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You're a lucky guy, ep.

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Wonder how many NBA cats are juicin'? It wasn't all that long ago that Dr. J and Michael were freaks of nature. These days, even the bench guys are hugely bulked up and/or are human pogo sticks. Don't even start about football. The incredible Hulk couldn't make an NFL squad.

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The Otis Spann set is a good one - the 1966 Muddy Waters Band with Otis fronting it and Muddy as a sideman.

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:party: Happy Birthday!

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I had no knowledge of Mr. Ridley before this - my loss - but it seems from reading about him that he was definitely an artist.

:party: Happy Birthday! Thanks for all your informative posts!

Thanks for all the replies. I'm going for a CD version and hoping for the best.

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Good news!

I've had trying times with that one, mainly because of Preston. Not sure if's because of his playing or because of my own preconceptions - probably some of both.

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:party: All the best to you on your birthday, John! :party:

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Happy Birthday today, and many more to come!

I'd appreciate any feedback I can get on this. I have an LP copy of Ellington's New Orleans Suite, and have never been able to completely get into the music because of what sounds to me like inferior recording quality. There seems to be a muddy/murky quality to the sound on my LP. On Sunday, I was listening to it again in the hope that what I'd heard previously was all wrong., but it sounded the same. I was listening to Harold Ashby solo on "Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta", when my wife came into the room and said, "Hey, that sounds like a 40's big band." I replied, "Yeah, they were around in the 40's. From the 20's to the 70's, actually. This is from later years." Then she said, "But there's something wrong with the way that record sounds." My wife isn't in any way a music or sound freak, so I knew that if she heard something wrong, there was something wrong. My LP is from the early/mid 80's, so it could be a problem that occurred in later LP pressings. I'm wondering if anyone has an early pressing that has a cleaner sound, or if any of the CD versions - I see that at least two are currently in print - sound cleaner. I love the music, but I have a hard time listening to my LP.