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Yeah, that was in another lifetime, when TonyM and I would have had more to talk about bikes and less about music!

Yeah, he's lookin' mighty hip!

That Crispell is really good. My roommate really wants the Derek Bailey/Min Tanaka, but of course, she doesn't have anything to trade!

I usually drive about 90 on the highway, have gotten around 110 in the passing lane but rarely is it necessary. On a road bicycle, topped out at about 62 mph.

EBay it, dude. I have a copy already (love it), and don't really know anybody looking in my circle.

Barbara Manning - Lately I Keep Scissors - (Heyday/Rough Trade) Borrowing this beaut, a post-SF Seals fuzz-folk sea of starkness.

Yeah, I'd assume that too. Esquires are often beautiful, and rarer than their Prestige counterparts. If Sidewinder were around this week, we could hear from the resident expert on that!

Sorry, but I can't fucking STAND Nick Drake, McGregor or no McGregor. Bootlegging has been going on forever, and it's unlikely to ever change. Hell, I bought the Huseyin Ertunc bootleg when it was out because there was NO WAY I'd ever even hear the damn thing...

I'd agree. That's why some of his earlier work - with the NYCF, his own ensembles, and that wild one-off with Lars Gullin and the Tete Montoliu trio - is such an interesting extension of real traditional tenor playing into a more open context. But then again, I still hold onto and enjoy most of the blow-outs!

I've always been intrigued by this one, too:

Pretty cool, if you ask me. Why am I not surprised it's expensive, either? Certainly dating from "the day," as one can tell from the thin flipback cover and label artwork. When I saw the thread title, I assumed it'd be some shitty BYG or Musidisc bootleg, but this is the real deal.

Coral Rock is rad. Strangely, one of the first Archie LP's I bought, on an original America in Lawrence, KS. Those were the days... I can vouch for Gascogne being present (on marimba and possibly organ), according to Sel himself. He said Moholo was in the studio, but didn't recall much of a contribution from him other than crashing a cymbal here and there. Now spinning: Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju - (Impulse red/black stereo orig)

Cool. Preferable to a DMG bootleg CD-R, which I almost pulled the trigger on just to hear the damn thing.

...and instead of having birthday cake, maybe I'll have a bit of this:

How many is that in dog years?

Who reissued the Gwigwi?

Selwyn Lissack - Friendship Next of Kin/Facets of the Universe - (Goody orig) w/ Mike Osborne (RIP), Mongezi Feza, Harry Miller, Ken Terroade and Earl Freeman. Supposedly Louis Moholo and Brian Gascogne are uncredited here also.

I've never investigated those later McGregor albums, so I don't know Abrahams's work real well. I liked what I heard on the Ozzie session in question, however. I hope Ogun are able to continue; who knows what they've got in those vaults!

Word to that!

Ted Daniel - Sextet - (Ujamaa) Great, heavy date with Richard Pierce, Hakim Jami, Warren Benbow, Kenneth Hughes and the great (but unknown) altoist Otis Harris.

Dewey Redman - Coincide - (Impulse wlp) w/ Ted Daniel, Leroy Jenkins, Sirone and Eddie Moore. Includes the classic trio track "QOW."

Chick Corea - Is - (Solid State) I like the "rackety" Chick...

Don Friedman and Attila Zoller - Dreams & Explorations - (Riverside mono orig) great quartet with Dick Kniss and Dick Berk... Now: Peter Lemer - Local Colour - (ESP) w/ John Surman, George Khan, Jon Hiseman and Tony Reeves.

Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall - (Columbia stereo 2-eye)

I'd like that Jimmy Woods too!