The SF/AAAC/FNB trainwreck thread

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To be fair, it's TI where the news of the new IS guy's dubious past was broken.
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That's true. And is it coincidental that the IS guy in his latest thread has a go at law enforcement for wearing rubber soles shoes?

This follows a mass of now deleted posts by names linked to his supposed illegality. If so, he is a disturbed man and best left alone.
 
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It has come to my attention that I have been mentioned there. Now I'm almost a little disappointed that it's just the usual unintelligent babble that the babbler mistakenly believes is quick-witted.
 
Sammy Ambrose said:
That's true. And is it coincidental that the IS guy in his latest thread has a go at law enforcement for wearing rubber soles shoes?

This follows a mass of now deleted posts by names linked to his supposed illegality. If so, he is a disturbed man and best left alone.
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Oh he's definitely a loose cannon. To say the least.
 
Skipper said:
It has come to my attention that I have been mentioned there. Now I'm almost a little disappointed that it's just the usual unintelligent babble that the babbler mistakenly believes is quick-witted.
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It's just a couple of ageing jazz cats now having a chat.

Was actually watching Herbie Hancock at the weekend, being the artist in residence at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Mostly discordant stuff in the wrong key. Left the last concert early to ensure a seat for Stacey Kent. She did not disappoint.
 
I went to a jazz festival at Swanage at the weekend, headline act was Simon Spillet’s Big Band who were superb. I was surprised by the average age of the audiences at the various venues, many in their late 70s and beyond. Plenty of hearing and walking aids being deployed and folk having to be helped to their seats. Whilst it’s good to see people who are older than you out and about and enjoying themselves I couldn’t help wondering how long live jazz can survive as a force.
 
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Barking Pugilist said:
I went to a jazz festival at Swanage at the weekend, headline act was Simon Spillet’s Big Band who were superb. I was surprised by the average age of the audiences at the various venues, many in their late 70s and beyond. Plenty of hearing and walking aids being deployed and folk having to be helped to their seats. Whilst it’s good to see people who are older than you out and about and enjoying themselves I couldn’t help wondering how long live jazz can survive as a force.
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I got interested in jazz when I was a student. One night I stumbled into a bar with live jazz. The bartender, who turned out to be the owner, didn't care about my age and served me whatever I wanted. Of course that was tempting at that age. So my friends and I always went there from then on. He was also an artist and worked at his easel when it wasn't busy. Sometimes musicians came by spontaneously and he joined in on the piano. That were good times. Eventually I moved away from my hometown and was gone for more than ten years. When I entered the bar for the first time after this long time and sat down at the bar, he immediately put the right drink in front of me and said, "Welcome back." Unfortunately, the bar no longer exists because the landlady did not extend the contract. But this is another story.
 
Barking Pugilist said:
I went to a jazz festival at Swanage at the weekend, headline act was Simon Spillet’s Big Band who were superb. I was surprised by the average age of the audiences at the various venues, many in their late 70s and beyond. Plenty of hearing and walking aids being deployed and folk having to be helped to their seats. Whilst it’s good to see people who are older than you out and about and enjoying themselves I couldn’t help wondering how long live jazz can survive as a force.
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The audience at the North Sea Jazz Festival is always young 20's to 70+ year olds. Really something for everyone. It's top notch. It's especially popular with South Africans as well, and as it happens, I took some of my South African colleagues. One of the organisers there was telling us the last year it was held, which was 2019 over 20% of the crowd was South African. Didn't go that year.

It was somewhat over subscribed this year and we couldn't get into every one we wanted as the concert halls ended up full. Missed Melody Gardot, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Gregory Porter, Yola and Anthony Joseph. Some clashes too. George Benson opening wasn't that great and Diana Ross was mobbed out and too hot. I stayed for three songs, but she still had a good voice.

But amongst the best: Bruut!, Diana Krall, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension and Stacey Kent.

Skipper said:
I got interested in jazz when I was a student. One night I stumbled into a bar with live jazz. The bartender, who turned out to be the owner, didn't care about my age and served me whatever I wanted. Of course that was tempting at that age. So my friends and I always went there from then on. He was also an artist and worked at his easel when it wasn't busy. Sometimes musicians came by spontaneously and he joined in on the piano. That were good times. Eventually I moved away from my hometown and was gone for more than ten years. When I entered the bar for the first time after this long time and sat down at the bar, he immediately put the right drink in front of me and said, "Welcome back." Unfortunately, the bar no longer exists because the landlady did not extend the contract. But this is another story.
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Reminds me of a story from jazz digging colleague who said he was working in Italy and was in some town walking past a bar and he could hear this wonderful trumpet and when he went inside it was Chet Baker.
Streetlight said:
Acid Jazz though, now some of that's ok.

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Acid Jazz was great and some of contemporary Neo Soul bands are reasonable.
 
Streetlight said:
Jazz to me is Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth going 'bip de dah do de dah dip do' on a tv special in the 70s.
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Not something I would want to listen to either. I‘ve only come to appreciate Jazz in recent years and for me there’s a sweet spot from the post war era up to the early to mid 60s. The divergence between the East Coast hard bop and the smoother West Coast sound is interesting. Then jazz started to struggle, in my opinion, as it came up against the advent of pop and rock.
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
The audience at the North Sea Jazz Festival is always young 20's to 70+ year olds. Really something for everyone. It's top notch. It's especially popular with South Africans as well, and as it happens, I took some of my South African colleagues. One of the organisers there was telling us the last year it was held, which was 2019 over 20% of the crowd was South African. Didn't go that year.

It was somewhat over subscribed this year and we couldn't get into every one we wanted as the concert halls ended up full. Missed Melody Gardot, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Gregory Porter, Yola and Anthony Joseph. Some clashes too. George Benson opening wasn't that great and Diana Ross was mobbed out and too hot. I stayed for three songs, but she still had a good voice.

But amongst the best: Bruut!, Diana Krall, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension and Stacey Kent.


Reminds me of a story from jazz digging colleague who said he was working in Italy and was in some town walking past a bar and he could hear this wonderful trumpet and when he went inside it was Chet Baker.

Acid Jazz was great and some of contemporary Neo Soul bands are reasonable.
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I was lucky enough to catch Gregory Porter live in a great room a while back. Absolutely fantastic.
 
Ivy Style commenters realise the new Ivy Style guy really is as clueless as Sammy Ambrose about what Ivy actually looks like.

www.ivy-style.com

How Did We Miss This One? - Ivy Style

On a site featuring Ivy Style, the 1994 movie Quiz Show has received one line of mention. Yet it stands amongst the great Ivy movies of all time. There is a piece on here about Charles Van Doren, which is good. He had Ivy bona fides. Columbia. His father, Mark Van Doren, was even-more-Ivy, ...
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Sammy Ambrose said:
Ivy Style commenters realise the new Ivy Style guy really is as clueless as Sammy Ambrose about what Ivy actually looks like.

www.ivy-style.com

How Did We Miss This One? - Ivy Style

On a site featuring Ivy Style, the 1994 movie Quiz Show has received one line of mention. Yet it stands amongst the great Ivy movies of all time. There is a piece on here about Charles Van Doren, which is good. He had Ivy bona fides. Columbia. His father, Mark Van Doren, was even-more-Ivy, ...
www.ivy-style.com www.ivy-style.com
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Don't know how that dude earned his living as a copywriter. There's just no flow. Staccato springs to mind.

Meanwhile, over at FNB, Andy's gone again in a frenzy, but quite a few new interesting threads and postings.
 
Sammy Ambrose said:
Ivy Style commenters realise the new Ivy Style guy really is as clueless as Sammy Ambrose about what Ivy actually looks like.

www.ivy-style.com

How Did We Miss This One? - Ivy Style

On a site featuring Ivy Style, the 1994 movie Quiz Show has received one line of mention. Yet it stands amongst the great Ivy movies of all time. There is a piece on here about Charles Van Doren, which is good. He had Ivy bona fides. Columbia. His father, Mark Van Doren, was even-more-Ivy, ...
www.ivy-style.com www.ivy-style.com
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It's been blatantly obvious from day one.
 
The Outerwear subforum of the Fedora Lounge has been down since Friday, while the rest of the site seems to be doing fine. Probably a site glitch, but it might be the balder-headed middle aged 1930s-1940s cosplay nerds got sick of the leather jacket crowd.
 


Derek posts a provocative thread on Asia dressing better than US, proceeds to get shit from all sides.
 
He's right. East Asians, on average, dress better than Americans. And there are more menswear enthusiasts in Asia than in America. However, there are also simply more people there in general, including those with large disposable incomes, so I'm not sure his point is that earth-shattering.

What's irritating is his faux naivety and shock that his tweet would cause such a shitstorm. He clearly got what he wanted and is gleeful about the attention.
 
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Otto said:
He's right. East Asians, on average, dress better than Americans. And there are more menswear enthusiasts in Asia than in America. However, there are also simply more people there in general, including those with large disposable incomes, so I'm not sure his point is that earth-shattering.

What's irritating is his faux naivety and shock that his tweet would cause such a shitstorm. He clearly got what he wanted and is gleeful about the attention.
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Have never bothered to read his twitter or read many of his forum posts, but 48K followers. Seems pretty popular for a clothing commentator.
 
I am proud to announce in the several years I have not visited unstyleforum my mental health has improved a lot.

It was a hellish cove of Cluster B disorders, more toxic than a techno dungeon club after 10 am on Sunday
 
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