Big Al

They also have the Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, and Grant Green Blue Note "Retrospective" boxes (or, respective retrospectives, try and say that five times fast!). Good prices for non-BMG/yourmusic members on the Smith and the Green.

That's cool. Fixing it right now.

I like the Rouse. If I didn't have it, I'd get it simply because I'd kick myself if it went OOP before I grabbed it. Plus, it's worth the price of admission for the extra track at the end, a quintet track from an aborted session with Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, and Billy Higgins. It does seem kinda strange that they're deleting some of these titles; doesn't it seem like a bunch of these have been out less than five years?

I must've missed that. Can you show me where that was said? If I'm wrong, I'll pull the links and send them to everyone individually.

Another vote for Mother Ship. That album SMOKES! Dave, I haven't heard Rollin' with Leo, but Let Me Tell You About It is a very hot jumpin' session, for lack of better terms. It swings like crazy! I have GOT to get Stylings of Silver!

It's my favorite Silver album, simply because it sounds like nothing else in his catalog. Heartily recommended!

She goes like thunder!

Side 3 of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"

BFT 60 is officially uploaded. Each disc is a ZIP file (approx 110,000 KB each), and each track is a 192 Kbps WMA file. Just click on the link, wait the 90 seconds or so to download, save it to your computer, unzip the file and happy listening. Let me know if you have any questions. As of Monday, November 24, the links will be PM'd. If you would like to receive the links and you haven't already, feel free to PM me. (The posts after this one may be a little confusing. I originally had the links posted here, but was strongly encouraged to take them off.)

Link will be posted today, hopefully. I received the discs last night and I have them with me at the office. If I don't get it done today, it'll be done tomorrow.

DAMN !! It may even be 2 Bob - out of 27! That's it (...said in best Basil Fawlty voice). I'm recalling all copies and issuing out a new (more cryptic) set of disks ! No one is to identify any of these tracks even if I do say Jehovah ! Where's a 16-ton stone when you need one?

DAMN! Beat me to it! PM sent on the Quintet box, though!

For years, I always believed Jethro Tull sucked, basing that only on what I heard on the radio. A friend of mine let me borrow his copy of Aqualung recently, and after careful listening, I've realized something: Jethro Tull sucks far worse than I ever could have imagined.

I've become quite adept with the old Swiss army knife and can fillet one of those babies in no time. The CD or the motherfucker? Or maybe the fish?

Yep! Got mine yesterday as well!!!

Took advantage of the $10 sale at Virgin Megastore in Grapevine to stock up on some remasters: Sly & the Family Stone Greatest Hits Pink Floyd: Meddle, Wish You Were Here, and Animals

My thoughts exactly.

I still have a .pdf of the 2004 Fantasy catalog on my computer--terrific resource! PM sent about that!

Count Basie SIXTEEN MEN SWINGING As well as the rest of the groovy vinyl I bought from Dan, but especially this happy slab o' vinyl!

Dippin' into the $1.70's around here. Gonna enjoy this while it lasts and hope it never gets as high as $4 ever again!

First of all, I respect your logic and your reasoning, and I think I know where you're coming from (i.e. the ONLY reason I like Foreigner's Double Vision is simply because it was one of the first rock records I ever bought. I tried listening to it with the attitude of not having heard the record before. My reaction, naturally, was one of revulsion. This record truly, TRULY, sucks, as do most (aw hell, I'm on a roll, let's just make it ALL) Foreigner records); in other words, I get the part about things being a product of their time. But that ignores the fact that, especially in Ronstadt's case on these two tracks (which are both live, BTW), the performances are absolutely, mind-bogglingly BAD. It's as if they spent all this time and money on production values but completely forgot about the song itself! I'll grant you that Abbey Road had a shitload to do with that, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. Shawn is dead-on about Queen in this respect: the songs may be shit, but DAMN do they sound nice! For my money, the radio can't play "Fat Bottomed Girls" enough for my taste; sure it's a stupid song, but that drum sound totally KICKS ASS!!! In other words, I dig that it's totally subjective, but in Ronstadt's case, it would've been nice if she'd maybe dug just a little deeper than the surface of the songs she was butchering. Al, have you heard Linda's versions of these songs .....Rock me on the water (which i prefer over jackson browne's) Willing, and she does a nice version of Neil Young's Birds. I think the songs you mentioned are the overplayed hits of the day like "when will i be loved" there is a lot more to her than that. No, but I have heard her version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," and it would've been so easy to let the simple charms of the song speak for itself rather than run it through the same processor that made all her other songs sound the same.

Good heavens!!! What the heck happened to those scans??? It's like someone used some kind of shade on the scanner! Yechh!!

That cover is GREAT!!!!

Non-jazz: I always liked what Andy Partridge of XTC said about Depeche Mode one night while hosting MTV's "120 Minutes:" "And now we bring you a video of Depeche Mode live.... although I don't know how live it is when you turn on a drum-machine in front of 20,000 people."

Just listening to 'Getz Au Go Go' on LP this morning - the applause sounds very much as if it has been spliced on the end of the tracks. Quite crudely done in fact. I thought the show was done live without Astrud. The Getz quartet played for the crowd, and Astrud's voice was dubbed in later on.