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I've been totally diggin' the live Yardbirds footage I've recently found on Youtube, and much more so the clips with Jimmy Page. (And oddly enough, I'm not at a point in my life where I'm particuarly enthralled with Led Zeppelin -- but for some reason, these Yardbirds tracks with Page are REALLY floating my boat. ) So then, what are the essential recordings I need to get, in order to have a particularly Page-centric Yardbirds collection?? (He wasn't with them but -- what?? -- only something like 18 months, so I'm assuming there's not dozens and dozens of tracks with Page, correct?? I'd also really like to get something with the Yardbirds verison of "Dazed and Confused" - see the clip below.) FWIW, these are the Youtube clips that have got me floatin'... from German TV, 1967... 1. Shapes of Things 2. Happenings Ten Years Ago 3. a brief interview plus Over Under Sideways Down 4. I'm a Man from French TV, 1967... 1, 2, 3. Train Kept A Rollin', Dazed And Confused, and Goodnight Sweet Josephine just #2 Dazed and Confused (same source, aspect-ratio correct) <-- be sure to watch this one!! Enjoy!!!

Stumbled on this thread searching for something else, and noticed that the Kansas City "oldies" station that used to be "50's and 60's" --- is now "60's and 70's". Funny, the same image hot-link still works, just their logo has changed (well, that, and their format). My bet is that the "50's and 60's" oldies stations are going the way of the Dodo bird, as did the "40's, 50's, and 60's" stations that existed as recently as 10 or 15 years ago. (I know, I worked on-air at an AM/FM set of sister stations while I was in college -- where the AM station was 40's, 50's and 60's.) Up, for no good reason.

Wow, and ouch - indeed. Can somebody scare up the exact quote, and reproduce it here?? I'd really like to see it (read it), in its original context.

Vonnegut on the Daily Show

Wow, didn't know Phil Ranelin was on that date. May have to check that one out then. Thanks!!!

Maybe there are some sideman dates I'm forgetting. I though sure it was 90% BN for all of Mobley's output. Well, it's certainy 90+% for Mobley's 60's output (and what very little there is from the 70's), I'm pretty sure of that.

30% only gets Borders down to a reasonable level. How they sell ANYTHING at full retail prices is beyond me.

Yup, on both accounts. GET PASSING SHIPS, CHEW CHEW, YOU WONT REGRET IT I PROMISE

My wife and I love kids -- when we can give them back to their parents. NO kids for us, not in a million years!! Grandkids, however, is something we'd like to have some day.

I haven't done the math, but just off the top of my head - I can only think of a very small handful of dates with or by Mobley that weren't on BN. What? - something like 95% (98%?) of his leader-dates were on BN, and I'm pretty sure 90+% of his sidemen dates were also on BN. With nearly everybody else I can think of (that recorded as much as Hank did), at the very very least 15% or 20% of their recorded output was with other labels. Any theories?? Any not worth overlooking??

Chewy still needs to get Passing Ships.

Dazed And Confused - The Yardbirds

Your guess is as good as mine as to what to call it, but this is pretty cool!! レンジャーズ　レッツ・ゴー・レインジャーズ <-- click here

Another link for me to follow-up on later... "Evolution of Japanese underground scene : developments from Japanese psychedelic music from 1966-1996" (Lots of band names to search for on Youtube.)

Same tune/band, supposedly "live" - looks like it's from a 60's movie Same band, same tune, obviously many years later more Blue Comets footage of various sorts (just a search on the band name on Youtube) Must've been a big hit, cuz here's some modern all-girls pseudo-classical group covering the same tune - Blue Chateau

I keep stumbling on interesting footage of Japanese pop music acts of various sorts, much of it from the last decade or two -- but sometimes even from earlier, from the 60's and 70's. (Can anybody find anything from the 50's??) This thread is for serving up whatever interesting Japanese music-related footage any of us stumble on, on-line. It should PRIMARILY be for Japanese artists/bands doing the performing, but sometimes there are interesting TV appearances by western bands/performers as well. And interviews with western performers on Japanese TV are also pretty wacky sometimes too (there's an interview with Miles from the 80's I saw somewhere, that is so off bass, you just can't believe that Miles didn't kick the interviewer and film crew out 2 minutes into the interview -- the the interview was clearly being held in Miles home, or at least his hotel room). Japanese performers/bands/artists ---> pro, semi-pro, amateur, good, bad, whatever -- if it relates to Japanese Pop culture, this is the thread to discuss and share vids pertaining to said topic. Here's a random one that I just found searching for some Beatles clips. The Blue Comets ~ Blue Chateau (super cool 60's band from the 60's -- or so the description reads) (Maybe we can guess who some of the bands are trying to emulate.)

One of the main reasons I got the Elvin Jones set (well, one of them, anyway), was that one date with Lee Morgan. One of the very few (only?) dates in Lee's entire career without any kind of chordal instruments in the line-up. Haven't listened to it in over year, I think I'll get it out shortly.

Why stop there??

I just happened to listen to Blue Black on Monday night, and again on Tuesday morning -- just prior to this thread having been started. RIP, Mr. Vass. RIP.

Now THAT'S what I'm looking for -- tunes that sound as fresh now as they day they were recorded. I'd kind of half forgotten about She Said, She Said -- a tune that somebody like Matthew Sweet could have written, and nobody would think otherwise. "She Said, She Said" goes on my list, for sure!!

Run, don't walk. You need Passing Ships NOW!!! Seriously, drop whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, I'll buy your copy off you. There's a money-back guarentee for you. You will absolutely LOVE this date. Do you have it yet?? No?? Get it NOW!!!

I still think "Passing Ships" is Hill's most accessable date (or a toss-up with "Grass Roots"). And one of his most important dates too, actually. Chew-Chew - do you have "Passing Ships" yet?? If not, then you need it more than you need PAX -- TRUST ME. Get "Passing Ships" at all costs. You won't regret it.

It's got front and (I think) side airbags too . Front for sure, I know that. It'd be WAY safer than a motorcycle. Probably no less safe than VW Bug, or Mini, or even a Miata.

OK, I'm seriously starting to think about getting one of these even sooner than I had originally planned. Maybe by next summer even?? My wife's old car (what I'm driving now -- she gets the new Prius most of the time) is in pretty good shape, but it will be 14 years old by next summer - and will probably have about 165,000 miles on it by then. ('93 Honda Accord, 2-door sedan.) If I can personally save up $5,000 between now and then, I'm pretty sure our tax refund will cover the rest (mostly from my wife's paycheck, not mine - I'm afraid). We could easily finance it (now, even), but we've already got the Prius car payment, and I'd rather not have two car payments at the same time (even if one is half as big as the other). Our credit is fantastic, but try to avoid taking on debt like the plague. I went over our driving habits in more detail last night, and I think there'll be maybe one or two times a year (at most) when we might get in a pickle needing two "conventional" cars at the same time. But even then, that would mostly only happen when my wife travels for business (when she would have to drive to the airport, about 40 miles north of where we live), and when I would happen to need a conventional car in the same week (a rarity). But there are always airport shuttles (with pickups less than a couple miles from where we live), and there's always just me driving her to the airport, and being our own "airport shuttle" when that rare need arises. Also, I'm pretty sure this thing will mostly hold it's value pretty well -- and if/when a better electric comes down the pike, I think I could probably get 70% of it's value selling it on the open market, even after 4 years of use. The only open question I have at this point is how it would perform in snow and ice. Well, that, and seeing how well it performs for actual owners over the next year -- since this thing hasn't even been on the market for more than 3 weeks.

Me too, probably. Don't get me wrong, I do really like Point of Departure. But in some ways, I think PoD is a tiny bit overrated (and I think "Blue Train" is way overrated). So often PoD is thought of as THE Andrew Hill album to get (like how for a long time it was the only Hill date released on CD, and it was one of the very first Hill RVG's, etc...). But I think "Black Fire" ought to hold that title. PoD also gets some of its mad props for having Dolphy, but in some ways - I think his presence gives the date more of a "Dolphy-lead" feel (no matter who wrote the tunes). When I was first getting into jazz, I used to file PoD with my Dolphy CD's, for that very reason.