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undergroundagent Newbie

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I use to own the unreleased Jemini the Gifted One EP on Capital as well, but I never got into him too much.

I guess the LPs I miss the most are the Gang Starr's and Tribe Called Quest's. Well, okay, and the Showbiz & AG records as well.

Other than that, I'm a born again jazz fan! :excited:

Brandon Burke Newbie

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I use to own the unreleased Jemini the Gifted One EP on Capital as well, but I never got into him too much.

I guess the LPs I miss the most are the Gang Starr's and Tribe Called Quest's. Well, okay, and the Showbiz & AG records as well.

Other than that, I'm a born again jazz fan!  :excited:

You can always go back and get those Gang Starr and Quest records. They'll be in print for a while. I'm curious about Showbiz and AG because I completely blew them off way back when. Same with Lord Finesse.

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Sundog Newbie

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I think I might be in the early stages of becoming an Allman Brothers completist. Something about them that I still find very appealing. I think it must be the willingness to constantly take chances. Each live show is an adventure. Hell, they played Afro Blue on opening night at the Beacon last week. That's cool. Also, it doesn't help that an acquaintance of mine is one of the foremost Allman Brother collectors in the world. That guy is dangerous! I need to stay away from him.

7/4 Newbie

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I think I might be in the early stages of becoming an Allman Brothers completist. Something about them that I still find very appealing. I think it must be the willingness to constantly take chances. Each live show is an adventure. Hell, they played Afro Blue on opening night at the Beacon last week. That's cool. Also, it doesn't help that an acquaintance of mine is one of the foremost Allman Brother collectors in the world. That guy is dangerous! I need to stay away from him.

Derek Trucks has been playing this with his own band too, it's on his Soul Serenade album.

Brad Experienced

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I wouldn't call myself a completist; there's too much out there. I will buy lots of an artist's cds that I can get my hands on when I'm really listening to him a lot. I can relate to some of what Africa Brass is saying but I've stopped worrying about it because this is my hobby. I have a lot that I haven't listened to but that doesn't concern me either. I'll get to it some day and I'm in no rush. If I try to rush, I'll just get nothing from it so I take my time.

Sundog Newbie

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Derek Trucks has been playing this with his own band too, it's on his Soul Serenade album.

That's cool. The only DTB CD I don't have. I need to remedy that soon.

AfricaBrass Newbie

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I can relate to some of what Africa Brass is saying but I've stopped worrying about it because this is my hobby. I have a lot that I haven't listened to but that doesn't concern me either. I'll get to it some day and I'm in no rush. If I try to rush, I'll just get nothing from it so I take my time.

That's great about taking it all in without rushing. I think my downfall came when I tried to get EVERYTHING before it went out of print. My wife used to joke with me that the excuse "it's going out of print" didn't mean anything to her anymore since "everything is going out of print". :P

I truly have found that I enjoy the music much more since I gave up on trying to have everything.

One that is good about my craziness in the past is now that I'm married and poorer, I have a lot of great music to enjoy now and in the future. :D

clifford_thornton Veteran

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Now label completism I can go for...

I have very few stones left unturned in the ESP catalog and only a few BYG Actuels left, and I think maybe a couple of Marte Roling Fontanas I still need (really, anything on Fontana is cool). Got all but one of the Center of the World records (#7), but that was pretty easy. A run on the BN 4000 series would be hardcore, too, but I'll never meet that -- mainly because I can't bring myself to buy Horace Silver records or most Donald Byrd records. OK, ya got me started...

clifford_thornton Veteran

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Just to clarify, I do enjoy the early, early Byrd sides. Just not the stuff of the 60s. His playing doesn't stand out much for me. Horace: well, again, I like a few early sides (mainly in the 1500 series) but I found his music got repetitive after a while. The compositions got less and less engaging for me. But throw on "Byrd's Eye View" or "Further Explorations" and it's a different story...

Brandon Burke Newbie

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That's shocking...

Does anyone else feel this way about Horace Silver? I've always found his music, particularly the sixties sides, to be invigorating and soulful. To each their own, but I'll never pawn his albums off.

I feel exactly that way about Horace Silver (and Donald Byrd).

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jazzbo Grand Master

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I'm with Underground! I'm liking Horace's sixties stuff more and more as time goes by. And Byrd. . . yeah. . . I don't listen to the Mazell Bros. stuff. . . .But I do listen to the others (and post Mazell Byrd) with pleasure.

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GA Russell Veteran

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I learned my lesson when I was still pretty young and very poor.

I discovered the rock group Manfred Mann when I was a senior in high school. I was aware of their singles and wasn't interested. Then I heard an album and was hooked. Over time I bought everything by three groups Manfred was in.

About 1971 he started a new band, his fourth. I bought three albums by them, going into maybe '73 or '74. I never liked the fourth band, called the Earth Band, but I kept buying the records because I was a completist.

At that point I finally realized that the party was over and regained control of my spending. Since then I have bought everything available by some Canterbury groups up to a point when their productivity ground to a halt and only tapes from the vault were being issued, but I have never again been a completist.

So I agree with the above statement regarding diminishing marginal returns. When it stops being fun, count me out!

Jazzdog Newbie

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I have a love/indifferent thing about Byrd...I like MOST of his stuff, up to and including Ethiopian Knights. Great disk, but I dunno if I am interested in the Mizell years. Of course, I've never really listenend to it either. I am also not crazy about the band he had in the 60's that included Sonny Red, even though I like his playing. The stuff seems just so transitional and it drifts right into his electric period of the late 60's. That stuff I like and of course the music he did up until Free Form is uniformly superb. The vocal stuff also leaves me kind of cold.

As far as Silver, I am getting to like his music more and more, accepting it for what it is, the classic 50's BN's are hard to top. Indeed this is the sound the label built it's Empire upon. It really dosen't get any better than Finger Poppin/Blowin'!!

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