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Considering that an ACL repair/reconstruct can cost $13,000 and takes an hour or less, and this was a 5 hour emergency reconstructive job...yikes! And the expenses are just beginning. The rehab on that is going to be painful in more ways than one. Wouldn't surprise me if it's up into the $20,000 range or much much higher. Spending 5 hours with surgeons and staff has got to be expensive.

Sorry to hear about that. It's very tough to go through.

Hey Hey! Have a great one!

It sounds a bit better with the reissue of 2002 (I think that's the year) but it just never will sound that good given the way it was recorded. If you go to King Crimson's Discipline Global Mobile site, click "Shop" and enter Boz Burrell in the search box it will give you a list of live discs that feature him. At the moment they have sold out of copies of Earthbound. I have the Detroit KCCC and it sounds better. The bluesy version of "In The Court Of The Crimson King" is wildly different than the studio version. Jacksonville is a fairly rough recording but I'm able to tolerate it as it has my favorite version of "Ladies Of The Road." Or at last a darn good one. I like it better than earlier line-ups (most of the time) though not always more than later ones. It all depends on my mood. Are you familiar with the Elephant-Talk site? It's a fan based site of many things Crim. If you click on "Releases - KC" near the bottom right of the navigation bar on the bottom of the page you'll bring up a list of albums. There are reviews by fans, some better than others but sometimes sound quality is mentioned. I've used it a lot for consdering KCCC releases. The site may be dying off though as the later releases aren't reviewed.

A couple more near the top of my list are: DP 11 - 9/27/72 - Terrific "Birdsong," perhaps my favorite complete show of all the picks. The "Dark Star > Cumberland" is unique. Oh shucks, I forgot about the new kid, the latest & greatest DP 36 (9/21/72.) That might be better - so hard to to pick between the 2! You can't go wrong with either. Also, if you prefer a rumblin' "Other One" to "Dark Star," DP 23 is what you need (9/17/72.) But it's fall '72, so get them all! DP 14 - 11/30/73 & 12/2/73 - A leadoff Dew and a closing one, both very different approaches. Also 2 Playings and 2 Weather Report Suites! Woo-hoo! The Sunshine > WRS > Dark Star Jam > Eyes is classic stuff. It's a good thing it isn't vinyl or mine would be worn out. Also worth mentioning - no Donna. She's off having her baby, so you have to provide your own screams.

DP 12 is my favorite of all the picks. Worth it for the intro to "China>Rider" alone, but there's a whole lot more. Be forewarned I'm a '74 whore, but the August '74 comp is yummy too. They picked the meaty stuff from all 3 dates. Some complain that the Sept. '74 set is too mellow, but I think it has some great music on it too. But by all means, get DP 12!

Yup, it's been happening to me too. At least once a day, sometimes twice. I wasn't sure if it was just a coincidence that it was happening when reading this forum but I don't so. My current solution is to use Camino for reading organissimo and use Safari for everything else. I'm bi-OS as well.

Bobby is an idiot, pure and simple. Even he can't muddle through the line of b.s. he gave in the interview. Not to drag politics into our Dead corner, but while listening to the clip I couldn't help but think how awesome it would be to hear a debate between Bobby & our President. Between the stammering, made up words and excuses it could be quite a contest. Slip Bush a dose and it might even become more interesting. Yee-haw!

Below is a link that will take you to a direct download of Bob Weir commenting (or trying to ) about the archive.org controversy. It's kind of a tough listen as he stammers his way through, but I love the voice he uses when criticizing the "information wants to be free" crowd. Bob on archive.org

The following is from 1 post on rec.music.gdead that might be of interest. The title of the post is "So what about Download Series vol 8?" From "strider," Dec. 6 2005. "Dave Lemieux said on a radio show sunday night that there will be two downloads this month (one from 1970 - some st stephen - nfa - stephen - 10/5?) - another trucking buffalo dvd next year - dp next march - they aren't sure which one. Individual shows from the fillmore will be available for download. They WILL be releasing runs in the future. The reason for only 10,000 was based upon the sales of DPs (like dp 26) from that era." Regarding Download Vol 8 I have to tip my hat. It's 12/10/73 from Charlotte. All that circulates is 1/2 of the last song & the encore. And in December '73 the boys could do no wrong. What a thing to dangle in front of the hardcore fans with the boycott and all.

I do believe I'm going to buy myself the Mosaic Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions box. I've been a very good boy this year!

Yup. I saw it again just a couple of weeks ago. That bug makes great speed. Jacqueline Bisset sure was lovely.

That was fun! US 96% 5 miles (Darn that Iowa. I even grew up next to it!) Europe 87% 68 miles error (Oh those wee places.) South America 85% 74 miles error (I misplaced Bolivia too far north. ) Asia 94% 36 miles error (I was going to put Georgia in the right place but thought the map was already colored. Oh well.) Africa 79% avg error 331 miles (I had a course on African geography 20 years ago. The names keep changing.) Middle east 94% 18 miles (Off a bit on Jordan)

It comes from a Beatles fanclub Christmas message by John Lennon. "Gary Crimble to you..." MP3s of the fanclub recordings can probably be found online. Here's the O.E.D. entry: Crimble, n. DRAFT ENTRY Dec. 2002 Brit. slang. Forms: 19- Chrimble, Crimble. Also with lower-case initial. [Humorous alteration of CHRISTMAS n., perh. reflecting childish speech. Cf. earlier CRIMBO n.] Christmas. Cf. CRIMBO n. 1963 J. LENNON in Beatles Fan Club Recording in New Musical Express 6 Dec. 10/2 Garry Crimble to you, Garry Crimble to you, Garry Bable, Dear Christmas, Happy Birthday, me too! 1987 Just Seventeen 16 Dec. 6/2 Stevie's determined to have a well-wacky Crimble do. 1994 Sun Zoom Spark Dec. 22/3 Couldn't we just shut him in the attic and let him out for 12 days around Crimble along with the baubles and tinsel. 2002 Observer 6 Jan. (Business section) 7/8 As..only 300 digital radio sets were in the shops this Crimble, the company's performance on the stock market shouldn't really be a surprise.

#2230 Like Parkertown I have to be careful about when I play it. The cat digs it though.

I can't help but think how ineffective the boycott will be considering the closest thing to an official purchase in many of the "entitleds'" collections is burned copies of Dick's Picks.

That's not fair. I can't even do that sober. When sober I always hestitate doing the alphabet backwards around w-v-u (hmm, West Virginia University) and another place too that varies. Um, not that I count the alphabet backwards often (only comes up when talking about DUI tests.) Maybe if I got drunk I'd do better.

Within the past couple of years I've been delving more into the period you love. There are some nights where I think why would I want to listen to any other tenor player than Hawkins or Webster. When I started listening to jazz once I moved beyond Miles & Atlantic/Impulse! Coltrane I was buying a lot of Blue Notes. I still play my fair share but discovering that little label called Verve was a delightful thing to do. There's some pretty good stuff on that label, ya know? And this one is a beauty!

Next stop: The boxing hall of fame!

It's very sweet of you to rumor that Bobby is the brains. Probably a first!

Back to peach. It's like the color of the Financial Times, only with better content!

It's 120 miles north. Probably best known (if at all) for the architecture & for high school basketball in the '70s & early '80s. Just 14 miles from Twain's hangout Hannibal MO. Couldn't wait to get the hell out of there and now I use the name as a handle. Go figure. Oh and to the day after birthday boy no problem re the credit. I do that 10 last post thing too sometimes. I was just surprised that I beat the European folks to the punch. Ah, the advantages of the midnight O reader.

Get out! I guess he wants to be far away from the eastern media. Or something. Whew, I'm trying to imagine Manny patrolling LF in Safeco. Huh...I just can't picture him in a Mariner uniform. Pretty shocking news, I had no idea he felt that way about us.

I say, I say, I say son, I may be from Cardinal country but I'm from the Land of Lincoln. (The town is my handle) Not important to anyone else, but when you grow up on the right side of the Mississippi you just gotta say so.

As far as I know there's no change in the trading of soundboards policy. Sure trading can take more work, sometimes even requiring 2 or 3 tries to get a good copy of a show, but I always enjoyed the human touch. The speed at which the net & bit torrenting can spread shows is so much faster compared to old fashioned trading I can't blame them at all for the policy change. Several other groups that allow taping are anti-torrent, such as the Allman Bros. & Jorma. I was great while it lasted, but it looks like the old fashioned way of trading shows & B&Ps still lives on.