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I've been listening to this. My short review would be . . . well, I'll just quote Chewy: "HELL YEAH."

No, you're not the only one. When I first saw this thread title I saw "Sony" instead of "Sonny" and thought Sony had arranged to buy master tapes from Ornette. Just wishful thinking.

I keep hearing complaints bout the Hendrix family releases. I probably would hate them on headphones too, but I avoid headphones like the plague. To me they sound so much better than any previous cd release, and they sound like the albums more to me than any previous release. I could only really understand not liking them if one were new to the Hendrix "experience" and didn't know the original lps.

Many happy happy returns!

It was a doozy. Going to miss this one. . . maybe we'll have another storyline next year, one can hope. Started watching "Logan's Run" the tv series. 'Seventies cheezy fun.

Word.

I agree--wonderful notes, great job Ricky!

Such a stylist, he had a sound and way of playing all his own, so recognizable. We were blessed with so much from him.

I agree, for me IV has huge radio burnout, it was always on the radio during the time I most listened to the radio. I really didn't listen to the radio that much prior to its release, and after the 'seventies I pretty much abandoned radio altogether. Just can't take the banter and blabber and ads.

We're just older (or I'll speak for myself) and those first three really hit us hard at just the right time in our lives. I do love Houses and Physical. Presence just has never really clicked for me.

I consider them so. The vinyl especially sounds really good. I would recommend all the Dagger Records releases of studio material.

I think he's using a tape echo (echoplex?) to beef things up. He also used a fuzz box (Tone Bender, modified apparently) with the volume cranked and the distortion low, to fatten up the sound. And the pickups on that Tele are awesome. Seems he was using a Supra amp at the time according to some pages. I'll pick up through Physical. . . but not beyond. Already have the box set (lp facsimile) and these new ones sound better, but I never listen to the albums beyond Physical. When I feel like listening to rock these days a YouTube video when I'm browsing the internet will do most of the time. I own practically zero rock CDs right now, but I might make an exception for some of these Zeppelin remasters. I don't do youtube, so I still have some old-fashioned rock cds. But more and more it's Hendrix and the Dead for me for most cd rock listening, and I listen to my old rock lps more than cds.

I'll pick up through Physical. . . but not beyond. Already have the box set (lp facsimile) and these new ones sound better, but I never listen to the albums beyond Physical.

I haven't listened to any of the bonus material yet. Not that interested in the material, will get to it eventually. I've heard the concert on I before,it's probably improved here. III sounds most improved here to me. Sounds amazing.

That's true. I believe that II is Les Paul? I is definitely Tele. I wonder what amps he was using. Okay, according to this page: http://iconicaxes.blogspot.com/2012/09/jimmy-pages-fender-dragon-telecaster.html he used the Tele in some of II as well. Amazing stuff. My interest in Zep wanes from IV thorugh Physical Grafitti, but man, I through III are just astonishingly good rock albums.

I picked up the cds. They DO sound pretty good.

I got that set then too, and it's a doozy. Dad has enjoyed listening to it. Nice sound.

A GREAT Horn album!

Final season of Entourage. Jeremy Piven is such great fun to watch.

I don't get it either. Before working with Miles PC worked with many decent jazz musicians (Quinchette, J.J., Kai Winding, Wallington, Bennie Green et al). He had had good training and gained musical knowledge and technique. He had an early interest in Ellington and bebop and mainstream jazz of the forites and fifties. Just don't see what musical background questions he was wondering about unless he just didn't know much about his work pre-Miles. Is it possible Bags was saying that his classical training may have been questionable to him as a jazz bassist/?

GTFOOH

I don't know about Middlemarch, but I will give it a shot. I've read Moby Dick and wouldn't say I was blown away by it (I found the "Extracts" section with all the quotes about whales to be kind of deadly), but after it settles in, there are a lot of interesting parts. I might give it a another go, though I would be a lot more likely if either of my kids has to read it in high school. I would recommend Melville's The Confidence Man as a real under-rated delight. It's probably my favorite Melville. Anyway, yes I think Man in the High Castle is great and do plan on re-reading that within the next 12 months. I haven't come across The Confidence Man, but the haunting Melville short story "Bartleby", read on my course, has never left me. The Confidence Man is great. Also great is Dick's The Confessions of a Crap Artist.

That's a fact.

I love Moby Dick! I'm re-reading for the sixth or seventh time Phil K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle."

Just for you I'm a burly man, a manly bear Looking after my mate I only want to be What you want to see