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Yes, I would have that lp version. I ordered "Blows" from yourmusic.com and ultimately they couldn't provide it and I got a copy from half.com

July 1964 it turns out, according to her book.

They did meet in 1964, not sure pre the European tour or post (I think pre). Regardless, Mingus would have talked about this story. . . probably over and over.

Big Christy fan here. . . but I really can't help you because I have her work in US Capitol and British EMI cds with the exception of the one (Something Cool) you know about. . . . But welcome!

Thanks gentlemen for the blackface and the Crosby info. I've probably got Long John Silver around here somewhere on vinyl, and I'll dig it up eventually. . . . I don't remember it as fondly as I do Bark. I guess I'll spring for Takes Off soon. Thanks Q!

Conrad is so right. Wait til ya hit 50, right Jim? PARTY ON GARTH!

Jim, yeah, On the Corner. . . I can still find new things to listen to in that one. I remember buying this when it came out and just getting lost, not really finding my way for a while. But it's such a powerful stew, it drew me in over and over and it's really rewarding to just let it wash around your listening room. I've got a late nineties Sony lp facimile that sounds like the lp mix to me . . . . Can't say it's "my favorite" but it is a benchmark of my Miles recordings.

Thanks Hans. I didn't want to get that version if there was another around to look for. Guess I'll go for it soon. As for the blackface they didn't when I saw them either, and if they had done that often we'd have heard about it. In those liners though it looks as if they were on a tv station set. . . so I wondered. It would be just like Grace (who auditioned for a black label apparently pre-Airplane as well).

I don't know. . . I actually like the live material on "Volunteers' --- I don't consider it 'so so'. . . . I have quite a bit of the alternate material from the "Quadraphonic" Volunteers on the Airplane box set, so I'm glad to have the live instead. Just got Crown of Creation and that puts me almost there for the Airplane I want. . . . Your Music seems to have managed to lose my package that has Bless its Pointy Head supposedly on the way to me. . .eventually I'll get that straightened out. And I still need to get "Sun Fighter" and maybe download "Bark" from iTunes. Then it's a question of "to get or not to get Long John Silver and Takes Off" the two dicey bookends to the period I want. (I've got Blows Against the Empire and Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Num as well). Two questions: seeing Grace in blackface for the first time in the Crown liner notes. . . did they actually perform on tv that way? Was Crosby's "If I could Only Remember My Name" ever on cd in America after that first (and still seeming only) early digital release?

Interesting. Velikovsky claims that Egyptian chronology as the West pieces it together is really convoluted and wrong, and he in fact places Ramses II as ruling seven hundred some years earlier, in the sixth century BC. Sometimes i think he may be right. . . .

Hey isn't there some sort of new Hollywood law that you have to hire a British actor? Clove Olin as Chet? Jude Law?

Is there any other kind?

Wow, I bet that was the result of a government study!

Word!

Definitely some obscure material in this first volume! I am familiar with most of the music in the following volumes, but some intriguing pieces that are new to me in this volume. I'm enjoying the first quarter of the book as well, and I think this is a great presentation: text and music all under one roof. Keep 'em coming!

Thanks Chuck. Explains why I have never found another source lp. Yeah, I can see why Randy feels that way. But the compositions and his playing. . . really fine.

Yes, Blue Moses. I have a 24 bit Japanese version of that on cd that sounds pretty good. I have the CTI lp on cdr as well. Can't decide which is better, have ketp both, listen to them both. . . It's very very cool. I wish that someone would reissue the one that I have on a Trip lp, "Blues". . . . I don't know if it originiated on Trip or not (does anything?) but I've never been able to figure out what other label it might have been on.

Allen, quite an impressive package. . . I know this was unbelievably hard and tedious work. . . many thanks.

Looks as if he did, from the obituary 7/4 posted above: Within six months, Knotts had taken a job on a radio Western called ''Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders,'' playing a wisecracking, know-it-all handyman. He stayed with it for five years, then came his series TV debut on ''The Steve Allen Show.''

Yes me too. And though not really relevant in this thread I really dig the stuff with Bartz.

I just think the intent of the album is to be more "Groovey" and less jazz and solo centric. . . So I think it succedes within the intention. (But short of asking Bobby, I'm not positive of his intentions. I dig this one a lot though for what it is or what I perceive it is or both).

I'm waiting for the Lonehill "Complete" version.

And I've never met Mr. Weston, but they way you describe him is the way I imagine he would be!

Well, welcome to org, where indeed old friends meet and hang out. I can't even remember the official reason the BN Board got 86'd. I think at heart it was because Norah Jones was bringing new raw faces to the web pages and they didn't like the rather rambunctious bunch we had become with our we can do whatever we want attitude. . . . Took a while but I found this place a few months later and have been very happy here ever since.