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Buying too much lately...since my last post: Stan Getz - Getz/Gliberto Leo Kottke - The Instrumentals: The Best of the Capitol Years Leo Kottke - The Instrumentals: The Best of the Chrysalis Years Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (remastered) Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert

Hey now! I surely do thank you, Noj. And while we're at it, let's all give a happy shout out to my birthday buddies John Coltrane, Ray Charles, and Bruce Springsteen as well.

Kojakulation

Lately: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Sony, remastered) Mulgrew Miller - Live at Yoshi's Volumes 1 & 2 Rush - Permanent Waves Rush - Moving Pictures

Try GDLive, which has the show for download in shorten (shn) format (lossless compression): http://www.gdlive.com

Of the actual boxes I have, considering the aggregate of music, programming, and packaging, ... 1. Quintet 65-68 2. Seven Steps 3. Plugged Nickel 4. Blackhawk Friday and Saturday 5. Bitches Brew Love the Prestige material, which I own as individual albums. I'd like to own the other Columbia boxes (esp. the Coltrane and Gil Evans) if I could get the metal spine versions - and if I felt I could afford them. In a Silent Way, yeah...I'm lukewarm on the Jack Johnson matrial, to be honest... Anyone know if yourmusic.com is still shipping the metal spine versions of these?

New things appear, of course; not sure how often. But then, if there are 40-50 titles you're really interested in getting, great! At $6.00 a pop with free shipping, you're getting a great deal, and that ought to last you a while. Why complain if the well eventually runs dry? Get it while you can!

That stuff will kill you, man.

Just shipped: David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Remastered) Next up: Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say that...

I was going to wait another week or so, then order. Shit. Oh well...if it's meant to be, it will be. Or not.

Just arrived from yourmusic.com... Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (2004) Live at the Beacon Theater, with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks.

And at an excellnet price. Well done, sir!

Lately: • Frederic Chopin - Complete Nocturnes & Impromptus • Peter Katin, piano • The Kinks - Sleepwalker • The Kinks - Give the People What They Want • Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 8: 5/2/70 - Harpur College, Binghamton, NY • Ludwig van Beethoven - Die Symphonien • Claudio Abaddo/Berlin Philharmonic • Thelonious Monk - Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia • Woody Shaw - Live: Volume 4 • The Band - Rock of Ages: The Band in Concert

Homemade chicken fajitas with fresh peppers from our garden; salad with three cheeses, olive oil and blsamic vinegrette.

Wow. By the time I'd gotten to the end of the first, I was googling for instructions on the safest way to remove an icepick from one's skull.

Grilled salmon filets seasoned with pepper and lemon butter; romaine salad with parmesan cheese, black olives, and sunflower seeds. Tasty.

Now Playing: Grateful Dead - 08/27/72 • Old Renaissance Faire Grounds • Veneta, OR A wonderful show. All recorded versions have been removed from the internet archives "by request." Maybe this is in the pipeline for a vault or Dick's Picks release?

So far, the packaging is the same. I've ordered a couple of things from yourmusic that "normally" come in digipacks and/or with special carboard sleeves, and that's what I've gotten from yourmusic.

This arrived in my mail August 9: Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack I've been listening to it ever since.

Nice article on much-needed, alternate forms of music dissemination. NP: Grateful Dead - June 10, 1976 • Boston Music Hall (from the internet archive)

From the pre-order page at dead.net: "All pre-orders of the "Fillmore West 1969-The Complete Recordings" before November 15, 2005, will receive an exclusive bonus CD containing previously unreleased Grateful Dead performances recorded at the Carousel Ballroom and Fillmore West between 1968-1970."

'k, I'll bite - how DOES one pronounce it?

I've been rolling along quite nicely on the 40/month plan ever since eMusic begain imposing limits. But but then, I'd already downloaded a goodly amount of material - including some of the tasty box xets that are hard to aquire within download limits.

Thanks for the Dylan statement. That's nice. To answer a couple of aspects of Kalo's question, disingenuous thought it may be: Songwriting Collectively, The Grateful Dead really were some of the great American songwriters. The songs of Garcia/Hunter and Weir/Barlow (or Weir/Hunter, or whatever), are significant contributions to the Great American Songbook. Random evidence: Bertha Box of Rain Brown-Eyed Women Candyman Casey Jones Cassidy China Cat Sunflower China Doll Dire Wolf Eyes of the World Fire on the Mountain Franklin's Tower Friend of the Devil He's Gone High Time It Must Have Been the Roses Jack Straw Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo Looks Like Rain Scarlet Begonias Ship of Fools St. Stephen Sugaree Sugar Magnolia Tennessee Jed Terrapin Station Truckin' Uncle John's Band Improvisation They were great songwriters, but what they did with those songs - letting them become their own things on any given night, night after night - was very, very special. Their dedication to playing in the moment testified, on the one hand, to a faith in the songs as entities unto themselves that could stand up in constantly morphing musical circumstances. On the other hand - and this is just as important - it testified to their unwillingness to let the songs "settle" into concrete forms. They saw it all as a shifting form, and that's much of their greatness. Oh, and some serious instrumental chops, too.