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I had written this post this morning with all my heart... I thougth it was a birthday message... but it was in fact a "Non-Birthday" message! Oops... Sorry JD...

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Right after John Daly, here comes Joe Doubleday!!!

I hope you'll forgive me JoeD and that you'll enjoy that your pals of the site will celebrate this day with you! :o)

You've been such a great member here since you joined! And we are all so happy for you that you'll soon join Berklee!! You deserve it and we were all trusting you!! :o)

I'm pretty sure I'm going to see Joe Locke Play at Dizzy's next Thursday (January, 28th?) and I thought I'd put it out there and see if a bunch of us want to go and do a vibe hang at Dizzy's.

Any interest???? Leave a comment if you are.

If you're coming to the workshop please do a few things.

1. Fill out the registration: http://www.vibesworkshop.com/node/2710/
If you're coming to the workhshop PLEASE fill out a registration form.
This is so we can get an accurate count of attendees.

2. Please pay in advance! This will really help us and you will save money. It's so important that we make it cheaper. It helps us to know whether we can buy drinks on the plane!

Hi all,

This morning I got an unexpected and great message in my mailbox: Gerry Grosz from our sister site thevibe.net:

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"Hi, Marie-Noëlle!

It's fixed! Both Bruce and John are now unblocked and have been notified. I can't believe it took me this long to figure out the problem, but I did get it.

Thank you for your keeping me notified and on my toes. :)

In other news, I broke my arm & had surgery just last week, so I'm a little out of the game right now, but feeling so good that I was finally able to fix this longstanding problem.

Hi all!

A few days ago I received the Vic Firth Gary Burton mallets - 2 pairs for a total of Euro 65,- Including shipping + import sales/purchases tax + handling by the Austrian mail services. Here in Austria, if the price of an item is less then Euro 150,- there is no duty!

Thats a bargain since a single pair costs about Euro 55,- or more(check out thomann and all the others).

So my recommendation is to order by one of the big shops. I ordered at Steveweissmusic which I can recommend, but there are others.

The only con is that it takes some 4 weeks to get the stuff delivered.

OK, are you guys having IE6 problems? what exactly is going on.

IE6 is a terrible browser to start with. It's funny when you design something and it works with all browsers but IE6. Our first advice is to use Firefox.

Next, if you guys have a second, can you post exactly what's happening. I have to go download IE6 and test it as well. We think it's the shout box.

A friend of my Michael Varner is coming to Boston. He wants to meet up with the following. (He teaches down in Texas I think at University of Arlington.)

First, Jazz vibraphone, its teaching and performance skills.
Second, world music, specifically examining performance ensembles and ethnomusicology classes.

Of course I recommended Ed, and then said to check out if Victor has a Latin Ensemble at the school.

OK, this post was prompted by Ed's great version of Black Orpheus, and his thoughts about mallets...

This video was done a while ago, and I don't think I ever posted it on VW. Reason was, that I wasn't that crazy about the playing. It started out as just a personal comparison, to see how much I could feel the difference between mallets if I ran some video. A friend wanted to see it, so I edited a little movie and put it up on YouTube. But I was kind of farting around - wish the time and feel were a little better. Whatever, the subject is actually mallets.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIE!! MARIE IS SECOND IN CHARGE HERE ON THE SITE. WE'RE SO LUCKY SHE HANGS OUT WITH US!!! Marie is one of my best friends! And I'll meet her in about a month!!

Click here to sign her card