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Same here.

Très intéressant!

Oh, I see - sounds weird...

Yeah! Any memories about what bothered Gilson, brownie?

The John Lee was around for ages... the second looks more like a politician's wife than a blues singer, but I might be biased... who is she?

What the COULD/OUGHT TO do is this: The GRP CD is fine enough, but missing several tracks.

That's two of us. My Grado SR80s aren't all that comfortable, but with all my traveling, headphones are really my only option. (I wonder how many people here understand the reference to Pantani?!) Well, I thought it was okay to make that reference in light of the recent Contador-thread... you know, when I was still cycling I started shaving my head (still do, though usually not as short as I did back then) and the other kids called me "Elephantino" As for my headphones... a quick search on the net tells me they cost twice as much here as in $$-land... I'm using them right now and sound is really pretty nice to my ears. I'm no audiophile, so there's that... I prefer listening in a room anyway, even if it's just at low volume.

A Mosaic Select would be cool there, too! Just as with Lateef!

I've got one pair of fairly cheap Sony headphones (meaning this isn't a thread I should post in at all) but my ears are too Pantani-like to be suited to long hours of headphone-listening anyway... (Sony MDR-V150, in case anyone cares... got to buy what's around in the 0.378 stores that carry such stuff here...)

Also got a mail that the replacement for the Murray box is on its way! That was faster than anticipated!

Well, it would definitely slow down some... but frankly I don't see why average speeds of 40 km/h make it more attractive than, say, 36 km/h.

Sorry about that - and thanks for sorting it out!

Just remembered that I do have one of the digipack-originals: "Live at Birdland" (I had one of the Impulse Masters editions with the accidentally shortened take of "Afro Blue" and hence upon finding out got the Originals edition). It says indeed: "Mastered by Kevin Reeves at Universal Mastering Studios-East". I wonder what "Originals" J.A.W. was talking about - I always assumed the boxes to contain the very same discs that were also sold separately. Same for "Crescent", btw, which I also just found... must have bought it because I love the album and it can't be listened to in original sequence in the quartet 8CD-set... time to listen to that one again!

Got shipping confirmations for the four new ones from amazon.fr!

But remember: after all, Dumbledore is gay

So the boxes DO contain DIFFERENT remasterings compared to the Originals? This is getting to be confusing... as for the design: indeed some of the "Originals" digipack-reissues of (especially) Impulse albums do look splendid, while the jewel case packed discs in box Vol. 4 don't look nearly as nice.

r.i.p. Jef Gilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPCXsGKnhY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=375qcQ5oSyU

Yeah well, there's lots of money in it... so legalize all dope/ing and see what goes. Let them gladiators kill themselves in the arena!

I guess it's all "Originals" nowadays - unless you go the Japan route. I also think (but am not sure) I've seen some single discs in store from the more recent boxes - jewel case packed originals. Boxes #1-3 were Originals, too, yes? Just done by Universal instead of their boutique-outlet Hip-O, and packed in digipacks, correct? Haven't really followed all of this too closely as I've got my Trane... wouldn't mind buying box #5 if they ever fix it.

Honestly, I'd never have bought any Bob Wills if not for these offers (got each of them for under 10€, would have payed twice as much or more, as well). Anyway, for the time being, I guess Wills' final album ("For the Last Time") is next up on the shopping list, and that will leave me covered at least for some time.

I don't seem to understand the question... I recently got box #4 and the packing is the very same as the "horrible" Originals (which design-wise are okay with me). So broken up boxes or originals will look the same. The only difference is they come in jewel cases (originals are digipacks, I know, but early on in yurp they came in jewel cases, too). The discs stacked in the cardboard box of Vol. 4 even say "Originals" inside the traycard (visible because of clear trays being used).

Since a quick search on Amazon didn't yield too many details, just a quick question regarding the SECOND (1940-47) of your JSP sets: Does this also included cloumbia/Okeh STUDIO recordings only (making them redundant with the Bear Family box set which includes a total of some 257 tracks from Bob Wills' Columbia/Okeh studio years)? Or are there other sources (transcriptions etc.) that have been incorporated into this second set? Tracklists are all that's around, I think... haven't yet started with Vol. 2, but here's the dates given for the 1940-47 sessions: Vol. 1 CD4 ends with eight tracks from Saginaw, TX - 1940-04-15 Then the 1940-47 set contains: CD1: Saginaw, TX - 1940-04-15 (ctd, 3 tracks) Saginaw, TX - 1940-04-16 (3) Fort Worth, TX - 1941-02-24 (3) Fort Worth, TX - 1941-02-25 (3) Fort Worth, TX - 1941-02-26 (2) Hollywood, CA - 1941-07-23 (5) Hollywood, CA - 1941-07-24 (5 + prob. #1 from disc 2, "My Life's Been a Pleasure" - copy/paste mistake in booklet there) CD2: Hollywood, CA - 1942-07-14 (5) Hollywood, CA - 1942-07-15 (5) Hollywood, CA - 1942-07-16 (2) Hollywood, CA - 1945-01-26 (6) Hollywood, CA - 1945-01-28 (2) Hollywood, CA - 1945-04-20 (3) Hollywood, CA - 1945-10-03 (1) CD3: Hollywood, CA - 1945-10-03 (ctd.) (3) Hollywood, CA - 1946-09-04 (3) Hollywood, CA - 1946-09-05 (5) Hollywood, CA - 1946-09-06 (4) Chicago, IL - 1947-10-15 (6) Chicago, IL - 1947-10-16 (4) CD4: Chicago, IL - 1947-10-16 (ctd) (2) Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA - 1947-10-30 (10) Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA - 1947-10-31 (5) Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA - 1947-11-10 (4) Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA - 1947-11-12 (4) Tracklist can be found here: http://www.allmusic.com/album/texas-hollywood-and-chicago-1940-1947-r2141389 Not sure if this helps... haven't checked the booklets about any label information...

It's more like cycling is kaput... I stopped giving a damn several years ago, even though I used to be an avid cyclist in my youth.

Bumping this up... got both of Wills' JSP sets cheaply this weekend (covering 1935-1940 and 1940-1947, respectively), enjyoing the first one now! Lengthy write-up on Wills here: http://www.rousefamily.com/rock_roots/?p=3652

Yeah, that's it - Picadilly Circus it was! They had quite a stunning selection back then!