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yes, there was an old Chess reissue (jewel case edition) that had a few bonus tracks. I believe it was in that Chessmates series.
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Unissued Rare Groove Organ sessions on Blue Note
Shawn replied to Soul Stream's topic in Discography
That sounds like a VERY interesting date, I adore Wilson's Blue Note albums. -
That one's excellent and long overdue - but no bonus tracks! This was in the LPR series...; I've got it. Or am I mistaken? There was an import version of it, I don't think it was released here in the LPR series. Why not include the bonus tracks...Sheesh!
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Just some thoughts on why I am somewhat tired of jazz
Shawn replied to AllenLowe's topic in Miscellaneous Music
When it comes to music I'm an "obsession-ist", when something peaks my interest I have to digest ALL OF IT that I can get my hands on. I've spent the past 10 years doing that with jazz, an insatiable appetite that wouldn't be satisfied until I felt like I had a good handle on as many genres and permutations as possible. It's been a helluva ride, but that passion started to cool in the past couple years. When you first get into this music it seems that EVERY album sounds great, I used to think that it would be near impossible to find something I really hated. But as your knowledge of the vocabulary grows, the pickier you get and albums re-visited later often end up sounding dissapointing. This has happened with a large percentage of my collection, I'll grab a disc and I'm ready to take it out after a couple tracks. It now takes me longer to find something that I actually want to hear than it would to just play an album all the way through. Be Bop/Hard Bop/Post Bop pretty much bores the living bejesus out of me these days. I may never listen to another Freddie Hubbard album as long as I live. :-) What about jazz do I still enjoy? Quartet albums by swing-era players (Hawkins, Young, etc), Texas Tenor players, pre-bebop jazz, Ellington, mulit- instrumentalists like Yusef Lateef, Rahsaan, Jerome Richardson, etc, New Thing (Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane), Soul Jazz and early fusion. Pretty much anything that doesn't fit into the Horace Silver/Art Blakey/Miles Quintet hard bop style... Primarily over the past year or so I've been much more interested in re-visiting different types of stuff with "new ears". Prog rock (especially King Crimson), slow "doomy" metal (Sabbath, Trouble, Kyuss, High On Fire, Orange Goblin), blues & soul, folk, etc. I've also been on a HUGE Hendrix kick of late, finding out that your perception of him changes after listening to jazz for many years I figure the pendulum will swing back around to jazz at some point, but after a decade of listening to jazz pretty much non-stop, it's time to give it a rest for a bit. -
This is a real funny interview I saw for the first time a few days ago...this guy is a hoot! Mandy Moore
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For inspiration I like to try lots of different tunings, keeps things fresh and interesting and forces me out of my all too frequent "routines" that I get trapped in. But these alternate tunings aren't that easy on my 34 year old Gibson, so I'm wondering if some setup changes could help with keeping it in tune, intonation, etc. I tend to de-tune quite a bit, I almost never tune above a D, but sometimes I'll also go as low as C#, C. Due to the lock nut system on the guitar, I can't really go much heavier than 10's in string gauge. But I'm wondering if anyone can offer any suggestions for getting a little bit more consistency at lower tunings. Eventually I'm going to buy a second guitar for this purpose and give my old Gibson a break. Thanks!
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You get to hear Griffin play alto, tenor & baritone on one track on this album!
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AMG makes most of it's money providing feeds of it's data to most of the online music stores. The website (which despite it's errors, inconsistencies & bandwidth problems) is still the best tool of it's kind on the internet. I wouldn't be surprised if the website isn't highest on their priority list.
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Funniest Star Trek Moment Ever?
Shawn replied to Guy Berger's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I think season 3 was when they finally figured out the identity of the show, I liked most of the seasons after that. -
updated. I will be adding new additions over the weekend.
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Oh my God YES! Arriving Soon which opens the album is one of my all time favorites by this band. It's a great record, VERY underrated.
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What live music are you going to see tonight?
Shawn replied to mikeweil's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
Went and saw High On Fire. Matt Pike is a sensational heavy guitarist, I think he's the bastard stepchild of Lemmy & Tony Iommi. Here's a little blurb from the Village Voice from 2006, sums up the band nicely. "Along with Mastodon, High on Fire might be the best available entry point to America's dense and insular metal underground. The trio's credentials are impeccable: frontman Matt Pike previously led the doom-metal giants Sleep, whose final album, Jerusalem, was just one 52-minute song, and new bassist Joe Preston was a member of grunge OGs the Melvins. But more importantly, the band's thunderous roar, though undiluted to these ears, is catholic enough to make sense to anyone with a few Black Sabbath and Metallica tapes lying around her apartment. Pike's riffs are huge and monumental, fast enough to pack a fierce wallop but slow enough to swing. Onstage, Pike is a walking distillation of all things hessian, long hair and no shirt and big chest tattoos and black leather gauntlets and inaudibly shouted stage banter and goofy facial expressions. Friday night, he walked out puffing on a blunt, which he passed to someone in the audience before he said a word or played a note. Preston, meanwhile, looked like Lungfish's Dan Higgs after a summer spent working on Alaskan oil rigs, grizzly beard and piercing eyes and slept-in clothes. He let Pike's flailing guitar heroics take center stage, standing back and playing hired gun, nothing theatrical about him. (I couldn't really see the drummer.) After a few songs, the band's caveman groove begins to feel oddly familiar; it's big and punishing, but at the same time there's something pleasant and comforting in knowing that people are still making this kind of old-school riffed-out powerstomp. High on Fire might not exactly challenge, but they do the trick." -
Right. My tuning of choice for a long time would make it D,A,D,G,G,B,B,D,D OK! Interesting, but you're playing Jazz with this? I'm not really a jazz player, I was a guitarist long before I started listening to jazz so I had at least a partially developed "style" beforehand. I'm influenced by everyone from Hendrix & Trower, Tony Iommi, David Gilmour, Stephen Stills, Robert Fripp, Ty Tabor from King's X...and also players like Fahey, Kottke, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, etc. But I also enjoy jamming along to Jimmy Smith & Reuben Wilson albums!
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Right. My tuning of choice for a long time would make it D,A,D,G,G,B,B,D,D
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I want one of these!!!! 9-String guitar
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I'd be curious as well, because I always thought the music was Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique (sp?)...it sounds very much like the "dance of the witches sabbath" section. I'm not familiar with Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste on it's own.
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I prefer Let Me Tell You 'Bout It myself...always wanted to hear Billy In The Lion's Den but have never been lucky enough to run across it.
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If Wilbur Ware is on the album, I want it! Wilbur always sounds like he was 10 feet tall, his sound is just immense. But whereas in lesser hands this tone & attack could have detracted from the overall, Wilbur was a fucking master accompanist. His recordings with Griffin should be required listening for all jazz fans.
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You can't go wrong with these.
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A few additions.
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Yeah, that's a great one! Joe hipped me to it back when I was in Dallas.
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CaTraxx is the way to go, they just released a new version as well.
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do guys know about EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES?
Shawn replied to chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez's topic in Audio Talk
I have this same drive and my XP computer really doesn't like it. I'm constantly getting this "device write failed" error message, when it happens the drive stops responding and the only way to get it working again is to un-install the device and re-install. I have yet to find any fixes that work for this problem. It's evidently something that happens with USB 2.0 (so the problem isn't the drive itself). It's very random, sometimes it will work for weeks without the error...then there are other days where I'm re-installing the drive 10 times in a day. You too eh? I have had this drive for less than six months and finally threw my hands up last week concerning this drive. Seagate claims no repsonsibility, and if you do a simple search about the Free Agent drives you will find hundreds (no joke) of returns of people with the same issue. After reading trhough a ton of these various forums, reviews, etc there are two solutions... Both uphold that the hd itself is a great disk drive but that there is an issue with the housing. One fix (I am trying tomorrow) is to seperate the bottom and remove the connector for the light (do a simple search for better instructions). The other is to remove the entire drive and place it in a new housing. My two year old 160gig externals from Seagate are awesome but the Freeagent drive has been a disaster.... Well, it finally died altogether and I ended up sending back to Seagate for a warranty replacement. The new drive is on it's way but I'm not too hopeful about the future of this one. If I could go back in time I would have just bought another internal hard drive and said screw the USB enclosure crap. Of course I suppose I could crack this open and remove the drive.... -
All prices reduced, must sell. Thanks.
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Digression thread: Coherence is overrated
Shawn replied to AllenLowe's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
another night completely blind...another hotel I can't find