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Dave, thanks, things are going "reasonably well." Yes, I'm enrolled on the 19.99 per month and as I say, the price is right, I'm not really complaining. But Xanadu lps can sound fantastic, and the sound of these Xanadu downloads really are inexcusably bad if you're familiar with the lp sounds. It's a shame! I've already bought a booster pack. May buy another before my July replenishment. I'm here with not enough music, and that's not a good sitaution!

Yeah, but I have almost all the Xanadus on lp or on cdr from lps and they sound TEN TIMES BETTER than this Pee Wee or a few other Xanadus I "listened" to. Shame. Anyway, I'm not really complaining, the price is right, a lot of this stuff I'm just going to listen to on the iBook and headphones or via my Bose powered speakerws for the iBook. Just downloaded and am now listnening to "Viva Brazil" by Tania Maria. I really like Tania! This one sounds good. Just as Marty Grosz's "And His Hot Combination" on Arbors; good cd, good sound.

I've read both of the Mingus books. You'll like Preistley's. They both are good in my opinion for what they are. As is Sue Mingus's book. I think there could be twenty books about Mingus and not one would be "true" or maybe even ultimately satisfying. What a spirit, what a character, what a composer, what a player.

But I love Carmen McRae! This isn't one of the best of hers, but it's good.

Yes, pretty amazing. Pretty Freddie Hubbard like solo too. I loved how she kept saying "Oh I love this tune!"

No, you don't get that on those that I've downloaded. . . . You have to do some internet homework for details, big cover images, etc.

Out here in the wildlands of Houston without my collection, I've been bored and needing music and discovered that eMusic works quite well with iTunes, so I joined. Have gotten some Gigi, Laswell, Bartz, Revolutionary Ensemble, and other albums in download, including the fantastic "Love Songs" by Patty Waters and Jessica Williams. Some downloads here sound better than others. . . . The Xanadu Pee Wee Williams I loaded sounds awful. I bet the Woody Shaw "Blackstone Legacy" cd sounds better than the download. But some sound great. Overall I think iTunes music store downloads sound much better, but then they're more than twice as expensive.

You're probably right. I haven't retained in my memory banks when he first got and began plucking the steel guitar. I've got to check out the Houseboat tapes. Just have to. I don't expect them to be some miraculous find, but I really like all the shows from this year I've heard, and there's room for more. . .

I think I have that "reunion" material courtesy of RCA and "Soundies" labels. . . could be wrong. Interesting stuff, but not like the Original DJB. But.. .some hot Sparbaro!

AMEN!

Of course it is! It differs from the Columbia cd edition by retaining the ("phony") applause around selection beginnings and edndings.

I've only got the mono lp. And the Columbia stereo cd. I'm not much of a vinyl spinner these days. And certainly not here in my "second home." Anyway, I'd love to see Bal Masque, Midnight in Paris, practically anything else not on cd in the US. I'd really like to see them do the remainder of the 1947-1952 material in some sort of a set. I have the French cds, but would think that domestic ones from the existing parts etc. would be better!

I'm with you . . . except. . . I'm a junkie for "Indigos". . . .It's one of a hundred or so discs that I want to have in a really good remastering.

Steel or slide. . . will have to listen again soon. It's a great date.

Well, I've got a Mobile Fidelity version that sounds great. . . . So I vote "No." Now, a complete version of "Indigos" that had the mono and stereo versions of the tunes that differ? "Hell YEAH."

I don't know how tough it is to find or if Da Bastards re-stock, but my copy of Getting into Something came from an inexpensive vinyl reissue probably three or four years ago. As far as Lonehill goes, I do give them credit for being complete bootleggers, as the Bailey set includes "Brownie Speaks" which was only issued on Almost Forgotten, an almost forgotten 1983 comp of unissued Columbia tunes. Since then, most of the music has made it out on CD reissues, but Lonehill's the only place you can find that forgotten track. All tree LPs plus an extra track on one CD? Wow! MG Two cd set! I have steered clear.

Three Suites is 2 lps on one cd. All this material was recorded in 1960. Thanks. I've never seen these lps. Guess this barely qualifies therefore as "fifties albums." My dad would say "1960 is the last year of the fifties, 1961 is the beginning of the sixties." He's no fun at parties.

I've now got all the Download Series titles from the years 1968-1973. I'll probably get the others up through the deaprture of the Godchauxs from the band. Try as I might I just can't generate interest in the band after that beyond the ones I already have (and I'm not really that interested in those). Not really sure what the reason for that is. There's a few songs I like from then, "Althea," "Passenger,""Feel Like A Stranger". . . .And I have NOT explored a lot of the shows (saw them just once during this period, early on in the period, 1980 in Cleveland). I figure that when I get really desperate for new Dead to hear I'll start buying those downloads or Dick Picks, oldest ones first. . . . Next for me is to get about three or four Dick's Picks from the 1968-1973 period I still lack, probably will get the "Houseboat Tapes" first. Should have some birthday money in a month and a half or so.

Many many many more happy ones!

I was being polite. FORK is not a good word. Spoon, now that's a fun warm word! No response from Legacy.

Well summarized Harold! And the sound is very good indeed, set to please Lil Red Riding Hood because it's "just right." AND you get portions of that book, just about a quarter of the book in each set! What's it called again? "Beelzlebub's Boogie?" "Them Satanic Melodies?" Something like that.

I like green eggs and ham.

That "Mayflower" book. 'Salright.

I found I still had a valid email address to someone at Legacy and I've sent emails asking about A Drum is a Woman AND about the Legacy program. Will update ya if I get a response.

FORK!