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And amazingly, it got critically shredded when it came out. I always liked it, and time has caused a serious re-evaluation of it. Now recognized as the classic it always was. For instance, Robert Christgau: David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name [Atlantic, 1971] This disgraceful performance inspires the first Consumer Guide Competition. The test: Rename David Crosby (he won't know the difference). The prize: One Byrds LP of your choice (he ought to know the difference). The catch: You have to beat my entries. Which are: Rocky Muzak, Roger Crosby, Vaughan Monroe. D-

I have a ton of them to sell off, just getting time to list them is hard.

Totally agree about the Eagles, and the Jefferson Airplane version of "Wooden Ships" from 'Volunteers' is probably my favorite recording in the history of the world. "If you smile at me I will understand, because that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language" is such a superb opening line, and I would bet that was Crosby writing that line (sure doesn't sound like Stills or Kantner).

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Same here.

Some great songs with the Byrds: "Renaissance Fair" is maybe the most perfect 2 minutes of music in existence. "Eight Miles High" is spectacular, "I See You", "Why", "Everybody's Been Burned", "It Happens Each Day", "Draft Morning", "Tribal Gathering", and "Dolphin's Smile" are all marvelous. "Triad" is sonically gorgeous, though lyrically incredibly narcissistic. I was a huge fan of his Byrds work and of 'If I Could Only Remember My Name', and liked quite a bit else he did. RIP to a unique artist.

Agreed, great stuff! I also have that Fresh Sound 2 CD set.

His studio stuff after the mid 70's was totally useless for me. The live stuff still had a lot of great guitar up to the end.

I bought a used copy of the Michael Bloomfield "From His Head To HIs Heart To His Hands" box set (btw, worst box set name ever?), and have a problem with music disc 3 missing. If anyone has any ideas how I can replace that missing disc, please PM me, thanks!

I sometimes repeat myself when trying to answer from my $%*& phone instead of my beloved laptop!

Thanks so much Tim, so glad you dig that Labelle cut, which has mesmerized me since it came out in the mid-70's. The video was a blast!

Nonetheless a nice symbolic gesture! And we in the mainstream USA heard all of those great Beck-period Yardbirds singles one to two years before we ever heard anything recognizable as Hendrix.

I'd say that Hendrix guy, but I'll take Beck over Clapton for originality, and Page's influence was really in the seventies. Love Peter Green, but he wasn't nearly as influential, largely unknown in USA in the sixties.

His first three solo albums, up through the epic 1971 'Every Picture Tells a Story', were excellent. After that, success spoiled him.

#13 on the pop album charts, and the single hit #11. The album also won a grammy. 'Jazz Workshop Revisited' (#11, with "The Jive Samba') and the album with Nancy Wilson (#30) also did very well on the pop charts, as did the "African Waltz" single (#41).

They actually made six. I have them all on CD. All have highlights and lowlights. Volume One (1966) Part One (1967) Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) (1967) Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil (1968) Where's My Daddy? (1969) Markley, A Group (1970)

This is the one I have. Legit release from Real Gone Music.

And to think that a few months later he was playing with Derek and the Dominos, and he wrote and played the piano outro to "Layla"

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That depends on how you interpret the "God is watching, God is dying, slow change" chorus. If you take a trinitarian view where God the Father is watching God the Son die as propitiaton for our sins, initiating the slow change through God the Spirit (which is what I believe is reality, but not necessarily the purpose of the lyrics), it does fit perfectly. If you take a Nietzche "God is dead" view, it is antithetical to the aesthetic. I suspect McDaniels mostly just liked the way the words sounded and the aura they infuce, rather than deeply pondering their meaning.

And he would have been in his teens then! RIP to a talented and versatile guitarist!

Atlantic Records was, for many years, known as "The House That Ruth Built"! This stuff is best of breed.

Great news, though not unexpected (makes perfect sense). I'm in. The 'Far Horizons' set is down to $35.60 with free prime shipping on Amazon now, so I ordered it. I wonder if they will break the Oblivion Express material into multiple sets since there are so many albums involved (10 discs just from the 70's).