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I haven't either, and I would have jumped on it if I had seen it.

black coffee. all day every day at work.

Not according to Discogs. Yes, excellent set, a favorite of his for me. Vinyl seems easy enough to come by, but would love to have a CD of it.

Calling all Smiths fans. This is amazingly inventive and good. To me, Marr was the one who made the Smiths really special.

The US Shepp CD is cheap on discogs and ebay. https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1414791?ev=rb

From theseconddisc.com NEWS Traneing In: Never-Before-Released John Coltrane Tapes Set To Arrive on “Blue World” AUGUST 21, 2019 BY SAM STONE 1 COMMENT Jazz aficionados worldwide have good reason to celebrate with the news of a new John Coltrane album that features lost performances from 1964! The album arrives on September 27 through Verve/Impulse! and is entitled Blue World. The 8-song collection features Coltrane's "Classic Quartet" as recorded in a newly unearthed session at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in June of that year. The sessions that make up Blue World were commissioned by Quebecois filmmaker Gille Groulx, a rabid Coltrane fan

Disc 11 SANTANA Featuring/CARLOS SANTANA: guitar • GREGG ROLIE: vocals, keyboard • DAVID BROWN: bass • MICHAEL SHRIEVE: drums • MIKE CARABELLO: timbales, congas, percussion • JOSE “CHEPITO” AREAS: trumpet, timbales, congas, percussion 1. WAITING [5:11] 2. EVIL WAYS [4:34] 3. JUST DON’T CARE [4:21] 4. SAVOR [5:22] 5. JINGO [5:45] 6. PERSUASION [3:25] 7. SOUL SACRIFICE [13:04] 8. FRIED NECK BONES AND SOME HOME FRIES [6:33] 9. Chip Monck – "Wheat Germ, Holly has your bag" [16:19]

They're all worthwhile. Though if you have the 2CD Legacy edition of the first Santana album, you have all of their Woodstock performance except for a weak "Evil Ways", and a lot of other good material. https://www.amazon.com/Santana-Legacy/dp/B00064ADNY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20YR0DFB3X8CF&keywords=santana+legacy+edition&qid=1566358084&s=music&sprefix=santana+legacy%2Cpopular%2C126&sr=1-1

Finished out the 10CD set today, Grateful Dead through Hendrix. Glad to have heard it and to own it, don’t feel a need for the 38CD set now – this is plenty. Again, most all of the performers had some really good moments, and some not so good moments. The person who was most done wrong by the historical rewriting of Woodstock was Johnny Winter. He was on fire for his entire set, these cuts today were a reminder. I strongly recommend the “Woodstock Experience” CD which combines his entire Woodstock performance and his first Columbia album (and don’t sleep on “The Progressive Blues Experiment, his amazing Imperial Records set recorded just prior to his Columbia albums, and his masterpiece “Second Winter” – if history had been just, he would have been in the movie, “Second Winter” would have sold a couple million copies, and who knows?). Joe Cocker’s “Dear Landlord” is a great performance, and his entire set is strong. The Grateful Dead were not good at Woodstock – that is one lackluster “Dark Star”, and the other selections are worse. Blood, Sweat, and Tears sound really strong, especially on “Smiling Phases”. Creedence played really well. Butterfield Blues Band sound great – their entire performance is available on their Complete Elektra Albums box set, though that has somehow not seemed to draw much attention. Joplin’s band is tight. Nothing can match her Monterey “Ball and Chain”, but she played a really good set at Woodstock. Ten Years after sounds good. The Hendrix set is a mess – the backing band doesn’t cut it, even though he seems to be in good enough form, especially on "Purple Haze". And I may be in the minority, but I always found his “Star Spangled Banner” quite off-putting musically, and consider his Band of Gypsies “Machine Gun” to be a much stronger musical and much stronger political statement (and that one resonates anew in 2019). The Who come off well (Abbie Hoffman doesn't ). I love the Jefferson Airplane set, own the whole 100 minute thing on their “Woodstock Experience” release. They aren’t at all tight, but they are inspired and full of fire. Willing to let the whole 50 year anniversary thing have a rest now, hope some more full sets get released this year, and realize this is probably the end of the hoopla in my lifetime (and am OK with that).

It is excellent.

From the 10CD set:

Be sure to check out that Keef Hartley album.

Finished my Day 1 (my days, not the festival) listening to the 10CD. Made it through Mountain, start with Grateful Dead tomorrow. Some thoughts: High point for me was Santana (though I knew that already). Low point was the Incredible String Band. The Keef Hartley material was clearly from a different, greatly inferior source than the other artists. Their long selection sounded really good musically, but not really different than what was on their outstanding 'Halfbreed' album. I also really liked the Richie Havens. Other artists tended to have some really good cuts and some not so good. I found something to like by all of them except ISB and Joan Baez. Canned Heat were strong, but I could have lived without the 10-minute drum solo on "Woodstock Boogie". Joan Baez was really a downer. Tim Hardin and Bert Sommer had some really strong cuts. Inconsistency of performances did not whet my appetite to lay out the $ or time for the full 38-CD set. I have the full Santana set already on the standalone release. Still have almost six CD's to go in this set, am looking forward to that over the next two days. Quite happy with the 10 CD purchase, which is now going for like $106 on Amazon.

Yes, I wish that the Monterey organizers had looked forward more and recorded the whole thing. Was stunned that there was NOTHING for the 50th anniversary in 2017, but I guess everything they had come out at the 25th in 1992. The breadth of the performers at Monterey was stunning and gratifying.

"Alone is the new community" deserves its own thread/discussion. But I don't think that one is on the boomers. The next generations have had plenty of opportunity to make their mark - how's that going? And the "greatest generation" before the boomers wasn't necessarily so great if you didn't look the part. When I was a kid, I lived in Huntsville, AL for a couple years, and still remember the crosses burning on the hill some nights. And this is the USA - it is (arguably or not) worse everywhere else. Human nature in need of redemption. There is so much right and so much wrong about us as people. My wife and I have not changed the world. We have tried and do try to make a difference in our corner of it, adopting our daughter, working with abused women, etc. Whatever God gives us. I can know the nostalgia has a lot of fiction, and still enjoy it.

I'm sure you have specifics in mind here, even though you painted your response in broad brush strokes. Would like to hear your backstories offline some time, as I know you think and care deeply about these things, and I place great value on your thoughts, whether I agree with/understand them or not (and I usually do). I would not want to offer a response/counterargument without really hearing you out. We're way beyond the Troggs/Wynton/Melanie here. Not to Canned Heat yet, but yes, I do get value from some of the announcements on the 10 CD set, such as the scaffolding, the blue acid, etc. And I know there are more to come, such as breakfast in bed for 400,000. Just starting Melanie now, I have always liked "Mama, Mama" by her, so I'm onboard so far.

Not totally following. Who needs humbly rehabilitated? The Troggs? Wynton? Melanie? I'm just trying to explain how subjectivity vs. objectivity might come into play. What speaks to each of us speaks to each of us, and does so for a variety of reasons, and varies from person to person (and somewhat from generation to generation). Green Acres was hardly emmy-award stuff, but we aren't trying to humbly rehabilitate Eva Gabor or Hank Patterson. They were who they were, and to some, that was/is thoroughly enjoyable. while it will be totally lost on others.

Nina Simone "Complete RCA Recordings" 9 CD box set being reissued. $37 pre-order, likely will be even cheaper from third party sellers once released. Inconsistent, but some real gems in there, and at $4/CD you can't go wrong. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Rca-Albums-Collection-9Cd/dp/B07SRJF7CG/?tag=sdepcwus-20

Started into the 10CD set this morning, will spend the next three days listening. Just finished the Richie Havens selections and am on Sweetwater right now. Two observations, the audio work on this edition is nearly miraculous given the source material and the previous releases. Also, Havens really rose to the occasion and seemed to relish the moment. I know it will be musically mainly downhill from here. But I think much of the appeal will be nostalgic/emotional as opposed to purely musical. The musical quality of, say, a typical Wynton or Branford Marsalis etc. album is light years beyond, say "Wild Thing" by the Troggs or "96 Tears" by Question Mark and the Mysterians, But the latter bring back memories, have cultural/historical relevance etc., even though they aren't even good musical examples of their genre, so they have value to me where the Marsalis album does not. So I enjoy the oldies, and not so much the Marsalis recordings. Same thing with Woodstock, I suspect. The subjective meaning of hearing the recordings has much more than musical aspects. So I will, by nature, enjoy and value it, where younger members and those inclined in different directions maybe won't. I'll even dig the Melanie set, I'm sure, though I'll withhold judgment on the Ravi Shankar. Great moment in cultural perspective on the "Concert for Bangla Desh" soundtrack. Shankar & Co. play for about two minutes, stop, and the crowd goes into rapturous applause. Shankar then says something like "Thank you very much, and if you enjoyed our tuning up that much, we're sure you'll really like our performance".

You may well be right. I have the 10 CD set, and that probably will end up being sufficient, especially considering the sets that are available as standalone releases (Airplane, Santana, Hendrix, Cocker, Sly, Winter, Creedence, parts of Sweetwater, and likely more to come and likely more I am forgetting). I surely don't need (or want) 700 minutes of stage announcements!

I have 70's Downbeats and 70's/80's Cadences, same dilemma. But not ready to recycle them.

How's the sound quality and overall performance on this one? Looked at it in the past, and the all-standards repertoire was offputting.

Julie Miller is a FABULOUS songwriter. Here is what I consider to be her masterpiece. Buddy Miller brings music alive. They both added much to Emmylou Harris's great awakening, especially Buddy.

Havent seen that nutsness in a while. So much for me hoping to get one for $400 or so.