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Oh my...ghastly scenarios abound for Dr. Moreau wannabes looking to do wing transplants... Have I told you about Boudreaux the Buffalo, King o'de Cajun Plains?

One of the best, most evocative LT covers as well:

Not a question of "liking" them, just recognizing them as the period-specific artifacts they are. There are some that I do like, at least as many more that I don't. New York Is Now, though, that's one of the all time best Unipaks….this picture is just luminous (and a lot more in focus than this):

I just don't care. "What was going on there"? He was a fucked-up dude and his piano playing changed. That's about all there is to know afaic. That and i don't like the way it changed. If the music engaged me, I might, but it doesn't. If anything, it repels me (not repulse, repel, as in reflexively pushes me in the opposite direction of where it is)). I can tell what he was, and what he became. His choices, and if I feel a need to figure out why a once-attractive person goes into that zone, I don't need to look as far away as Bill Evans to find case studies. It is what it is. People are alive, they make choices, they change as they do, and then they die. Can't/don't/won't care about every individual as that happens, just some.

Another strong one, this time with bobby Few.

I think he was just a twisted cat whose pocket changed as his character (and body) aged. I don't find the changes in the least attractive, but many others feel otherwise. In the end, it is what it is, and now that he's been dead for so long, I doubt there's any further revelations forthcoming, necessary, or desirable. If you like those records, there's plenty of them. Enjoy!

Burn baby, burn.

It might be hard to imagine the life of some of those bands, constant one-nighters, travel by bus, no internet/wireless, snail mail/telegraph/operator, get me.... it really was an independent ecosystem, really. A week or two in a club, hey, that was like a vacation!

Wouldn't surprise me if Basie's people told him, hey, you got a date to make this record with these people on such-and-such a date, you know, they did balblahblah, Basie probably knew of the record, said cool, and then went about his business. I read an interview with Frank Foster saying that when he finally came off the raod with Basie in 1963? that he was pretty much stunned by how insulated from the music scene in general and jazz in particular he had become. Communications was nothing like it is today, and a gig like Basie's came with it's won self-contained lifestyle.

yep: New estimated delivery date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021

That one doesn't get played enough compared to the "fact", imo. Guilty here as well.

The LPs had paper sleeves, same as any other LP.

Oh yeah, 70s Mainstream LPs - Unipak, always!

The good thing about Unipaks was that records couldn't fall out. Happened more than you might think! Also good, generally, was that you still had a whole surface on the inside for liner notes, etc. The back cover was wide open for photos, and Blue Note tended to offer great stuff there. I was looking for a pattern or when/who got Unipak records and couldn't find one. Obviously post-Liberty/pre-UA, but that's about it.

Where is the opening to pull the disc out? Inside or outside? HA! This stuff is concrete compared to what they used for Unipaks.

Nope, not gatefolds. The record came out from the inside. It was a one-piece cardboard thing. Go to the record store and find one (when that becomes doable), you'll see the difference. Unipaks were an LP-era thing. Their reference in this thread was entirely humorous in intent. Although this is a Unipak concept, it's actually more deluxe than a Unipak because it's actually got carboard pasted on to other cardboard. A Unipak, the record comes out from inside the opened jacket, just like the CD does on this one. I said Grass Roots earlier, but that's incorrect. My bad. However, Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music, that was a Unipak. The record came out form this inside. If you didn't open it up, you couldn't get to the record. Ingenious design, really, a single piece of cardboard. Paperboard, even, maybe.

Speak Like A Child Caramba Charisma New York Is Now Slow Drag Grass Roots Everything I Play Is Funky God, i don't know how many more. These are LPs mind you, not CDs.

Wait - something on FOX that is not real? Slippery slope, that is.

How old are you, man? Just wondering if you have any Unipak LPs? It was Blue Note standard there for a while, plenty of classics came in it. It's even "cheaper" than this is!

Here it is!

1964. Consequences! Shepp! Tchicai! Also - George Barrow and Howard Johnson, did not know that that the former moved in that circle, or that the latter was even on the scene then.

I just puckered it up a little bit and teased it on out. No buiggie, it plays just fine, and what I can't see or hear, hey. What will BN do when it comes time to reissue an originally Unipak LP? Do they have the guts to do it OG style?

1 & 3? Seriously? And we wonder why our nation is in such turmoil today? I mean, I have a hard time felling 1 & 3 with this clip, but somehow they got EVERYBODY to clap on it. Unnatural motherfuckers.

Was the LT's LP pitch correct?