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Joe McPhee @ WBAI, used $10 at Other Music!!. I've been looking for it for two years. I love McPhee.

Decware site looks intriguing, prices certainly look right. The Tukans are notoriously inefficient, I believe. Thanks for all the comments.

I too just went back to that April '71 4 disc set, I listened to it most all last weekend. It is incredible live music. I was not listening closely to the drums, more to Jerry's voice, the harmonizing and the tight changes (I guess that's the whole rhythm section too...). Oh that Morning Dew! There is another whole show from Germany '72 on the way from Arista I believe, it's on the Dead site. "Ladies and Gentlemen..." if you don't have it or you don't know the Dead, it is not only where to start, it may be the apex of released material. I give it four hits, way way up.

I have one I adore: Charlie Mariano s/t BCP-25, a July 1955 date. The disc is from Japan TOCJ-62001.

I need to add a new modest power amp to a Rotel pre-amp (972) and a Rotel CD player (971), B&W 601s or Linn Tukans. I am still hoping to go hear a Naim Nait but I would like to also check out power amps from $500-1000, packing the 972 along for some demo-ing. What about tube amps, is this a good/bad idea? Any strong flaming opinions? Thanks

clem is pretty right on, even giving most of these LPs a free pass using strange-meat hippie taste metrics, the overall effect is not stellar, just OK. There are some really good songs though, and I think Reflections is a mellow masterpiece, among the best Dead studio output with Mars Hotel and Workingman's (my choices). Reflections, as I recall, took the edge off like nothing else, it was always first up in the tape deck for the long overnight rides between shows/cities. The Warner Bros. record is fine by me too, as is most of Compliments.

Marty Robbins' "El Paso" is a classic. Try a G-Dead cover from '74, you might love it.

Jimmy Lyons

At such prices, I would only buy it from a dealer where I could unload a lot of old discs and keep the cash outlay down to $150-200. (I got Two T's for $75 that way a month ago, and I was very happy to part w/ a lot of old crap.) So far I have only bought CT's duo sessions w/ Moholo and Oxley from the set, and those are both fantastic.

I picked Smiles, but few picked my second choice Miles In the Sky.

I looked up Raphe Malik for a suggestion, I like his sound a great deal but none of his few sessions are duo.

I don't remember ever seeing one for sale anywhere, Ebay included. Does anybody know the recent history of the resale mkt for this? Thanks

I just dumped a load at Jazz Record Ctr, cleared $5.50 per CD, including $8 per for some imports. The JRC is one of the last to consistently give $4+/disc store credit for used. Most stores look at the used rack as their best margin opportunity, 200% and up is not uncommon. Groove Yard in Oakland only buys used now, they say the labels have made it impossible to make money at retail.

All I Want for Christmas - Timbuk 3 Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears Jokerman - Bob Dylan

Akisakala was over-recorded. Piano is clear but the low-end is terrible and a flooded signal crops again and again. I don't think anybody can be too happy with such sound at such prices.

I've thought about the Sugden, no remote though correct? Not sure of where I can demo Sugden, other than buying one from North Country. Come to think of it, I hope the Naim has remote... Any thoughts on a "micro" sub to pair w/ Tukans?

I have had a pair of Linn Tukans for about 8 months, now looking for an appropriate integrated amp for a small system. I'll probably use a Rotel CD player for another year or two, maybe til I can afford a Naim CD player if this works out well. A friend of mine (audio maven) has been recommending I try Naim, since he knows how happy I was for so many yrs w/ an NAD 3020. Any comments, warnings? I see you need to or should use their interconnects and so forth. Thanks

Geez - If you haven't soaked in the Contemporary sessions, all of them, you are missing out on an incredible run, and I dare say Meets the Rhythm Section is the weakest. Together, those are for me the finest album sides of the late 50s, including those of Miles and Sonny Rollins. I happen to love The Trip too.

Sorry, I must clarify. I was referring to the long past heyday of jazz reissuance on CD. Even as I sit here listening to the delightful new reissue of The Cry of My People by Archie Shepp, I just don't see Columbia and the big labels continuing to "put it all out there" for our consumption at low/negative margin. After Electric Bath came out, there were expectations that Columbia would do Tears of Joy and Autumn. Then nothing. There are of course lots of terrific jazz LPs that will never be reissued on CD due to low demand, but I get very hung up on monopoly control where there is no alternative market. Perhaps that will change with digital rights technology, on-line distribution, etc. but time is wasting and so are the tapes.

Yeah go w/ Mingus. He is the all-time swinging cool pounding awesome MAN. If you can't get pulled into Mingus' beat the first few times around, then maybe you are not ready for jazz, or a pulse.

I really like the Hadju book, it blew my mind. I came away believing that Bob Dylan is indeed a picaresque fictional character. That does not change my immense enjoyment of Dylan music at all, and it somehow it all adds up now. It is an epic life we have been watching, one-of-a-kind but not real. Neither are many of the characters in the songs, so why must the songwriter and performer be "real"?

Could it not depend on what they were into music-wise before being open to the idea of jazz? Hard-core? The Cowsills?

$42 for the three, price incl. U.S. Priority mail, paypal please Kulu Se Mama, Selflessness, Transition

I say Skip the Winterland. It's the coked up and nowhere-to-go-at-2am Dead. I love 'em and I think I know their music very well, and IMO Jerry's tonal range expanded hugely during and after '78. The band wasn't as red hot, but Jerry was a much more interesting guitarist, despite what many Deadheads say, particularly those who listen to little else. I attended about 200 shows from '77 to '95. I'd say the best new music for sale is the '69 Dick's Picks from Minneapolis and Chicago, the '74 DP from Philly and Roosevelt Stadium, and another whole show from Europe '72 is on the way from Arista. All the '72 vault releases really have some amazing grooves. For the later stuff, get your local CDR-hound to make you some '90 w/ Hornsby, and there is some hot new stuff out of the vault from '79 and '83 (see/hear monster Shakedown from New Haven, not sure of the date).

Would Electric Bath have an even 2% chance of getting reissued today? We'll never see those other LPs on disc, I don't think.