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OK, glad to hear it. It just looks so weird to me next to an order when I've already done done it.

What bothers me is the "Pre-Order Now!" listed beside it. I mean, I already have pre-ordered it. I don't think those words in orange were there a a few days ago. (And yup, as I have the Monk, and earlier order and then the upcoming Conns I have been checking my order history more than usual. ) I'm probably just being paranoid...speaking of which I think the Roswell Free Masons are behind the Cellar Door being delayed.

For those of you who have orders with CD Universe I don't like what I see when I check my order history. I still have a "0" shipped next to my order along with the $39.19 but now in orange lettering it says "Pre-Order Now! Release Date Not Determined." I hope that's just some goofing around by CDU and that my order is still good for "date not determined."

There's one disc on half.com for $22 & change. If that fails try music recycler for $50+. Edited to note just one disc on the half.com. Sorry to get your hopes up on that price.

In '96 after talking to Wetteland he ordered the tying run intentionally walked. Pretty sure it was that rather than making the batter the tying run. It was an against the book decision that worked. For some reason I'm thinking Ryan Klesko was involved, though I don't remember if it was to pitch to him or avoid him. I'd give him credit for his use of catchers throughout the late '90s despite the insistence that he should have penciled in young Posada as a starter and be done with it. It allowed more pinch hitting opportunities by platooning. He sure used Leyritz well in '96. Certainly having the players and resources makes a huge difference, and I like to poke a friend who goes on a bit too much about Joe being a genius (I loved Torre as a player and like him as person a great deal) about his stint with the Cardinals. Not sure why you are insulting his results with Braves though as he won a title in his first year and in the next would have won the wild card had there been one. His 3rd and last year the team finished 1 game under .500 and finished 2nd. Big difference that year was that Randy Johnson was a weak-hitting third baseman rather than a 6-10 LHP! I'm with others in finding value in his not screwing up a big budget team and keeping the clubhouse together by how he treats people as underestimated skills.

I've heard a boomy audience of the 5/05/05 show. They don't stretch things out much but I think that's to be expected and it's enjoyable enough. I was most impressed with Jack Bruce's playing on that night. Certainly there was a lot of love (and lighter wallets ) in the hall that night.

Excellent timing. I was purposely leaving a bit of your book unread just to get a dose of your writing every few days. Now that you're back "live" I can finish it up. Yay!

Is it at 1:07 - 1:10 of Gloria's Step (which is the 2nd track)? That's not a skip but a problem during the recording process. Note the parenthesis after the song title is "(take 1, interrupted.)" The silence is the interruption. This is my 1st upgrade with the material and I'm in love all over again.

Terrific! Now can someone make Kramer Vs. Kramer look like the Shining?

She has indeed! But I hope she's never in front of me in an airport security line. All of those bracelets!

Same running order as Four! and Straight, No Chaser except for one bonus trio cut at the end of each disc. Whew, what a relief! Though if you buy the 2 disc set you file under "K" while the individual discs are filed under "H." And that takes care of the scorekeeping questions. Now on to the remastering.

They certainly used to and maybe still do, but a couple of years ago I started seeing Made In Mexico instead. For kicks I once posted a question on the Grateful Dead newsgroup that if Japan discs are good and Taiwanese are bad, what are Mexican? Didn't get an answer, not even from a troll. I gave up with hunting in stores and just do mail order for TYs. If you live on the east coast American-Digital is good. I'm on the west so I use Cascade Media. They're out of Portland so I get my discs within 2 days of ordering. I've also used Rima.com out of L.A. too. It's easier to get Tyvek sleeves from such places too than trying to find them in person - at least in this town.

He mentions his family some in Chronicles Vol. 1. He has some positive things to say but it's pretty obvious that he's always felt like something of an outsider to both his town & family. It can happen. Ask Ray Davies.

Same thing happened to me, though I was kind of expecting it. I think the last time it happened was when I ordered a Dexter Gordon Black Lion reissue on 1201. It was backordered 3 to 5 days holding up the order. I didn't pay attention and after 5 days they shipped the rest. Oh heck, what am I saying, this happened with a Don Byas issue on the same label last week! I've since learned to cancell the backorder after the order ships and have them e-mail me when they really have it. So the bright side of all this is that I have a Monk/Coltrane that'll be here in a week that will get a lot more attention (and deservedly so) as Sony once again pulls the rug out from under us.

I just noticed this: John Coltrane - September 23, 1926 Sam Rivers - September 25, 1923 I'm not really surprised that Sam is older as I thought he might be, but it kind of makes me sad to think about what might have been. Looks like it should be a 3 day celebration this weekend!

Yes, spend more money to save money. I can do that!

Late also has the problem. He, too, is being missed here! ← As we live in the same town (but have never met) I gave him the info contained in the thread about how to solve the problem and offered to post or look here if that didn't do the trick. But I never heard back from him.

Oh I know I will. I've never been good at buying wine and then aging it in the cellar. For some reason I can do that with some artist's albums that for whatever reason just happen to be amongst the last titles I haven't gotten around to hearing. For Miles "Dig" is one of them. For Monk it's the self-titled Columbia. Something about the black & white cover adds a certain something to it too. I going to try to save it for when I either really need it or just want to celebrate something special. I didn't take this delayed gratification approach with the Monk/Coltrane coming out in 9 days though.

Then I'll note for no particular reason that I still don't have the Columbia MONK. Each time I've spotted it at a good to respectable price, I keep putting it back for some other time. There aren't a whole lotta of Monk's left to hear for the first time, and that's one I'm saving for some reason.

Good work guys, you sold another copy. Seriously, thanks for the reviews. I've been meaning to upgrade anyway, and I have always been interested in hearing it as it was played. Seems like a natural winner.

Run faster and jump higher!

Kodak was my first disc. Sniff. I've kept a few of the 50 disc cake boxes as they were so sturdily made. So I move my TYs to a couple of those and put a few other brands I have from B & Ps in others. The main concern for me with (some) cheap discs isn't whether they'll play in the future since 99.9% do, but whether you can make a copy from it a year or more down the line. This was a big issue when I was trading a lot of Grateful Dead back before it could all be downloaded. While the number of difficult to extract from discs amongst the cheap set may have been less than 2%, it was a pain when I was a busy busy trader. If you're not having to make future copies from a disc that plays but doesn't happily extract then obviously it's not a problem.

Bread & butter discs are silver/green Taiyo Yudens. I come from the old line of "Japanese only" disc traders. Unlike Sony, TDK, Imation and the like, I know whose disc they are using. Their own!

Yes they do...

I get a chuckle out of seeing the subject header "Trouble Ahead For Lance Armstrong" after it has been announced that he's marrying Sheryl Crow.