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Well, I'm glad this is happening now, and not 25 years ago. But still bummed. And at least in my case, they are shooting themselves in the foot. My total lifetime expenditure on digital music has been $11.98 ($4.99 for the Hannibal Marvin Peterson MPS album, and $6.99 for Elvin Jones at Town Hall), where I own many hundreds of discs created by companies who licensed the material from Sony.

Agreed, the Kelly/Chambers dates don't really have a clean fit stylistically with either of the other boxes. If anything, I would have put them in the first box rather than the new one.

I have a good bit of the early Hoodoo Gurus, and really enjoy it! I consider "Under The Milky Way" by the Church to be one of the most beautiful records I've ever heard, but that was a later/different sound for them. Great list for me to explore some, thanks! Isee the history slightly differently with my USA line of sight (though labels are never as neat and clean as we would like to make them). There was a parallel movement centered in Athens, Georgia which included R.E.M., Guadalcanal Diary, and Let's Active from your list. And Many of the other groups on the list, such as Los Lobos and Lone Justice, were considered "Roots Rock", yet a different tag (not really an organized movement), and the Blasters were a major force in that. The first eight groups you mention are all definitely considered Paisley Underground, which was west-coast based for the most part. The Smithereens were out of the New York City area, and were thought of more as like a latter-day power pop group. The Paisley Underground groups tended to have some psychedelic flourishes (as did the Athens crew, though less so), and the others don't (though the early Lone Justice sort of does). I need to explore some of the groups you

If it's that good for them, it's good enough for me. Billy Pepper later rose to the rank of sargeant and led another band.

Me too, in some ways, not in others. Some excellent records the first two years, though they did not write or play on many of them, though they did sing them. And "Headquarters", where they did it all, is really pretty good. But they went off the cliff during "Head" (though I do like "Porpoise Song").

Green on Red was definitely considered Paisley Underground in their early stages. Sorry their early music is so unavailable (keep thinking/dreaming that Cherry Red will do a box, like they did with the Long Ryders, or that Omnivore will do something, like they did with the Dream Syndicate and Game Theory), and I've never heard the later stuff, as Chris Cacavas's organ was so much of what I liked about them.. I also have a good live DVD reunion by them. I have always found "Cheap Wine" very moving. The line "I'm just a man who doesn't know right from wrong, who can tell?" often runs through my head in difficult situations.

Not surprised it's good. I have a DVD by them called "State of Our Reunion" which is pretty fabulous.

3x4 sounds fun to me,

I know that, so did the Oneders . Doesn't change my point. They used to sell those sort of knock-off albums in grocery stores. 99 cents or whatever, which was actually a decent chunk of change ca. 1964.

Liverpool Beats, Rutles, whoever, all enjoyable to me! I'll easily take either of them over "The Long and Winding Road" or "Octopus's Garden" or "Blue Jay Way" or "Within You Without You". This is my favorite of the recreations. Also maybe my favorite "B" movie of all-time. For the whole thing to work, they needed to come up with a song and performance that sounded like it coud/would have been a big hit in 1964, and they succeeded beautifully.

I think many of us probably cut our musical teeth on that music. I actually go MUCH deeper than the Searchers on this, well into the Merseybeats, the Swingin' Blue Jeans, and beyond.

My understanding has long been that the group took their name from the movie, though that may be urban legend.

Lifelong favorites of mine. "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room" are subjectively THE two British Invasion records to me, even more than the Beatles records. I have a ton of stuff by them already, but look forward to that "Complete Pye Recordings" box coming out in April. And the 1979-1980 Sire material is fabulous, should have been a huge hit.

Wanted: Disc 2 of Deep Purple Shades 1968-1998 box set. Longshot, I know.. I bought this used, and the second disc arrived cracked. Please let me know of any leads on how I can fill in the need for the second disc in this 4CD set, thanks. Would also love to acquire their 6CD "Listen, Learn, Read On" box at a good price.

Agreed, both of those Teddy Charles Atlantic titles are superb, as are some of the other albums he did in that era.

I'll also probably pre-order in the hope of supporting similar sets in the future.

Well, Mosaic is betting it is at least 2500.

I've heard very little Mecca, but do like this one quite a bit:

They actually released those titles twice on CD in the USA, original McMasters and RVG's. One had the original albums (RVG) the other had sessions isolated (McMaster).

Rooster, remember our discussion about the Woody Shaw Muse set and willingness to pay for respectful presentation of important material. If you really really love Blue Note and have the means, you don't want those cheapo five CD sets. If you're just liking/interested, that is the way to go. I own dozens of those sets for rock/soul/fusion stuff, like J.Geils Band, Roberta Flack, Passport, Jean-Luc Ponty etc. Woody Shaw or classic Blue Note, I want something nicer.

This material is very very different from Tome VI. I greatly prefer this.

I love the albums on this one and the Blue Notes, amazing, underheralded stuff.

Yeah, I own the Jackie McLean for the one (extraordinary) session that never made it to CD otherwise, and the Elvin Jones for the same reason plus one or two other sessions that were on Japanese CD for about 5 minutes. Also own the individual Blue Note CD's of all the other sessions on those two boxes.

I'm glad this is coming out (and that Mosaic shows life and is returning to Blue Notes), but I prefer my Blue Note music on individual CD's when I can do them that way, and have all of the Mobley's from that era. Seems to capture and hold more of the magic for me when I have the original covers, liner notes ,etc. And I have always thought that Patrick Roques did Reid Miles Blue Note covers even better than Reid Miles did.

Somebody could do this right today, since they know how to go the necessary 81 minutes or whatever on a CD. They could have done it right then by adding a second CD, Taking two minutes out of "Blue" is worse than leaving off another cut. Me, I would have dropped "Parted" if I had to fit it onto one CD in 199x.