustache and his father's hat) on to the European jazz music festivals of the 1980s. Tuner was post-humously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:00:14 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20464#20464 20464@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Summertime - Miles Davis Message: Summertime - Miles DavisI hate LinkShare. I hate LinkShare. I hate LinkShare. Song of the Day is going on vacation. For almost 4 years now I've been taking care of Song of the Day here at TheFlue.org with little to no break. Now, it is time for a short break. Perhaps it was the trouble that I was having tonight. Or staying up WAY too late last night hoping that the stupid link generation site would puke up the one link that I was trying to get. Or it's just 46 months of grind finally wearing me down.Tonight, as I fought to work on SotD it came to me: 'Eff this.' I need break. The weather is fine. I want to draw. Or sculpt. Or both! Maybe just hang out with my Sweetie and d nothing. There are better things to doing then sitting in front of a computer screen getting frustrated (again) on a volunteer project (what little revenue generated from your iTunes purchases goes to keeping TheFlue online or charity) that I am convinced is only being seen by virus bots and ghost users out there (waves hand vaguely at the rest of the world). I'd like to promise you that SotD will be back, bigger and better than ever but I can't. Maybe it'll end up like the daily *BAMF* (remember that?) and just kind of fade away. Or go the way of the Weakly Pole and get put o a shelf for the time being, until I'm not feeling so pressed by all the little responsibilities that seem to have combined to form a smothering wet blanket of "Things That I Need to Do."I desperately want all this to be fun again, like it was in the beginning.If you need me I'll be out with the kids making sandcastles and getting a sun burn.Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:48:48 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20463#20463 20463@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Rhythm of the Americas: IV. Confluence - Heiko-Mathias Forster, etc. Message: Rhythm of the Americas: IV. Confluence - Heiko-Mathias Forster, Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet & Westphalia New Philharmonic OrchestraOkay, so we have Heiko Mathias Forster conducting the Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet who are being backed by the Westphalia New Philharmonic Orchestra. That's all I got. Oh, this is from the album Cool Rhythm which was released about a year ago. Um… did you know that a quartet is a method of instrumentation used to perform a musical composition, and consists of four parts? Yeah, that is pretty basic. How about this? Saxophones are a member of the wind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Invented in 1846 by Belgian Adolphe Sax who wanted to create an instrument that would be both the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds and the most adaptive of the brass, which would fill the then vacant middle ground between the two sections. The sax was patented on June 28, 1846. Listen to a sample at the iTunes StoreAnd as always, suggestions for up coming Song of the Day picks can be sent to me for consideration (that sounds so snobby, but the truth is that I'm running out of stuff to recommend so I'll throw just about anything in here just to fill the day. Um, I mean all suggestions will be carefully considered for significance and relevance. Yeah, thats it.) Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:33:15 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20462#20462 20462@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins Message: St. Thomas - Sonny RollinsToday's artist, Sonny Rollins. Rollins is one of jazz' greats playing with Bud Powell, miles Davis and Charlie Parker just to name a few. I think Stanley Crouch of the New Yorker found some of the best words to describe Rollins: "Over and over, decade after decade, from the late seventies through the eighties and nineties, there he is, Sonny Rollins, the saxophone colossus, playing somewhere in the world, some afternoon or some eight o'clock somewhere, pursuing the combination of emotion, memory, thought, and aesthetic design with a command that allows him to achieve spontaneous grandiloquence. With its brass body, its pearl-button keys, its mouthpiece, and its cane reed, the horn becomes the vessel for the epic of Rollins' talent and the undimmed power and lore of his jazz ancestors."Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:35:42 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20461#20461 20461@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Summertime - Charlie Parker Message: Summertime - Charlie ParkerWith Today's solstice sumer has officially begun (by the way, thanks for the card) so how about a song from the famous Broadway production 'Porgy & Bess'? 'Porgy & Bess is is the story of Porgy, a cripple living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina, and his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her pimp, and Sportin' Life, the drug dealer. Ain't love grand? Anyway, good summer song.And since the saxophone is celebrating its 165th birthday why not another sax/jazz god? Charlie Parker was perhaps the greatest sax man in Jazz history, Bird took the medium to newer levels. Sadly, yet another life cut short because of abuse, perhaps the curse of genius. Me? I learned a long time ago how to handle my genius: shiny stuff!Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:09:47 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20460#20460 20460@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Live) - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Ba Message: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Live) - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street BandI was going to on and on how Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band was probably the last of the rock and roll sax players that we're likely to see, but David Hinckley of the New York Daily News did it for me LinkageSo with that in mind, one of many Bruce Springsteen classics in honor of Clarence Clemons. :(Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:06:15 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20459#20459 20459@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: Lawnmower - Los Straightjackets Message: Lawnmower - Los StraightjacketsHailing from Nashville, Tennessee Los Straightjackets originally formed back in 1988. The first line-up of Danny Amis, Eddie Angel and drummer L.J. "Jimmy" Lester was named The Straightjackets, but oddly they broke up and reformed again after reuniting in Los Angeles in 1994. Soon the boys had a cult-like following  through their tight instrumentation and gimmicky stage shows. When performing live band members dress identically, wearing black clothing, gold Aztec medallions and personalized Mexican wrestling masks. Interesting Fact: During stage shows, the only member to speak is, Danny Amis (a.k.a. "Daddy-O Grande"), and even then only to introduce songs in badly accented Spanish. A bunch of guys originally from Tennessee wearing Mexican wrestling masks playing surf music? I'm in.Listen to a sample at the iTunes StoreI had that dream again the other night. The one where I ask for suggestions for Songs of the Day and suddenly my PM mail box is overflowing with quality, well-thought-out responses. Its like 6 or 7 months before I make my way through all of them. I am so very happy. The sky seems bluer, our children better behaved. Heck, my hair even starts growing back. And then I wake up and our clock radio is in pieces all over the bedroom floor. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:36:56 -0700 http://www.theflue.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=20458#20458 20458@http://www.theflue.org/forum Topic: More Than A Feeling - Boston Message: More Than A Feeling - BostonIn honor of the 2010-11 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins. Interesting Facts: The Boston Bruins are one of the original six NHL teams. They entered the league in 1924, the first American team in the NHL; the Stanley Cup can hold 14 beers; The Bruins where the first NHL team to use a Zamboni for ice resurfacing; the first black person to play in the NHL, Willie O'Ree, played for Boston (first game was January 18, 1958)Listen to a sample at the iTunes Store Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:36:52 -0700