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I just bought this set from someone on e-bay, $155, I had planned to buy it when it was available from Mosaic, but the budget didn't allow it, and then it was *poof* gone. I didn't know about the distortion issues. Am I going to regret buying this?

Ronnie has a very active business selling his art, including his own website. On several of the most recent Stones tours of the U.S. and Canada, he's often had exhibits/sales in local galleries in major markets like Boston, Toronto, etc. http://www.ronniewood.org/ Start there to see what prices his works command. Then do a google search and type in "Ronnie Wood art for sale" and a lot of websites selling his stuff will pop up. This will allow you to do some price comparisions with similar works. BTW, it's pianist Ian McLagan, not McLaughlin. The autographs and personalization will add value to your piece, but I can't say with any certainty how valuable it might be, since he there's a lot of his art on the market. Good luck, hope this helps.

I'm in the same boat. Not only with that 8CD box which I have, but the 6 individual CDs issued in the late 80s or so of people like Jimmy and Mama Yancey, Blind Willie McTell. Rhino Handmade's website doesn't list the artists next to the song titles, and while I can guess most of them, it's more work than I care to invest trying to discern if there's anything new or rare here...

Oh, that's funny! I had not noticed, but my hat is off to you for that....

There must be something in the format of boards like this that brings out the obsessive-compulsive nature of people who simply can't live in a world where, God Forbid!, a question might be asked a second time. We must have order! You WILL use the Search function to find any possible previously existing thread that addresses any thought or question you might have! We cannot have duplicate threads, EVER! If this board were the only one where this sort of Order! and Discipline! were demanded of its posting members, that would be one thing. However, I see this behavior repeated in board after board in all manner of subjects.

You can also watch his old TV broadcasts every Friday night on the EWTN cable TV channel, they air at 9PM eastern time. It's like a classic time capsule back 50 years ago, with a timeless message.

I have it, some days are real bad, others not so bad. I got it from working in radio and wearing headphones a lot, volume too high. It seemed funny to me and my radio co-workers how loud I ran them 30 years ago, it's not funny now. The tinnitus today isn't necessarily triggered by loud music or sounds. I notice that it gets triggered even by low-level music, apparently certain frequencies aggravate it with me.

She was a woman of charm, talent, literate, truly a Renaissance woman. R.I.P., Kitty Carlisle Hart.

Go to wikipedia and see if you can spot the album you remember. Fortunately, they have the album covers/artwork on the site. There are 4 albums that strike me as likely to contain the one you are looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Tennessee_Mountain_Home http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_Good_O...mes_Were_Bad%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Blue_Ridge_Mountain_Boy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Many_Colors I'd bet it was Coat of Many Colors.... Hope this helps...

"Don't Worry, Baby" and "Heroes and Villains" are my two favorite Beach Boys recordings. I'll admit to being a fan of their vocal harmonies and Brian's inventive instrumentation and studio work, so much so that I have a bunch of the Sea of Tunes box sets that show the various works in progress. The kinds of studio multi-track trickery we take for granted now were really difficult to pull off back in 1965 or so.

I picked up a paperback copy of the Lester Young "Lester Leaps In" bio written by Douglas Daniels last week. Has anyone here read it, and if so, what do you think? I'll admit I'm struggling through it, the first 100 pages have been little more than conjecture and guesswork on Daniels' part about anything factual about Pres. Does the book get better, or is this going to be a hard slogging read every step of the way for me?

Thanks. I needed your approval to get on with my life. That's a load off my mind! LOL! You asked for opinions. If you expected you were going to receive unanimous hurrahs for your exquisite taste in pop music, I think you were being naive.

The only Pharaoh Sanders album I ever owned (and, the only one I've ever heard...) is "Love In Us All" Somehow, I don't even remember how, I acquired a copy of the vinyl when it first came out in 1974. And I thought "Love Is Everywhere" was fantastic. I've been looking for a CD for the last several years, since the vinyl and I were parted long ago...so I'm glad to see it finally has been issued in Japan. I'm not certain how representative this particular work is for Sanders, but I gather that folks here either love it or hate it.

Thanks for the timeline, that makes sense. I've tried to look up old Argo and Univ. of Kansas rosters to see if I could remember the name of the guy I met, but I've struck out completely. It's not entirely clear to me (my memory is fuzzy) whether this guy actually made the Argos for a season or two, or whether he only got a training camp shot at the team. And yeah, he did agree that Flutie was an extraordinary player who paid off for the Argos....

True story: Six years ago, my neighbor and I took a "boys' weekend" trip to Dublin, Ireland. Our wives weren't very happy with us, because we had booked the trip in August of 2001, and the flight was late October 2001. IOW, we were flying from the U.S. to Ireland just a few weeks after 9/11, So we did the rounds: whiskey sampling factory tour at the Jameson plant, beer sampling factory tour at Guinness, etc. And mid-way through the weekend, we camped on a Saturday afternoon in the pub in the Westin Hotel near Trinity College in Dublin to smoke some cigars and drink more beer. After we'd been there awhile (it was a lazy afternoon, and not many customers in the hotel pub), two guys turned up, obviously U.S. military, and we invited them over for a beer. Turned out they were J.A.G.'s (military lawyers) on leave from Germany for the weekend. And one of them turned out to be a former CFL football player, an offensive lineman in the early 90s for the Toronto Argonauts. He was really tall, about 6'6", but not heavy at all. He'd played college ball at Kansas. And he regaled us with the tale of how his professional football career came to a sudden end. It seems that it was the last exhibition game of the season, the Argos were playing some team, and Doug Flutie was the QB. My friend says he had played pretty well in pre-season, and was sure he had nailed down a regular season roster spot. The Argos were losing a close one, and then, the last play of the game, as the clock ticked down to zero, Flutie scrambled and tossed a Hail Mary that was caught for a TD, and the Argos dramatically won the game. Now of course this was just exhibition football, but still, a win is a win, especially if you pull it off with the kind of flair that someone like Flutie could do. The Argos all jumped up and down with each other and whooped and hollered at the sheer fun of it all, winning like that. Kind of like you'd do in 6th grade elementary school when you won the game during recess. But my friend said there was one problem with the victory: just as Flutie got off the Hail Mary, he was absolutely clobbered, leveled, hammered, knocked silly, by a linebacker coming at full tilt, uninterrupted. And the reason the LB had a full head of steam is because my friend the OL missed his block. Oops. So it came to pass that on Monday the team had a meeting scheduled to review game films. My friend the OL said he went to his locker, and discovered it was empty. He said he was confused, and asked an assistant coach where his gear was. The coach said, "Sorry, it's out in the hall. Doug was pretty pissed about you missing that block." And thus the end of a football career. My newfound friend the ex-CFLer said it was just as well that he moved on to law school, that his knees would never have withstood a lot of pro football anyway. But he says he never forgot that Doug Flutie ended his football career simply because of one missed block, and because he was a big enough star that the team would do anything to satisfy his whims. With the end of that story, we all laughed, and my neighbor and I bought another round for our guests.

Rod Stewart was never anything more than a voice, never wrote anything, never played anything, and after Maggie May 35 years ago, I completely lost interest in him. Mostly because he stopped singing great songs and started singing a lot of vapid pop crap. Even his Songbook stuff has him singing great songs very poorly. Elton: after 1972, much sound and fury, but mostly empty, noisy pop music with no depth at all. If that sort of shallow music floats your boat, you're entitled to it.

I know the market out there for CDs in general in this age of downloads is rather tenuous. And I've read that Mosaic took a hit on their Bunny Berigan set when JSP ripped them off with an el cheapo box set. Is Mosaic in trouble? Sure hope not, but I fear the honest answer.

I bought the entire series a month ago (except #5, which I have yet to track down), didn't know they even existed until this Forum informed me. They are all quite terrific, the standout for me thus far is #9, with some songs I particularly have always loved, and some great performances.

Amen. Yazoo's liner notes generally missed the mark and weren't especially informative, but then, that's a characteristic that dates back to their earliest vinyl days in the 1960s. OTOH, Yazoo's sound mastering was the model for how it should be done. They eschewed all the no-noise/sonic cleaning nonsense that removed half the music in favor of something that sounded "clean" by today's standards....but the Yazoo enthusiast gets to hear notes and voices that are lost on other labels' efforts. I will miss them immensely if their retirement from the blues biz is true.

I'm new to this forum, and it's pretty obvious it's going to be a costly experience. I didn't know about the existence of the Duke Ellington Treasury Shows, so I just ordered up the entire set. Sadly, the 12 different discs will come from several different sellers, thus announcing themselves to my wife in repeated fashion over several days....in other words, I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do

While this Yazoo set was the first to release the Son House 78 of "Clarksdale Moan" and "Mississippi County Farm Blues", the man who actually OWNS that 78 is famed collector John Tefteller, and he issued his own CD containing rare old blues, including the recently found House songs. http://www.bluesimages.com/ His calendar contains fantastic, rare old blues advertising artwork from the 1920s and 1930s.

The Elmore James box in particular is something akin to a Holy Grail, as it contains his very best work, his intense early recordings. An absolute must-have for anyone who is a blues enthusiast.

Bingo. As jazz fans, we better all hope the market for Mosaic's product stays healthy, because we are already seeing the CD market as a whole start to shrink in significant ways. Worse, no less a prominent blues label than Yazoo is ending its CD reissues...partly because the label owner wants to retire, and partly because it was never super-profitable to begin with, but was instead more of a labor of love.

It was 90 minutes. Here's what you missed: Strayhorn heroically rescues Ellington by largely doing all the work on "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Paris Blues" Then Strayhorn heroically helps lead the civil rights movement with Lena Horne. Then he gets sicks, heroically fights his illness, visits Paris for the last time, writes "Blood Count" and then dies (heroically). Now, _that's_ funny!