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Welcome to the world of Television, Al! Those albums came out in 1977 & 1978, respectively. I have yet to pick up the new re-masters with the extra tracks, but it's just a matter of time. I did in fact just order the "Waldorf" set from Rhino this week - should be great. It was mentioned in a review of the band on NPR's Fresh Air last week, which you can hear through the web site. Speaking of web sites, there is a really good one out of England for these guys right here: The Wonder I also just picked up a 2CD compilation (also English) of Tom Verlaine material that I had been looking for called "The Miller's Tale - A Tom Verlaine Anthology" ('Miller' being his real last name). I really like what I'm hearing, so far. The first disc is from a live show in England in the early 80's. The second is a collection of stuff from his solo albums, unreleased material and one tune each from the first 2 TV albums. It's a really nice set, if you find it. As far as seeing the band live.......they have played sporatically together over the last few years. I just saw them here in SF last Fall. Pretty much what you would expect - a guitar jam-fest. And finally........they did an album together in the early 90's just called "Television" which didn't do well, but has some great material on it. Should be easy to find. Hope I didn't overload you with info........enjoy!

I got that email, too. I hope that they stay on schedule with that release. I'm looking forward to it. I never picked up a CD of "Four & More" or "In Europe" just waiting to get the whole thing in this box.

"Decisive Moment"!! B)

Eggleston's VERY entertaining. I have had this book for a long time. Highly recommended (if it's still available).

"Half Note" is a great album. I'm waiting to hear the reviews on the sound quality upgrade (I have the original release) before picking this up......again.

Once again.....not a jazzer, but a great name. Bob Seger's sax player: Alto Reed

Since Shrieve is not mentioned on the vinyl, that's why I was wondering if his only appreance was on the alt. take.

Yep, he's listed to. For some reason I always assumed that he played "incedental" percussion, though.

I just picked up the re-issue of LDS. I always liked it, actually, and was lucky enough to have seen the tour they did. Just wish I had been aware of who Larry Young was at the time or I would have paid more attention to him. Anyway, my questions is: Who's the drummer on this? I always assumed that it was Cobham all the way through, but the new (and somewhat flawed) liner notes only discuss Michael Shrieve. He wasn't listed at all on the original release. There's a alt. take of ALS that sounds to me like Shrieve might be on that. It's got a less frenetic and somewhat funkier feel to it.

I should have gone. I think it was a once-in-a-lifetime shot. Won't happen again. Oh, well ...

Yoshi's JazzHound - here's all the info you could possibly need on this "joint". B)

Gary Winogrand - Another one of the greats of "street" photography.

Another favorite.

Cartier-Bresson - One of the all-time great photographs by one of the all-time great photographers.

I have no idea, Cliff. I was only reposting historical info from their website. I don't have any inside knowledge otherwise. I suspect there is no connection, but that's just a guess.

Will do.

This Mitchell set is really growing on me. I'm listening to the 2nd disk now and it hasn't stopped killin' since I put it on!

There are lots of vocals by Andy Bey and his sisters here. The lyrics are VERY "70's", but I like these dates a lot anyway. REALLY looking forward to these Conns.

... and I thought my picks were a little "off". Guess I'm not alone. Youze guys are the GREATEST!

Anyone going to this "Only North American Appearance" show at Yoshi's next week? I'll be there on Friday ...

Let me toss in some different options: - Rainy Day, Dream Away - Ezy Ryder - Drifting (gorgeous!)

From the website: The (very short) History of Shout! Factory Some of us here at Shout! are refugees from the Rhino label where we managed to unleash an ungodly number of music compilations, retro-TV re-issues and a few movies of dubious distinction on an unsuspecting public. Now, just when you thought it was safe, we're launching Shout! Factory. We had an amazing run at Rhino. I'm not taking too much credit. My brother Richard, Harold Bronson, Gary Stewart and several others deserve the bulk of it. 25 years for Richard, 15 years for me, and about the same for our partner Bob Emmer. Bob was Rhino's head of Business Affairs and the man responsible for putting us together with Atlantic in 1992. Last year it was time to move on, and Richard decided to put together a new label, got Bob involved then brought me in. The optimist that he is - he sees this as a great time for an entrepreneurial, independent audio and video co. They bought the Biograph catalog last year - our first acquisition - for the classic Skip James album (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues), Son House, Johnny Shines, plus historic piano rolls from Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. We're putting together a bunch of Blues compilations (single and various artists), we're working on some themed multi-artist titles with mainstream, big hits, and some more conceptual compilations with cool, unexpected tracks. Initially, it looks like the video/DVD business could be bigger for us than audio. Our early releases are really varied - The DVD for The Rhythm, Love & Soul PBS special (PBS only until Summer); Pop culture documentaries - Timothy Leary, Kerouac, John Waters, Andy Warhol; A doc. about the 2000 Florida election scandal - Unprecedented; Legendary animation from Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival, where some of the edgiest and most creative animation that you have and haven't heard of gets started; The Warren Miller ski film library - new and classic films from the king of the genre; Some great concert videos - like Joni Mitchell's classic 1980 concert "Shadows and Light" with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and other amazing musicians. We're in negotiation for several cult and classic TV show libraries that we hope to announce over the next few months. That's about all there is for now but we're coming up with new stuff every day so please stop back soon to catch up or, better yet, sign up for our no-spam newsletter and we'll send you updates from time to time (like once a month, not once an hour). Sincerely, Garson Foos

You know, I read that and was wondering the same thing! What's up with THAT??

Is it just me, or is the board working much better since the "black-out"? It seemed to be kinda sluggish the past few weeks.