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Not now, but earlier today while driving around running errands. It's actually very good, although it's not anything other than what it is, but it's very good Christmastime Car Ride Pop Music for modern times. And I love the cover.

Ok, here's what the type of thing the Handulosians are offering, sigh. Seems like the best bet is to go for those OG Complete sets and/or wait for Verve to do better, or just...look elsewhere. If you can believe them (and can you?), this is three complete LPs, but it comes out to 73 cuts! My first instinct is to wonder if people who still buy CDs are getting shafted by the industry's capitulations to the vinyl fetishists. If there's relevant singles available, but them on the freaking CDs, right? There's room, surely. Or were these "singles" actually included on other LPs of the time? This reissue thing is getting dumber, not smarter. Now that people know where (more or less) everything is, packaging fetishism is making it harder to get to in one place, or so it seems.

So the Complete series didn't have any outtakes, singles, or anything else extra from once they started doing LPs? I will consider this new release, just want to be sure that I won't be getting hosed by getting straight LP reissues if there's valid extra material that could be added.

Yeah, this series, 7 volumes of multiple CD sets, not "a set" but "a mega-complete multiple set of volumes". https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=dinah+washington-complete+mercury&tag=googhydr-20&index=popular&hvadid=178354731302&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15198924321478642576&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9026802&hvtargid=kwd-10088827401&ref=pd_sl_4yu4qja56r_b Point just being, I wonder if things from this...series are being added to this new release. I really regret not being able to pick up on the original set(s).

Merry Christmas from Dexter and Wardell!

But wasn't there some sort of mega-complete series of Dinah on Mercury over in Japan back a ways? I never got that, but if they drew on it to fill out this collection or future ones, I'd look at it.

Is there a blurb for the Dinah?

Ouch. Totally seemed to be a person of honor. RIP, you will indeed be missed.

I don't know any others, sorry.

Is it some kind of a Fairport Convention type thing?

YMMV, but I've gained a lot from listening to "classical violin", things about different ways the violin can be made to sound. It's really opened my ears to a solo violin album such as this. Billy Bang was a helluva violinist, and not nearly as "homemade" in his technique as I once though. And I had no problem with that at all, just saying that his specificity comes through more clearly now, his nuances of pitch, timbre, and articulation.

As an object, it's worth $38 to me. I do buy objects for their own sake when the object and the price are both agreeable. Both French and American Amazon prices remain unchanged over night.

My moaning was about the price point that was on US Amazon. Even after a slight price drop overnight, the French price is still more than 50% cheaper. Hell yeah, I'm ordering it. From France.

Ok, $37.77 with shipping from Amazon France. I ordered. That's more like it. Articles : EUR 23,32 Livraison : EUR 8,50 Montant HT : EUR 31,82 TVA : EUR 0,00 Total : EUR 31,82 Montant total TTC : EUR 31,82

wow...that's a totally different price point...really must consider the French option...although, it's down to $72.19 on US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-West-LP-Deluxe/dp/B0742VSHG9/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1513865545&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=sonny+rollins+way+out+west+in+stereo Still waaaay too high. But that French price...I'm interested.

So, wait, it's just $33.00 in France, and the label is listed as Fantasy Concord? Is the is the same set/packaging?

Dude, you only asking $22.00 for it. How do you expect to sell them for that little bit? Up it to, like, $50 and autograph each copy and then you'll sell out before Christmas.

yeah, rightly or wrongly, i had lost interest by then. at some point, Zappa started sounding sour to me, not musically, but emotionally. That's how it struck me, anyway, that he went from shrewdly cynical to just plain mean. I hear later things like his public statements about the American education system, censorship, all that, and I applaud. But the music at some point...he sounds like a guy who got wounded once too often and never healed. I hate that it happened, because up until that point, he was a delight, just went through a revisit of the "original Mothers" stuff, added some new items, and loved them, my god, what fearlessness. But around the time of Apostrophe, I don't know, it started getting uncomfortable to me, and I stopped. Roxy & Elsewhere was the last one I paid any immediate attention to, and that was good, but still, I dunno.

I really don't know where to look for it/them these days. Some of it, (a little) has been made obsolete by the Mono Box, but geez, the making of With The Beatles, the raw studio cuts before all the overdubs...that band genuinely rocked. Paul & Ringo were deep in it in a way that the post-production obscured, imo. Neither George nor John were particualrly great in section roles, but this stuff opened me up to the greatness that both Paul & Ringo were bringing in those days. George Martin clezaned the music up in an agreeably "poppy" way, but damn, just those four guys playing alone...two guys really, but still...up until the Rubber Soul sessions, these raw tracks/session tapes are worth hearing more than once, imo.

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Don't fuck with Billy, and don't fuck with Ethel.

You know, I don't really care about "sound quality" for stuff like this at this point. It's not like it's going to be a radically new insight or anything, it's just...it would be like when you're making love to your wife and something subtly but noticeably different happens for a moment or two, it doesn't cause you to re-evaluate the meaning of life, it just gives you a little deeper appreciation of what's already happened and gives you a little boost of positivism to keep on going. As far as Sonny Rollins and my wife go...the one time I saw him live was in Albuquerque, right after I had met her. She came along not knowing jack shit about him, or even jazz in general, but she was moved by the gig, and has been a fan ever since. Our tastes don't overlap all that much, but when they do, they overlap strong, so....just saying, I don't take Sonny Rollins for cheap in any way, and this kind of a stunt-fuck of a "reissue" disgusts me in a pretty basic way.