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Great post. Frankly, what I "don't get" is someone posting in a thread on a band they admittedly "don't get," only to throw around insults - and insults apparently justified by professed ignorance, at that. It's just kinda weird, ya know?

What's on the short version of your "to get" list - say, the next five discs/sets you plan to purchase? Sure, we could all publish LOOOONG lists of albums we want, but what's in the immediate plan for the future? Miine: • Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates • Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus • Grateful Dead - Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead - England '72 • Grateful Dead - Ladies and Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead - Fillmore East, April 1971 • Jason Moran - Black Stars (Open to massive revision, of course...)

DK's Eyewitness guide served me very well indeed when I was in Paris for a week last year. Great visual guides, good info, and easily available at most bookstores.

Only volume 1 is available at eMusic, as far as I can see.

Arrived today from yourmusic: David Bowie - Station to Station (1976) and, in a completely different vein, a live album by the terrific San Francisco-based jamgrass quintet, The Waybacks:

Lon, I've really been digging 1975/09/28 - Lindley Meadows, Golden Gate Park - San Francisco, CA (downloaded from archive.org). I need to look into those 1975 rehearsal discs.

Recently arrived... Joe Lovano - Joyous Encounter Andrew Hill - Dance With Death

Thanks for the tip, ss1! I, too, find myself at the moment without any Johnny Cash in my collection. Soon to be rectified.

I have the deluxe 2-disc edition of Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans. Aside from the original double LP, it includes fascinating demos of two of the LP-side length tracks. Here, they sound much more like a gutsy rock 'n' roll band than I ever imagined.

Weekdays, I'm usually in bed by midnight EST/EDT, and up by 6 or 7 a.m. Weekends it shifts and hour or two...later to bed, later to rise...

I'm arguing that your guess that I'd be pissed off is incorrect. ← Well, see, you appear to be arguing something much broader than that. You said: Now, I'm fascinated by this leap between what you perceive to be a business's lack of "responsibility" (i.e., obligation) in a certain situation, and what they "should" alternatively do. That is, you suggest they have no obligation to look out for any particular customer's interests, and therefore they are obligated to sell to just anyone. I just don't see why that should be the case. And so I asked , is your contention about what Mosaic "should" do an argument about sound business ethics (Mosaic's sense of conscience), or about sound business practice (Mosaic's bottom line)? The context was provided in the part of my posts that you neglected to quote.

Maybe you should have bought two.

Truth. That's exactly what I'm saying. Okay, my mistake - you wouldn't be pissed off, but instead pleased that the entrepreneurial spirit lives and breathes. But I, for one, am glad that other sentiments sometimes prevail in the business world. (And apparently, Mosaic agrees that isn't too cool for others to reap exorbitant profits on their material.) Lastly, I'm not sure what's up with your assessment of "responsibilities" and "shoulds" in this case. Their business, their policies. Are you arguing ethics here, or sound business practice? Mosaic seems on solid ground either way.

If you heard that Mosaic sold the remainder of its "last chance" stock to a single purchaser so that they could "be done with the sale," disregarding their many loyal customers...and if that single purchaser then turned around and started selling the sets at a substantial mark up...my guess is that you'd be pissed off. They're just trying to protect their customer base, and rightly so. By the way, this approach is very common in retail business. Does the phrase "Quantities are limited - one per customer" sound at all familiar?

Most excellent. Glad that worked for you.

Jackson Browne - especially the albums Jackson Browne, For Everyman, Late for the Sky, and the brilliant Running on Empty Pure Prairie League - Bustin' Out remains an absolute classic of acoustic/harmony songcraft. Must have. Loggins and Messina - Kenny Loggins went on to do 80s pop, and Jim Messina had earlier been a member of a latter-day edition of The Buffalo Springfield (the band that first brought notariety to Stephen Stills and Neil Young) and Poco. Their early-70s partnership yielded some great acoustic/harmony stuff. Look for Sittin' In, Loggins & Messina, and the great live On Stage.

Damn...now I'm gonna have to buy that.

This weekend... Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (Prestige/OJC, 1968) Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics (Fantasy/OJC, 1959) Woody Shaw - Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary/OJC, 1970)

"G'n'R/Velvet Underground"?

Can't answer your specific question, JK. I never did like the Elektrik Band much, though. I listened to a couple of their recordings from the mid-eighties, which left me more than cold - I felt downright frozen. In my opinion, this was where Corea achieved the utter mediocrity of which he always seemed capable. I do have a double disc live set by the Dave Weckl Band, however, and I like that in certain moods.

The Blues Brothers is among the all-time great American movies. I'm serious.

Shipment arrived yesterday, metal spine and all. But damn, that spine is shiny. Remind me never to use this box as a bludgeon - the CSI folks would have no problem lifting a perfect set of prints from this sucker. Oh, also got the first item from my queue, in honor of our friend here: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Free for All (Blue Note, 1964; RVG)

Joey DeFrancesco is slated to appear at a local concert series here in Chattanooga September 9. We don't get such jazz here all that often - and you can bet I'll be there.