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krj
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response 32 of 124:
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Dec 15 23:08 UTC 2001 |
OK, I'll watch for it. Argh. I'm only running a week behind schedule on
this Christmas shopping stuff. I hope the Bo Grumpus ragtime CD I ordered
for my dad gets here on schedule.
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mcnally
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response 33 of 124:
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Dec 17 02:26 UTC 2001 |
I haven't heard their Maytals collection but the "Music Club" collections
I've wound up with are quite well put together -- reasonably priced with
good track selection..
I highly recommend their "Dub Chill Out" collection to anyone looking for
an inexpensive introduction to classic Jamaican dub.
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krj
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response 34 of 124:
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Dec 17 03:06 UTC 2001 |
A stop at the Arborland Borders clarified a few things for me: clearly I
should have checked with them earlier instead of the downtown store.
I'm guessing Barry was recommending a collection called "Pressure Drop:
The Best Of..." which is Trojan CDTRL 171. That's the one which was
advertising ten extra tracks. I just don't feel this looks like a good
introductory compilation for my sister.
Borders had both the Island (2000) and Music Club versions of
"The Very Best of Toots and the Maytals." The two discs have about
nine tracks in common, which are the ones I've heard of, like "Funky
Kingston."
The tracks which are only on the Music Club selection are:
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Got To Be There
Louie, Louie
Redemption Song
Revolution
Sit Right Down
Having A Party
The tracks which are only on the Island (2000) compilation are:
Broadway Jungle
Bam Bam
54-46 That's My Number
(54-46 Was My Number appears on both discs)
In The Park
Reggae Got Soul
Never You Change
Living In The Ghetto
Never Get Weary
Dream to Remember
Spiritual Healing
Peace, Perfect Peace
I dunno, from here it seems like the only advantage of the Music Club
compilation is that it has three well-known standards (the first three tracks
I listed) done reggae style, and it seems like losing "Broadway Jungle"
and "Reggae Got Soul" are liabilities. My inclination is just to leave
things as they are, with a copy of the Island (2000) on its way from
amazon.com. Thanks for putting up with all this....
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krj
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response 35 of 124:
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Dec 17 06:23 UTC 2001 |
Note to self: David Wisdom (CBC) played a track "What The New World
Teaches The Old" by a Vancouver rock musician called Phil Smith
which, I dunno, maybe reminded me a little bit of Yo La Tengo, but
mcnally shouldn't run out and buy it just because I said that.
Some nice electric guitar stuff, tasty and melodic rather than
pyrotechnical.
That's the title track from his new album, says David Wisdom, and I
found a reference to a band the guy was in called Corsage, but
so far google-searching has mostly revealed that there are an awful
log of Phil Smith's in the world.
Mike, you know anything about this guy? I would guess that Vancouver
rock musicians spill down into Seattle.
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mcnally
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response 36 of 124:
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Dec 17 14:26 UTC 2001 |
Haven't heard of him. I'll keep an eye out for a Seattle appearance
but for some reason I find it much harder to keep track of who's playing
in the Seattle area than I did in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area.. By and
large I don't seem to hear about most of the shows I'd be interested in
until after they've already happened..
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happyboy
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response 37 of 124:
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Dec 18 01:25 UTC 2001 |
ken, correct about the toots comp. it's on trojan.
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jaklumen
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response 38 of 124:
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Dec 20 11:05 UTC 2001 |
I have always thought about doing a studio quality recording just for
fun, but I don't think I'd ever have the $$$.
Can't think of what I'd put on it, either. I've always wanted to do
remakes of 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" and Mason William's "Classical
Gas" (classical guitar arrangement, probably solo, no accompaniment)
but lack of resources has always been a problem.
just a little pipe dream, I suppose..
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happyboy
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response 39 of 124:
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Dec 20 14:49 UTC 2001 |
crack pipe dream!
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tpryan
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response 40 of 124:
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Dec 20 19:14 UTC 2001 |
re 38: Have you ever thought of doing a 'living room quality'
recording, just for fun? With a couple mics and direct into PC
you can at least come up with a demo type thing.
My trip to The Guitar Center shown me there is a whole new
arena of computer geekdoom in their. Toys! Toys! Toys!
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scott
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response 41 of 124:
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Dec 20 21:42 UTC 2001 |
Ditto on the direct-to-PC recording. With a couple of decent mics and a
little mixer you can do a very nice recording on your own computer, and then
burn to CD.
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jaklumen
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response 42 of 124:
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Dec 21 06:23 UTC 2001 |
true, that.. I do have MIDI software to boot
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tpryan
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response 43 of 124:
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Dec 21 18:03 UTC 2001 |
Any high praise for Audiowerks sound cards?
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krj
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response 44 of 124:
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Jan 15 19:54 UTC 2002 |
I was a Jethro Tull fan when I was a wee sprout, so I'll pass this along.
Whoever owns the Chrysalis label now (EMI?) has started a new reissue
campaign for the Jethro Tull catalog. The good news is that
the albums THIS WAS, STAND UP and BENEFIT have been (allegedly) cleaned
up and (definitely) reissued. I haven't heard the new ones yet, but
my old CD of BENEFIT was on the hissy side. (My LP -- well er um,
it seemed to have one channel completely worn away by overuse last
time I played it....)
The bad news is that the album LIVING IN THE PAST has been withdrawn;
some of its contents are being dispersed as bonus tracks on those
reissue CDs.
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bruin
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response 45 of 124:
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Jan 16 02:21 UTC 2002 |
Is "Aqualung" currently available on CD reissues.
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krj
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response 46 of 124:
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Jan 16 05:25 UTC 2002 |
Don't know. Presumably a remastered AQUALUNG, Tull's 4th album,
would be the next reissue to come out; the CDs I described in
resp:44 were Tull's first three albums.
In the past, the story has always been that a good-sounding AQUALUNG
has been impossible to deliver because the master tapes, which were
kept in Ian Anderson's personal custody, had deteriorated badly.
Guess we'll see what comes next...
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krj
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response 47 of 124:
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Feb 6 05:34 UTC 2002 |
The new US quarter coin is.... a music quarter!!
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mcnally
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response 48 of 124:
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Feb 6 06:19 UTC 2002 |
Oh?
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jaklumen
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response 49 of 124:
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Feb 6 07:43 UTC 2002 |
I haven't kept up with the quarter collection.. for which state is
this, and what is the image?
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krj
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response 50 of 124:
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Feb 12 21:05 UTC 2002 |
Nobody else has gotten one of the new music quarters yet?
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jaklumen
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response 51 of 124:
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Feb 12 21:46 UTC 2002 |
No.
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micklpkl
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response 52 of 124:
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Feb 12 21:48 UTC 2002 |
Haven't seen one, but the US Mint had some groovy pictures. This is the
Tennessee state quarter, correct? Louisiana will also have a minor musical
theme.
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scott
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response 53 of 124:
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Feb 12 22:32 UTC 2002 |
I haven't gotten a new state quarter in about 4 months. :(
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krj
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response 54 of 124:
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Feb 13 00:00 UTC 2002 |
Yes, the Tennessee quarter is honoring country music, with a guitar and
a fiddle. I've only seen that first one myself.
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eeyore
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response 55 of 124:
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Feb 13 05:01 UTC 2002 |
I had one of them a couple of weeks ago, butdidn't hold on to it.
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flem
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response 56 of 124:
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Feb 13 17:07 UTC 2002 |
I saw one of the Tennessee quarters a week or two ago. I was with some people
who actually cared, so we spent a few minutes with a magnifying glass trying
to figure out if the piece of sheet music on it was actual music, or just
looked like it from a distance. We concluded that it wasn't, since the staves
only had four lines that we could find.
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