Matthew

Easily found, my eye!!!! I've been looking for this for months and I've yet to find it anywhere. Must be lookin' in all the wrong places.

So, shoot me, I have zero Beatles in my collection. However, I've come into some extra money and I want to get the Beatles lps. So, I'm wondering if buying the Beatles BC-13 Box set off Ebay is the best way to go for that route. Anyone have this set, and how does it sound? Or should I get the recently issued lps? Any Beatles fan out there with an opinion?

I'm at 38 right now. Gladly, my outbreak of Mosaicmania passed a couple of years ago, so I've only bought 5 sets in the past two-an-a-half years.

I'm on vacation so I get to do the ultimate: NOTHING

A bunch of cd money, and I think I'm going after Lon's Decware cd/sacd player. Man, this is an expensive board.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I'll be thinking about this for a couple of weeks. I have three solid suggestions with the Denon, Pioneer Elite DV-45A, and the Decware. Decisions, decisions....

Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue. One of those fun finds that we've all experienced. Went to a local used record store and found this lp, problem was that the cover was an absolute mess. It had been in water, so the cover had water stains all over it, plus the warpped edges that comes with water. Still, I looked at the lp itself and it's very dirty but no scratches or scuff marks. So I say: "What the heck, it's only $2.00(!)." Take it home, clean it up, and it plays pure mint. I love finds like this. B)

Does anyone know of a good SACD player for $500 of less? I'm becoming interested in SACDs, so I'm just wondering if there is a big difference in playback value with a SACD player of that worth, or am I just as well off sticking to my NAD 541i? I would be buying mostly rock SACDs, if that makes any difference.

This reprint brought back a lot of memories *sigh*.

You're loss John. These babies are coming back! I'm waiting until I can upgrade to 9-track. Do you think that everyone who is posting that they never visit the Funny Rat thread realizes that we give away an oop Mosaic every 32 pages? Off track for a moment because I was thinking about this last night (really!). I know people dump on the sound of the BN cds from the 80s, but in the 80s I only had a cassette player, and if I remember correctly, they sounded fantastic. Am I the only one that remember cassettes sounding great, or is my memory completely shot?

Nah! That was more the "Grumpy Chuck."

The Blindfold Forum. Just don't get the attraction.

Thanks Mister Mooster! They were released around the same time and tended to cancel each other out in the "best of the year" polls. I was flattered by the competition. All kidding aside Chuck, you did a great service to jazz in releasing that set.

Benny More Y Su Banda Gigante, Grabaciones Completas: 1953 - 1960 put out by Tumbao Cuban Classics. For some reason, I continually return to this box set, and each time, I get such enjoyment from it, that it's the top box set for me now.

Gee, I don't need jetlag for that to happen!

June Christy & Pete Rugolo

The Faces: Five Guys Walk Into A Bar... All I can say is that this a one fantastic box set.

List the best ones here, and let us have a crack at them.

I still can't use the search function, what a piece of junk this site has become.

Starting to work my way through the Mosaic lp set, The Complete Miles Davis at the Plugged Nickel one lp a day. Great music, and the sound on the set is fantastic.

I can relate to those thoughts as well. I spent six year going to school in Berkeley, CA., living on the East side of Berkeley, about four blocks from Cal, and it was a great experience. Tons of cultural stuff going on, plus the politics of Berkeley, great bookstores, record stores, free concerts, etc., It was a major life-learning experience. Of course, Berkeley was also dingy, had a lot of crazies and left over hippies, but all-in-all, it was a fun place to spend six years of my life.

Yeah, that was my experience also. Everyone always getting in your business. Whenever I went shopping at the local store, at least thirty minutes was added just having different people stop and talk with me about "what's going on" with other peoples lives.

Why Barton Hall has never come out on cd is a complete mystery -- talk about an ideal Dick's Pick. One of my all-time favorite Grateful Dead dates, even if it does have Donna Jean on it!

For some reason, in the past week I've had long discussions about Big City living versus living in a small town. Mostly, it's from people who have moved to L.A. and just cannot make the adjustment to the size and diversity of the place. Now, for me, I have always loved living in a large city, and have most of my life. The only time when I wasn't in a large city was when I had to move for about three years to a small town in Washington called Stanwood, pop. 1,800. The people were great but there was NOTHING TO DO! I had to make the one hour drive into Seattle to feel close to city life. There is something exciting about large cities that just adds a certain quality to my life. So, mark me down for city life!

Would love to have a 20% off all lp sets sale again. Have my eye on a Miles Davis set, or the Stan Kenton. Of course, I would be great if Mosaic did lp sets outside of Davis again.