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Watched the Germany video tonight. Very nice to have this stuff.

This is funny.

Picked it up today. The packaging IS pretty cheesy, but I'm sure the music will make up for that shortcoming.

Just listened to most of disk 2....................<<<WHOA!>>>

Cool!

Agree about Mills - I met him and Ken Stringfellow when Ken was a sideman. Both cool guys. Really? Stringfellow was a sideman, too? I'm a big Posies fan. Talked to him a little last time they were in town.

They do seem to be very straight forward guys. I've met Mills and Scott McCaughey (the '5th REM') - very approachable.

Arrived today.........just in time for the weekend!

Glad I'm not the only one who really likes "New Adventures in Hi-Fi". It's an album that doesn't grow old for me and I always hear something new in it. I usually see it referred to as "commercially disappointing" - which for me is a GOOD thing!

Regardless of their spotty album output, I've never seen them put on a bad concert performance. Saw them 4 times in the 80's, lost track of them in the 90s, saw them on top of their game in '08 at SXSW at the relatively small Stubb's venue (and again in Berkeley later that year). Probably just as well they hang it up (at least for a while) as they seem to be trying too hard to make a relevant album. SXSW 2008

I remember getting some of Miles' metal spine boxes for VERY reasonable pre-release prices that I never saw again afterwards. I don't know about that, but I DO know that it's one of their worst albums.

Jon Langford does a lot of his (and others) covers

$15 is pretty good.........but I still want the box.

As an aside, DeepDiscount.com currently has that disc and the other three live Airplane releases by Collectors' Choice Music for ridiculously low prices - between $2-3 per disc. Just search for "Jefferson Airplane" and you'll see them. Apparently they are blowing out these and a bunch of other CCM releases that have been discontinued in the wake of wholesaler Super D's acquisition of Infinity Resources (parent company of both DeepDiscount and CCM). I picked up all four for $14 and change shipped, only remembering after the fact that free shipping is offered on all orders of $15 or more. Whoa.........thanks for the heads up on that! Got Signe's Farewell, Grace's Debut and Return to the Matrix for $11.06. Nice!

This box is going to be a fun listen. As far as the Airplane - one of my Top 5 favorite 60s bands. They may be "of a time", but a lot of music is - from ALL genres. Doesn't make them any less enjoyable to listen to. The band as a whole (during their peak, pre-Bark years) was more talented than any of the individuals, IMO. Each musician played a crucial part in the overall sound.

Good to know. I pulled that out and listened to it yesterday.

FYI, price drop on the 5 CD set to $35.22.

I would throw "artisinal" in there, too.

Sounds great! I was definitely planning to pick this up, but the Amazon 'extra disk version' threw me off. Seems to be the same price, anyway. Thanks for heads up on "In the West," Lon. I saw that it was being released, but didn't really look into how it was different from the original. Looks like it's worth getting, too. I only have the LP, anyway.

I'm sure this is a must-have. The Winterland tracks that were released in the 80s (2 LPs, then CD) were some of my favorite of his live recordings. I just noticed that Amazon is releasing a limited edition 5 CD set with the additional disk consisting of an amateur reel-to-reel recording from a February 4, 1968 Winterland show. Anyone (Lon?) heard this stuff before?

Nice piece in the SF Chron

As romantic as manned space flight sounds, these robotic flights to distant planets are MUCH more scientifically sound. How about those Mars rovers? They were only supposed to last for 3 months. One just died, but the other one is still going ... 7 YEARS later!

RIP, Eddie. He drummed for nearly every touring artist I saw at the Keystone Korner in the 70s. Very sorry to see him pass on.