Basically, I have not yet met any board member here who has riled me in any way... All I have felt so far and received so far from the Sonic Youth fan community has been nothing but positive and heartening; contrary to the musings of some german music magazine... From the sardonic wit of HaydenAsche, to the charming naivete of laila, and the acid observations of truncated and so on and so on... everyone here has been articulate, intelligent, well-behaved and generally just overall good guys from day one, and I think Sonic Youth would be proud to have fans like these... Any band would be. Uhmm... Thanks guys, for letting me rant. :) Namaste, and good luck.

well said
and i agree

favourite:
atsonicpark
Sheriff Rhys Chatham
guitarpro
chabib
truncated
Kegmama
schizophrenicroom
A Thousand Threads
slavo
greenlight
etc etc

least favourite
mm, probably the members that i don't know much..

Yeah. I'm pretty much torn between that one and DJ as my favorite Bowie song.

fav people- you know who you are
least fav- you know who you are
but i don't HATE anyone

Yep. I'm with you on the majority of that.

I can't say I like everyone on the board, but I haven't found anyone that's particularly annoying. I've seen some absurdly stupid posts, but I won't let that reflect on the posters. Yet. Generally the people here are pretty cool. I think alyasa explained it well.

But I supposed in the end, we're all cheerless, ill-tempered fans.

i'm the invisible man....teeeon (i do not know how to translate into words that sound...it's haunting me)
i do not know why,but lately i like theeeeeeese fellow boardies:
trasher02
xpressway2yrskull
emmah
truncated
fox
terminal pharmacy
schizophrenicroom
kim c not g
saturnine
heyalex
a lot more i'm forgetting right now..
oh,and my least favorite are me myself and i,because i always forgot what i want to write on here,period.

thanks

...IS amazing...

Ballads is moving up on my Coltrane chart with a bullet lately. Also from 1962 is his s/t Impulse! record that is really great. The s/t for Prestige is swingin' as well. I've become enchanted with The Africa/Brass Sessions & a Columbia compilation released just to fill out a contract, Coltrane's Sound, which has some otherworldly tunes. The earlier material is the best, but I like it all. My two favorites would have to be Giant Steps and My Favorite Things. I was wondering if you got a chance to download the Falkonerteatret concert in Copenhagen, Denmark 11/20/61; it's a real treat. A collector at DIME recently seeded his earliest known recordings from 1949 with his unit's Navy band.

http://home.att.net/~dawild/john_col...iscography.htm is a great site that exhaustively lists every session Coltrane ever played on in his lifetime. Well, just about, although Coltrane documentarians know he played in the Navy band while stationed in Hawaii, the 1949 recordings are new to just about everyone, I imagine. After producer Bob Thiele passed in '96, a lot of unreleased material engineered & recorded by Rudy Van Gelder (of course) came to light & resulted in a good deal of deluxe editions of his albums. And it was only last year that a Library of Congress worker discovered the recording of the concert at Carnegie Hall with Thelonius Monk.

The page at Impulse! http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?aid=2660 is good too.
http://www.johncoltrane.com/automat/swf/main.htm is a bit weak.

A cool essay on Davis, Coltrane & Hancock is here:
http://members.tripod.com/vermontrev...ixtiesjazz.htm

Moshe & hamstered didn't get props & neither did perhaps Sonic Youth's truly biggest fans & collectors like rappard, Chris Lawrence, pokkeherrie, & Richard Pryor on Fire. All of whom don't post here that often, which is probably the reason why.

hey atari! you know those little essay type things you used to write about various board members? i really hope i'm not asking for to much, but could you do one of me? i understand if you dont wanna, but i'd really like that alot. thanks

Coltrane's Ballads is great - Dexter Gordon's is my personal favorite, though.

i haven't been mentioned by a single person. oh how the mighty have fallen!

I've been mentioned but I quickly grew bored of this thread and decided to stop paying attention to it.

I can't get enough of Say It (Over & Over Again), the lead-off track.

I have a friend who studied under Lennie Tristano briefly & mostly under one of his pupils & I cannot remember her name right now. (Catherine LaTouche maybe? I should call him) Anyway, I thought of him because his earliest jazz hero is Dexter Gordon. He got to see him in concert at age 19 & it changed his life.

Big satan was tom gilbert?

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HaydenAsche is my favorite because i jerk off to his avatar

ROFLbuckets.

Hey you're my bitch baby!I get rather repped left,right and centre by a lot of you and i don't get even a little whisper?What is the world coming to?This time next year you will all be dead you know?

I thought everyone knew that.

finding nobody, the only subjects that I ever really remember writing proper essays about are the recording of Fun House & Miles Davis' historical importance to the history of jazz.

T&B rocks my world.

He, however, feels it is beneath him to be repped.

So he can fuck off.

oh oh