The Magnificent Goldberg

Jimmy Forrest Bobby Forrester Sonny Forriest

You've got a lamp post on your front lawn! :g MG

Willie Mays April Stevens Frederick March

Dickey Doo & the Don'ts Link Wray & the Wraymen Eric Linklater

Most women like ascension much more than the alternative. What? Dissension? Surely not! Most women I know LOVE an argument... well, if they think they're right, which is most of the time. MG

They have been releasing a whole new series of sets since they took over, reconfiguring Miles and Trane into smaller boxes, releasing the complete Prestige Bebop Stitt, the Complete VV Evans, the Complete Monk/Trane, The Complete Prelude Garland. All are beutifully done, and all except the Miles Quintet box incredibly low priced, list price of $10/CD. Check out their web site. I haven't checked to see if the old Fantasy boxes are still available, since I have what I want of those. Thanks - I'd better check out the Garland. MG

What is it you want to know? MG

I haven't heard it, or other Past Perfect boxes, but I've heard a few single discs. Sound quality was decent. This is likely a good, well priced intro to a lot of Bird sides, may do the ttick for you. If you do wind up getting that box, Al, you might find this little story helpful. B B King, in his autobiography, "Blues all around me", wrote that one evening, Dizzy Gillespie (who was a friend of B's), couldn't get Bird to the gig as usual, because Dizzy had something else to do. So he asked B B King to be Bird's chauffeur. King was reminiscing with Bird about when he'd seen him with the McShann band in Indianola. "I'm a blues player B," said Bird. "We're all blues players. It's just that we hear blues in different ways. The day we get away from blues is the day we'll stop making sense." MG

Very nice album. And the way they put "Killer Joe" together is wonderful. It's a whole level groovier than the version on "Blues all day long". What does "practically a vanity pressing" mean? MG

I was. My brain auto-corrected to Concord. I haven't been following the prices of boxed sets. Did Concord change the prices when they acquired Fantasy? MG

A dentist? MG

Nice one, Jim! Salt n Pepa Sonny Stitt Paul Gonsalves

the secret to dmitry the dentist's success (he has a rig set up at home): The trouble is, as the diagram makes clear, there are still leaks. MG

Anyway, McD's are arseholes. Everyone knows that a sandwich isn't heated in anyway. If you toast the bread, it automatically becomes a toastie. MG

Incredible shot! You couldn't see on the vid - was he in a bunker? MG

Do you have the original mono LP? And what's wrong with the ones by Jimmy McGriff, Plas Johnson, Houston Person, Ramsey Lewis, Bobby Timmons, DUKE PEARSON and Jimmy Ponder? MG

They've done a great job on the prices so far on almost all of their historical sets. The 3 CD sets have had a $30 list price to date (Evans, Stitt) , so should be available for $20-25. And the other sized sets (Coltrane, Monk/Trane. Garland) have also had a $10/disc list price. The only exception I'm aware of is the Miles Quintet box with the newly licensed material on CD4. I think they're really doing a commendable job on their historical reissues so far, much better than we probably had any right to expect. I'm sure you're right. Actually, I meant Concord, not Fantasy - slip of the mind. This will be their first, won't it? MG

Actually, buying records has ALWAYS been second priority behind folding chairs and table linens (etc). In essence, that's why subterfuge is necesary. MG

Please let us know before Christmas. I've never noticed. I wonder if I'll recognise it when you point it out. MG

For avoidance of spouse's ire, cash is best. I've used cash since 1971, when we got married. Sometimes cash can't be used directly: mail order; internet purchases; and when you get a huge batch at once when there's a sale on or when you're in a different town and HAVE to examine the record shops. In those cases make the purchase by credit card, but have the card address registered to your office address, so no statements turn up at home. And that's where mail order deliveries turn up. Pay off the credit card by making a trip to the bank and paying cash. If you're too far from the bank to do that conveniently during lunch, give the cash to a colleague in exchange for a cheque made out to credit card firm and post colleague's cheque to credit card company. You MUST be able to trust your colleague not to give you a rubber cheque Next problem is getting the stuff indoors. I used to shove them in the garage, which was just around the corner from the entrance to the flats where we used to live. When it was safe to do so, I'd bring them indoors and slip them into the shelves. This system worked for me for over 30 years. Of course, my wife noticed the expansion of the collection but never had an angle to berate me because the cost never appeared in our finances and she only ever saw records coming in the house when I came back from holiday. Holidays are different, of course. MG

Pity it only goes up to 1953; I wonder how long we'll have to wait to get to the 1954-55 sessions? This material is out of copyright in Europe. I guess Fantasy will have to keep the price low in order to compete. MG

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Ah - some godly record companies Mercury Venus Saturn

Anita O'Day - because it went before I could get it. MG

We await the answer with interest. MG