jazzbo

$50K is an amazing amount of roylties to have accumulated, for someone who only had, what, two albums as a leader? MG Three on Blue Note. (Others on others.) I would bet the nineties cd reissues in US and Japan generated the coin.

I've listened to about five more discs. Lots of organ. Sound is okay. Interesting stuff.

Thanks for the headsup!

You bastids! You made me place an order! Ordered two Don Friedmans I didn't have, the Woods-Eardley I did not have, a Clifford Jordan I surprisingly have never had (Bearcat) and the Ellington "This One's for Blanton" which I bought as a gift.

Many many more!

At least you wear a shirt! At work I'm like Radar O'Reilly. At home I'm more like . . . Cosmo Kramer. .. these days. No idea who I would be on the board.

A Mosaic release is "not planned." (I'd rather have the originally planned two cd expanded version from Columbia, which is also not planned).

Sorry Jim, ever since October 8 my mind has not quite been right I think. . . It was "In Our Lifetime" that I preordered and received and shelved after a cursory listen; I wasn't aware this one was out, so I've ordered it this morning. Thanks for the headsup. You'll dig the other. . . of course.

The 28 cdr Sun Ra box from Transparency, live in Detroit the holiday week of '80/'81

With all due respect, your opinion is just one of many to me.

Ah bash if you want. You're entitled to your opinion, and I to mine. It doesn't alter my love for the guy. He's the real reason I got heavily back into the Dead some years back. Too bad he left so soon.

I agree. When I hear that I can't get it out of my head for days. It grafts on synapses.

I know it's not a Pablo. . . I guess my Pablo/OJC wasn't as inclusive as I meant it to be. I agree, it's outclassed by the others on this list.

Hey, I'm not sure I love that one. . . but I like it. Plenty. All those Pablos/OJCs are worth having!

This thread made me think of "The Ganymede Takeover" by Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson. Going to have to reread that one soon. I worked with an eyeglass lab technician about 20 years ago who would be the first person in the lab to arrive at work and go into the back room to have a cup of java and watch the little black and white tv that was in there. I'd get there second, and while setting up my machines I'd hear the 3 stooges routines coming from back there. They did used to have the show on at that hour of the morning or thereabouts and for weeks I was sure the tv was going. In fact, as I discovered when I went back there one day to get some supplies, it was Mike Hoff himself doing all three parts of various Stooges routines for his own enjoyment. The man was GOOD at impersonating all the Stooges. What a way to start the day.

I didn't have any sons, so I'm in the "undecided" ("didn't have to make a decision") camp.

Okay, your opinion is once again duly noted. That's what it's good for, duly noting. It's as good for that as my opinion is. I may get to other interpretations of the major pieces in time, it just will take me some time, and there's nothing wrong with that. Right now it's interesting just to explore the music as presented here.

I disagree with you over Pigpen, but agree that you made a great score! That book is a treasure trove of information. And a lot of fun to read.

I don't care if he's a shitty conductor or not. I've enjoyed what I hear so far, and it's serving as an interesting introduction to the music for me. In time I may seek out other interpretations. . . or I may not. Right now it's part of what's helping me in an aural transition that is a helpful emotional transition. Wish I had more time for more listening. That will be coming soon.

I'll be burning there with you amigo. Picked this up and have been enjoying it. So there's better versions out there. I may get to them one day. For personal reasons I'm changing the nature of much of my listening, just for the change and I've been listening to a lot more classical and this is filling the bill.

Just received this box set last night from Michael of Transparency. Cost me 55 dollars including Priority Mail postage. Interesting packaging: a plastic box with a painting of RA as a front cover, a description of the set as a back cover, and inside 28 cdrs in plastic envelopes set up as a binder. 55 plus hours of music. Two 11 x 17 sheets of paper printed front and back show the contents of each disc and the personnel information. I've listened to the first two discs. Sound is not great, but not bad. . . . It probably will actually get better sounding as we go along as this is the complete shows of a week's residency at the Detroit club. Interesting music! I've usually not explored this time period of Ra too heavily. . . now I can at a great price.

I'll go see this Will Smith one. . . why not? I'm desperate for big escapes these days!

I change my work one a lot. Now this:

His Albert Ayler solo piano cd is exceptionally good.

For some reason, she doesn't bother me. Though I acknowledge that she's awful at times. . . . I don't think she could hear herself and that didn't help. But. . . she was so beautiful to see in the 'seventies. . . .Everytime I want to complain about how she sounds, I think of when I saw her with my own two eyes. . .and forget about it!