Kevin Bresnahan

I'm spinning disc 2b of this set right now. I agree that the drums and especially the bass are a bit recessed. The clapping is very loud, which leads me to believe that the microphones were placed in front of the audience, which would be a probable reason for the horns being more prominent as they are usually at the front of the stage I always appreciated these discs more for Wayne's playing rather than Miles' playing. If you can believe the stories, you can almost hear Miles trying to play these tunes straight and the rest of the guys saying, "Screw that". I just don't find myself playing this often enough to buy this set on vinyl. I think I'm still good with this old CD set.

It is kinda weird. It's the same way with the latest Miles Davis Plugged Nickel box. My best guess is that they make a lot more money off of the LP versions.

I thought the gold 7 CD Japanese box set was issued shortly before the US 8 CD version? Discogs says that the gold set came out in Feebruary 1995 and the US set just says 1995. I seem to remember getting ready to order the (expensive) Japanese set right when they announced the US release. I think you & I chatted a bit about this as you had the Japanese set.

@bertrand I don't think we're picking fights. I know we're definitely not trying to piss you off. I have to say... I don't recall the complete Plugged Nickel set having an issue with one of the CDs either and a deep-dive Google search comes up blank. I even searched the Internet wayback machine. I would think that if this happened as you are recalling, someone, somewhere should have either a set with a defective disc or a set with the corrected CD-R disc but I am having no luck finding any for sale. Does anyone here have a set with a CD-R or a defective disc? I would not be happy if a box set with a defective disc was replaced with a CD-R. Long term CD-R reliability is all over the place, with some people losing large batches and others seeing no degradation. It may even be coming down to how they were burned at this point and not the blank media used.

I got some of them really digging Herbie's "Head Hunters". I could crank that and they would all seem to dig it. For some reason, straight ahead stuff just didn't work for most of them. My wife enjoys Jazz pianists. She's less enthused with reeds & trumpet players.

Jim - you did say, "that's just ignuntass bullshit reflective of an ignuntass worldview", which most people would read as implying that someone who holds this contrarian view of your opinion on this is ignorant. While I don't read it that way, you leave it open to that interpretation, especially when you added, " if somebody has an opinion rooted in ignorance and not at least a little bit of awareness, then I feel no obligation to respect it" which leaves little room for debating it with you. @Stompin at the Savoy I worked in the high tech industry for decades with some pretty brilliant people. Over the years, I tried getting a lot of them to listen to Jazz - often by playing it in the lab on a boombox to get it heard - and a lot of them came over and said that they didn't like it because it sounded like noodling. This is not an uncommon perception amongst people who don't listen to it much. I did get a lot of them to listen and quite a few started listening on their own. I even took a couple to Jazz shows. This thread is taking some strange turns.

That is a de-capped or de-lidded IC part, in 1977 likely an SOIC package. No idea what part or what functions it does, but it looks fairly basic. I worked with die like these in plastic packages like this for over 40 years so I've looked at pictures like these for a long time. If you Goggle de-capped IC, you can see a bunch of interesting packages after the plastic is removed. Here is an article on the process: Delid and Decap FWIW, this is what it probably look like before it was de-lidded: The Goggle image search for "decapped IC" gets some interesting ones. I think the two chip package looks interesting. We produced quite a few of the dual-die packaged parts. They were sometimes difficult to manufacture. This photo below shows a closer shot of the bond wires connecting the die to the leads of the package. These are called "reverse ball bonds" because they start on the die with a smushed ball and end on the package lead. In the old days, the bond started on the package lead and end on the die. It's funny because today, almost all bonding is done using "reverse" ball bonds. Today, a bond starting on the lead is really the reverse process. The stuff that goes into this manufacturing process is the work of textbook after textbook. Everything from the "glue" holding the die down to the material it's glued down onto comes into play with functionality & reliability. The wires themselves are usually gold but they'll also use aluminum & copper (usually coated with Palladium) depending on the function of the part.

It does appear to be working quickly right now, so maybe the server company was able to do something about the spambots?

According to Sony's marketing blurb, "This new 10LP edition mirrors the original sequence, cut from the high-res Mosaic masters". Mosaic was AAA by this time, so this doesn't make sense. I asked Scott Wenzel (via Facebook) if maybe the analog master tape they gave them to use for their LP set was digitally mastered and he said, "I'm not sure exactly how it was transferred and restored, only that, yes, we used analog masters". So if Sony gave them an analog master tape created from a digital mix, they weren't above board with Mosaic. Considering Sony did the same thing to Mobile Fidelity albeit at a much larger scale, I wouldn't be surprised. FWIW, he also implied that Mosaic would have liked to have been involved with this repress of their 10 LP set but that Sony isn't allowing them to license anything at this time.

Great band. I haven't seen Clark in a long time. He always seems to get the best guys in his band.

It didn't bother me that much. I just think it was stupid. Set and disc are not synonymous. And FWIW, why stop there if that's what they were doing? Why not call the first nights' discs 1A, 1B, 1C & 1D & the second nights' discs 2A, 2B, 2C & 2D? It would have made just as much sense.

At least they stopped with the stupid Disc 2A & Disc 2B stuff.

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The forums are slow to load for everyone. Jim Alfredson tells me that our forum is getting slammed with spam bots that are killing our bandwidth. Jim has set up blockers but he is going to contact the host server company to see if they can help us with this. Sorry if it's taking a while. Hopefully we can get it back up to speed.

I've seen Joshua Redman perform many times by this point. Sometimes the show was great and sometimes not so great. Not every performer can put on their best performance every time. That's why I still buy tickets to their next show. FWIW, I saw Redman during his last tour, when he had vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa in the band. While the shows were enjoyable, I am not a huge fan of vocals, so I didn't like it nearly as much as other shows Redman put on. I think it should have been listed as the "Gabrielle Cavasa Band". But that doesn't mean I won't see him again.

All set

THEO - The Game Of Ouroboros (Big O Records). Jim's prog rock bash. I haven't played this in a while. Although I should go spin the multichannel version on my surround system.

I place an order with Gold Star Coffee in Toronto about every 4 months or so. Great coffee at great prices. I am worried that these shipments will now be held up. I may have placed my last order until 2028.

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Another old thing I found digging through some of my dad's old stuff. George Yarocki has been gone quite a while now too. George and my dad knew the ins & outs of those old Indian motorcycles like no one else. A lot of that knowledge is gone now.

I wonder how Richie is doing these days? The last update to his Go Fund Me page in January didn't mention if he was improving. https://www.gofundme.com/f/coming-together-for-the-great-jazz-pianist-richie-beirach

I've seen Jerome Harris as a leader a couple of times and as a member of few touring bands. I've never seen him play acoustic bass though. To be honest, I didn't know he played with Sonny nor that he's been playing for so long. When I last saw him, which admittedly was a long time ago now, I thought he was younger than me. It turns out that he's 73 now, which really surprises me. His CD, "Rendezvous", is excellent. If you don't have it, grab a copy.

There were opportunities outside of Jazz that paid well and Brecker made a lot of money doing this. That said, he made some great Jazz records as well, so I'd have a hard time agreeing with the sentiment that "his solo stuff isn't really Jazz". Sure, a majority of his work was outside the Jazz sphere but he is not the only Jazz musician to chose to make money outside of straight ahead Jazz. To be perfectly honest, considering his career as a whole, he did not really even make a lot of solo records. I count maybe 20 records under his leadership/co-leadership or as a member of The Brecker Brothers. Of those 20 recordings, there are some Jazz gems. I also know that the three times I saw him play live, he was playing Jazz, no question.

Depends on how you rated it in the first place. Personally, it's my favorite Pink Floyd album. I played the side with "Comfortably Numb" so many times I nearly wore it out. Prior to this coming out, I listened to "Animals" & "Wish You Were Here" a lot. For some reason, I have never been a huge fan of "Dark Side of the Moon". I do like it, but not as much as these other three.