Brad

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.

Although I love the Beatles, and to each his own I guess, I'm not sure that I'm much of a maniac about the various permutations. I'm just happy to have this in great sound (stereo) and looking forward to contrast it with the mono box that I hope to be getting.

Sniff, sniff!

What the heck is a virtual one?

I've had two I think. Doctors recommend them every five years. The worst thing is the preparation. The actual procedure you're actually asleep and don't feel a thing. They give you some kind of amnesia drug so you don't remember a thing.

Just added some new ones. Still plenty older left

In my room too but my parents didn't hate them. However, I remember going on a vacation with some of my parents friends and their kids (about my age) and their father wouldn't let them play the Beatles: "none of that yeah, yeah music!" I still laugh about it.

She was never one of my favorites but you just can't lose your cool like that and to give up the match at that point is absurd.

Way out West was one of my first Sonny cds so a big up there from me. Also like East Broadway Run Down. Tenor Madness is a must have as well.