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So, ooops, on Netflix, if you watch in sequence, they show the first pilot as Episode 1. Part from the obvious cast differences, it's good enough viewing. Pretty good overall, actually. And it never aired on NBC.two-part "The Menagerie" episode, and uh-oh, once Spock gets to court marshall, it becomes obvious what they're doing, just getting some mileage out of the pilot footage. And Kirk's prologues to each act sound like a carnival barker or some such. This one time I wish I'd watched the pilot last, because then I could enjoy this as originally aired, and other than the stone face man in the beepy box (which is,like, Hanna-Barbara brought to "life"), I think it would have worked just fine. Can't complain, though, just wish the sequence was different in Netflix, that's all.

What's the source of this material. or, at least, of the Scott?

Your eyes did NOT deceive you!

Oh, if THAT'S What we're looking for... here ya' go! Not even West Coast, yet fits all those bills! https://mitrebox80.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/unknown-1950s-jazz-lp-on-rca/#comments

If I had a dollar, no, dime, no...PENNY...I'd be rich enough for all of us combined, then now and tomorrow! Dude, I have so many holes in my "cultural experiences" it's not funny. Never seen Gone With The Wind either, other than in passing. And that's just a start. Not necessarily proud or ashamed of it, just have gone where I've gone when I felt the want/need to go there. As it pertains to Star Trek specifically - didn't watch the show in first run. Like I said, not hardcore stuck on spacefantasy. Reruns began in the 70s, and outside of two years in the dorm where the TV was communal, I went through college without a TV. Again, other priorities, and when SNL or Soundstage or something else came on, there were watching parties available. Daily reruns, not so much. After college, went on the road, TV was not a priority there either. Came off the road, settled down, started a family, etc. Music and family were main priorities. Watched plenty of TV, but mostly children's shows, Prime/Night Time faves, and late night oddities. The notion of Star Trek just never entered my mind. Don't miss what you never had, something like that. Time passed, the movies and after-shows started coming out, and other than a few Next Generation moments, I was like, well, no sense in watching these until I've seen the original, and next thing you know, it was 2015. Here we are! At least you're not glaring at me with scissors in your hand the way my hair stylist did. It's a good thing I've been seeing her for 15+ years and have developed a real sense of trust with er. Otherwise, if looks could kill...and scissors can! Odd as it no doubt is relative to the general population, it just happened like that. Otherwise, really enjoying all the comments here, what people like/dislike, all the various observations. Better here than at a Trekkie convention? Or not?

So those are not the original colors just cleaned up? They're actually altered? Not knowing the original, I have to say that I love these colors, but also getting the whole digital "tampering" thing, that's kind of a drag as well.

Just...always did something else instead. There was always something else to do. Some pop culture stuff is so pervasive that you pick up on the gists of it through through osmosis without ever going to the source. Star Trek was one of those things for me. That, and I'm not too much for space fantasy. Not hostile to it, just, given a chance between, for example, going record hunting and watching Star Trek reruns, seems like I always chose record hunting. And for weekday afternoon stoner fare, as mentioned elsewhere, Green Acres got the call. So, yeah, always seemed to be something else to do. But I'm doing it now! Looking forward to Frank Gorshin in a deli. I always look forward to Frank Gorshin! And speaking of women legs on Star Trek, Sally Kellerman! Whatever happened to Sally Kellerman? She made an album for Verve, you know.

Seriously, until last week I have never, not once, seen a complete episode of the original Star Trek TV show. My hair stylist nearly stabbed me with her scissors when I told her this yesterday, so...I know. Never watched the movies, or the follow-up serieses although Next Generation was on my radar very infrequently in real time, and not unpleasantly so. Anyway they gots it on the Netflix, and I figure now is as good a time as any, and I'm up to about Episode 10 of Season 1. Not enraptured or anything, but am really enjoying it and plan to watch it on out. I would really appreciate any tips on what to look out for (good and/or bad) as the series develops, good or bad. No real spoiler alerts if meaningly impactful though, please. Right now, I'm already sensing the whole "social commentary" thing, which as retro as it comes off now, has not yet taken on the heavy-handed silliness that it migh, or at least not yet. Otherwise, what I've noticed as constants so far are: Legs of women Landscapes like the Outward Bound cover or some such Colors like Sun Ra Shirtless Shatner...was this really a thing back in the day, shirtless Shatner? Kinda kreepy if you ask me, although thankfully not present in the episode where they land on the planet with all the kids whose growth is slowed down and Kim Darby gets a Kirk Krush...I kept telling LTB, keep your shirt on for thios one Kirk, PLEASE keep your shirt on for this one, because that would have been SO inappropriate, no matter where what or when. I have actually seen Leonard Nimoy's complete run as Paris on Mission Impossible before seeing him as Spock, but Leonard Nimoy appears to have been no slouch at delivering character after all, actually, Women legs for days. Does this yeoman stick around for the duration? Uhura does, right? So if you like, talk about Star Trek, the TV show, the original one. Please?

Does it have him doing those longass intros where he takes the harmony apart before putting it back together to go into the tune? He could take into another world doing that.

Agreed...so what's the shape of the curve that takes from positive growth to neurotic obsession? Or is there such a curve? HA! ! Unfortunately?, that's always? going to be either an after-the-fact regret or else some batshit crazy censorious neurosis? ?

The "normal condition" would be the existence of more than could possibly be encountered. The "un-normal" condition would be being aware of it, especially to the degree we do these days.

Let's play this game - stop the clock right now, and then query every existing database of all known (even just to one person) recorded music, total up the known duration of same, and then figure how long would it take to hear all of it, listening 24/7. Even if you started in utero, could you live long enough? Prompted by the sudden and humbling realization that even with a lot of years spent listening to music 24/7 (usually figuratively, but on a few occasions literally), I've not heard shit, not really. I know, quality, not quantity, etc. Not pretending otherwise. But damn, I'd have to wager that no matter how much you've heard, there's still more that you haven't heard, good, bad, unknown, etc. Pretty sure this is a natural condition, less sure if it's natural to be aware of it? Especially since all the existing databases probably don't have all the known (even to just one person) recorded music in the world documented. So...it's good to know more, but impossible to know everything. The math is not in your favor. Therefore, judgement. Or, perhaps, guessing. Fuel for growth, fuel for stagnation, fuel for liberation, fuel for paralysis, some, all, none of the above, if there's a hell below we're all gonna go? Take me to the bridge? To nowhere? Geek on.

Just noticed Joe Sample The Three on this list. That's a very nice "modern straight-ahead" session, nothing at all like his or The Crusaders' work of the times (not that there's anything wrong with that, but, you know, some people might worry).

I'm ok with the Rangers getting the better of the deal. Nevertheless, Mr. & Mrs. Ross give every indication of being beautiful peoples (not the object of the game, I know). I wish them both well. If Robbie's not broken, and not pressed into starting, he'll be a damn fine short reliever for Boston, very consistent, not to be taken lightly, not at all. If he is broken...well, a deal's a deal!

Agreed, there is a vision there, I just don't share it. Same, to lesser degree on both ends, with the guy whose name I'm forgetting who did Blu Mitchell's Bantu Village & Collison in Black, who some people also love. Monk Higgins.

And although the Mizell BN stuff just does not work for me on a personal level (liked 'em at Motown, though), consider the somewhat real-time parallels that were going on with the funk-attempts on Fantasy. At least the Mizell stuff sounded like there was a detailed vision going into it. Not so much the fantasy things, even/especially the things with Wayne Henderson producing. So, there are degrees even within that which is not liked, or could (should?) be.

You will want to hear the Murray Roman Tetragrammaton records.

I'm getting about as tired of Matthew Shipp talking about Herbie Hancock as I am of Herbie Hancock playing about Herbie Hancock.

Think this might have been the same show I saw aired on local PBS ca. 1975...any way to confirm any American distribution of this footage?

Speaking of distinctions between good/great/mediocre/etc...the people who amaze me are the hardcore Doo-Wop collectors, the really hardcore ones who know every record and can expound about the distinctiveness of each with apparent knowledge and passion. Me? I can hear one or three different Doo-Wop songs (the difference being in the bridges) and variations in tempo...a few really distinctive lead singers. But other than that, when you get into an endless loop of I-vi-ii-V 12/8 ballads by groups that even the members themselves never heard of, hell, it all sounds alike to me. No bad, necessarily, just alike. But you got people who KNOW the difference, hear them plain as day. I respect the hell out of that, even if I won't even pretend to understand it. Point just being, go for it, and follow it where it goes, not where people tell you to go (or not go). You'll always hear more by listening than by avoiding listening, that's just basic math. The rest is on you.

But seriously, my thing is that I've become increasingly wary of telling people flat out "don't bother with this", because people need to find out for themselves what they like or don't, and although I'm not above calling something crap, that doesn't mean I won't like it if in the right mood. And it definitely DOES mean that I took the time and had the life experience to heard it and decide about it myself. My opinions and tastes, I want them to borne of as much direct, personal experience, thought, and evaluation as possible, and I'd like to facilitate the same in others. The seems only fair. Imagine all the things they tell you in WyntonWorld, hey, don't waste your time with THIS...minds being molded, not developed. Acceptance of dogma trumping accepting personal challenge. BOO!!! So, ok, I will tell you that Album X is vapid crap, but I would strongly encourage you to listen for yourself, decide for yourself, and with an open mind, not going into it expecting it to be vapid crap, reach that conclusion inside yourself entirely for yourself. I might be trying to save you some money, but I'm not trying to form your opinion before you have one. Now, after you have one, hey, that's why we have discussion, right?

Gonna miss Buckee Beaver (aka Robbie Ross), but he may or may not be broke. Hope not. Boston, you're getting a fun, class act with an equally fun, class wife.Enjoy!