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My "favorite" is Plugged Nickel. simply because it had the most music in it that I'd never heard before. My appetites had been whetted, not sated, by years of listening to the 1st 2 Japanese LPs and the 3rd one Columbia put out. Those made up, what, less than 25% of the box? Pretty much like getting a box of ALL new stuff, and mind-boggling stuff at that. But if Sony ever puts out a "Lost Quintet" set, be prepared to view the Plugged Nickel material as tame and predictable. Almost... Was anybody else like me in being kinda, uh, "obsessive" about hounding their local stores when the various release dates shifted about, what, 3 times? "Are you SURE?" "Can you call your distributor?" "What's Sony's phone nember?" (yeah, I was calling THEM...).

Just ordered it this morning. I'll post a report when it arrives. The date is morbidly intriguing if accurate.

Personal Statement Label: P.J.L. Catalog Number: MTCJ-1050 Import from JAPAN Tracks: 1. Introduction 2. Statement 1 3. Statement 2 4. Statement 3 5. Statement 4 6. Statement 5 RT says that this is a Japanese reissue of Marsh's December 15, 1987 recording, not available domestically. I find no mention of this album nor this date anywhere in Marsh discographies, on AMG, or anywhere else. So, what did I just buy? As always, thanks in advance.

Forget Elvis and forget Rockabilly - Sun was already a label with a legacy before all that.

Probably my least favorite Gaye album of the 70s, but still an excellent work. Just wondering what they've added to make a 2-CD set out of it. If there's a lot of dissective takes of "After The Dance", I'm ON it!

Bye.

Hmmm...guess not. The question was not asked in the form of a desert island. In THAT case, you got the right answer!

Norm Crosby must need money real bad.

To do what with?

Because music comes and goes, but hunger is forever.

Butterbeans & Susie.

There are two Porter books, a bio and a "reader" and both are excellent, imo. Haven't had much time for lengthy reading lately, but I've made it through the first 4-5 chapters of the Daniels book, It's a very "dry" read, but unlike many people who have knocked this book, I have no problem with the "presumptions" the author makes. He doesn't call them facts, and clearly differentiates facts from generalities. If nothing else, we get a picture of the general milieu that Young grew up in (and a reasonably accurate one, based on what knowledge of early 20th-century southern Louisiana that I've been able to discern from my mother's family. In other words, it "rings true".), and that is useful, I think, because too often Prez is portrayed as The Man Who Fell From Mars or some such, and as John Lewis once pointed somewhere sometime ago, that just ain't so. But DAMN is it "academic" in tone. At least what I've read of it so far. Maybe the book changes (for better or worse) deeper into it. But so far, I'll give it a "slow but worthy" rating.

I had a dream last week that George Russell stopped off at my house on a Saturday due to car trouble. All he wanted to do was talk baseball. I went to the grocery store to get something to cook, and when I came back, he was gone. Too weird.

I believe that would be EXPRESSION. But this one might have been the 2nd.

Latin was not offered to me during my public schooling, and I've never taken it as a class, but if reinstituting it would serve to put as much as a tiny in in the vocabularyphobia of today's society, I'd be all in favor of it. If I HAD have had latin, I might even know what the proper word for "vocabularyphobia" is. What is it - lexiphobia?

Nino Tempo. But only with April Stevens.

All of them. -us, a, -um. Remember, "I am three"...

Yes, Satan.

No pain, just gain.

Always have dug Davis, a player who might not always be strikingly original, but one who has always been strikingly personal, and that more than makes up the difference for me. This has been getting some play on KNTU, and I like what I've heard very much. Might have to pick this one up soon.

Our Love Is Here To Stay. WITH Dexter.

The '87 CD adds that OLIHTS was the first tune recorded at the session. Seems like maybe the levels were set just a bit hot, which might explain why it, not unlike Prince Albert (the tobacco, not the Kinney Durham tune), was kept in the can.

Be happy - more Dex!

You assume wrongly, my friend!