Brad

Here’s a previous discussion on Solar.

Thanks GA. I recently saw the first one in a vinyl store and think I may pick that one up. As to the Complete Animals I may pick it up although it dates back to 1990. There was a box set issued in 2013 called the Mickie Most Years and More but it’s OOP and the one copy I’ve seen on Amazon is $249; no Discogs sellers have it.

My question is and still is, what is the source of their recordings?

I have a Sony reel to reel, which I received from my parents for making honor roll in 10th grade (1966) when I lived in Barcelona. My friend Ronald (who also had a reel to reel) and I used to make tapes of our records or what we heard on the radio and bring it to each other’s house and spent a lot of time discussing the music. I don’t know if I have any tapes as they’d be up in the attic and it’s very cold up there right now. Don’t have the heart to toss it, even though it’s very bulky.

Depends on the period you’re talking about. They were great and trailblazers between 1962-65 until Alan Price left. Many memorable songs, classics. After that, not as good in my opinion. I’ve heard Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted, recorded in 1977 with Alan Price, is very good, although I’ve yet to sample it.

Isn’t Solar Records one of those needle drop labels?

Heard of a lot of these but also a lot are unfamiliar to me. Thanks for posting those maps.

Well, I changed my mind and ordered the set today. Received a notice my order has been sent to the warehouse. I checked and a couple of the individual CDs I have are CDRs so I can dispose of those now.

Slightly off topic but since Chewy mentioned it, the Dead site On IOS is Relisten; there are a lot of other groups on there besides the Dead (most of whom I’ve never heard of but are probably known to other listeners. In addition, all the Dead concerts on Relisten come from the Internet Archive. No cost unless you wish to make a donation.

He’s terrible. A pseudo intellectual. I tend to skip his articles.

Mets just held a conference call. They’re the masters of corporate speak.

Beltran is out. Mets looking forward new manager.

A classic album cover.

Disc 1

Last week, the New Yorker republished this essay by Whitney Balliett that was originally published in 1976. Bird: The Brilliance of Charlie Parker The following is the email from the Archives Editor, Erin Overbey, discussing Whitney Balliett. Hopefully, reproducing it in full doesn’t violate any policy. “The music critic Whitney Balliett once remarked that jazz is a highly personal medium—“like poetry, it is an art of surprise.” Balliett contributed more than five hundred pieces to The New Yorker, from 1952 to 2001. He was the magazine’s jazz critic for five decades, during which he wrote about a wide assortment of figures, such as Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Rosemary Clooney, and Thelonious Monk. He also published seventeen books, including “Such Sweet Thunder” and “Jelly Roll, Jabbo, and Fats.” He was so prolific that it’s difficult to pick just one of his pieces to recommend. In a portrait of the bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, Balliett writes one of the best ledes of any piece of jazz criticism published in the nineteen-seventies. (“Charles Mingus, the incomparable forty-nine-year-old bassist, composer, bandleader, autobiographer, and iconoclast, has spent much of his life attempting to rearrange the world according to an almost Johnsonian set of principles that abhor, among other things, cant, racism, inhibition, managerial greed, sloppy music, Uncle Tomism, and conformity.”) One of my favorite pieces by Balliett is his profile of the jazz legend Charlie (Bird) Parker, from 1976. In “Bird,” Balliett chronicles both Parker’s wild personal excesses and his lyrical virtuosity. Balliett’s prose swoops and glides across the page, evoking the saxophonist’s masterly shifts in tone and timbre. “He could do anything he liked with time, and in his ballads he lagged behind the beat, floated easily along on it, or leapt ahead of it; he did things with time that no one had yet thought of and that no one has yet surpassed. His ballads were dense visions, glimpses into an unknown musical dimension,” Balliett writes. “Although they were perfectly structured, they seemed to have no beginnings and no endings; each was simply another of the visions that stirred and maddened his mind.” Balliett’s work crackles with intensity and precision as he nimbly documents the profound ways in which Parker turned the world of jazz upside down and helped usher in a new musical era. As he traces Parker’s evolution as an artist, Balliett offers a master class in critical dexterity—and in making an art out of narrative revelation.”

Just watched the doc “Echo Canyon,” which tells the story of the Laurel Canyon scene where a lot of rock stars lived. Jakob Dylan talks to a lot of people from that time like Roger McGuinn, Brian Wilson, Michelle Phillips, Crosby and Stills and Nash, and the late Tom Petty; and Dylan and his mates like Beck and Fiona Apple song some of the songs from 1964-67 in a concert held in 2015. Very enjoyable.

God!, Rhino Customer Service is beyond awful. There is just no comparison.

I remember when Straight No Filter was one of the hardest cds to find and sellers charged a massive price for it.

I’d have to think that, yes, there will be limits on the present uses and that you do it again at your peril but players will look to find something else, as you mentioned.

Players are always looking for an edge and will “push the envelope” until they are stopped. Now that the use of electronic equipment to steal signs has been curtailed, players will look for other ways to gain an advantage. One byproduct of the Houston incident is that team officials will become more vigilant about what their players are doing. In corporate America, employees are required to take courses about compliance with various laws, etc. I can now see teams rolling out these kinds of courses for players and team personnel.

Good Le Carre. Not his best but still very enjoyable.

Yes, it’s a different game. Not sure it’s better but GM interference is a fact of life. Apologies for the grouchiness; I wish the Mets were a premier franchise!

Like other teams they’ve had some good ones and some bad ones; the Giants had a good one with Bochy (obviously) but their recent one is poor at best, considering his resume with the Phillies. The consensus seems to be that Beltran will not be fired but we shall see.

And this is supposed to mean what?