AmirBagachelles

My mistake. I didn't know Rush was Canadian. I wouldn't have cared. Somehow Seger, REO, BTO, Rush, it all sounds like a bad Midwest commercial sound. Of course, the worst of all was Boston...

Lucky Thompson did a Barbara Streisand record, yes?

how about: Nick Lowe The Spinners Neil Young Earth Wind and Fire Marvin Gaye Talking Heads Hot Tuna Bob Marley Peter Gabriel Television Yes Pink Floyd The Roches James Gang, Joe Walsh Eagles Elvis Costello Lou Reed The Clash Richard Thompson The Pistons, almost anything Twin-Tone Springsteen Dylan Joni Mitchell Genesis Chicago, Cat Stevens, Black Oak Arkansas and America Man, Rush was really bad, is there any other way to put it? You should have killed your FM radio when you had the chance. When you hear it now on the radio, don't you just crack up or change the station?

mmmm 4/24/72 out on CD in terrific sound. Big show, tremendous Dark Star.

Rush were a radio-rock joke, just like so many other bad American bands selling records. They helped feed the beast of the lowest common denominator, classic rock FM. I had a college roommate from Sheboygan, so I know a little about bad taste in rock music.

I had a great deal of fun going to Jerry Garcia band shows -- smaller venues (clubs sometimes), longer evenings. For years everybody had the Warner Theatre tape from '77, it had the hot Harder They Come and more, this new '77 release will be good to get. Supposedly the '77 downloadable show from Waterbury CT is hot as well. I am hopeful of release of a well-recorded Eleanor Rigby jam book-ending After Midnight. That medley was over the top, they did it about ten times in early 1980.

True-life Spinal Tap-type moment, mid 80s: Late at the Rat, watching Eric Martin of Neats; during the excruciatingly loud finale, w/ Buck and Mills sitting in for a song or two (REM had played the Orpheum earlier that eve), giddy Martin bent over and stuck his stringy haired head through the legs of a fellow Neat. He lifted his mate so high, this guy smashed his head into the low ceiling, though Martin had no idea. Fans aghast and then hysterical. A great image in my mind from the lovely Rat.

Dunno, I guess I feel strongly both ways.

echo strong recommendation of Sunshine of My Soul

Have you tried talking to them? Enlisting the help of other neighbors? Cops in NYC don't take action (though will respond to complaints by single citizens, but precinct commanders and police liasons to Community Boards in NYC will respond if several people get together and complain.

I found Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble's Watch Out! in the used bin at Kim's. It is in print, and all the tunes are Raphe Malik's. I like this a lot, it's got some bop flavor, tempo changes, sounds like a Dead show in places w/ some odd eruptions (including quiet), really great drum interludes. Best used find for me in weeks.

BN treats the three Don Cherry sessions like they deserve obscurity, yet I think they are all essential. When is Where Is Brooklyn going to come out, anyway, and why not reprise back Symphony from its impossibly thin run/pressing in 1995? Ditto the Sam Rivers sessions..

I stopped into Downtown Music on my way home Friday, there were unpacking several Johnny Dyani titles on Steeplechase. I took home Song for Biko, w/ Don Cherry and Dudu Pukwana. I love it, tuneful and really surprising changes, top-notch sound. Going back for more....

Pukwana has an empty bin at Virgin in the World/Africa section, otherwise no sign of his stuff here in the city. Has anybody come across "In the Townships" recently?

How about Edwin Starr, or was that Tolstoy?

What suggestions does your supervisor have for this gift-giving to this protege? I personally think at least one out session is appropriate, given the relationship context of better mental health. How about one of the Cecil Taylor or Sam Rivers 60s BN sessions? Pick a Coleman Atlantic! An Ayler! Lasha/Simmons' The Cry! C'mon, don't fence this poor soul's head in any longer.

Thanks Joe, I think that Dudu Pukwana LP is right where I want to go.

Fletcher Henderson band recordings Congo Call, side 1 of The Cry! - Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons Blue Train A La Mode - Blakey and JMs Jack Johnson side 1

I am enjoying the Mongezi Feza discs on Ayler, though the sound is not great (live date from two mics, some clipping on the low end). Can anybody give an account of the two Brotherhood of Breath discs?

yea Tears for Fears! Does that go here?

Try Downtown Music in NYC for anything Black Saint...

Groove Yard is now on 5555 Claremont in Oakland, sale now til Sun. May 30th (510) 655*8400 I love the place, I always make time to go there when I am in the Bay Area. Owner Rick Ballard knows the music, and lets 'em go at great prices, not what he thinks they might fetch on Ebay. That's remarkable, so many of my old favorites (JRC, Downtown Music), that's how they play now, no true regard for the customer who walks in the front door. So support Groove Yard, get to know Rick, it's really the best jazz shop out there, and it would be the best here in NYC too.

I've been looking for those Blackwell discs. I listened to Red and Black today, Ed was one of the greats.

Where in hell are the Silkheart tapes, the licenses?

Tony - Many Silkhearts are excellent but tough to come by. Let me know if you strike out, maybe I have it to burn for you. I can recommend the Dennis Gonzalez and Charles Brackeen records, many more.