Chuck Nessa

First, there will be a "bundle" offer for a shirt and Numbers 1 & 2 on the website soon. FWIW, the shirts are unisex, meant to be snug around the midsection. We are almost finished with the mix/edit of the new Roscoe - only one piece left. Pulling all the other stuff together has been a daunting task. I hope to have it available for Christmas, but am not certain. Watch this space.

He posts regularly on FB.

It was a Columbia set with the usual suspects. I lost mine in an early vinyl purge and ultimately bought another.

I'm wearing a 3x

Still prepping for the big five o. shirts will be on the website soon.

First met Joe in '67 or '68 while working for Discount Records in Chicago. Joe was a salesman for Prestige and was all excited about selling us overstocks/cheap pressings of the various Prestige labels. I think the price at that time was something like $.35 for our company. I remember taking him and "Rene" (anyone remember her) to a Braxton concert at the U of Chicago in the '70s. When he was first starting Muse he invited me to NY to discuss becoming a third partner with him and Schlitten. I declined. By the mid '80s I was involved in distributing Muse in the midwest and he spent a night in our house and he ate pancakes with the kids. He always seemed to view himself as a "sharp" businessman which meant "tight" or just plain cheap to a lot of artists. I always thought he was trying to be Bob Weinstock without Bob's love for the music. He wound up with a sizable recorded legacy. YMMV.

Sorry I missed Pauls topic. Please merge them.

I first met Joe in 1968 and have bunches of memories and opinions. I will be back later to expound.

As many here know, I am a Horenstein fan top to bottom. I like some Klemperers, have an allergy for Kubelik and Boulez. My great friend Rafi Zabor keeps encouraging me to explore the late Abbado recordings from Lucerne. I prefer Horenstein's Mahler 1 with the VSO.

sigh.

August, 50th Anniversary release of Lester Bowie's "Numbers 1&2" now in house for the discerning collector wanting to hear the original program as edited for lp (on cd). A curates egg for sure, but I had to do it.

Welcome. Fine recording.

Every time I pull this off the shelf I know I am in for a couple of days with it.

Really?

Is this the material issued on 2 Memoria discs in the '90s? They are terrific. Edit to say I discovered they are the same recordings. Terrific, as I said.