Van Basten II

The series Apocalypse but this time about the First Great War, as griping and well documented than the series about the Second War.

As Ubu says it looks like a box set for those who are really starting to buy music, it depends of what you are looking for but they are probably better deals elsewhere

That's a gig that I wouldn't mind attending

Not sure if that's a bargain or an overpriced collection of material slowly getting out of copyright "prison " , looks interesting, anybody can share more light on this set, details are sketchy at best http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IY28XK0/ref=pe_208681_48552121_em_1p_0_ti

Sae Jeremy Pelt and his band, to be truthful compositions and arrangements failed to make an impression on me, a lot of pieces with electric bass and on the Rhodes, That said the fellow remains a solid player , little histrionics no look at me stuff , nice sound just all around no nonsense strong technical playing,. Drummer (Don't remember his name was a bit on the too much rock'in side especially in the first set where he was was too loud, and considering how hyperactive he was , I though he was paid for every time he'd hit something , in the second set he was less intrusive, they made some change to the kit and he was thankfully less loud but he basically plays like every piece is a drum solo . The discovery of the night belongs to his pianist/keyboardist Theo Hill, loved what he could do either on the Rhodes than on the few times he used the regular piano, good listener good timing . Don't know if it was designed this way or the leader felt the same vibe I did but as the show progressed he was allowed more room to roam. Pelt who between tunes works a bit like an old fashioned MC telling some stories intrioduces the band in a sometimes hyoperbolic way told a story that was more flattery than factual truth, as people asked for an encore he mentionned that when working in Europe he explained that over there no matter how terrible a band would sound you'd always get an encore while in North-America it is less taken for granted and you gotta earn it more. Can not say for other cities I'm afraid that over here you really got to suck big time not to get an encore as if I get his drift we are more Europeans in terms of being an easy crowd . Of course they have been some incidents over the years but they were exceptions and there was some context to explain them.

Amazon Spain from my perspective had always crazy shipping rates, better one has always been the UK, to make it worthwhile you had to make a multi items order . Guess that the.com didn't like to see business get away from him

Her husband suddenly becomes her twin sister ???

Going to see them as they are the bigger names at the Suoni per il Popolo, looking for to see Hamid and William again

Not sure I'm into this stuff either, looks like more disco than soul from what I remembered from the first boxes anyway do you another place to listen to this stuff besides Spotify it ain't available here (Spotify not the boxes )

In the Mingus case, it was a question more of when I'd buy it than if , economically it's not very good buying stuff from the US since a while, music wise if there was a simple way of obtaining everything he did and hopefully in the best shape sound wise I'd probably be jumping on it Is the site slow for everyone or just me

Same here, although it is a lesser deal with the change rate not favorable , intially with the shipping it went around 200 $ in Canadian money just for the Ellington set, added up two other sets to sweeten the deal (shipping rate wise). Bit of a shame they stop doing Selects as they were cheaper. Nonetheless excited to listen to my new acquisitions not a bad trio The Duke,The Hawk and Mingus should be a good summer

uodate as of April 10th, 2014 available...... He finally wrote me back, he deleted all the commentaries and will keep on with the site , as he told me, they were very few big bargains the last few months which also explains the lack of activity.

FYI Bons plans classique (http://bons-plans-classique.blogspot.ca/) which is an invaluable tool to find about bargains seems to be on the verge of closing shop, in the commentary section there was an exchange which led someone threatening to call a lawyer, following the person in charge of the site has closed the commentary section but also there has been barely any updates since the last month. Have emailed them a few days ago, they never bothered answering me back. As we're speaking the last entry dates from march the 12th

... and it was a dramatic final indeed.

While slowly going around the RCO anthology volume 5 , by the way great collection can't wait to put my hands on the huge box if I can ever get it to a more reasonnable price, encountered this piece of music., quite fascinating rather wild a bit cacophonesque especially if you like classical but as mostly a jazzhead I almost felt like I was in La Sala Rosa at the Suoni per il popolo festival as you could easily imagine a free jazz band taking a try at it and make it swing it even more . Found very little about the piece, here's taken fron Schat's site http://www.peterschat.nl/ensembles.htm This piece belongs to my most extreme, repetitive and loudest compositions. It was premiered in the Holland Festival 1970 in the Concertgebouw,under my direction. When it was retaken 25 years later in The Hague it was generally considered to be the starting-point of the repetitive-fortissimo 'Hague-school' of 'bulldozer Louis Andriessen'. (But I never aspired to form a 'school' myself. I'd seen enough in Darmstadt and the like - they're always breeding-places of epigonism and fanaticism.) Was wondering if you encountered this piece in other settings or recordings of this piece. PS I started this thread in the classical forum since the piece was taken from a Classical set but I guess it could also fit into other sections as well, to the mods put where it fits the best, important thing is to talk about the music itself.

I thought the same thing , here it was around -27 celsius with a windchill effect that went -37, don't know the equivalent in Farenheit but it's mo........king cold !

Well, I probably don't need this, as I have an awful lot of it in the Living Stereo Box, but I may get weak and go for it. It depends on just how low it goes, I guess. On Amazon.ca it is being sold for 105 $

You might check out this film http://jinglebellrocks.com/

By experience I can tell you this that if you don't take care of the problem (Probably something that allows people to post directly) you'll pretty soon get drown in it....

That's the main reason I stopped buying from them, when they had the deal 50 cds for 50 $, the shipping doubled the amount , thought it was ridiculous, of course it's not his fault , in my case the big sellers never were his competition as what I bought from him was stuff I couldn't get anywhere else.

Only bad thing are the shipping rights for non US folks

From les Bons plans classiques a few sets from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at around 20 Euros each http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001JYDLMU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=B001JYDLMU&linkCode=as2&tag=bonsplanscl00-21

I tend to agree with you on that point. It is my theory that with so many people, especially younger people, now accessing the internet on smartphones, often while they are on the run or doing something else at the same time, that forums or boards are more difficult to use, and thus less popular. I access the internet sometimes on my smartphone, and sometimes on my desktop PC. It is in fact more difficult for me to read a forum on a smartphone. The type is so small on the screen, and it is often more difficult to view artwork within a post, or to access and read links within a post. It is also much more difficult to type out a post of any length on a smartphone. So the smartphone generation turns to Twitter, where the messages are all very short and easy to type into a phone. It takes a certain amount of attention, focus and ability to easily read on the device you are using, to participate in a forum, and it is not that easy to do all that when you are on the run with a smartphone. Exactly, the Facebook and the Twitters have taken over in terms of communication which makes these boards moot for certain types of communication,, especially short brief ones, logically it should mean for boards like ours less action and less postings but hopefully deeper ones. Also as you mentionned the new tools we use to communicate nowadays don't work that well with "old school ways" of communicating such as a forum.

Welcome back, haven't seen you in a while! Thanks, have been quite busy the last few years, so a few things had to take a step down