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917.7!!!!

710.9 and more blood than the Passion of Christ. --eric 759.0!!!!

Good - glad to see it's already sold. Otherwise, I just realized that I was just doggin' a disc that somebody here was trying to sell or trade, and that sure ain't cool, to be sure. (But now that it's gone, I can say how bad it sucks - all I want to, right?? )

I used to have this one several years ago, and I found it to be a big snooze too. ( Of course, back then, I was totally into Miles circa 1965-1975, and Ornette, and Sun Ra -- and if it didn't smack me upside the head like a two-by-four, then I wasn't having anything of it. So, of course, I traded it. ) Still, I remember it being particularly snoozy, and no where near what I was expecting - considering the line-up. Isn't Wayne on this album?? Herbie too, if I remember right.

Just bumping this up for "Free For All". (I'll send him a PM too.) Joe is gonna get his part of the order figured out today (Thursday). And I need to get the order in by Sunday, at the very latest. Thanks to everyone for all the great suggestions!!! Still not sure what I'm gonna get, but I hope to know better soon - after I really go through their jazz titles, one by one, probably later today and this weekend.

Thank god I bought both of these when they were still in print. In fact, back when I bought the Hill box, I bought it primarily for all the sidemen on it, more than for Hill (who I really didn't know at all, beyond "Point of Departure"). I think it was a good two years before I had listened ever track on the box more than twice, and probably another year or two more before I really got bitten by the "Andrew Hill" bug. Like I said -- damn good thing I bought it when I did, even if I really wasn't ready for it yet, at the time.

I've never bought a CD at Walmart either. Back about 5 years ago, when Best Buy used to actually have a half-way interesting jazz section (with some imports too, even), I certainly bought a bunch of CD's fairly cheap from Best Buy -- but they haven't had much that's interesting in years. So, for about the last 5 years, most of my "new CD" buying (domestic titles) was from a local chain (regional, actually - Streetside Records), until they got bought up by another chain back east, and now their jazz and classical inventory has gone to shit, and they don't get all that many new releases anymore (jazz and classical, I mean -- they do get plenty of new pop, R&B, and rap CD's) Now I'm pretty much stuck buying new things on-line, unless I want to pay the stupid-expensive prices that Barnes & Noble and Borders both charge. So, in short, I mostly used to buy from my local "relatively independent" CD store, until that became no long much of an option.

It's a double-disc, and BOTH discs are about 5-seconds shy of 80-minutes each!!! Damn!!!

Got my check in the mail yesterday -- $13.86!! Could have sworn I signed my wife up too, but no check for her - so maybe I didn't. Maybe it was my parents I signed up (each of them), so I called my Dad last night, to tell him that the junk-mail-looking check he gets in the mail this week, is actually real money. On a semi-related note --- my wife and I went to this marketing bullshit thing about a month ago (on a Friday night), where we watched two half-hour "pilots" for supposed TV shows that were in development (and were they ever bad!!!), but what they really want you to see are their test adverts, and then you fill out this huge marketing survey about products you use, and don't use. Something like 300 people were at this thing, and that night they drew four names out of a hat -- and my wife's name got picked. They said she'd be getting a "valuable prize, worth approximately $50" in the mail -- so keep our eyes out for her "valuable prize". Right, sure, "valuable" my foot. We're thinking that it's gonna be the worst "piece-of-junk" suitcase/duffle-bag, or a couple bottles of $3 perfume ("worth $50 at retail"), or some such bullshit. But no!!! The same day as my CD settlement check arrives, my wife gets a check in the mail from the marketing agency for $50, no strings attached!!! Cool beans!!! B)

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Some of you might remember that I love station wagons. I drive a 1992 Honda Accord wagon, and love it. Growing up, my parents almost always owned a station wagon (always blue), and other than a couple years when only owned a 1966 Mustang ( B) ), I've always otherwise owned and driven blue station wagons. So on Saturday, I had just driven through the drive-through ATM, and instead of turning left to go to my next destination, suddenly this vision of vehicular amazingness heads toward me from the left --- and I'm all like DAMN, what the hell is THAT???!!!! Then, as it drives past me, I realize that it's a station wagon, and I'm all like --- HOLY COW, I've GOT to find out what kind of car that is!!!! So of course I turn right (not in the direction I needed to go), and I proceed to follow this mega-cool station wagon for about half-a-mile, where it luckily parked. I roll down my window as I pull up next to it, and ask the driver - "hey man, what year of car that??" - and he says "1973". Me: "That is THE coolest station wagon I think I've ever seen!!". So I get home, and do a Google search on "Volvo wagon 1973", where I find out that it's a "Volvo 1800 ES" (and there were only less than 9,000 ever made) ---- and thus, now, here's a few pictures of some "Volvo 1800 ES" wagons, which I think are just about the coolest thing I've seen on the road in years... B)

Any and all PN material is representative of the set (including the "highlights" disc). I just meant for people to be a tiny bit cautious if they hadn't heard any of the PN material before.

Good. Much as I really LOVE all of the "Plugged Nickel" material, I normally suggest a tiny bit a caution in picking up the whole box-set, unless someone has heard at least some of this material before. It's really not like anything else in the entire Miles catalogue. Yeah, the PN set is not electric -- but in some ways, I think the material is just as challenging (and probably even more challenging, actually) than almost anything else Miles ever recorded (except, perhaps, for some of the live Miles recordings from the 70's). It's certainly stronger stuff (and I mean that in the "Jagermeister" sense of the word "strong"), than the live Miles recordings from 1967, or even Miles live 1969 (maybe). [ I'm speaking of bootlegs here, though there is one legit live Miles recording from 1969, now OOP though: 1969 Miles: Festiva de Juan Pins ] By all means, dive in headfirst if you've already gotten your feet wet. But for those who haven't ever heard any of the "Plugged Nickel" material before, I might suggest requesting a burn of one of the discs from someone here on the board, before taking the plunge on the whole set. You'll probably love it, sure - but it's got a wicked bite to it - and it's probably not for everyone. (Does anyone else concur with this viewpoint?? Do any of you with the PN set know where I'm coming from on this??)

Thanks for the suggestions!!!

By the way, suggestions for CD's only. (Modified my original post to say this too, BTW.)

Link: http://www.dustygroove.com OK, I've gotta put in an order to Dusty Groove (the bastards!!) by this Friday (Feb 27th -- or by Sunday, Feb 29th at the latest) ----- in order to get a couple Charles Tolliver discs for a cousin of mine, for his birthday in mid-March. So, as long as I'm at it, I wondering what else I can't do without for myself - as long as I'm paying for shipping costs anyway. I can only afford 3 or 4 discs at most, but it's been ages since I've ordered anything from Dusty Groove - and I always feel like there's a ton of stuff on their site that I should be more aware of than I am. Most of you know how my tastes run: Andrew Hill(!), Larry Young, Charles Tolliver, Woody Shaw, Tyrone Washington, almost anything on Blue Note between 1963 and 1970, Billy Harper in the 70’s, Strata East stuff, and more recently: Greg Osby since 1995, Jason Moran, Jeremy Pelt, Dave Holland, etc... So, what might I be overlooking from Dusty Groove?? - that I should otherwise not be without!!!! Oh, one more thing: I'm interested in buying CD's ONLY for this order. Also, note to Free For All, you wanna get in anything on this order, so we can save on combined shipping costs?? Our mutual Kansas City friend Spontooneous is also goin’ in on this order too, so the more the merrier!! (And I'm also probably gonna pick up a couple Charles Tolliver discs for Gerald Dunn too, while I'm at it.)