[78-L] Now's your chance to snipe and snarl, boys and girls
Malcolm Rockwell
malcolm at 78data.com
Wed Nov 4 15:16:41 PST 2009
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So there, kiddies.
Mal
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buster wrote:
> Awesome! Here comes another outbreak of the sniping and assholeism we
> all crave...it's been way too long since the last one, and it just
> ain't 78-L without 'em.
>
> Excuse me while I get a hanky; I'm getting a little verklempt over
> the beauty of it all.
>
> On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:53 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
>
>
>> For a newcomer, you certainly have more than your fair share of
>> snarkiness. I
>> don't have to justify my opinions of Mr. Bernstein to you or anyone
>> else. I
>> bring 40 years of professional work as a music programmer, classical
>> deejay,
>> record producer, reissue transfer engineer, reviewer, liner note
>> writer et al.
>> Don't like my opinions? Don't read 'em. I won't be reading any of
>> yours.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Jason Beard wrote:
>>
>>> I am truly impressed at your almost encyclopedic knowledge of, as
>>> you refer to him, "Lenny's" career, even though you wrote that you
>>> "...have very little respect for (him) as a musician, a composer
>>> and a human being...." Everyone whom you dislike should be given
>>> such a high honor; please feel free to subtly, yet briefly, vent
>>> your anger toward "Lenny" in this thread, WHICH, I believe, began
>>> as a thread for Vogue Picture Records.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 1:25:41 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>
>>> You find me anyone who hasn't referred to him as "Lenny" over the
>>> last 60 years
>>> and I'll buy you lunch. He even worked as "Lenny Amber" while doing
>>> arrangements for Harms in his early years.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, I have very little respect for Leonard Bernstein as a
>>> musician, a
>>> composer and a human being. I find many of his later performances
>>> eccentric and
>>> unlistenable, I find much of his symphonic work derivative and full
>>> of outright
>>> plagiarism, and I think the man had blood on his hands. That aside,
>>> he still
>>> turned out a couple of theatrical masterpieces.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> Jason Beard wrote:
>>>
>>>> David,
>>>>
>>>> It's indeed an honor to learn that you were of such a great
>>>> acquaintance with Mr. Bernstein, that you felt free to address him
>>>> as 'Lenny". Not many of us are in your league.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 11:41:21 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>>
>>>> It's of its time. Anybody could and did play the Rhapsody in Blue.
>>>> Even today,
>>>> there are versions of it that are unbelievably ghastly, some of
>>>> them by well
>>>> known artists who should have known better (Lenny Burnsteen being
>>>> the worst
>>>> offender, Andre Previn coming in second, with a special award
>>>> going to every
>>>> Paul Whiteman version with the distorted rhythms and the heavenly
>>>> choir).
>>>> Spitalny's choral sides make me to barf, but again, they're of the
>>>> period.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> Jason Beard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I disagree...from the little I've heard, I recommend it to lovers
>>>>> of great music.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>>> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 7:14:22 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>>>
>>>>> The Spitooney set is one of the most common..although I've never
>>>>> found it in
>>>>> the box. In an album, a couple of times..as individual discs, a
>>>>> couple of
>>>>> times..and the Rhapsody issued separately, once.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some Vogues are even worth listening to. The Study in Blue isn't
>>>>> one of them.
>>>>> One that is is Enric Madriguera's "Minute Samba" which has a neat
>>>>> little fiddle
>>>>> & guitar chorus reminiscent of Grappelli & Django.
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
>>>>> Jason Beard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I SERIOUSLY doubt that the seller will receive thier asking
>>>>>> price. If not, just wait them out.....eventually, they'll
>>>>>> realize that their price is a dream, and just that...a dream.
>>>>>> Let's cool our thoughts for a while, but BOY, would I love to
>>>>>> own the phonograph! In this life, NEVER say never...and the
>>>>>> seller will ship from Switzerland, is it? SERIOUS thoughts of
>>>>>> ill-packing possible...broken discs...etc. I own one of the
>>>>>> sets...by Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra...in the
>>>>>> original "box". I paid the lavish price of (drumroll please....)
>>>>>> $2.00. EXCELLENT condition...no scratches or scuffs. The
>>>>>> illustration work on that set is incredible, ESPECIALLY on "Blue
>>>>>> Skies".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>> From: "fnarf at comcast.net" <fnarf at comcast.net>
>>>>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 5:12:53 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dang, these "selling as a lot only, don't ask about pieces"
>>>>>> people are stupid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The number of people who are hot to get ahold of a complete
>>>>>> collection of Vogues, but currently have zero of them, has got
>>>>>> to be zero. EVERYBODY with any interest in any part of this
>>>>>> wants more parts, to fill his gaps, not the whole.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of those items are indeed spectacularly rare, and
>>>>>> undoubtedly worth a lot. You get two guys with everything except
>>>>>> those "ultra rare" items listed going against each other, and
>>>>>> you've got yourself an auction. But they're not going to bid on
>>>>>> a complete lot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The ONLY person who's going to bid on this is a dealer with deep
>>>>>> pockets looking to break the set up, IF he looks at the list and
>>>>>> sees a profit there as single items. This seller here could have
>>>>>> that profit for himself if he had a brain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Won't sell.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:53:49 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
>>>>>> Pacific
>>>>>> Subject: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Got $300,000 lying around? And that's the STARTING bid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/yl3xx4n
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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