Hope you enjoy it a lot. What gets me on these concerts is how they are playing the same half a dozen standards that they've played for years, but if you compare these '67 performances to those of the previous years they've completely re-arranged the material and they're so supple moving in and out of tempos and dropping out leaving a soloist dangling. They make it exciting, at least for me, who practically grew up musically listening to Miles and a guy who loves improvisation and deconstructing musical forms and melodies.

Tony Williams . . . from '63 to '67 he was absolutely a force of nature. He ruled that band  The DVD is very interesting..

You're right, I'm not listening to that!

The Senor Blues I was listening to I think was a different composition as well.

Listening to the new reissue of this one. Sounds fantastic.

The Blu-Ray of this recording is quite good, and the music is, forty years later, still amazing:

Something a kid at work gave to me to listen to. Just a little bit too aggressive for me. Kind of like using dynamite for a birthday candle!

Donnie quipped:
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I assume you mean the music, not the picture!

The new Japanese EMI cd.

The Torii can be a great death metal amp.

Well, thanks. I hadn't thought about it that way but yes, I've learned to like an awful lot of music over the years. My parents got me grounded in classical and swing. My stay in Africa opened my ears up to a whole different type of sound and the fact that music can communicate, can be a social vehicle. Beginning to play music out of the house (on drums) exposed me to mechanics of how music is made, which helped me to appreciate music that I hadn't before, from the inside so to speak.

I've found some things have really held up over the years: I don't really like pop music and a lot of white rock bands, or that is I can like them but they don't hold up over time to lots of listening. And I'm not really a "singer-songwriter" guy. . . especially white guys with acoustic guitars. Bore the pants off me. That's just me, maybe part of my upbringing, also part of my experience making music. Finally I have had far too much experience with rednecks and am not fond of them or music that reminds me of them. I like music that may be complexly crafted such as classical, jazz, or Brazilian bossa nova, and I love music with real edge and balls, like Hendrix and 'lectric Miles and Albert Ayler and Opeth.

I wish I could stop buying music. But I can't. I have enough to last several lifetimes. . . but. . . . Need to push myself into the disappointing and frustrating process of finding work. I need money for more music!

Right now



Dexter WAS a sophisticated giant!

I mainly bought this for Sonny Sharrock's wild guitar. Man. But it's a funky record with great sound on the Water Records cd. Linda was very beautiful then!

I forget how much I love the jazz and hot dance of the twenties until I haven't heard any for a while and put them on. This set sounds great, as every Jazz Oracle does; they present this music in the best imaginable sound.

The new Japanese cd. Sounds killer, great music.

Finally absorbing the last show in the Europe '72 box set!

Anyone heard of dubstep?  It is some kind of English movement and I recently picked this up by a guy named James Blake.  Believe it or not, even though it is electronic, the guy does have some soul in his voice.  I like it because it is different and the bass is beyond this world.

Dusty had a number of albums out, but as far as I know did not have a hit with Harper Valley PTA, that was Jeannie C. Riley.

Spinning, as in ripping this now; the Rhino Complete set arrived while I was out of town:

Zevon heavy