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   Edog
   

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   I can't get Stanley Clarke's School Days out of my head. I love that song, but all day long? It gets old.

   http://youtu.be/yMQ7xGxI3ME

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   racerX
   

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   No, thanks.

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   pennygirl
   

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   Nope. Not here. Try again. The key is to make the title something that everyone knows :-)

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   great idea
   

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   no, but here is your earwig for the day.

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   enjoy!

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   Edog
   

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   I was not trying to give people my earworm, rather just point it out.

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   great idea
   

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   I was trying to give people my earwig however.

   my plan was that it would crawl through your ear canal into your brain--specifically your frontal lobe which would prevent you from typing on this blog anymore.

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   Edog
   

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   Do I offend you that much Great Idea? Frankly I don't post much here anymore.

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   great idea
   

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   it wasn't directed toward you specfically Edog, just anyone unfortunate enough to read this blog.

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   Cate
   

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   great idea - thanks for bringing up my childhood nightmare.

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    haHa

    I agree.. Jr was picking them up last summer and I nipped that in the but... Yuuch

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    Edog
    

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    Please won't you be... my neighbor?

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    BuffaloHawk
    

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    This has been my earworm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1EnufbzFb0

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    Edog - I know that piece. Saw Stanley Clark many time in the 70s, have a few albums on my iPod. Are you a fan of Jazz Fusion of the 70s?

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    Cool. I bet that was awesome. Was it a big venue?

    That album is very solid. I thought it was a good segway to fusion as its little more accessible than others like Weather Report.

    I don't listen to much fusion these days. In high school I sort of did as music teachers encouraged me to give it a listen as that was where the real innovators in electric bass were. I was always struck at how proficient they were as players, but never really took to how bizarre some of the sounds were.

    I once met the guy who basically made a career playing bass for Ella Fitzgerald's band. He said those fusion guys could play, but it sounds like they are practicing. I'm inclined to agree. In the School Days album I hear more melody and peace than in other bands from that era in that genre.

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    Edog - the venue was Ratso's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. I started going there at 15 with groups of musician friends, and was never carded. It was a great place to hear jazz and fusion, and seated around 200 at most. The acoustics were wonderful. I remember one time we were snowed in and Chick Corea bought the audience a couple rounds of drinks. The acoustics were wonderful. Do you like Al Dimeola? How about McCoy Tyner, George Duke, Larry Coryell/Eleventh House, Jean Luc Ponty?

    About a year ago I re-discovered all the fusion and jazz music I listened to in the 70s and found a bunch of CDs in print. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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    I'm more into Gentle Giant's School Days:

    http://youtu.be/4-MdA0LPXj0

    BTW, I will be hosting PROG! once again next Thursday at Hazlewood. One of my guests will be playing a lot of fusion. He's played a couple times already, and the ladies strangely enough seems to dig it!

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    Oh yeah, gelsol, loving the Gentle Giant, too. Did you ever see them live? It was cool, they swapped instruments during the show. Seems they could all play them all. Will check into PROG! Was big time into progressive. Have you ever heard of Triad 106 FM? A legendary prog radio station from the Chicago area in the 70s.

    Wait, do you mean the next "second Thursday" February 14th?

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    Next Thursday, Jan 24th. I'm not sure what night it's gonna take place on for the rest of the year, but I'm aiming for third thursdays.

    Never saw Gentle Giant live, other than the youtube stuff. Not quite that old. Never heard Triad 106 FM either. My friend Frank is from Cleveland and plays old cassette recordings of Fresh Air on WKSU, which played all sorts of crazy shit in the 70s.

    And please, come on down to PROG! sometime....it's sooper-chill, and we love talkin' music!

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