Guy Berger

Is fasting supposed to be healthy??????? Guy

The reed player on this CD (Mike Friedman) was a friend of mine back in college. Good guy. Guy

His mannerisms are repetitive and get annoying. Guy

The standards for evaluating a box set are sometimes different than those for evaluating an album. Guy

It's somewhat erratic, but I'm starting to think that at it's best the Report is better than the Daily Show. Guy

I will try to make it to this. Guy

I wonder how David Palmer, of all people, discovered information about the upcoming terrorist strike. Hopefully we'll find out -- 24 has a way of leaving loose ends untied. Guy

I agree, it was good. Though it's a shame that we have to say goodbye to some very good characters. Guy

Yup. Totally made up for my car door being frozen shut! Guy

Peterson was a much busier sideman than Evans, I believe... Guy

I listened to The Nightwatch for the first time in a long time yesterday. I'd totally forgotten about Fripp's classic line, "We shall now tune our mellotrons and attack culture once more." Guy

I disagree. Some of his more Trane-ish playing from the mid and late 60s is superb. Guy

As far as the IaSW box, I really like Wayne's composition "Two Faced". Very enigmatic. And of course the two tracks from Filles de Kilimanjaro, though they sound much better on the original album. Guy

Pick up In the Court of the Crimson King, Larks' Tongues in Aspic (or Red), and Discipline. Those should give you a nice introduction into the group's 3 most important periods. Guy well, they have done quite a bit since 1980, so i would add Thrak and The Power to Believe to this list to get a better representation. Can't speak for Power to Believe, which I haven't heard, but I don't think Thrak is essential Crimson. Though it has excellent songwriting by Adrian Belew, on the instrumental stuff it sounds like they're trying too hard. I'd get any of the mid 70s or 80s albums first. My favorite 90s Crimson is the Projekct Two set Space Groove. Guy

I have it on my hard drive, haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet. Just wanted peoples' opinions. Guy

I have the above, and also: 71 - Plymouth Guildhall (one of the first gigs by the Islands band) 81 - Moles Club 82 - Cape D'Agde or however you spell it 94 - Vrooom Sessions

Pick up In the Court of the Crimson King, Larks' Tongues in Aspic (or Red), and Discipline. Those should give you a nice introduction into the group's 3 most important periods. Guy

I like a lot of the stuff in the IASW box, but it does have a bit of filler and the Coltrane contains none. However, GA, I seem to recall you dislike avant-garde stuff and the Coltrane set is along those lines. Guy

Anybody listened to this recording?

I was leafing through the liner notes to Larks' Tongues in Aspic and found this bizarre little item among the press clippings. From the June 1973 issue of Cosmopolitan:

Did anyone see this segment on Monday night's Colbert Report? Very funny. You can watch the segment in question here under the title "Glaring Omission". The original segment is here under the title "Truthiness". Guy

Picked up a copy via yourmusic.com. I think my initial assessment was right. The tempos are generally slow and as a result the album drags a bit. I wish they'd dug a little harder into the boogaloo groove on "Twins". Guy

Happy b-day, man! Guy

I was really digging this album just now. I find that the last three tunes on the album have grown on me a lot, I used to overlook them. Guy

We'll see if the Dallas victory was a fluke or not. Their defense has been terrible recently. Guy