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"We don't flat our fifths. . . we drink 'em."

"We don't flat our fifths. . . we drink 'em."

Al, I agree that Al Johnson was a monster in WR, and my favorite of their bassists as well. Live in Tokyo has been out on cd at least three times that I know of from Sony in Japan and French CBS. . . . The French version I have sounds pretty darned good, and was pretty cheap, about 19 bucks a year or so ago. The lps I have actually sound better though I think. . . darn it.

Live in Tokyo is available in several imported versions.. . .but there's been no domestic cd reissue. It's among the very best of their works.

You know I really resisted coming here regularly. I saw the demise of the BNBB as we know/knew it as an opportunity to free myself from the chain of cyber posting, this weird hypergraphic like addiction I had. . . . I intended to read here and only post occasionally. Yeah, right. . . But this place has grown into a real home with real neighbors and hallelujah!

Mr. Larsen, in my opinion the WR before Heavy Weather is different and better thant he WR after. That's just a personal thing, but Heavy Weather is probably my LEAST favorite (especially the way I feel in the last half a decade) of their output. So from my viewpoint, not liking that one doesn't mean you wouldn't like others. I'd recommend the first three or four, the self-titled, I Sing the Body Electric, Mysterious Traveler, Suitenighter, and Talespinning. . . .

That may be true of some of the tapes. Some however are master tapes, especially those that contain alternates and alternate versions if I remember correctly.

This is one very cool movie. BUT I have to say I think I preferred the first one, by a hair. Action ain't the be all and end all to me, and the structure, tension, characterization of the first was in my opinion a bit better. Which is to say I loved them both.

Congratulations on completing that project!

If blue is your favorite color, this is the place!

I'm just operating from memory, but I think that is on all copies. I remember reading a talk with Dorn where he said that they just took the analog reels straight into digital 16bit, with no audio cleansing, etc. which is not a bad thing to do in my opinion. I don't think they "de-hissed" or "de-noised" these, and I think they sound pretty darned good overall (perhaps as a byproduct.)

Thanks for calling my attention to the link. Looks as if they may have split the original cd into two volumes. RE: the TOCJ remastering possibility: all I know is that the Leo Parker I have sounds as if it were a TOCJ, and that it is not the same remastering (and doesn't have the alternate) of the early US version.

Wow, wonder what's on the second Joao Gilberto?

Sidewinder: those are cool. Not on cd.

And Imp: yes, "Ace"---I remember that album fondly, and what a killer cover too! Thanks for reminding me of that one. I could stand to listen to that and the Dead stuff from '73 to '75 again.

Boy are you a BRAVE man! Hey, no flaming from me, from what I can remember you've given good advice, though I will admit to a real fondness for the tune "Althea" on Go to Heaven. . . . I don't know why, I just really like that tune!

All these are great recommendations. . . which just means that there is so much excellent Stanley out there. Dan's very insightful look into the assembly of the masterpiece "Blue Hour" is right on: this is a masterpiece, a real statement for both the label and the two principles (four really) Stan and the Three Sounds. The real truth is. . . unless perhaps you go into his later work which I haven't explored too much because I sampled one that was a little uninspired and I just haven't gone further. . . the truth is that if you pick up almost ANY Stan T recording as a leader, or a sideman, you'll have some great stuff!

Wow Tod, I have one fantastic cd of this material, and knew that there was another out there. . . FOUR cds total? What label is this on? Where did you land it? I'll have to look in to this!

I haven't listened to this too much, but I did enjoy the first and third discs a lot, more than I thought I might! Also I'm enjoying the Milton Brown set. Gosh, I've been in Texas 23 years. . . now I'm actually buying western music. . . something's happened to me!

Bunny boy, I'm not a liberal. I'm just not dazzled, bought and seduced by the near-sighted wrong-headedness of this administration. In my book, you're a schoolyard wannabe Greg as far as the way you talk to persons. It exhibits verbal violence, poor manners, and a bullying tendency. I'll never say that is okay. So keep up. When you get to high school, you might get your comeuppance.

I haven't played any Dead in years, and I used to have a LOT of their lps. . . . Gave up a certain stimulant and became a mainly jazz head about the same time. . . years ago. The ones I miss and may get again one day are "Mars Hotel," "Wake of the Flood" and "Blues for Allah," three consecutive releases that really are solid if you ask me. And I really miss the "Walk me Out in the Morning Dew" from the Europe set.

Happy Mother's Day!

No, I've never read "Further Confessions." Hmmm. . . . Lots of humor in what I read actually now that I think of it. In the last few years Kerouac has really made me howl. And of course, there's Thurber. And Vonnegut (and Kilgore Trout!) And yes, Heinlein can be hilarious. . . though often unintentionally. (Number of the Beast anyone?)

Unintentionally doubled the post.

Some favorites of mine for their humor: Philip K. Dick Kingsley Amis John Irving and "The Confessions of Zeno"