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I'm in Alaska-- it's about -20f here right now-- I don't think it hurts the discs (never had any problem with real damage), but the condensation makes 'em unplayable for a while. I guess maybe if they didn't have a chance to dry after thawing and then got refrozen ther is some remote chance of damage...
I don't think that this is a real problem to be concerned about, because the disc itself wouldn't be freezing and thawing, it's simply the water (moisture) in the air which is condensing on the disc. If it freezes/thaws, no big deal. The disc itself shouldn't be affected. I am somewhat familiar with this, as I used to live in Canada and experienced many bitterly cold days, and the CDs always seemed to be perfectly fine once the condensation evaporated
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Well, it's not jazz, but I've really been digging The Band lately. I've got "Music From The Big Pink", "Stage Fright" and "Cahoots", and love the harmonies and songwriting on all three of them. I'm sure I'll be getting more soon.
I am a big, big fan of the Band. Their first 2 albums are absolute classics, of any style of music. Fascinating musicanship and harmonies, and those songs are just some of the best rock songs that I have ever heard.
I am discovering 70's Jarrett, specifically the European and the American quartets
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Background Music sounds like a good tune title to me. B)
Currently (for about 20 years) living in a very small town, it is very difficult to explain what I do for a living.
Jazz is Kenny G or (at best) Kind of Blue. Try explaining the AEC to this community.
I'm a community suspect.
Chuck, I have a degree of the same problem here in Ann Arbor, at least amongst the people I work with (in a chemical/biotech company). You would think at least ONE of these U of M or MSU grads would have the slightest appreciation for jazz, but music is Bob Seger or nothing to them!!
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More great SACD hybrids available:
Bob Dylan-6 are listed.
Nashville Skyline
Blonde on Blone (2)
Desire
Freewheelin
Highway 61
Love & Theft
You can snatch these for $4.99 plus tax (free shipping, $30 min)
If you don't have the deal, I can have these mailed to you from my account.
this is unbelievable!! Is this the first SACD hybrid showing in BMG? I wonder if these are the digipaks
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happy b'day!!!
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I'll sell my box set for $35 plus $5 shipping (within USA).
just curious: Why you sellin?
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If there's a lot of conversing involved I usually go w/o the music, because if I'm trying to listen to someone the music is always distracting me. Ever put on a choice recording for friends and they immediately (or eventually)start talking? Sometimes that really offends me, although I guess I shouldn't take it personally.
I notice the same thing!! Everybody here makes good points, which is very reassuring. It's good to realize that there are intelligent people out there who do actively listen to jazz (or any music). I just can't imagine not hearing all the wonderful elements that are in a good jazz tune, which you can't possibly pick up if it's relegated to the "background"
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I find that whenever I mention to someone from the pop-rock world that I listen to jazz, or if I see someone looking at a jazz CD I had lying around, I always get the "oh, I like jazz, it's great background music" line. This used to puzzle me, now it just makes me frustrated. Why do so many people consider jazz so dismissively? To me, jazz is something to be listened to actively, in the foreground!!
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Besides Jimi, my favorite Dylan coverors are the Band, who completely understand what the're doing since they co-wrote some and worked with the man himself,
I've always liked the Band's own songs much more than their Dylan covers. I bought the Basement Tapes for their performances and their songs, which not only make at least a little more sense than Bob-o's do, but also are just plain more interesting. I know I'm in the minority, but I find there to be way too much Dylan worship as it is
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In Ashley Kahn's book A Love Supreme, Carlos Santana says:
"If I did do it [record another version of A Love Supreme], I would do it differently than the way John McLaughlin and myself did it when we just went for it. Now I dream big, man, I don't dream small. I would do it with a symphony, with real African drummers, Brazilian musicians, with Alice Coltrane, [indian sarod master] Ali Akbar Khan, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie [Hancock], McCoy and everyone in tuxedos." (p. 204)
Does that scare the crap out of anybody else?
Guy
YIKES!!!
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Or if you want BAD: Indigo Girls doing "Tangled Up in Blue" (which isn't quite as horrifying as their cover of Neil Young on the same album). Or Guns and Roses doing "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"...
or Guns and Roses doing ANYTHING
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Man, "Landing On Water" is (oddly enough) one of my favorite Neil Young albums. I know, I'm weird (I've been accused of this for many reasons), but there's something about Young's synth-heavy albums that really works for me. I know, I'm in the minority on this, but even "Trans" is a winner in my book. (OK, not every track on "Trans", equally so. But half of "Trans" is really cool -- again, at least in my book it is.)
PS: What I really like, even more than "Landing On Water" or "Trans" are some live recordings I have of Neil, from about 1986 - featuring some of that material performed live, with Neil singing through the 'vocoder', even on a few of his earlier tunes too, if I remember right. The live recordings are a little more successful, IMHO, than the studio versions (particularly the "Trans" material), but it's all good to me.
I don't say that Neil in the 80's is his very best work, but I certainly like it - in my own weird way.
A lot of people seem to either not know about, or simply disregard Hawks and Doves, from 1980. It's a short (30 minutes) little record, fascinating folky tunes on the first side and redneck country on the other side (vinyl, at least). It was just released on CD for the first time last August and well worth a listen. It doesn't really compare to anything else in his catalog
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Bruce Springsteen avoided all references to New Wave, and Born in the USA and Tunnel of Love are both very good. And The River is 1980, I believe.
Don't forget his absolute, stunning masterpiece Nebraska from 1982. Damn this record needs to be remastered, soon!!!
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BTW ... do you know my all-time favorite kick-ass obscure rockabilly band - THE SPANIC BOYS (father son duo from Milwaukee). I saw them on SNL years ago - they were a last-minute replacement for Sinead O'Conner when she got uppity about something (sharing the bill with the Diceman, if I recall). This album is an all-time top 10 for me ... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=music
yes "Shinehead" (remember the Sinatra Group??) and Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks were upset about Diceman being on the show so they all sat that one out.
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The U of Michigan Museum is fantastic. A little small, but they do seem to attract some interesting exhibits. Worth a look next time you visit Ann Arbor or Detroit
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wow, this topic is suddenly very popular. Here:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=2309
and
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I recently asked about this box in another thread in the Box Sets category. Apparently it seems to be pushed back to March, as is typical of Sony/Legacy
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Oh, and I can boast that I once got a girl who LOVED Dave Matthews Band to realize that it wasn't worth her time, and she even sold her concert tickets, and never went back to this shit sandwich. A personal victory, as I can't stand that band.
man, Amen to that. Absolute crap-ola
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Avoid confrontation at all cost, and pretend like the world isn't turning.
(oh this is too irresistible).....like the Democrats would?? We musn't confront the terrorists right??
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Sounds vaguely familiar, Greg, but I'm not sure I know where Schoolkids is. What street is it on?
Used to visit the Allied Record Exchange there as well but stopped since they suck as far as jazz holdings go.
Schoolkids is now called Schoolkids IN EXILE, because one of the guys from the original Schoolkids split off (acrimoniously, I believe) and opened his own store in the basement of Bivouac, the outdoor gear/clothing store on State, across from the diag. You have to go into Bivouac and then down some stairs. That way he doesn't have to pay the outrageous rent that other stores with their own storefronts have to. I try to check there first before I buy something, because his prices are usually tough to beat
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I remember maybe 5-10 years ago McDonalds introduced a "fresher, bolder coffee". obviously like Starbucks. I tried it a few times and it wasn't all that bad. Guess they need to remarket it?? I'll be happy if they would just, mercifully, stop those awful new TV commercials, the one with the rap or whatever it is, with people saying "I'm loving it"
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I would happily have entered Borders if that was my intention, Greg. I was too busy checking out Encore and Wazoo.
Do you check out SchoolKids too when you are in Ann Arbor? He has some great prices on new and current releases. He had the Miles Jack Johnson box priced lower than anywhere else I could find, among lots of other good deals. The only problem is finding parking on a weekday!
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Has anybody had any problems with disk 3? I hear what sounds like a digital skipping sound on Track 3 at about :39. It's at a place where there's a lot of organ and electric piano, so it "almost" sounds like it's part of the tune. Could it be my CD player?
yes I noticed this too, the first time I listened to it. I went back and listened to the passage over and over, and from what I can tell it's part of the music. It almost sounds like a skip, but the timing on the CD player doesn't register any skip (the time flows normally, in other words). I believe it is just from the Farfisa Herbie is playing
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Was in Ann Arbor, Mi on Saturday and noticed a large contingent of Union employees yelling and waving "on strike!" placards outside of Borders. I didn't go into the store, but I wonder if this was just a local issue or whether this was going on in all the Border's outlets.
Does this have anything to do with their decision not to hire any extra Christmas help?
The people at that downtown store seem to go on strike every few months, and they annoy the hell out of me because I can't get into or out of the damn store unaccosted!!! Last time they got in my face, asking me to sign some stupid petition that I don't even remember the details of. The other Ann Arbor store, however, is never on strike, at least not that I've seen. I think it's just the downtown one. People even have "Boycott Borders!!" signs on their lawns over this. If I had any cash right now I would proudly walk into that store, buy something and walk out in front of the strikers.
Electric Bass- Like or Dislike?
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Electric sounds better in progressive or avant-garde rock, like King Crimson, who has done some pretty interesting things with bass (the Stick and Warr Guitars, plus the electric upright and regular basses that Tony Levin uses), but for jazz my opinion is that the acoustic stand-up always sounds better. I tend to avoid jazz with an electric bass, unless it is, for example, Miles' late 60s and early 70s recordings