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Oh. . and pardon my blushing ignorance. . . Lovelight with Janis? Twice?

Fascinating! Well, maybe we can convince the Dead to do these tapes justice as a "Digital Download Series" entry. Yeah right. Do you think there's a lack of interest from "da boys" towards Pigpen material? PS: Shouldn't there have been another Digital Download Series entry by now?

Many more many more happy happy ones!

I've never heard it, never came closer than the cover pic! It's a cool one! I'd definitely read a biography of Mr. McKernan.

The first of my two orders shipped. They canceled one CD -- John Coltrane "Soultrane." I wouldn't have expected that one to be a problem, but it really doesn't matter to me because the Coltrane box IS coming and that material is on there anyway. To those thinking about skipping the Coltrane box - that material is a lot better than you may suspect. Some excellent writing/arranging by the likes of Tadd Dameron and Mal Waldron, a lot of cool jamming with Donald Byrd, Red Garland, and several other noteworthy tenor players, and some beautiful playing later by Coltrane as you hear him mature in his playing and discover and refine his sheets of sound. 31 complete albums contained on those 16 CD's, all worth hearing and owning. I agree entirely. That Coltrane at list price was a bargain in many ways. At this sale price. Whoa! Wow!

I'd really like to see a dedicated effort to assemble that stuff. . . . But I'm a Pigpen fan. Bill, great summation of his "career." The man was really something.

Sad news!

Those Blue Notes that showed up on yourmusic.com today except the Rubalcaba (will get that later) and the Santana III Deluxe from the same source.

I ordered on Wednesday the 12th. Got my shipping confirmation today: all 40 shipped. For free.

40.00

I have all these, I like all these. But the Allen wins by a hair. Just love that one.

I agree totally. . . Pig really worked that band!

I confess that I'm looking forward to some of what might come out of this. . . as always, I expect that a lot of material needs to be released to get the gems I want. We'll see. I think that there's a market for this stuff that many concerned won't turn a blind eye to (now if these were all jazz shows, fugedaboudit.)

I realize that, but I think that it's not as likely as it might be had this been the holdings of another promoter. That's all I'm saying. I'm willing to wait and see. I still predict we don't wait too terribly long.

Well, one plus for the new owner will be that the venues were Graham's. And likely the recording was by one of his staff and "work for hire." He was fas much as I can tell also close and friendly with a lot of the managers (and artists) and that will help grease some agreements. Sure won't be easy sailing, but I predict it won't be too long before some of these come out.

Right. . . but. . . if there's cash to be made. . . I bet some of these artists and labels will get interested.

Love this photo; used it as the front cover of a little collection of favorite Pigpen performances which I call "Hard to Handle: the Ron Pigpen McKernan Collection."

Give them time I say! I'm looking forward to the Stitt release!

From 78s is the likeliest source. Yes, Columbia has metal parts, test pressings, etc. and J. R. T. had a hand in a small part of the remastering of that set as well if memory serves. I prefer the Columbia sound. . . but it's sort of system dependent and according to tastes. The booklet on the Columbia is part of the price of course (and has some incredible photos etc. within!)

This article is old news (remember seeing an indepth interview/feature on CBS many months ago) but good news!

I really really really doubt these are all going to be represented as RVGs. I think the RVGs WILL be RVG recorded material, OR disc-recorded early sessions of Prestige that he puts his touch to (and I hope so, as he does fabulously remastering these earliest sides). Just my guts telling me that this is what RVG and Concord intend.

The music is fabulous! This set is in my opinion well produced. I can't really comment accurately about the sound. . .because I'm here in a "summer home" with a laptop/powered speaker based system but. . . it sounds really fine to me on this system and in comparison with other cds here. I'm glad I ordered it!

Miles Davis, 1958, Love for Sale.

. . . Chuck Nessa might like me!