Brad

I just read the review in the Times. It appears the only thing the two have in common is the name of the movie, Montfermeil, where some of the book took place and the emphasis on the neglected parts of society, which I assume is why the title was chosen.

Rubbish music? Your opinion, for what it’s worth, which is not much at all. You don’t want to hear it? Fine don’t listen. Who’s forcing you to? True, they probably are not exemplary persons but aren’t there people in all fields of music (not to mention other professions) who we wouldn’t like but still love what they produce.

Now that issue has been resolved, he may be traded. Clubs didn’t want to put offers on the table until the grievance was resolved.

I have no desire to see a movie like that, just as I found a modern version of Great Expectations repellent. I enjoy watching movies based on books as the author intended, not something to suit modern sensibilities.

But I’m sure there are some that do.

It is possible the owners made copies of the CDs and decided to keep the box and book an$ is trying to make a little money; apparently very little money.

I watched The Quiet One tonight about Bill Wyman and his life before, during and after The Rolling Stones. I thought it was quite good although it could have has some more depth. The movie also glosses over the controversy relating to his marriage to a child bride, Mandy Smith, but otherwise is generally a good portrait and well worth the time.

Sounds like she does amazing things for people. I have to give her a lot of credit because there’s no way I could both listen to a book and do work, especially work like she does.

I saw this thread on Hoffman that might be of interest. Spin Clean issues/mistakes....need advice!

Why an audiobook and not the actual book? I have a rather large Civil War library and this has a prominent place in it.

Pop night tonight. Picked this up at an estate sale a couple of months ago for the princely sum of $1.

Yes, I have that box as well as the JATP, the latter being one of my older acquisitions. I purchased it in my infant jazz days when Phil Schapp talked extensively about JATP.

Killing Floor is something else.

Preview from the upcoming Dave’s Picks 33 of the Grateful Dead - 10/29/77

1917. While it was well made, the story wasn’t very good. Pales in comparison to classics like Paths of Glory, All Quiet on the Western Front, Westfront 1918 and so forth.

And Lon provides excellent service!

Disc 7

Disc 7 from the Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel.

Mosaic Records sent the following email this afternoon: First of all, we thank you for your support and belief in us. Without you, Mosaic would not have survived. We feel we owe you an explanation for what has happened given our sub-par customer service performance over the past 18 months. We take full responsibility for all the bumps in the road that delayed our new Woody Herman and Hank Mobley sets beyond reason. At the risk of boring you, here’s what happened. 2019 was the year that Murphy’s Law morphed into Mosaic’s Law. Everything that could go wrong did. We solicited advance orders on two sets that were to be shipped in 6 to 8 months at the latest. Our system of soliciting a set before investing in production was borne of necessity a few years ago when it became evident that in our shrinking universe one misstep in choice or judgment could set us on the short road to ruin. Pre-solicitation is our safety net that Mosaic would enable to continue on. Just 15 years ago, we had a staff of 12 and a facility that housed a warehouse, a loading dock and offices. We could make purchase orders, pay royalties and process orders from the same office. We could receive CDs, boxes and booklets and collate and ship our orders all over the world. Now we are in a much smaller office with a staff of 2 and our sets are collated and shipped from a fulfillment center upstate. In the fall of 2018, we announced our new Woody Herman set and then our Hank Mobley set was to follow in the summer. Our expectations and timelines were reasonable. Box sets are built in stages. They require legal licensing and research of discography, photography and source material. Those areas can be done simultaneously and usually take three months. The next phase is getting the studio work done and the masters to the pressing plant – a month or so if you’re lucky. Then comes the artwork stage: writers have to get their liner notes in on deadline, then notes, credits and photos have to go to the design house where the booklets, paper components for the CDs and outer boxes have to be created, approved and sent to the individual manufacturers of each. Then the printed elements must converge at the fulfillment house where sets are collated and orders filled. Doesn’t sound like splitting the atom, does it? Well, this past year was a tragedy of errors. Printing plants lost the files that they needed to print. CD paper components were sent to the wrong pressing plants. And the ones that did arrive at the right plant were printed to the wrong specs. Days, weeks, months went by with one apologetic email after another from frustrated people along the production line. The Labor Day came and went, followed by Canadian Thanksgiving, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Internet Monday, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and even Festivus. We even tried a couple of True Blue offers midyear for new Elemental and Verve-Impulse releases. But given Mosaic’s Law of 2019, the distributor ran out of product, leaving us waiting over two months for some of the titles. Then of course our computers aged out software-wise and we had to get used to new ones and set three dozen new passwords. I could go on…. We thank you sincerely for all your support and understanding. Thanks to you we have our heads above water and our next offering will not be solicited until the set is in our warehouse and ready to ship. - Michael

Bingo!

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Houston players were given immunity because the Houston GM never passed on or discussed Manfred’s 2017 memo with them. I suppose Beltran was punished because he was no longer a player.