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http://www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com/search.php?submit=Find&brocode=148353&show=1 EMI/Angel 50 CD Beethoven box for less than $1.00/disc (pre-shiiping, about $1.25/disc with shipping). For the major works, best to look for quality over quantity, this is not one-stop shopping, this isn't, no way, don't even go there, but there''s enough here to still be a good investment, just to get basic familiarity with overall output. Or, if you're one of those people for whom interpretational differences is irrelevant and/or unnoticeable, hey, there's a buttload full of Beethoven all up in here, so saddle up, Fidelio, let's ride. YEE-HAW!

I like the ones that have alternate takes and other previously unreleased material, those are the ones I like.

Anybody else you want to ask our opinion about as to whether or not they're attractive, or to declare that you don't want to look at them?

Keith Mansfield Ben E. Keith Eben Ahbez

Horenstein is going for crazymad dolls these days, so here. or if you prefer B&W, here:

Filaments will bug before they break, sometimes. Not dim, but just not work, and then do. Bulb not on, tap it, jiggle it, otherwise lay hands on it, it comes on. So yes, filament works until it doesn't, but not true of lightbulb, unless lighbulb = filament, in which case, who needs lightbulb? So it's not exactly always a straight line from Living Lightbulb to Dead Lightbulb. Lightbulb Lazarus, hey. The line curves (because "straight line" is a Newtonian construct that more or less is an illusion predicated on necessity, not fact, much less reality). Glad we "straightened" that out, now, back to our regular programming. Enjoy the curves! And say good-bye to incandescent lighbulbs anyway!

No, that was Superfly, Curtis Mayfield, and Johnny Pate.

Badfinger Proctologist Peter Bergman

Peter Campbell George Benson W.E.B. DuBois

Which edition of Agharta has the extra 10 or so minutes of guitar noise at the end? Lon has/had it.

Merging two threads, will nobody forget to read them some day?

Oh yeah, what I like about the notey sax players that Miles invariably hired during this period (Bartz being the fascinating exception, although his contributions on the Euro-tour from the gigs I've heard, start getting pretty formulaic and seldom budge, but when it does,oh yeah YES!)) is that for the most part you didn't really have to listen to them, they were working out their Tranemath, same as they did with Elvin and on their own, it was a separate quest, really, one of catching up out of a sense of duty/compulsion/culture (not wholly misguided, but not really necessary except as a personal need, imo) but once you figure that out, that allows you, the listener, to just hear them as streaks of light in the sky, always in and out, but never really material, and then shift your focus to the rest of the band, which is where the real action was. Not saying they don't matter, but their role, intentional or otherwise, was as a diversion/redirection. I have not always felt this way, but, after years of trying to direct my focus to Liebman, Grossman, even Sony Fortune (to a lesser extent, that tone was/is so personal) and find that, no, can't do it for too long before heading back to the rhythm section (especially once Miles took up the organ and started inserting all those denseass chords (hello Continuing Gil Evans Partnership Of Kindred Spirit Brotherhood) in those quirky spots that he would do (which would then often provoke a response from Reggie Lucas, you don't listen to this music for the solos, you just don't, I mean, you can, but you can also look at a car and just see the headlights, and when you ride in a car, are you still focusing on the headlights? Or even worse, when you drive the thing?).

Alex Rios Allen Reuss Fred Roos

Well now, that Azar Lawrence kinda walked out there and shook things up before walking off, eh?

Didn't have any knowledge of the guy specifically, but the name Johnny Allen is one that I recolonize from records here and there over the years. Quite a life, it appears, and contributions made. R.I.P.

John Hartford Arkansas Travelers Your Independent Insurance Agent

Love it, and I also have it on Alamac! Happened to pop into a newsstand in downtown Dallas one afternoon in the late 70s to buy a paper for some reason, saw that they had a record rack (singular), and then found this in it. One of the more WTF-ish of all the WTF moments this life has dropped on me, at least as far as records go. Hearing Bird learn the bridge on "Four Brothers" on the fly was/is a freakin' joy.

Curly Neal Moe Kauffman Larry The Cable Guy

Wile E. Coyote Road Runner Jonathan Richman (or Junior Walker, or Yusef Lateef, pick one, there's a three-in-one, a Trinity of choices, should you prefer)

Ah, fuck it. Spelling matters most to people who read with their eyes. Me, I tend to read with my ears, except for unfamiliar words, and even then, if it's on the Internet, bang/zoom/right-click, it gets figured out, or as the grammarians might argue, out it gets figured. Otherwise, I still own a dictionary, a real one with a hardcover binding and really thin paper for pages. Glad to hear that nobody died. I'd guess, somewhat confidently, that that's diretly proportional to the lack of power outages, and less confidently that, from what it looked like on TV anyway, that people actually got gridlocked on the ice rather than driving on it. Snow is easy, but ice..the greaterly inversed one's fear is to one's fearlessness, ice will take you out and not bring you back. And as far as dropping balls, hey it's a fact of life once you get past a certain age, which I'm sure that Atlanta has. Pick up and move on, as they say.

I have Christmas Eve 1949 Carnegie Hall on an old Alamac LP, and yeah, what you say. Alamac LPs - grab 'em when you see 'em. Hear me now and thank me whenever the mood comes down onto it. As for those Birdland dates, I'll say that if, now that I've heard enough pre-/during-/and post-Bird of both Bird, near-Bird, and non-Bird to have a semi-reliaible sense of what's what no matter what, if I could forcibly reduce it all down to one or two records, those would be them, or, if forced down to just one LP, it would be this one (a combination of Birdland & Royal Roost broadcasts, all superb when heard in their full context, but absolutely stunning when hear collected and sequenced like this. Perhaps coincidentally, the first Bird I ever heard, but enough time has passed that I think perhaps not, perhaps I just got lucky. Hell, if forced to uber-reduce, I'd take it down to just Side One of that LP. But that does seem a bit harsh. Having said all that, there's a lot of sublimity on the Open Door stuff. A lot.

Has Atlanta melted yet, Jeff?

Ah! Then it's track two from this. Yes! One-clicked on Sunday, arrived on Thursday. Damn near perfect world. Halledabbledujah!

That's generally fixable, ya' know: http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-reset-or-unfreeze-an-ipod-nano-ipod-touch-ipod-classic-or-ipod-shuffle/

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