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Or this guy, who DID play with Roach?

RIP. Mod Squad was my only exposure to her, when I was 13-17, but I cerntainly remember her.

You can thank Stanley Clarke for influencing a whole generation of bumblebee bassists.

The Walt Dickerson and Khan Jamal titles are generally excellent, and of course there is a treasure trove of top-notch live Dex, not in the box. And I really like the Joe Bonner's, though he is a personal taste that may not be shared widely. The Clifford Jordan and the Cedar Walton titles are fabulous. And, of course, the Billy Harper's are spectacular, for me the crown jewel of the label.

Agreed, they really were tight at that point, and some really good songs - mostly spread over "Beatles '65" and "Beatles VI" in the USA. "Every Little Thing" is one of my very favorite Beatles songs of all time (as is the even earlier "There's A Place").

He was married to Merry Clayton, who has had quite a career, but is mainly known (and rightfully so) for the "rape murder, it's just a shot away" sequence in the Stones masterpiece, "Gimme Shelter". She absolutely steals the documentary "20 Feet From Stardom" from the other participants, especially with her story of how she came to participate in that song. She also cut a few fine solo albums in the early 70's. Amy was 19 years her senior, but it all seemed to work:

I would suggest people contact Tom and request to get on his mailing list. He has had some great opportunities for us lately.

I think that pretty well explains why I don't listen to much of anything on the pop music front from the last 30 years, don't watch any TV shows (just news and sports), see less than a half dozen new movies each year. Pop Culture sees me as a relic of the past, so that's what I will be.

Yeah, I'm 64, and go through frequent bouts of "I used to know that..." such as with the great Paul Horn cut on #5, sports knowledge, history, passwords, names of people I see in hallways at work (very large company and I've been here 38 years) all sorts of things.

He showed much kindness to me in my early time here.

Right, #5 is "Mr. Bond" from that. Great album!

Yep.

Really, you don't think Miley Cyrus is the Spirit of Woodstock LOL?! That is the Watkins Glen event, which looks really bizarre, a money grab by Michael Lang. Some of the Bethel Woods concerts look good, and the Museum and complex are very nice and well worth seeing (was there in 2017).

Looks to be well worth $39/year. Yes, he does.

Do we know yet when the Left Bank Jazz Society will be opening in San Francisco?

I agree, and was shocked that NOTHING (to my knowledge) was done as far as 50th anniversary issues of that. May be that it wasn't fully recorded, and there wasn't anything else to issue beyond what was issued in 1992 for the 25th anniversary, I guess, though I have a bootlegishy CD of the Airplane's full set there, which has not been officially released. By 1969, after the success of the Monterey documentary, they knew to record everything, To me, some of the best music from Woodstock was less heralded than some of the worst. Johnny Winter, for example, was fantastic there. I have that set on CBS/Sony. Cocker's whole set was good, the Airplane's was fascinating, including a 20 minute "Wooden Ships". Sly's set was excellent. I thought Hendrix was awful there, musically lost, and that CSN were horribly out of tune, like they always have been performing live. For that matter, I thought Hendrix at Monterey was a victory (of sorts) of showmanship, not of music. I know he could burn musically live, as evidenced on things like the Winterland box set, but not so much at those festivals.

I know I'm likely to absorb a good bit of snark for posting this, but also suspect there are others beside me who will find it of interest. Rhino is planning several different size releases of Woodstock material to mark the 50th anniversary. I'm certainly not paying $800 for the 38-disc extravaganza (I would pay an equitable price), but expect to be in for the 10-disc set once it is appropriately discounted by Amazon, ImportCDs, and other online retailors. And my primary interest is in the performances by the "lesser" names that have not previously seen the light of day (Bert Sommer, Tim Hardin, expanded Richie Havens, Keef Hartley Band, Sweetwater, etc.). https://theseconddisc.com/2019/05/developing-rhino-celebrates-woodstock-50th-with-massive-complete-38-cd-box-set/ DEVELOPING: Rhino Celebrates Woodstock 50th with Massive, Complete 38-CD Box Set (UPDATED WITH RHINO ORDER LINKS) MAY 8, 2019 BY JOE MARCHESE 11 COMMENTS PRE-ORDER “50TH ANNIVERSARY ARCHIVE” FROM RHINO Rolling Stone has broken the news this morning that Rhino Records is getting back to the garden in a big (make that BIG) way. Woodstock 50 – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, dueAugust 2, will live up to its name as the last word on the legendary festival. This 38CD/1BD set, limited to 1,969 copies, will include every note performed onstage by every act at Yasgur’s Farm over those three days of peace and music, save two tracks by Jimi Hendrix (omitted at the request of his family) and one song from Sha Na Na (which couldn’t be used due to a tape gap). Many of these recordings are being released for the very first time. In total, the set boasts an astounding 432 songs, 267 of them previously unreleased – plus crowd announcements and other “sonic memorabilia” from audience members. A Blu-ray of the director’s cut of Michael Wadleigh’s film is also included. “There have been large boxed sets devoted to particular eras or tours – the Grateful Dead do a great job of that sort of thing – but there’s never, to my knowledge, been an attempt to present a large-scale durational experience of this sort,” Andy Zax, the producer and archivist who co-produced the set with Rhino’s Steve Woolard, told Rolling Stone. “The Woodstock tapes give us a singular opportunity for a kind of sonic time travel, and my intention is to transport people back to 1969. There aren’t many other concerts you could make this argument about.” The box will retail for $799 and will include swag such as a hardbound book by Michael Lang, a replica original program, replica posters, photo prints, a guitar strap, and more, all housed in a screen-printed plywood box with canvas insert. 10CD, 5LP, and 3CD highlights versions will also be released on June 28. Woodstock – Back to the Garden – 50th Anniversary Experience features 162 tracks across 10 CDs and is the first Woodstock collection to feature live recordings of every performer at the festival. This version will be also available via digital download. Woodstock – Back to the Garden – 50th Anniversary Collectioncollects 42 tracks, and will be available on 3 CDs or 5 LPs. And that’s still not all. Vinyl Me Please will have a special 10LP package (due in early August) limited to 1,000 units pressed on tie-dyed-style colored vinyl. This set contains Woodstock Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 4, which haven’t been in print on vinyl since 2009. Get more information here! Visit Rolling Stone for the rest of Andy Zax’s interview about this monumental undertaking. The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive will not be released to general retail, and will be available exclusively through direct to consumer retailers such as Rhino, Woodstock.com, and dead.net. Head to Rhino to pre-order all iterations. Orders placed with Rhino for the big box will include exclusive Dale Saltzman 18×15 lithographs based on banners from the original festival. A complete track listing isn’t currently available for the Archive, but you can find the Experienceand Collection track listings and Rhino’s trailer below! All titles are currently available for pre-order at Rhino.com.

LOL, that's a cold accusation!

#5 has to be a Blue Note cut with Bobby Hutcherson, doesn't it? Having trouble placing it, but I know I am (more accurately have been) familiar with it. Love the rhythm section on it.

Would love to hear that. No idea what Odean Pope sounded like in 1968, first I heard him was with Catalyst about 4-5 years later.

From https://mingusmingusmingus.com/sue-mingus/revenge According to Johnny Coles, a Russian Circus performed in the Salle Wagram just prior to the Mingus Sextet’s engagement, and the stage was still extremely high off the ground. (Coles actually counted 22 steps from the ground floor before the concert.) He says that after playing a solo early in the set he started to feel a severe pain in his sides. When the pain became unbearable he headed across the stage, walked through the curtain and “fell down all those steps. I never even got a dent in my horn when I hit bottom!” The actress Mae Mercer took him first to a French hospital which refused him because, as they said, “he didn’t speak French.” They went on to the American Clinic at Neuilly where he was finally admitted. He stayed in the room Louis Armstrong once occupied and was attended by the same doctor. Three days later when he woke up, the operating physician greeted him. “It’s nice to see you alive,” he said. “If you’d come to the hospital five minutes later I wouldn’t be talking to you.” The tour continued without Johnny Coles, although his trumpet was placed on an empty chair on stage each night, in tribute. Coles can be heard here on the only complete tune he played, “So Long Eric.”

Seems like they were in a different city every few days, considering the huge amount of live recordings in a very short period of time.

This is that point: