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Who was in his band?

I only heard the "The The" collaboration fairly recently. Some good stuff there! I've always liked his approach to guitar playing and phrasing. A fairly unique sound.

Fair enough. I actually DID stream the 3rd 'disk' today. I found about half of it interesting. A number of the tracks kind of seemed like bottom of the barrel outtakes or snippets of songs. But glad I heard them. I do want to hear the mono versions. Not that I'm a great fan of "back to Mono", but the mixes are often very different from the Stereo versions. I have a Doors Mono collection and that's definitely true. Thanks for the input!

Alright! Let's GOOOOOO! Saskatchewan: 60 points

This was finally released on CD and streaming. Originally it was only a Record Store Day release, but I think they had a surge of fan interest for a wider release. So now it's out. BTW it's mostly Surf Music!

I've been hesitant about this. First because of the terrible cover. I understand the underlying artwork was by Jimi himself, but I don't think it works. And for a major reissue of Axis, why didn't they use the original cover art? There's almost TOO much extra music (if that's possible). Disk 2 is all Mono versions which are sometimes interesting. Disk 3 is a bunch of additional alt-takes. Disk 4 has more alt-takes plus live stuff from Stockholm, mostly from "Are You Experienced". Would be interested to get your impressions, Lon. Listened to his quite a bit today. A very energetic recording, and George Coleman is on FIRE!

I pick up a few Black Jazz titles every time they have one of those sales. Grabbed the Gene Russell albums this time.

He's very good. I've seen him a number of times with the SFJAZZ Collective, including this past Sunday.

That must have been a special show to see in person!

Thursday in SF!

I never listened to any of these albums until recently. I knew about Barbieri from Porcupine Tree, and have had a couple David Sylvian albums for a long time. Karn was certainly a revelation. A shame he's not with us anymore.

Definitely! Both the original album and the live "In Europe" are excellent! Jack with Ravi and Matt Garrison at Big Ears 2019. I was lucky to see this trio a few times. Unfortunately, because of where I was sitting and Jack's ride cymbals, you can't see his face here