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NONE! Yet. . . .

My wife and I both enjoyed this film, saw it on the first weekend of its release.

I like 24! Have it at home in Austin presently and can't hear it right now. But at two discs it's affordable and quickly "digestable."

Wow, Alexander, your father is a lot younger than mine! I used to think my father had some questionable music in his collection, but a lot of great stuff that I heard growing up. My dad is a Bach, Beethoven, Mozart (and P. D. Q. Bach!) fan, and he had some Ellington ("Uptown" was the one I really dug most!) and Brubeck and he had a lot of Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw (he played clarinet and bass-clarinet in high school). I thought the Glenn Miller was questionable for a long time. . . but I've come to think differently in time. Also my dad was a Gershwin nut, and a Gilbert and Sullivan nut, and I know that the Gershwin music I heard constantly growing up was a big influence on me.

You're just making me feel bad. Well, more power to ya! I just don't have something that it takes to do this, and the patience I guess to acquire it. Right now, listening to disc two of DP 22~!

I'd go with "Stairway" myself. . .for just purely gut response personal reasons. I think you mean "Russ" Freeman Flurin. . . I was wracking my noggin for a minute for instances where Chet and Bud played together in quartet format. . .would have been cool.

In the interest of keeping in touch with my chosen online community, I'll NOT buy a PC! I think my wife might divorce me if I did. . . she's a Mac person for many years, and she's making me comfortable with Macs. . . we have three Apple computers (iMac, iBook and MacBook), and she's about to buy me an iPod for my birthday.

Isn't he the grandfather of Norah Jones?

Those are all great ones, have all but 36 and don't doubt that it is spectacular (that will be my next order from GD Store!)

I'm looking at Vol. 20 right now, and was listening to that set last week. A lot of what Chalupa says I agree with. . . it's not as good as 19 or 23. . . but it's good in its own way. I have to say I like the way Billy and Mickey played in '76 and '77 and '78 BETTER than what I've heard of them afterwards. The two drumming scenario really helps to turn me off to a lot of the post-Godchaux Dead; I just don't get any groove off the combined, whereas I do before then. Still, I prefer just Billy all the time.

How many more classical customers are there compared to jazz. That would be the question I think the labels would ask first. Maybe did ask already more than once.

How about a poll about Twin Poles leading the Polish?

Hey, I've worked in Texas state government for 23 years! I'm very used to boobs walking all over me! (Especially in the Bush and Perry gubernatorial years).

I agree, DP 19 is excellent! DP 23 is pretty darned good too, but pales a bit in comparison. Both I think are better than the others on the list (ducking my head for cover!) Maybe I just like the Dick's Picks series a lot, I like the two track sound better generally than the 16 track. From your list I'll also pitch a nod to 19.

Well, the only Mosaic set I CAN enjoy now is. . . the Christy/Lee, because I have that loaded in to my iBook. All the others at home in Austin. Ah well. I'll be reunited one day. I'm not sure we'll ever see Mosaic relicense and reissue sets. . . .ever. And just because Proper, who doesn't have to pay any artists or maintain master tapes and parts, etc. can afford to put out sets does NOT mean that majors who hold the real copies will feel that they are able to. . . . It's a shame, and as more and more material we love falls into availability for non-owner release outside the US we're possibly going to see more in my opinion "inferior" (or at least not potentially as good as can be) sets and the majors viewing themselves "priced" out of the market and just sitting on the material and their hands. I really think the majors look at ebay pricing of Mosaics (if they look at them at all) and see a few hundred nutty collectors willing to shell out dollars; I don't think they see a market or an opportunity missed.

Does this Sinatra matter? I guess Papa Sinatra matters. I get along without him very well, though.

I think I posted this before, but you can download several of these programs in mac friendly form. Also, there are several recorders--like total recorder--that will allow you to download all those streaming files on archive. Just DON'T do anything else on your computer while recording. It's just like recording from disk to cassette, only any interference will give you snap, crackle and pop. Of course, my good friend, I keep tantalizing you into personal ruin by downloading and downloading and downloading and downloading. There is currently no cure for this!! Right now, I'm living on dimeadozen downloading art ensemble of chicago gigs. The only question is how one can listen to so much good music and still absorb it all? Well, it just seems beyond me, whenever I've tried I just get a knot in my stomach and a big ball of confused frustration. So I'm staying away til I maybe wake up one day smarter and more qualified. Maybe Rhino will solve my problem. I don't mind paying for downloads the quality of those the Dead have been offering on their site and iTunes.

Why not call or email them and ask them? What makes you think anyone here can really speak for them? I think one reason is they were given a trunkload of Francis Wolff photos and they use these whenever they can. It gives them a unique look that allows them to use images not available anywhere else, AND they don't have to pay for the use of images that belong to others.

I lost a lot too. Maybe 4000? I had deleted a lot, but not that many, but I don't care. It feels as if I lost about 40 pounds, and got about ten years younger!

I got 40. Why not? Amazing!

shn and flac and bittorrentin' hasn't work for me with my Mac machines. It's either me or the machines or both, but I can't take the frustration at this time.

Dick's Picks Vol. 28, via iTunes (hey, it's fast and easy and cheaper than ordering from the Dead with their higher price and not cheap shipping!)

Just downloaded Dick's Picks 28, which is pretty darned good. . . . I can't stop, I have only about six or so to go to have the full official releases of GD from the beginning to the departure (in several ways) of the Godchauxs. Really enjoying Dick's Pick's 35, the "Houseboat Tapes." Cool to hear the band with no keys, and occasionally Pigpen on harp and voice. On 28: "Loose Lucy!" Okay, it's not the best version ever, but is it one of the earliest? I've started downloading the audience recordings from the archive available. . . I've gotten all from '67 through '69 so far. I have great fun making artwork for these . . . using handbills, posters, photos, etc.

Yes, it's an insidious illness and has shaped humanity in dark ways, and caused much collective and individual suffering. SLOWLY recognition and acceptance ARE happening, I must say, way way too slowly, as are medical advances. I've had the reality of mental illness as a part of my daily life for more than a decade (not sure that I suffer from it myself, but my wife does). I've learned more than I ever expected to about the disease(s), but fortunately much of what I've learned and experienced brings hope. . . slowly . . . but perhaps surely.

Columbia also has single cds reissuing th Hot 5s and Hot 7s as an alternative to the box set.