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I have a friend who traded for it on tape, then VHS, DAT and CDR, then downloaded it for some perceived improvement. He admitted that due to his collecting sickness he never got around to listening to the improvements after the 2nd upgrade tape trade. The copy I have I traded for so I've had it awhile, and while it was likely improved upon since my copy this official version sure sounds better than that. I downloaded 2 different upgrades on Louisville after getting a trade copy so the jump isn't as big, but still nice. Just like with jazz reissues you buy I don't bother with upgrading some things, but Louisville is one of things I do. If they blu-ray this or go holographic octophonic, I'm there!

Out already but I signed up for email notification. CDBaby orders arrive really fast for me as they're just 120 miles north.

It cracks me up how there's a lower case "i" used for the pronoun in Jordan's quotes. Supposedly the reporter is transcribing from a tape so it's not like the guy Twittered it in lower case. The punctuation is inconsistent and oddly spaced. I may sound like one of my doddering teachers from grade school, but if you want me to believe your story at least make a half-ass effort at capitalization and punctuation. Yikes, I feel kind of doddering myself now.

$500 million in debt is what the Wall St. J is reporting. The numbers mentioned in various articles contradict each other. Money from the planned tour range from $50 million to $400 million. Regarding the Beatles deal, this is how the WSJ reports it: "In 1985, Mr. Jackson paid $47.5 million for ATV Music Publishing, the owner of copyrights to the words and music of 251 Beatles songs, among other compositions. That proved a shrewd move. In 1995, Mr. Jackson sold half of ATV to Sony Corp. for $150 million, creating Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. The partnership's value grew explosively and likely exceeds $1 billion today. As his singing career wound down, Mr. Jackson borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars against Sony/ATV and Neverland, his 2,600-acre estate near Santa Barbara, Calif. The loans were passed around among banks and Wall Street firms as Mr. Jackson repeatedly verged on default, only to refinance at even more onerous terms. One loan, backed by a company that owns the copyrights to songs Mr. Jackson wrote, carried a 16.5% interest rate, according to people with knowledge of the loan." He was supposedly making $19 million a year at the time of his death. $12 from album sales, 7 from the Sony/ATV deal. But that wasn't enough with the debts he was facing. The WSJ article ends with this: "The stake in Sony/ATV is held in a trust that was designed to protect the singer from creditors. The degree to which Mr. Jackson's assets still exceed his towering liabilities, if at all, could take months to determine, according to people familiar with the situation." Hence Chuck's comment earlier.

A little entertainment before the draft. Allen Iverson's "practice" press conference (w/ other sports moments)

You're being nice to yourself - you will like the unreleased quartet session with Cecil Payne! Oh yeah! One of the big attractions of the Select was to get the live set with Coleman Hawkins, but the session with Cecil Payne...phew! If I wasn't so enthralled when I play it I'd work at founding the Society For The Advancement & Popularization Of Baritone Saxophonists. What a terrific set!

I had been looking forward to his Archive project since back in the vinyl days. However I'm not all that interested in the early part of his career, or at least at this price (I already own some Squires songs, and also own 2 of the live discs in this set.) I love his hi-res DVD audio releases so if I were to buy I'd go the blu-ray route, but there's too much other music I'm interested in to bite right now. They do sell these ala carte though at high per disc price. Most of the video I'm content enough to see the once youtube. Granted it's been a long time, but from what I remember I would want to be paid to have to sit through Journey Through The Past again. I can go outside and within a block find some rambling hippie who sounds as annoying as David Crosby, so I sure as hell don't have to buy that. Like Greg there's a chance I'll go for part 2 (jokes aside as it'll be released in 2030) as I love that era. It will depend on how much unreleased stuff there is and the quality of that as well. I love Neil, but he writes a fair amount of dreck. The Hoffman Forum has a few threads on it, though a great deal is devoted towards complaints about the format (blu-ray unproven, some want vinyl) and the price. You can search by thread title. I believe the most recent thread (part 2 perhaps) has some actual information about the set after it had been released. One weird thing I've heard is that the book smells funny. Oh, here's a youtube video of someone unpacking the blu-ray set.

Sports Illustrated recently had an article about their slide photography and how their library system worked. Kind of neat to see some of the classic cover shots before they were cropped, along with the markings on the sides.

Yup, it's a stealth Harold Land Mosaic too.

Makes one appreciate Richie Asburn having to run 'em down. I bet Gary Maddox could have handled it too. Not that he would have wanted too!

Thanks for that, that was great! Good to see him in better health (very much so that night ) too.

I have this sick urge to just once file jazz by label (and then probably by recording date, though maybe release instead) just to see what it looks like. However it's a hell of a lot easier to do with a couple of mouse clicks in the database, so that will have to suffice. :rsmile:

I do it this way too (recording date preference, though Ellington gets messy.) However I have a friend who moved to an alpha by artist, followed by alpha by album title. He said his wife was unable to refile discs properly and didn't have the knowledge of release dates. It was also early in the marriage and she's the breadwinner so he didn't want to get into some sort of "put a bookmark where the disc was" system. He got over it. His old ways of filing discs that is.

I believe shipping is something like $2.95 for the first disc and $1 per disc thereafter. Yup, my shipping was the same.* The $5.99 prices apply to some OJCs as I finally picked up Sub-Conscious Lee. I also finally added Vol. 1 of Shelly Manne At The Blackhawk to complete the series. (Years ago in a store I bought Vol. 1 of At The Manne-Hole thinking it was Blackhawk. No regrets mind you, but read those titles carefully.) This must mean that Concord will finally reissue 1-5 as some sort of deluxe package. A search on Paul Desmond brought up a number of titles (many with Brubeck) that were just $4.99. Also some of the Deluxe Editions that are no longer available at yourmusic.com are $19.99. Anyway, some good prices on things that aren't Blue Note too, so search away, you might get a pleasant surprise. *edited - at first I contradicted you, then I redid my math.

My order arrived today. Bonus points for having it land on my birthday. For what's it's worth the reports on the Hoffman forum thus far also have the right discs arriving quickly. So here's hoping they've smoothed things out over at the Dead store. Look forward to hearing the difference that HDCD & Jeffrey Norman brings to it. And it still has that fresh recycled cardboard smell. Mmm... It has to compete with the Young Benny Goodman disc (Timeless) that Lon has rec'd along with a couple of discs restored by J.R.T. Davies rec'd by Hans that I also got today. Can't recall if J.A.W. has ever popped in here or not, but thanks for the heads up.

"Pitching, defense and three-run homers"! Actually, though I preferred the brand of baseball played in the '60s and '70s, one could argue that, in terms of attendance and revenue, the game was suffering then. I never thought I'd say this but I miss the lack of Astroturf in the NL (or at KC), and maybe even a few of the cookie cutter parks. The type of ball they played at Houston (uh, when they were good, which wasn't often) and the Whiteyball era in STL was exciting stuff. Speed to burn on the basepaths & defense, moving the runners, all because there weren't enough players who were strong enough to hit the ball over the wall. Granted I wouldn't want every park to play on plastic (hell, not even 3/4s), or every team to be full of rabbits, but it was fun era (in the NL especially). I guess there are still small ball teams around, and the new found emphasis on defense by some teams as a way to improve pitching (Detroit, Texas) is good to see, I'm just having a nostalgic moment. The thing that still causes me to go "huh?" is whenever I realize that all the turf is in the AL, whereas when I was a kid the majority was in the NL (STL, CIN, PIT, PHI, HOU...) With the Heftydome closing in MIN there goes another plastic park. I'll try not to get weepy-eyed over its loss.

I get tired of it too. Call me wishy washy but I like full shows and I like comps. Some of my favorite Dicks Picks are comps: DP 12 - Providence & Boston 6/26 & 6/28/74 DP 14 - Boston 11/30 & 12/02/73 DP 04 - Fillmore East 12/13-14/70 DP 18 - Madison & Cedar Falls 2/3-5/78 (1 song from the 4th I believe) DP 31 - Philly & Jersey City 8/4-6/74 There are other excellent ones too, like that Lake Tahoe '68 one (DP 22), plus the stone cold classics that you mention above. Some people gripe about the overdubs on Europe '72. Who effin' cares, it's a beautiful record! I have lots of Europe '72 shows, but I go back to album often.

Here's the famous guitar. Here's the shoes that Van Halen sells. And here's the Nike shoe that's he's suing over. I hope Eddie wins, but then again, my loathing of Nike is borderline pathological.

The latest Road Trip is from what's probably my favorite month & year of Dead. June '74, Wall of Sound! The meat of Des Moines 6-16 and Louisville 6-18. A link to your favorite store that never messes up orders I'm taking the risk at order weirdness happening even though I have both shows in full. Louisville might be my alltime favorite show, though it's stupid to try to pick just one when there's so many great shows from '69, '72, '73, '68, '77... Let's hope we don't have any ordering horror stories and we all get our discs lickety split!

I'll say Dr. Lonnie Smith when he's unwrapped. Or perhaps his poodle if he has one.

Not legally at least. They also have a more consumer friendly database with some ready made templates called Bento 2. It may be too simple though. Here's some more Mac options, a couple are free, most are not.

thanks, I took a look. does it allow adding fields or have a field to describe condition or denote pressing, ie. first or second? It's designed more to keep track of sessions rather than your own albums. Although if you have a lot of time on your hands it can do the latter. As far as I know you can't add fields. There are different types of notes (for sessions, work, & source) you can use in the sessions area but there aren't notes available for issues (aka albums). I use Brian and it's a terrific program but I don't use it as a way to keep track of my albums. You might want to consider Music Collector. You can download a trial version that will give you an idea whether it's for you or not. Chances are whatever program you choose (or even if you design your own database) you're going to have to do a lot of data entry (or correcting info that is downloaded.) But it can be something to do while listening to music, casually watching sports and whatnot.

You need to rescan the stations*. Check your remote for "menu" or something like that. Whatever you did when you first bought the box. Yeah, it was rotten timing if you were a hockey fan given that rescanning would be required in most cities for some station or another. *rereading your post perhaps it might now be antenna related if the above doesn't work.

He should give baseball's Tommy John a call. Left the Dodgers for the Yankees after losing twice to them, then loses with the Yanks vs. LA in '81. That's gotta hurt. Penguins surprised me. Pittsburgh is back to being the city of champions...er, other than that Pirate problem.

TVfool.com can help in showing signal strength and map where the TV stations are broadcasting from. (I used to get this info from a different site but have lost the bookmark, though the info appears to be the same.) Generally speaking if you have a little bit of snow in the analog picture or occasionally fuzz in the sound then the digital equivalent of that station may not come in as digital tends to be "all or nothing." You may also have to move the rabbit ears around for certain stations too. To me the biggest annoyance is when the reception is such that the picture is fine but there are audio dropouts. For us this happens the most with NBC, so it can make it seem like words are being bleeped out of the Thursday night comedies.