tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post5259189460284813035..comments2023-12-30T11:04:22.503-05:00Comments on Art Decade: Emmetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887578369365842959noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-51465904515173771362008-02-12T12:59:00.000-05:002008-02-12T12:59:00.000-05:00P.S. Ray Bradbury was a sensational writer! A lot ...P.S. Ray Bradbury was a sensational writer! A lot like Philip K. Dick in the respect that the genre was secondary to the enthusiasm and necessity of writing for the sake of writing in the first place. Very, very good ; pulp be damned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-45135435761608843892008-02-12T12:55:00.000-05:002008-02-12T12:55:00.000-05:00fusion 45: your pop sounds like a very cool dude, ...fusion 45: your pop sounds like a very cool dude, indeed! My personal favourite of the old school Hard-Boiled was Jim Thompson (it's a bit obvious, i know - but when he was good, he was very good...), but i'm also very partial to a whole host of others. Thanks for the feedback. Will check out the Stanley Clarke too - thanks, man, for the "lead".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-19019241815775886972008-02-12T11:34:00.000-05:002008-02-12T11:34:00.000-05:00Your "black and white" line reminded of my dear de...Your "black and white" line reminded of my dear departed Pop, who sold advertising by day and wrote detective stories at night (think Ray Bradbury mixed with Garrison Keillor, if you can imagine that). It sounded like one of those "she walked in through the back door, sat down next to me and order a Kahlua and cream. Black and white, blended on ice, she said, as she held her cigarette out for a light". Of course, this is spoken with a Humphrey Bogart accent. Jeff over at <A HREF="http://amthenfm.wordpress.com/" REL="nofollow">AM Then FM</A> recently posted on another great bassist, Stanley Clarke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-77779802270471949902008-02-11T20:51:00.000-05:002008-02-11T20:51:00.000-05:00Glad you like it, fusion 45. Ron Carter is relativ...Glad you like it, fusion 45. Ron Carter is relatively new to me, truth be told, or rather his solo stuff is... I knew of him previously more through his association with Miles. I would like to have been at that gig you mention there, but, yeah, he can certainly play some.<BR/><BR/>Glad you made it, too, past the intro there! Reading it back, that last line: "Black and White, blended on ice"... Sounds like i'm about to drop the needle on Stevie Wonder - "Ebony & iv-o-reee!!" Goddamn!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22345387.post-3396484240217719772008-02-11T19:33:00.000-05:002008-02-11T19:33:00.000-05:00Thanks for the Ron Carter...not a tune in my colle...Thanks for the Ron Carter...not a tune in my collection, so I dig hearing it...saw him at a little theater in Elmira, New York about 20 years ago with Jimmy Heath and Akira Tana...he's a mother of a bass player in just about any setting, isn't he?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com