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Ash Ra Tempel - s/t - [spalax reissue of Ohr original] great first record by Klaus Schulze's group, a classic of heavy instrumental psych...

Had and sold all their LPs up to Aluminum Tunes, always liked Peng and Emperor Tomato Ketchup a fair bit but they ended up getting passed on...

Yeah, Happy B-day Rooster!

Big John Patton Charley Patton Mike Patton

Doug Watkins - Watkins at Large - (Transition Toshiba reissue) Side 2, KB is on fire! Thanks Allan!

Thursday Night: SXSW: Tony Conrad, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Arnold Dreyblatt, etc. Amazing lineup, great sets by all in a beautiful church downtown in Austin... Rest of the weekend was middling-to-solid indie rock, but did see the Kiwi band The Bats last night, and they were quite good.

Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane - (Reprise pressing) one of the better Jansch albums, accompanying himself on guitar for a program of traditionals and original folk compositions. Far superior to the orchestrated stuff, IMO.

Brigitte Fontaine and Areski - Le Bonheur - (Saravah)

Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon - (Straight original) whether junk or rivers, those Buckleys sure had it rough. But both wrote great songs...

Ed Askew - Ask the Unicorn - (ESP original) one of the greatest singer-songwriter LPs of the past few decades...

I wonder if the buyer is having it shipped surface, uninsured... only $3!

I'd like to. I've always been curious about it, but didn't know of its reissue.

Hutch took a detour pretty rapidly, at least a detour away from my personal tastes... seemed to have something to do with playing with pianists, rather than against them. I'm really getting to like Khan Jamal - though he certainly falls outside the timeline set by this poll, as a direction inside and outside with the vibes, he's really someone who walks the line. The Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys, with Jemeel Moondoc, is like a freer version of McLean's mid-60s work and should be heard by everyone on this board with line-blurring tendencies.

I am pretty sure that came out on LP as well as CD. Soul Note was producing their titles on vinyl up to around 1990, maybe later, and many you can still get with ease.

I voted for Black Fire - Henderson really gets those harmonies right on. Never got that into Compulsion or Andrew!!! - too distant in approach - but as Chuck would say, "I suggest you try again."

The what option?

Well, if you forget about those little coaster thingys, it is rare!

Apparently Jack Bruce is on this rare Brit inside-outside piano trio from '67 (as is Hiseman), playing contrabass I presume:

Sidewinder needs to be on this thread... he's pretty hip on Winstone.

I think they sound nice; I don't get a digital "feel" from them at all, whether or not their initial mastering is digital. The Kings are better, for sure, but these sound less like CDs on wax than some previous (GRP for example) reissues. Also, pretty sure some of those Toshibas are pre-2004; I know I was buying some before that, though who knows if the mastering is any different on those.

No doubt. What the hell happened to Augustus? What happened to him? I was wondering more where the hell they found him!

The Waldron-Lacy is great, actually. No problems there. Also, it is rather well-recorded, a touch above some of the others in quality (it IS a studio date, after all). The Thornton, Certain Blacks, Emergency and the Wright are all other favorites of mine, as are the Rudd and Shorter. Of those, the Emergency has the most "misses" but that's part of it's charm. I've never been that fond of the Burrell, though I like a lot of his other work. With the first piece, I kinda wish they had faded out the piece after the mandolin-cello duet, which is the high point of the record for me. The stew after that is unnecessary or should have been edited down. But who am I to say?

A lot of what retired van Vliet was illness - he has MS, if I am not mistaken.

I saw Jandek this weekend in Houston, sitting in with Alan Licht and Loren Mazzacane Connors. Better when he played harmonica than when he fooled around with an electric bass, that is for sure.

Wonder how the recent Toshiba Japanese pressings compare? They're priced about the same.