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I thought everyone heard "Long tall Woman" as v. Creedence-like... I had a very beat up CND Hits comp, played the heck outta it, best $0.75 I ever spent... "Look Through Any Window" and "Pay You Back With Interest", yeah! In fact I like all the bands CSN were in better than them.

I like GG's take on "Hurt So Bad", HM's "Goin' Out of My Head", JP's "Ain't That Peculiar", ST's "Ain't No Way", "Can't Buy Me Love" and lots of others, Pharogh Sanders/Ed Kelly's "You Send Me", BF's "Live to Tell", etc. Not so much HH's New Standard, seemed kinda forced...why make something comntemporary sound like "Gingerbread Boy". Heard a nice swinging "The Night Before", but can't remember who it was... Lots of good versions of Burt so Bad's tunes "House is Not a Home" by SR fer example... I'd like to do a DGS Plays the Drifters album, but don't know if I'll ever be up to it.

Move over, Rover And let Jimi take over Yeah! That's what I'm talking about... Nigel Kennedy's tribute thing (better live than on CD) was perhaps the most unexpected, if not the 'best'

...and "everybody's tying to Be My Baby" & "Honey Don't" from Roy Newman, maybe "Matchbox" as well, all of then possibly 2nd or 3rd hand; that's the way real music works. Clean slate originality is an inanely Romantic notion, copyright law even makes provision for "derivative works". Everybody appropriates, it's what you do with it that matters, but that's much harder to come to grips with... Personally I love what Perkins and the Beatles did (generally, not always) and Led Zep not so much. ...and "everybody's tying to Be My Baby" & "Honey Don't" from Roy Newman, maybe "Matchbox" as well, all of then possibly 2nd or 3rd hand; that's the way real music works. Clean slate originality is an inanely Romantic notion, copyright law even makes provision for "derivative works". Everybody appropriates, it's what you do with it that matters, but that's much harder to come to grips with... Personally I love what Perkins and the Beatles did (generally, not always) and Led Zep not so much.

the Decca audition is much weaker than their early work for Parlaphone, I think that's what he was saying...

ska/rock steady/early reggae I love, later reggae not so much, with a few exceptions. One group yet mentioned that I particularly like, the Heptones. Have Night Food, need to get more.

I bought a bunch nearly 20 years ago when BS/SN changed distribution, sure glad i did. Wish i had time/$ to delve deeper...

Like John Bonham. I'd say he swung. IMHO John Bonham did NOT swing...one of several reasons I don't like Led Zep...but on the other hand, denying their influence or that they did speak to many people in a way they don't speak to me, would be totally irrational, VMMV, etc.

I love her name; I know I'm really shallow...

I agree Sonny Live in Japan is a nice one, we had a thread about it here awhile back, IIRC the CD has a couple of bonus cuts.

You never heard "Night Train" ?! It's...it's...the music grandma stripped to!

Nice to see something besides Saxophone Collossus reccommended, my fav of recent years is +3 and from back in the day I's go with Basin Street or +4 for the rapport with Clifford the the groupiness of Max's quintet, arguably the last 'real band' Sonny was in.

I'm as big a fan of Sonny R as anyone here, but I found the Denmark '68 recordings to be literally too much of a good thing - Sonny would start wailing on "four" or whatever and 20 minutes or so in I'd just drift off...

They should've thanked their lucky stars that Decca turned them down and that they ended up on EMI's subsidurary Parlaphone label with George Martin as producer, HE trusted/liked them and was willing and able to use his own considerable musical skills to further their vision(s).

I own a 1962 Studebaker and two c-melody saxophones from the '20s, but this is some wrongheaded BS. I'm sure the guy's a great blacksmith though.

I liked Rumba Para Monk when it was new but haven't listened to it in a long time... Bobby Broom Plays for Monk is on 'the short list', but that may not mean much any more.

Maybe "WTF" is what she was signing?

Chris T, Thanx muchly for the update on Westbrook & Blake, I should check this out but probably won't, entropy and all. Dana "What is the price of experience..."

it's not unusual to have with anyone...unleass you're a 'serious jazz player' apparently.

"Interesting ECM", that's the prob, the're always 'interesting', rarely exciting or funky or greasy or... I think the last one I got was that Scofiel/Goldings/Dej TW Lifetime trib thing (Trio somethingorother). That was otay. I cn dig shimmery if it's way good, lie Crystal Scilence. I'm sure there's some recent ECM I'd dig but I find myself less and less inclined to seek it out.

Between this and MJ's death, maybe the records companies will make some money this year, and spend it on really obscure jazz reissues...probably not!

I kinda like Highlife, "All My Trials" esp'ly, however wrongheaded the pop production values, keyboards particularly, may seem, he really puts his heart into it and the band grooves. Any thoughts on how much of the later albums success (guitar and Ask the Ages for example) is Laswell's doing. I saw him live around that period and it was pretty scattered...

"When you're lost in Juarez and it's Easter time too"?

And I'd say there's maybe 10-12 worthwhile things that have never been on domestic CD, and quite a few that haven't been widely available for a decade or more.

The Amazon CD-R thing happened this year didn't it?