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Saw them live in West Palm Beach in 1971, my first full-fledged arena concert. Heavy, man. My favorite by them is the title track to "One Way Or Another". And later on, Mike Pinera joined, on his way to setting the record for most rock bands fronted in a five-year period (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Ramatam. Cactus, Thee Image).

And keep in mind Kloss was 16 when he recorded his first Prestige album, and 21 when he recorded his last one. I think Prestige was well aware of the fast company they had the kid keeping, what with one of the albums titled "In The Land of the Giants". I'm also a fan of the "Essence" album on Muse, with Hannibal Peterson and Micky Tucker. The lead cut, "Love Will Take You There" is my all-time favorite Kloss. And that one is also MIA on CD.

Me too, in several different styles. The American Quartet, the European Quartet, the solo stuff, the long-running trio all have their merits, and are all very different from each other.

Try this one (on Columbia)

Beach Boys and Motown have also had releases which were explicitly made for copyright protection. And that was the case for the 36-CD Dylan live 1966 set, which contained some of the most horrible sounding recordings ever (as well as some marvelous ones).

Coltrane's "The Lost Album" sold over 250,000 copies. There's still a market.

Rory Gallagher ruled!

Here's my pick for Pullen's organ work. The great Doug Carn albums are 'Infant Eyes", 'Spirit of the New Land', and 'Revelation', though not necessarily for his organ playing per se (and he plays a lot of piano on them).

Renaissance Fair is the most perfect cut I've ever heard.

Haven't listened to this, but have heard a lot by the group. By the 80's they were (exceedingly talented) seasoned pros doing repertory in a lot of ways, more polish and less fire than the early days.

Any good? I like their albums from that period, though not on the level of "Days of Wine and Roses" or "Complete Live at Rajio's".

All the early allman bros. Start with "fillmore east" go next to "beginnings" which repackages their first two lp's third to "eat a peach" then skip 20 years to the Warren Haynes era of the Allman bros especially the live stuff. The Gregg solo albums are not nearly as strong.

And the Sgt. Pepper remix is stunning.

I own and read the book, it is very well-written and fascinating. The 1200 pages flies by.

Agreed the twofer is a gem.

That was "Lycra Too?" on my December BFT.

I passed. I have the earlier Esoteric issues of the three albums, and that issue of the live one has much bonus material not on this box. Utility of this box depends on if you have the earlier issues and how much you like the group. "Bundles", with Allen Holdsworth, is the gem of the bunch.

My jazz education was mainly buying blind on cutouts/used vinuyl because there was a name or a label that made me willing to shell out a dollar to explore.

Which is another one that never charted in the USA (their version).

Have lots I'll never listen to again, but don't know exactly which ones in many cases. Most of the ones I am sure I'm done with, I try to move on to a new home.

"I Think of You" is one of the British Invasion era UK hits that I never understood why it didn't make it big in the USA. May be third behind the Searchers' "When You Walk in the Room" (which at least scraped the bottom of the top 40, but should have been huge) and the Hollies' "I'm Alive" (which didn't even make the top 100 here). "It's Love That Really Counts" and "Wishin' and Hopin'" are also pretty wonderful.

It was a Liberty-era recording, 1968, so may be somewhat overlooked/underrated because of that. BN was pretty inconsistent during that era (and it just got worse under UA, though both of those eras produced some absolute treasures, unlike the past 35 years).