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You're welcome! And Happy B'day!

I believe that the US distributor went bankrupt and all unsold copies were destroyed.

Happy B'day and many more!

But I think Neil Young's system is supposed to be a lot better than cds as well as mp3s. Not that I'd necessarily be able to hear the difference.

Wow! Very neat and clean.

Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Willie McTell Blind Willie Johnson

Happy B'day and many more!

I suspect that before Bitch's Brew, Porgy and Bess was the top selling Mile's Lp.

It was one of the first jazz recordings I owned and definitely the first Miles Davis I heard. I thought all jazz was going to sound like that. I was sort of disappointed when it didn't.

That's great!

I just finished the book. Sure he could have used a better editor but it's an easy read (got through it a lot faster than I did the Neil Young "autobiography") and had lot's of information I didn't know about Bird (and yes I've read other books about him). However can someone who's read the book explain what was going on when Rebecca found him with a handkerchief tied around his penis which leads to his mother taking him for a cure. Venereal disease?

The new Mosaic Webb/Fitzgerald set includes "Rock It for Me" the bridge of which goes: It's true that once upon a time The opera was the thing, But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme, So won't you satisfy my soul With the rock and roll?" That's from 1937! Does anyone here know of an earlier use of the term?

I've often wondered if there was more material from The College Concert. Presumably the concert was more than 40 minutes long.

The Spirit of '76 can be downloaded from iTunes. You can find it buried in the Oliver Nelson box but can chose just the Pee Wee cuts. I've never been able to find a cd of The College Concert and finally did my own digital transfer from a fairly clean Lp.

The anniversary has not gone unnoticed. http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282508306/still-out-to-lunch-50-years-later

No doubt joined by Gilda Radner and John Belushi. I first saw Harold, Belushi and Gilda along with Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray and Joe Flaherty in" The National Lampoon Show on Broadway". Sadly half of them are now gone.

Wow! Thanks. I didn't know about this and have no memory of doing this interview.

Thanks. They are on the earlier issues. Not much info about them except that they were discovered by Earl Hines

With the Ellington Orchestra? (The liner notes don't say much anything about them if you're referring to the notes to DETS 17.)

Who were the Mellotones? When I google the name I get mainly contemporary groups. It sounds really familiar but maybe I'm confusing it with Mel Torme's group The Mel-Tones.

Got mine from Amazon US. It's a good one with lots of rarities but the 2nd cd isn't of a Treasury Show. So that means they've released 33 shows and I've read that they did 45 altogether so there should be 6 more cds of 12 more shows. Does anyone know if that's correct?

I did get this and read it cover to cover. Really enjoyed it. Many of the sessions listed are audience recordings not readily available but what's most interesting are the interviews about the sessions. There is a lot about the trials and tribulations of a working musician but also much about the joys and rewards of working with someone as talented as Adams.

A sweet man. Took him to see Clifton Chenier at a high school in south Central LA. Nobody there recognized him. (This was after we'd made Stripes but before Ghostbusters.)

If we're not talking jazz, it's Dylan for me too. Probably a dozen times over 40 years in three countries and 4 cities.