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The Post-Gazette was the big one, so truly a loss.

PNC Park is really nice, and from memory, there's pretty much always tickets available... Here is the most iconic moment in Pittsburgh sports history:

Well done!

And those are really good albums!

Not a real big city (300K in the city itself, 68th in USA, though 2.4m in the metro area), and more midwest than East Coast.

Best wishes for your move to Pittsburgh. With the savings in rent, you'll feel rich! Lots of colleges near where you will be (Pitt, Carnegie-Mellon, Duquesne, Point Park, Chatham, Carlow, Allegheny County Community College, so lots of book stores!). So much of Pittsburgh is very hilly, so I'm glad you'll be in such good shape for the walk. Hoping and praying for a good move and good weather for the move. And do study up on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitt Panthers, it's a football-crazy town.

Nobody is trying to ban vinyl talk. I gave a suggestion on how to avoid comments that do not fit your narrow definition of what is acceptable. Post what you want where you want, but grant others the same rights.

I would suggest adding "vinyl only" to the title when posting about a new release which is not being made available via CD or download. That way, those who don't/can't collect vinyl ( many do not have the money/space/lifestyle to enable collecting vinyl) can skip over the posting rather than opening it, reading it, getting enthusiastic, researching it, and finding out that it is only being made available on vinyl. The type of consideration being requested in this topic works both ways. An alternative is to just post the posting in the The Vinyl Frontier sub-forum, which those who don't collect vinyl won't even look at.

Listening to the two back to back, this is so similar it could almost be an edit of the take from the MI&BB album. Historically quite intriguing, but musically doesn't seem to really be anything particularly new. BTW, I really enjoy that Kawaida album put out on the same label. I first heard it on a Trip reissue in the mid-70's. It's rough but bracing. Available on CD via recent budget label reissues. https://www.discogs.com/master/163798-Kuumba-Toudie-Heath-Kawaida

My favorite by them, a superior cover of an already-great Isley Brothers song:

The AWB album with 'Pick Up The Pieces' was released Aug 1974, and the first Sanborn solo album came out in 1975, so 'Pick Up The Pieces' likely came first. 'Pick Up The Pieces' was the #1 pop single in the USA for the week of Feb 22 1975.

And dirt cheap, $4 on bandcamp. Highly recommended if you like the cut I included. Great story! I "got" 'Meditations' when I first bought it, the ones especially lost on me were (are) 'Om' and 'Expression', though 'Ascension' and 'Live in Seattle' remain tough listens also 50 years on, though I'm more at peace with them due to adjusted expectations.

Especially since we can't safely determine price to order from CDJapan. I would have bought the Hannibal and Harper from them pre-tariff.