Brad

Yeah yeah yeah on "Yer Blues!" As well as the off-meter buzzsaw-sounding solo on "I Call Your Name." I agree that Lennon's guitar-playing is underrated, and I would also argue that one could make the case that Lennon was one of the best rhythm-guitar player ever, right up there with Chuck Berry and Keith Richards. Agreed. Lennon could definitely rock. Played a hell of a lead when given the chance. One of my musical heroes, and the reason my daughter is named Julia! Well, that's cool about your daughter. Very neat.

Usually any emails or what have you from a Nigerian source is a scam. Glad you caught this timely.

I was thinking of a box set but some of these things are not rarities. Verve did put out some when they were doing the LPR series.

Covering the impulse catalog would seem to be an obvious choice for future projects. Lot of good stuff there, not just Coltrane, etc. I have cds by Art Blakey, Curtis Fuller, Sonny Rollins, Lucky Thompson, McCoy Tyner and Sonny Stitt on the one hand and Benny Carter, Paul Gonsalves, Freddie Hubbard, Earl Hines, and Pee Wee Russell on the other. Perhaps you could get some interesting Selects out of these, at the least.

How prescient was Chuck a couple of years ago about buying the Fantasy CDs you could. In their heyday not that long they used to put out some great stuff. What a damn shame for us .

A CDR program? I would think that would cause some legal problems, unless royalties are paid.

I might agree with the analysis but these are just recently introduced. Perhaps they never sold well so they're just writing it off.

Very nice voice. Sad that she passed away so young.

I was pretty frickin' obvious wasn't it. And btw, on the Abbey Road remaster I can hear a whole 'nother layer of crickets. In fact I think I can them breath. Funny about the crickets. I was driving listening to it and said, "damn, how'd those crickets get in my car?" Then, I realized it was the song.

Interesting article. Thanks. One of the linked articles referred to a Box of Vision. Does anyone know anything about this?

Ditto on that.

I had a funny feeling you'd fold. :rhappy: I have not as of yet. As a kid I had the Hunter Davies book The Beatles which was written before they broke up. I now have: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road by Mark Lewisohn A Hard Day's Write : The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve Turner Anthology (which should be called Mythology but makes a nice coffee table book) The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz I think the Spitz and Lewisohn are two that offer good insight without a lot of personal interpretation by the authors. Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey looks like a good read that I want to check out. I don't know if it's still in print, but I always loved this book: Nobody recommending "Revelution In The Head"????? :unsure: I think it's amazing. As I hadn't read anything in print about them, I wanted a more general history and the Gould book has some glowing reviews. I saw the Revolution in the Head book yesterday and took a brief glance at it but it seemed more like a song by song analysis or is that too cursory a conclusion on my part? I ordered one last week from Amazon and it's supposed to arrive between October 8 and 20.

The Bob Spitz. A friend loaned it to me a couple years ago. At around thousand pages and having thought I knew everything or wanted to know about the Beatles I never got around to it till a couple weeks ago. Once you get to when Beatlemania starts to pick up it's a great page tuner which really takes you right there with what was going on. The early part while not as fun does give you insight into their personality traits/issues. The book’s intent is not to mythologize or slander anybody but I will say after finishing it probably the only Beatle I would have wanted to “have a beer with” would have been Ringo. More on the Abbey Road re-master. She’s So Heavy just rocks the house down now, on Here Comes The Sun when Paul’s bass comes in it is now a wow moment. I had forgot that song even had bass on it. On You Never Give Me Your Money the reverb on the little guitar solo is so luscious. The three guitar solos on The End you can really pick up on who is playing which solo now. Listening to the suite that closes Abbey Road I found myself chuckling in disbelief at how good it is and the flood of happy memories it brought back. Ok, time for the Grant Green to get the same remaster box and Rock Band treatment. ☺ Have any of you read the Jonathan Gould book, "Can't Buy Me Love." I picked it up tonight and find it hard to put down.

I watched the Revolver one. Thought it was neat. Is the DVD in the box just the accumulation of what's on the indidvidual cds?

1988? Don't think we were around then

I see your point, but would like to add I've really enjoyed the Jimmy Witherspoon and have listened to it repeatedly. Me too! That's a great album and kudos to Mosaic for reissuing it. I can't comment on the Wein album as I don't own that one. I think JAW's point was not that these aren't good albums--they are--but that they're odd choices, and I have to concur on that point. There are some odd choices among those singles even by the "more established" artists. I was surprised by the J. J. Johnson choice, for example, because there was some really good jazz stuff he recorded in his other RCA albums (especially "The Total J. J. Johnson") that had to be left out. Likewise, while "Woody's Winners" is a great album, Woody's Columbia material would have made a fine select. greg mo I don't remember posting anything here about those albums Believe that was Ciff Englewood, not Hans. Some of these selections didn't really excite me. Good music but not compelling.

Ditto, I'm taking my sweet time, enjoying the place like a fine cabernet.

Good luck. We're pullin' for you.

I was waiting for someone to mention the Four Freshmen

Hope it's a rockin' one Dan

I grew up on the UK versions so I was very happy to see those.

Allen had me going for a second there and it's not April fools day!

Thanks for that link. Since I haven't yet heard the mono (I have it on order from Amazon), can't comment on that but I think the stereo sounds fantastic. Some of the quality on Abbey Road blew me away (I know it's not on the mono box) but it was still amazing nonetheless. If for some reason, the mono box doesn't come through, I guess I'll survive.

My first reaction is you've got to be kidding but if sales of this set will help their financial situation, thereby enabling them to release what I consider more interesting sets, I say go for it.

So far, as far as I can tell, ebay prices don't seem high on some of these selects suddently deleted.