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I'd say it's slightly . . . whackier. . . but very much of the same quality level.

Hope all of you had a great birthday! I've been listening to Dick's Picks Vol. 14 a few times over the weekend and this week. Man, I like these two shows! There are instances on both shows where the vocal mikes aren't balanced well, but otherwise I think the sound is very vivid and dimensional. And there are great performances here. . . . Jerry's (then very new) Alembic guitar really sounds great and he seems to be really having fun playing and is quite inventive. Godchaux too (Keith that is, Donna Jean is not present, she's having the baby) seems to be really thinking and making great contributions.

My copy of the Gato was shipped to me by cduniverse Saturday, so I think they're out. I've downloaded about a dozen of the VerveVault items. I haven't downloaded any of the Real Player one, just iTunes. . . . I love them. I think this is a great service. They sound great!

I guess we see it differently.

I can see where you formulate that opinion. . . I don't know. I think that he was trying for a Kerouacian sort of stream of conciousness and seeming lack of editing, and I think that muse didn't fail him, I think he succeded. And I think that the Swiftian nature of his mean-spirited lyrics lifts them somehow, they're poignant rather than being arrogant. Just me I guess. Also, from what I have heard and seen of other interviews and these in the documentary. . . .Seemed more liking tilting at windmills and being very clever and quickwitted than narcissistic and repulsive to me. And I love how he refuses to buy into the methodology and intent of the press and jousts with them instead. High entertainment!

I've never heard this, definitely never bought it because I have all the material elsewhere, and I sortof never really fully utilize "retrospectives" and similar compilations. . . . Glad to hear that it is a successful one, especially sonics-wise!

Well, here's the perspective of one person who was not at all into Dylan and watched the move: my wife Helen. She rolled her eyes at the thought of my watching this and was prepared to walk away the first night and call a friend in the bedroom or do something else. She got hooked in the first few minutes though and watched the whole night, and the next. She thought it was "fascinating." She felt that she enjoyed Dylan's performances more than she ever had before. This film reinforced my impression from reading "Positively Fourth Street" of how ingenious Dylan was of creating himself anew. He totally ejected his former Bob Zimmerman identity when he went to NYC the first time and especially when he returned, and created the Dylan persona and stuck to it. I really believe that he didn't have that much interaction with his family since. I moved 1400 miles away from my family at a later age and if you did a boring chronicle of my life since you would see little interaction with my family. I felt that this documentary was great living history. I relished in the interviews with the musicians. I relished Dylan's responses to questioning. I relished the footage of performances and interviews. Sure I'd like to see a similar documentary of further eras of his career, but I felt that the choice of this time frame was functional and enlightening.

Yeah right, like that was going to happen!

Cool. Thanks.

I had always assumed considerable overlap between these and the Onyx/HighNotes. 107 Joe Guy & Hot Lips Page "Trumpet Battle At Mintons" 123 "Sweets, Lips & Lots of Jazz" w/Edison, Page and Eldridge

Also there were some later recordings commissioned such as Charles McPherson at the Half Note. . . .

Good news on the shipment of the cd! Paul Tingen's milesbeyond.com website has a blurb that blames the delay on the Miles Davis estate. (No more specific information than that though. . . ) ARGH.

One of the Charlie Parker Masters of Jazz volumes had the one and only track that he recorded with Bird in the band. . . .

Yes, I thought his comments were very interesting. . . . And I liked the other interviews as well by Van Ronk, Baez, Seeger, et al. This is great stuff! Going to be getting the dvds I know. (The two cd set has great material on it as well).

Last night the first part of Scorcese's "No Direction Home" aired on PBS. I thought it was pretty amazing! Can't wait for tonight's concluding episode!

Kalo, I can't remember offhand who wrote that script, and it would take me hours that I don't have right now to find it. . . . If I run across it I'll update you. It was "okay" as far as scripts go, and I've been told that scrits change so much from start to finish it's hard to say what the movie might be like!

Jim, the Hanna is really good! I too am intrigued by the V-Disk release. . . DETS Vol. 12 I have on preorder.

Me too!

And the rest of the Savoy. . . . Please!

Oy vey. I did the same thing, canceled the Jelly set I had on the order with the Miles.

Addey!

Sad news!

The Tokyo Live MAY be the best of the Williams group Blue Notes (well, not counting Spring and Lifetime). It's quite good, quite out of print, I don't know of any plans to reissue it (but that just means I don't know of any).

Yes Flurin, it's a good one indeed! Didn't know about the Stewart and Williams one Chris. Looks like a great session.