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I saw Chicago in 1971 myself. . . was a great experience!

Cool Mark! Jimi thought Kath was a fantastic guitar player, I remember reading. I'll not argue.

I'm serious. More and more hardbop seems very formulaic to me and I've heard too much of it. I have to step away from the stuff for a while. And Bu was never a favorite DRUMMER of mine. I'm a Big Sid, Baby Dodds and Klook fanatic.

They got my eye color wrong AGAIN. My father in law got my wife with this one last year.

Okay Al, you're back, right?

Al! Glad you're posting!

Reread some Spirit items lately. Eisner rules!

Nice stuff Sandy!

I hear it the way Guy does. . . .

My interest in Bu as a drummer wanes, and my interest in this style of jazz wanes. . . . But you need to get the Three Blind Mice cds.

Right. I'm less and less a Hart fan as time goes by and love Kreutzman, so that flavors my period of interest as well. I actually like Donna most of the time. . . . An acquired taste for sure. I'm lucky enough to be in the pipeline for a Fillmore box and boy would I like a 1972 Europe box!

If I had unlimited funds, I'd do the same as Evonce says he would. Undoubtedly it is going to sound better than the domestic box. I've had the domestic box for a long time. . . . Have some of the sessions in upgrades. . . . Couldn't justify getting the box set but if I had big dollars to spend and didn't have these sessions, this would be the way to go.

Yes, that Archive is a great resource. I've downloaded all of 1975 and the studio items and then decided to put a check to my downloading. I'd rather buy the cd releases, and I have more than I can honestly listen to right now (not that that will stop me from getting more!) I saw the Dead several times between 72 and 75. . . . Coincidentally that's my favorite period to collect! The material previous to that just doesn't hold my interest as much generally, but boy is there great music in there. I've never quite taken to any of the material after that with anyone on the keys but Keith. Not sure why.

If you don't count Japanese releases, there are a number of potential ones. . At Newport, Angel Eyes, the Southern one, Impressions of the USA, etc.

OD: Welcome! Nice first post!

A former boss of mine insisted it should be wise-ass. As many times as he was called that, he should at least be allowed to use it that way!

Well, in my opinion the Twardzik material is the real gem of this collection, but the Rowles material is excellent as well. The Fisher is good. . . you may have that (?). . . . It's really hard to say what someone else would feel is "worth the money." If you're a big Rowles fan I'd say it may well be.

You're memory (in this matter) is on target Jim.