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More of a rock thing but: Band X sounds like _____ meets ______. Always hate that one. I also completely despise rock reviews that say a band is somehow incorporating jazz into their sound when they clearly aren't and the reviewer really means they're playing noisy, artsy fartsy indie rock. I'll never understand how that equates to jazz. I had a friend whose band's press sheet had something about free jazz in there so I used to yell out requests for Ayler tunes at their shows. Yes, I know I am a dick.

LOL!!! Thanks for the link. It is awesome!

I agree with what you're saying. I also think it's easy to make a statement that sounds like you're not sweating downloads when you've already made more money from your music than most people would see in their entire life. It's pretty easy to look the other way when you're not riding in a rickety old van that overheats, barely making enough money to make it to the next gig, let alone get something to eat.

Unless they mastered this from an LP, I think what you are hearing is print through, meaning that when the tape was on the spool, a little of the layer below bled onto the layer above making a echo sound.

Yeah, I listened to the whole thing. Every second of it. It was a few years ago, so I don't remember exactly how long it took to do it (a month maybe?). And yes, I did go crazy by the end of it... like I said, it turned me off of the Beatles for a bit! Still, I'm glad I did it! If I had the time and the inclination (and I don't!), I'd cull that 83 CD set down to maybe 15 CDs of just the highlights. Cheers, Shane Good lord. I read the book based on all these tapes and that alone was exhausting enough.

From wiki: Typical Wikipedia accuracy. While that blurb is mostly true, the promo stickered stuff is just that, promotional copies sent to radio, reviewers and retailers. Not quite the same as cut-outs, though promos can be designated in a similar manner, as promo copies were never intended to be sold. Cut-outs were meant to be full price retail items but were remaindered before they got there. Back to these sets, the copies I've purchased have either had the barcodes blacked out with marker or physically cut out of the box.

Considering I've seen these same titles (Pepper, Henderson, Evans Secret Session, Debut Story) at Fye in quantity and I know Newbury has these sets cheap as well, I'd say there's a 100% chance these are cut outs rather than used. Either way, good deals.

It's really not that difficult to tell these are needledrops. For instance, some of the Ebbetts stuff has that sibilance associated with end of side distortion. I'm not saying they're bad to listen to, but I think the sound quality of the Ebbetts releases tends to get oversold a little.

I'm not privy to any inside information. In a previous thread here, someone else noted that the Andorrans disappeared about the same time the DG label started up and put two and two together.

Speculation was that DG's partnership with Universal for their reissue label might have something to do with it.

This is one of the LPs I lost in a flood that I really want to replace. I dig it quite a bit.

The dialog portions are individually indexed and easily programmed out. True, but when the remote is across the room next to the CD player... Really, I just wasn't expecting them. I didn't really look at the package before I put it in. Great music though. Had I mentioned in this thread the Film Score Monthly Shaft set? Oh man, if you are into blaxploitation, you need it.

Just found (and coincidentally am listening to) Across 110th St on CD the other day. Forgot how much I liked this one. Not sure how I feel about them adding dialogue to the CD release though.

Wasn't planning on it, but doesn't mean I, or anyone else, aren't entitled to an opinion.

And how are we going to know that the vendor isn't using cheap blanks? I certainly have a handful of CD-Rs where the top layer is peeling around the edges and flaking off, making it difficult for the computer to access the data. It's my experience that CDRs don't last as long as regular CDs, and I think it is kind of crazy to be asked to pay full price for one. This is my concern as well. Yes, I buy Yuden for all my stuff, but I didn't always and I have a lot of discs I burnt when I first got a CD-R that no longer play. I've had my stuff replicated at a pro replication house and the blanks they used were not Yuden or Mitsui so I don't even know if my own band's discs will be playable in 20 years. No one is going to come out and say "we're using crap blanks" but until you get one, you don't know. Honestly, I'd rather have some kind of lossless file plus pdfs of the art if we're going this route.

I wasn't there, but unless the Chantays were *very* in tune with cutting edge fashion, I think you're right. The famous Beatles pic, was from '63, but who in America had seen it then? And the "newer song"...modern spiritual! LOL

All I know is iTunes wants to charge me $186 to "upgrade" my library when there's only a few albums out of that that I still listen to and haven't been replaced by real CDs already. Since they want to make it an all or nothing proposition, I'm choosing nothing. They pulled this same garbage last time around with the EMI stuff but lucky for me, all that I wanted to upgrade. I don't know if it's Apple or the labels who are making this 30 cents/track fee and you can't pick and choose what you want to upgrade, but it's completely stupid and greedy. Given the eventual price drop to 69 cents for the vast majority of this stuff, if I was to "upgrade," I'll have paid nearly double the eventual going rate for this stuff.

Just today I happened to notice a reference to Elivin Jones in the Herbie Hancock Blue Note box. There was another one too, but I can't remember what I was.

ROCK! BROTHER (Always found that one odd.)

Thanks for point this out. I signed up early with amie st. and they had nothing so I rarely return. It's great the stuff they get from time to time, if you have the patience to check constantly.

Quality aside, they could stop issuing Garth Brooks discs and I think they'd still be clogging the used bins for the next several decades. Ironic, considering he was one of the big people speaking out against used CD sales.

Or maybe this is similar to Hoffman's "discovery" of the "lost" Sidewinder tape. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...mp;#entry825173 Paging Ron McMaster. And on the subject of the 45RPM series, I have to wonder how much longer the market is going to support them, or even if the market is supporting them currently. I know Hoffman has announced an Impulse series, but I wonder if it will ever happen. Aside from the economy tanking, there's going to have to be some buyer's fatigue setting in at some point. If the market can't support regular CDs of unique titles at $13 a pop, how can it support $50 sets of music everyone owns already released four a month? Plus, and I'm trying not to sound flip saying this, but I know a lot of those are going to speculators and Steve Hoffman fans who really don't care about the music so much as the object. Recently, there was a bit of a blow up over the "limited" edition of these things and some titles being reissued or intentionally held back or some such. I know there isn't any way to tell for sure, but it'd be interesting to know who has been buying these things because of the music vs. the collectability or cult of Hoffman and if the fact that some of the Prestige titles have been reissued in box sets or magically a few new copies appear after they sold out is going to dampen future sales and how much. My local store has optimistically stocked a bunch of the Music Matters titles and I've cashed in some store credit for two, someone else bought one and that's been about it. Granted, it's a general record shop and not an audiophile boutique, but I can't help wonder if this scene is replaying in other shops. Of course, of the two titles I got, one isn't the one I started out with because every copy I opened looked like it had a chalk outline the inner sleeve ingrained in the vinyl. My shop was very good about exchanging the records, but the person I emailed with at Music Matters was a little off putting about it. Sorry, if I'm spending premium dollars for a record, it better be as close to flawless as possible. I expect that kind of shit from an $8 Scorpio not a $50 "audiophile" pressing and that is why I'm not buying anymore of either series, original Out To Lunch tapes found or not. Sorry for the tangent and the rant.

Seaking of...can someone give me more info on this release? I looked around and I found what seems to be his page where he's selling it, but couldn't get the track lineups or anything useful like that: http://www.emusic.com/album/George-Braith-...d/11333939.html

John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris perhaps? That's the one I saw at one of the Arlington HPB's. They also have "140g vinyl" stickers on them as well. that's it. I'm 100% these aren't Scorpio. The copy of Playboys I mentioned upthread had a new catalog number which when I googled led to a list of Disconforme vinyl from a distributor. Scorpios aren't 140 gram (what a weird weight) and the covers are matte rather than the glossy of Scorpio releases. They aren't shrink wrapped like Scorpio releases either, they are in some kind of sealed bags. Additionally, unless a distributor was blowing out a bunch of Scorpio pressings, Half Price Books wouldn't have them. Stuff from the Disconforme group regularly showed up in shipment. (You can identify that stuff my the yellow barcode price stickers.) And Scorpio doesn't scratch the martix numbers out like the ones of these I've slid out of the sleeve had. If that doesn't spell less than legit, I don't know what does.

Saw more today. Getz West Coast Jazz, Shorter Adam's Apple and I forgot already what the other title was. LOL