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  2. Jefferson Airplane reissues

    in Recommendations

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    I'd love to see a box that brings together all of the material by this loose musical collective working around Kantner-Slick-Crosby at the time. I'm thinking totally remastered original and alternate takes, unreleased tracks, and so on. I guess the box would include Blows Against the Empire, If I Could Only Remember My Name, Sunfighter, Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun, Slick's Manhole...

  3. Jefferson Airplane reissues

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Just picked up Kantner-Slick-Freiberg's Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun and David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name on CD - haven't owned these since my long gone vinyl days, and haven't heard either in at least 15 years. But I enjoyed the remastered-expanded Blows Against the Empire disc so much that I decided to go for these, even in their un-remastered incarnations. I do hope they'll get the full reissue treatment soon, though.

  4. all things emusic

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    yeah, just a glance through my "saved for later" list of Tzadic stuff shows the same pattern - over 15 minutes, the track is unavailable. But of course, tiny little :30 and 1:00 tracks still count as a full track download...

    This doesn't seem to be the case with other labels in my stash.

  5. Yourmusic.com corner

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Less than a week ago, I ordered a couple of items via my yourmusic cart, and was charged no sales tax. That's been the case as long as I've been using the service. Today when i ordered an item via my cart, I was charged sales tax - the exhorbitant 9.25%, mind you, that combines my Tennessee state and county sales taxes.

    Anybody have insight into this recent change?

  7. cdr labelling===help please

    in Audio Talk

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    Jim,Gdogus and all----

    I checked on the Epson R220 customer comments at Amazon and found a lot of criticism. Have you guys had any trouble with it????

    Sorry, frank - should've been clearer. I don't have a CD printer; I was seconding Jim's comments about the pitfalls of stick-on labels. I used to use them quite a bit, but found that after a year or two the labels began to come unglued, especially around the edges, making them treacherous to use in all kinds of players. Since then, I've stuck to good ol' low-tech CDR marker pens.

  9. cdr labelling===help please

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    Your best bet, in my opinion, is to use printable CDRs and not labels. The Epson R220 printer is about $90 at most stores. With that and some printable CDRs (available in both silver and white) you can get some really beautiful results.

    The R220 prints nice pictures as well. I've been using non-OEM ink off ebay for mine with no problems, which is handy since it costs 1/6th the price of Epson's ink.

    Labels that stick on the CDs can come off, which is death to any slot-loading CD player, like in your car. I've had it happen.

    Jim speaks truth.

  10. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    I'd go with a double studio LP...

    SIDE A

    1. Jack Straw (Europe '72)

    2. Sugaree (Garcia)

    3. Brown-Eyed Women (Europe '72)

    4. Playin in the Band (Ace)

    SIDE B

    5. Greatest Story Ever Told (Ace)

    6. Ramble On Rose (Europe '72)

    7. Mr. Charlie (Europe '72)

    8. Looks Like Rain (Ace)

    9. Tennessee Jed (Europe '72)

    SIDE C

    10. One More Saturday Night (Ace)

    11. He's Gone (Europe '72)

    12. Black-Throated Wind (Ace)

    13. Loser (Garcia)

    SIDE D

    14. Deal (Garcia)

    15. Mexicali Blues (Ace)

    16. Bird Song (Garcia)

    17. The Wheel (Garcia)

    18. Cassidy (Ace)

  11. Mulgrew Miller Recommendations

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    I'll fourth the Yoshi's sets - fantastic trio material, energetic and exciting. These would probably give you a good sense of what you'd hear live these days.

    I'd also recommend two early trio albums, Keys to the City (1985) and Work (1986), both of which were originally released on the Landmark label, but later offered as a two-fer on 32 Jazz under the title Chapters 1 & 2: Keys to the City / Work.

    But yeah, the Yoshi volumes are great, and what I'd go for first.

  12. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Then again, they stopped enjoying the studio after a while. After American Beauty, they released 2 live sets.

    Can you imagine what might have happened if they had gone back into Wally Heider's with the songs Garcia put on his first solo LP and the Weir songs from Ace?

    I've always lamented the "lost" Grateful Dead studio album that might have resulted in 1972 - following Skullfuck - with a judicious selection of tunes from Garcia's first solo album , Weir's Ace, and the new tunes they presented on Europe '72. Anyone wanna try a speculative game, naming the tunes and running order that might have resulted?

  15. AOTW December 18-24

    in Album Of The Week

    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    Excellent choice. Sahara is one of my favorite McCoy Tyner releases, along with Song for My Lady, from the same year, and also with Mouzon, Hill and Fortune. I'll be giving this a spin tomorrow, and over the next few days as well.

  17. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

    in Artists

    Posted

    GDLive has been having trouble for a long time. The shns haven't been accessible, you can't contact them--basically, it seems like it's been pretty much abandoned in the wake of the archive anyway--last update was at least a year ago.

    Correct about updates, but I downloaded a shn set no prob from GDLive just last weekend...

  19. The Grateful Dead Dark Star

    in Artists

    Posted

    Quincy, can you get into the GDL site at all? I haven't been able to since Thursday. I've tried on three different machines.

    Maybe some wires are crossed here - Spontooneous seems to be talking about GD Live, an independent site that hosts music files; Quincy seems to be talking about the official DeadNet site.

    Spontoon, GD Live does seem to be having some problems; no one seems able to reach it over the past few days. Temporary, I hope.

  20. Actor John Spencer passes

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Very sorry to hear this! :( My Mom watched a fair bit of West Wing, and I watched L.A. Law some as well.

    I'll take a wild guess and say he was a smoker. That was the voice of a smoker.

    Yeah, I have to agree because he looked way past 58 and we know that smoking does age you faster. I, a non smoker, was shocked to discover that I'm older (by 2 years) than he was. In any event, he was the consummate professional, quite credible in every role he took on. RIP.

    This is from his IMDB biography:

    "John had been an acknowledged alcoholic, who remained sober ever since getting therapy. He had quit smoking in 1999, which he described as 'hell on earth'."

    I guess the years of damage had taken their toll. I agree that he was a pro, probably even a workaholic, which may have also contributed to his demise.

    I'm glad to see we're all able to derive our little moral lessons from John Spencer's death. Because that's the point, after all.

    :blink:

  21. ***Greatful Dead Recommendations***

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by gdogus

    If you want live, there are now 3 releases from that European tour (with more, no doubt, to come)--all excellent--and, as noted above, the Fillmore East release is much livelier than the overdubbed LP.

    Can anyone - perhaps orchiddoctor - explain the deal with two apparently different editions of Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72? According to Amazon, there was a version released in 2002 on Arista that is now available only from used dealers, while a version released in 2004 on Grateful Dead/Wea is available new. Amazon also shows two different versions of the cover:

    2002:

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    2004:

    B0002T2Q7O.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

    I see no difference between the track lists, no noted differences in format (CD, SACD, etc.).

    Just curious...

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