old lps come to life again

paul motians record "psalm" had sat in my basement for 15 years together with a couple of hundred other lps. the house i live in has no room for the turntable. the other day i thought i had found the solution. a box labelled terratec arrived in the mail containing a small box that could digitalize as well as amplifie the signal from a turntable in such a way that my computer would accept the music. the a-d box was nice, but the software just wouldnt start. i gave it up and downloaded something called lprecord in stead. took me the best of 2 days but at least 3 records made it to my cd player. the records were: the mentioned motian recording, keith jarrets bop be from 1978 and a record by the flutist hariprasad charusia made in india in 1968. not many, but a good start. i love to let the old memories flow almost as much as i love the sound of the pick up entering the vinyl groove. of course i did not edit that away. would you?

unmusical

this is the us state departments views on the ongoing cartoon debate: ""Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images, or any other religious belief." this statement from the country that we often hear is the great defender of freedom and democracy shows how hollow such an image is. this shows us how full of bad thinkers and sloppy democrats the bush administration is. this is what they say about this crisis? and what exactly does "unacceptable" mean in this context. that we should ban it? that the cartoonists should not be allowed to treat jesus, muhammad and god with satire? and this is the country that fights for the values of the free world around the globe. my GOD

back in the 1960ties Semie Moseley built a guitar he called Mosrite Ventures. Yesterday, 50 years later, I had the oportunity to try one for the first time. A friend down the street had bought one from Califorinia and at last it arrived after a long journey over the ocean. The guitar is full of history. The design is strange, and judging from its bruises and scratches it has been played a lot. It is a bit big and heavy, but very vell balanced. It did not feel like a strange new thing but like a guitar I had played many times before. Actually it felt much better holding and playing it than my own ESP Telecaster. The sound is open and has a singing quality to it. An open C chord sounds great and single notes high up on the E-string when played through a clean amp sings better than most guitars at any guitar store. The frets are very low and invite more to legato playing than string bending. Go here http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/000231.html to read the history behind the Mosrite.