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I assume most of you guys have already read this at some point in time. It has been recommended to me on many separate occassions. I'm due to read another book about the music and I think this will probably be the next one. How do some of the authors represented here feel about this telling? How about the readers?

Yesterday I picked up the 3CD Trojan Jamaican Superstars for $13.00 brand soulful new. Wow! Alton Ellis, John Holt, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Delroy Wilson, Pat Kelly. I recommend this at the full price of $22 any day of the week.

Well, gosh...isn't that why they called him "Bird?" That is true. I read it.

Achtung Freud?!

That's what I'm sayin! Am I crazy, or do I really have empathy for disc two?

Unintentionally Jim. I don't know. Sometimes I listen to Disc 2 in a set simply because it is Disc 2. Box Sets are a whole 'nother can of worms. I have to choose at random. A good example of favoritism here would be the Sam Rivers Mosaic. I will always be magnetically attracted to Disc One for its multiple takes of Downstairs Blues Upstairs. I have NO IDEA what is on the rest of that set. This thread is just for fun.

Do you tend to neglect disc two, or do you find yourself reaching for it because you think you never listen to it? Any particular 2 disc sets where disc two outshines disc one? This thread is dedicated to Disc Two. I'll start with a couple of Disc 2s that I think I like as much as the first, but don't give the attention: Agharta Disc 2. I love Maiysha, so disc two seems to always take second chair. KD 'Round About Midnight Disc 2. No good excuse. Arthur Edgehill never got much credit, being overshadowed by other drummers of the era, but his playing on these tunes is top notch.

Hey, those Dick's Picks Vol. x-y sets look tempting! If I'm not careful, I'm going to end up filling MORE of my shelves with Dead material. Amir, I actually like that Winterland concert quite a bit. The band does get into some areas that I hadn't previously heard before. My tapes are boxed up at my in-laws' house (!) so its been a while since I've heard the show. Three 90 minute cassettes I think. My cousin has walls of DAT. He used to hand stuff over all the time, but we live so far apart now. Now whenever I go over there, I find myself thinking *I wish this wall was full of Slug's material* or bootleg jazz recordings. I haven't really met anyone with that sort of hook-up yet, but people have hinted around it. I'm sure its out there... different thread. I digress. *This is the first time I can remember using the *asterisk* method.

Red Bamboo. Order the Philly. You won't believe its not meat.

I highly recommend the 3 year Apple Care plan. I've replaced my CDRW drive 3 times in the graphite iMac. We haven't used the plan for the iBook yet, but I think it is a good value.

Has anybody seen this? Chris Pontias and Steve-o up close and personal with nature. So great. A close-up of Steve-O's ass getting stung by a black emperor scorpion take after take until it breaks flesh just beneath his "Your Name" tattoo. Pontias wrestling an alligator, and winning. The two dressed up in a terrible zebra costume roaming the plains with zebra. I also loved Trigger Happy TV. The bad animal costumes still kill me in candid situations. People, and in this case animals, don't know how to react.

It is available at gdstore.com. I had no idea so much stuff had been remastered/released! The site is sort of difficult to navigate. Click on music, then there is a sub-menu. Click on Grateful Dead. A couple of things that immediately jumped out at me: Grateful Dead - Birth Of The Dead CD $23.00 Where it all began in 1965-1966. Two discs of pre-Warner Brothers recordings from the Autumn, Scorpio and Hendricks Sessions, plus live tracks from the same time period. HDCD. DISC ONE: The Studio Sides The Autumn Sessions 1 Early Morning Rain 2 I Know Your Rider 3 Mindbender (Confusion's Prince) 4 The Only Time Is Now 5 Caution (Do Not Step On Tracks) 6 Can't Come Down The Scorpio Sessions 7 Stealin' (Instrumental) 8 Stealin' (with Vocals) 9 Don't Ease Me In (Instrumental) 10 Don't Ease Me In (with Vocals) 11 You Don't Have To Ask 12 Tastebud (Instrumental) 13 Tastebud (with Vocals) 14 I Know You Rider 15 Cold Rain and Snow (Instrumental) 16 Cold Rain and Snow (with Vocals) The Hendricks Session 17 Fire In The City - Jon Hendricks DISC TWO: The Live Sides 1 Viola Lee Blues 2 Don't Ease Me In 3 Pain In My Heart 4 Sitting On Top Of The World 5 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 6 I'm A King Bee 7 Big Boss Man 8 Standing On The Corner 9 In The Pines 10 Nobody's Fault But Mine 11 Next Time You See Me 12 One Kind Favor 13 He Was A Friend Of Mine 14 Keep Rolling By The Autumn Sessions were recorded at Golden State Recorders in San Francisco, CA in November of 1965 under the assumed name "The Emergency Crew." The Scorpio Sessions were recorded at Buena Vista Studio and Western Recording in San Francisco. They were originally released as a limited quantity single on Scorpio Records in July of 1966. The Hendricks session was recorded at Columbus Recorders in San Francisco in March of 1967 for use in the documentary film Sons And Daughters and was later released as a single by Verve Records. The live tracks on Disc Two were recorded in July of 1966 in San Francisco. Exact dates and venues are unknown. HDCD provides higher resolution when played in an HDCD-equipped CD player, and offers superior sound when played in regular CD players. HDCD CDs can be played in all CD players. ::::::::::::::::::: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions CD $15.00 The legendary Mother McCree's finally heard! This recording from a July 1964 Tangent show in Palo Alto, Califronia features the roots of the Grateful Dead: Weir, Garcia and Pig Pen playing in a bluegrass/jug/blues band. Amazingly mastered. This is a treat, with 17 tracks plus an interview with a very young-sounding Jerry and Bobby. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions Jerry Garcia: guitar, kazoo, banjo,vocals Ron "PigPen" McKernan harmonica, vocals Bob Weir guitar, washtub bass, footcrasher, jug, kazoo, vocals Dave Parker washboard, kazoo, tin cup, vocals Tom Stone banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals Mike Garbett washtub bass, guitar, kazoo Produced By: Michael Wanger & www.vidkid.com Recorded live at the Tangent by: Pete Wanger and Wayne Ott CD Mastering: Jeffery Norman, Club Front Cover Art: Timothy Truman Package Design: Gecko Graphics Special Thanks to: John Cutler and Peter McQuaid ::::::::::::::::::: I guess I'm just looking for an excuse to talk about any Dead news! I really haven't listened to anything in a while. Still interested in the Winterland deal! One thing I did notice Lon, and this is why I've never heard Postcards, is that it is all from the latter half of the 1980s. Here and there, I like GD from the late 80s, but not so much. I have a Dead Hour tape where Uncle Dave played Dylan covers only. This is probably the other reason I've never been interested. I'd like to hear that old Dylan and the Dead release again though. Similar time period, but with Dylan.

Yeah, Bertrand dawned on me after I thought of Joe. Sorry 'bout that Bertrand. And Joe!

Joe Milazzo.

Oh well. I definitely hear where both you and Brandon are coming from. I think he's got a long career ahead of him. I know he said New Jack City was a long time ago, but he still seems young!

P.S. I make it a habit to keep most of my hard drive open. I have this instinctive paranoia that it is not good to operate on low memory.

Actually, the iBook is pretty damn cool from a design perspective. I love the Titanium. My father-in-law has been upgrading in this series since the beginning. It is an awesome laptop. The iBook is plenty rugged. You can buy without hesitation. The speakers kind of suck, but that is a small complaint considering we are talking about a portable computer rather than a stereo. I love this computer. Too bad it ain't mine!

Unfortunately, Richard Pryor isn't in any condition to put together a 90 minute gig. I do think Chris Rock is a great piece of the Richard Pryor legacy though. The rap material seemed almost like filler in his program. It was a small part of the performance that he probably included for a section of his audience. I'll have to watch it again. I didn't feel like he put much emphasis on it. I do think he was preaching, and because he is not a Reverend, or a formal part of any organized church, he can preach about whatever the hell he wants to. It is wild! People listen to him like he is preaching. He is stepping up from "stand-up comic." It is a unique position that not many people can enjoy.

Thank you Larry. Jürgen, do you know where I can find these Philology CDs? Thanks everyone!

Man, Chris Rock put on one hell of a 90 minute act last night. Did anybody catch this? I taped it. He's got his shit together.

Yeah, just to clarify, I don't think a G5 processor is a supercomputer and I think it does make sense to always have more processing ability than you need, but you really can't purchase a machine now and expect it to meet all of your needs in 6 years. Who knows what your needs will be! I was also using the word supercomputer as hyperbole. What type of software are you using JLarsen?

Seems that this should start a decent discussion. I took small part in a conversation the other night with Alvin Fielder and William Parker after their mind-numbing set at the ICA in Boston. William Parker mentioned a recording of the Clifford Brown/Max Roach band from the Beehive that they both got excited about, saying the musicians were moving so fast that they (Parker, Fielder) considered it free. Now this was mentioned in a conversation about the history of bebop. Brownie only came up after mentioning so-and-so whom Fielder credited for inspiring Fats Navarro who, in turn, inspired Clifford Brown. I assume 'creative hyperbole' may, in certain ways, apply, but I also feel that they were directly linking the music that they were exploring that night to what Brown and Roach were blazing fifty years back. Here is a copy/paste from another thread regarding this. Is this recording a legitimate release, or is it a bootleg? I'd like to hear this very much! **************** Impossible: He and William Parker were talking about a Clifford Brown/Max Roach recording from the Beehive that was so fast they considered it free. Is anyone familiar? I will post a new thread for this I guess. Pete C: Sounds like creative hyperbole to me. I don't remember anything qualitatively different when I heard those recordings from other performances by the group. Larry Kart: They must be thinking of the "Cherokee" on "Live at the Beehive." I do hear something close to a qualitative difference between this performance and any other Brown-Roach uptempo performance of "Cherokee" (or anything else) I know -- it's so damn fast and Clifford and Max are so united/inspired--and I can see where it would make sense to think if it as "free." That is, while what Clifford and Max are playing sounds co-ordinated, esp. rhythmically, one gets the feeling that in practical terms that's because they're both in their topmost conceivable/executable gears, and those gears happen to coincide. Whatever, it's amazing, extreme music. FWIW, there's a piece about the "Live at the Beehive" set in my forthcoming book "Jazz In search ofd Itself" (Yale U. Press, fall 2004).

Looks pretty cool. I haven't heard this group before. I'll probably check it out. Let me know what you think once you've received your copy!

That's great D! I came down from Charlotte. I think it was 2001. We were probably four rows back toward the center. Afterwards, we went over to Vertigo for beer and burgers. I've had some good times in Atlanta.

How are the overdubs? These are sessions that I have not heard.