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jimmyjazz

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  1. That looks like Donald Trump's NY apartment.
  2. What? It's as if you don't understand the whole "transaction". Yes, it was paid with inflation.
  3. Outside of the blatant extortion, what is it you can't believe?
  4. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    That is a fantastic shot.
  5. As a very young pup I saw Maynard in the round, circa 1977. Peter Erskine was his drummer, right before he split for Weather Report. I was nowhere sophisticated enough to understand what I was seeing, but holy shit Erskine was unbelievable. Years later, Maynard's band came through the Wendy's I worked at late one night. I was semi-gobsmacked. Stan Mark stepped up to order and I asked him why he played a black trumpet. He was a total dick -- "because I can". OK, fucker. That was the very last time I let someone's fame clutter my thoughts. I might have spit on his burger. (Might have.)
  6. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    Yeah, I'm with you on that. I've already copped to not being anywhere close to a Sabbath (or even metal) guy, but I've seen plenty of live clips of early Ozzy, and the guy had a very good voice. Maybe not as pyrotechnic as Halford or Dio, but the guy could sing.
  7. I so hope that's real. Everyone just needs to keep piling on.
  8. Not in my time, but every HS band played some Bill Chase for sure.
  9. CSO -- that's badass. My horn prof at UT (Wayne Barrington) was 3rd chair under Fritz Reiner.
  10. The bar was "good" sports, and Illinois has a fighting chance of winning the B1G in football this year (if you don't mind the lardass coach).
  11. Who are you referring to? Elias Haslanger went to Austin High, same class as my wife, he played sax with Maynard for a cup of coffee. I'm not familiar with too many trumpets from Austin other than Ephraim Owens.
  12. Actually it's not that boring. I've spent a lot of time in Champaign-Urbana. My cousins grew up there and my sis went to grad school there. It's an outpost but those kids have a lot of fun.
  13. Illinois is pretty kick-ass.
  14. I'm holding onto the hope that UT's rep will still be decent when my 2 kids graduate within the next year. I know that's incredibly naive and their degrees (and mine) will slowly become tarnished. I don't care about my degree, but theirs? It's over.
  15. I wonder if the last two national champions might suggest otherwise.
  16. BD was basically an NBA team playing against Austin High.
  17. Those shows were what led me to join Phantom for about a minute and then switch to Cavaliers.
  18. A little old school drum corps in tribute:
  19. It's funny, Maynard & Chuck were the two biggest influences on almost every young trumpet player back then and yet they could not have been much more different. Both very talented, but Maynard was a screamer jazz-rock guy and Chuck was so smooth he might as well have been lumped in with the yacht rockers.
  20. "A" should be capitalized, regardless.
  21. I'm seeing hatch chiles show up at local stores. Any roasting going on anywhere? I don't find them special in any way to pay the extra for raw, but if someone will roast for me, that's a different story.
  22. For the better part of a year in the late 1970s you couldn't miss this tune on radio. I actually met him once, as he went to college with one of my horn teachers so we went to a big outdoor concert west of Chicago. Nice guy.
  23. Both sides! Drink!
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