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The eil image sucks anyway. Compare it with this one, for example:

There goes another giant. I wish I hadn't followed his career in a "backward" fashion, as sometimes happens. I heard his 70's recordings with B.B. King before I heard his 50's recordings, and because those later things didn't do a lot for me at that time, it delayed my appreciation for his earlier work. Once I realized what I'd been missing... wow. RIP.

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Your link (without the http://eil.com/ portion) looks like this: images/main/Sonny+Clark+-+Leapin It breaks off right where you have an apostrophe after "Leapin". In sonnymax's link, the apostrophes after the words "Leapin" and "Lopin" are replaced by "%27". After opening the image page at eil using sonnymax's link, I inserted the apostrophes back in place of the "%27"s, and the image still appears. I then opened a new browser window and tried the link with the apostrophes again, and it worked again. It's going to take a more computer-savvy person than I to understand that. At any rate, there does seem to be an issue with the apostrophes (I recall that we couldn't use quotation marks in thread links on one of the boards... maybe this is a related problem).

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Many of the LT's came out in 1979. You may have missed this discussion: The "rainbow" covers are somewhat controversial, but it's certainly not unanimous that they were a "disgrace".

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Thanks for elaborating, Big Beat Steve. I didn't mean to imply that you were being rude intentionally. Anyway, I still think the "raising your appreciation of the music" comment comes across as rather presumptuous and insulting (or at least leaves the door open for that interpretation and reaction). I'm just saying I think it was an unfortunate comment (even not having been made maliciously), and I understood steve's reaction. The idea of Mosaic boxes as investments for investments' sake seems perfectly reasonable, predictable, and natural to me. That is, I completely understand it. I never approached them that way myself, but never looked down on anyone who did. I don't see any crime being committed by those people (although there certainly were some reported criminal acts involving Mosaic sets). It's nothing new, and it's the same phenomenon that has long been going on with original jazz LP pressings (and countless other items that become desirable and collectable). The practice may cause the music to become more expensive and more difficult for some to acquire, but... well, there you go. Is life ever "fair"? I don't see it as anyone's obligation to share my appreciation for specific recordings (or even give them a chance), and when someone profits from the sale of these boxes, I think we can still feel confident that the buyer (or the person that the buyer sells them to ) or someone down the line will appreciate the music they contain.

I understand (but don't necessarily agree with) the idea that it's unfortunate that Mosaic sets have often been treated strictly as investments, but let's not forget that many of us have bought Mosaic sets which contained music that we were already well familiar with or even already had in some form. I don't know if that applies in this case, but I side with steve(thelil) here, and completely understand his displeasure with the presumptuous and rather rude reply he received.

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