Why should a document generated by a public agency be privileged?

Exactly.

I’m putting the over/under for members (past and current) of this administration (senior advisers, cabinet members and up) who wind up in prison (or are convicted and pardoned) at 5. Flynn is already toast. The rest of my ballot is Kushner, Sessions, Miller, Gorka and the man himself. Manafort is a gimme too - and…

That’s the nice word for it. The less pleasant one starts with a “w.”

Is this thing on?

You can certainly get tube preamps for mics.

I'll buy the "accident"part; "happy" might be a stretch.

I'm embarrassed about the Vice part, not the reportage about Nazis part. Their "bro journalism" rubs me the wrong way. That piece was informative though, and I guess there's a certain canniness in sending a blond woman to talk to the racists.

After his vile anti-Semitism in the Vice piece (which I'm slightly embarrassed about watching), I have 6 million little tears for him.

Obliged. A stupid and avoidable argument about something upon which we agree. I'm always glad to find another Pynchonista.

I see my mistake. However, I've made a lot of money in "reading comprehension" - of things I get paid to read, so let's not jump to any conclusions. If you can't guess what I do from my screen name, I don't know what to tell you. I am almost ashamed to admit that I agree with your album ranking.

For the record (studio only, UK release dates, most came out a year later in the US): Kinks (1964); Kinda Kinks, The Kinks Kontroversy(1965); Face to Face (1966); Something Else (1967); The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968); Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969); Lola…

Given that the entire reason we are talking about Sgt. Pepper's is that it came out 50 years ago, and despite coming out earlier, there is a perception that it was a response to Pet Sounds (or so Paul said, more or less). It seems to me, therefore, that 50 years ago is the cutoff, otherwise there are no boundaries. …

1968. Something Else came out in 1967.

If they re-try it, which is by no means a certainty.

Both great. Sometimes I think Sgt. Pepper's is overrated, but its finish is undeniable.

Nice - I've got a Gibson 57 in the neck of a Korean Epi Broadway, and not only does it sound good, with the classic triangle-In-a-rectangle inlay blocks, the tree of life headstock and the herringbone purfling, plus a blonde finish with some nice flamed grain, it looks sweet too! A friend of mine's got an Epi Dot…

That's a very nice rig - you should be proud of it. That particular combo just isn't all that appealing to me, although I will concede that there are a lot of flavors there. I'm more of a Tele through a Princeton or Deluxe kind of guy - when I'm not an ES-175 through a Twin (or the Deluxe - a surprisingly good…

I have a Korean Epi Broadway with a Gibson 57 Classic in the neck position. There is no one-to-one comparison, as the Broadway was an originally Epiphone design, but it is a damn fine instrument. I've been almost uniformly impressed by the quality of Korean-built guitars. For the most part I've stuck with Reverends…

He uses his thumb (no thumbpick) and index finger to do faster single string runs, but never a pick. Personally, I'm a big fan of hybrid picking, but I've been trying to work a thumbpick into a lot more of both my jazz playing and country blues and folk tunes I might have straight finger picked before. I like that…