LouieB

You can't live without it. Get Gotta Serve Somebody, Saved, and Shot of Love now. All of them are better than Bringing it Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde. LouieB

Yea, Circle Paris came out in 1972 on ECM. Until you mentioned it I had forgotten Braxton was even on that. Actually Amazon is selling this book fairly cheaply (not one of the dealers.) They may not have it at a bookstore. LouieB

Actually I am not missing the point at all. In fact we seem to be going along with this pretty well. We are talking about our obsessions as well. Bringing up the fact that you are 20 is not exactly fair, I suppose, but the point is that young people like yourselves are entitled to your obsessions since we have all been 20 and been obsessed about something that others were obsessed about in the past. None of this new, don't you know?? At least you should appreciate some of the humor here. Bob Dylan isn't 20 anymore himself. He has been a musician for nearly half a century, with dozens of a

Yea, I didn't think it had been issued as a non-boot. I think I would rather remember it in my mind. I remember the wacky headscarves (I was at a show where Hamilton Camp was both dissing that and saying how cool it was at the same time.) and alot of swooping camera work. I still have the TV Guide from that period with an interview with Dylan in it. LouieB

I think it is called the Circle, I think I have those too, but didn't go look at this moment. Actually the period being discussed was a quartet with Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Leo Smith and Steve McCall (who later played drums with Henry Threadgill in Air). You gotta read this stuff, it is pretty fun. You can just imagine Braxton being super pissed at Mitchell et al. There is also an interesting description of Don Moye showing up to sit in and play drums with the AEC without being invited, simply because he wanted to. The first time I ever saw the Art Ensemble was several years after they

Having made it about halfway through this book I discovered a story that I knew very little about, but would make a great music movie if it were ever made. In the late 1960s there was talk of some of the AACM members going to Europe. In fact it was Anthony Braxton who first talked about this. Apparently members of the Art Ensemble gave him a hard time about leaving Chicago and then they turned around and beat him to the punch by picking up and moving to Paris (this much of the story I knew). Well Braxton was a fairly competitive person and when he realized they had gone, he went too. The

Yea, not exactly like the Mill since you can actually go in the bathrooms without feeling like you are going to get some disease or run smack dab into someone. I sort of characterized the bathrooms a bit wrong, while they are behind the stage, the doors are down a short hall. My friend Peter ended up going to the women's room by accident (I don't think he actutally went in) because they are not well marked. As for Alfonso Ponticelli, I don't know these folks, but they sound hot (pun intended...). If Joe is willing to host them they must have something going. They are in the $10 cover gro

Completely agree. Frankly it is the best way to get Gram's life and work in total perspective. Good job by the filmmakers. LouieB

I had no idea Hard Rain was actually out on DVD. I had to watch it on TV and have never seen it since. LouieB

I made my first trip to the Showcase last night. What fun. Monty Alexander and his trio (George Flutis on drums and Loren Cohen on bass) tore the place up, well in mainstream jazz terms tore it up. We stayed for most of both sets. The first was nicely packed and the second, well everyone was enthusiasic and in some ways the music was better. My friend Peter who I went with was put off by some gimicky playing during the first set, but during the second, Monty settled in did less of that. I knew little about Alexander, who apparently is from Jamaica. He threw in a couple Bob Marley tun

Bumpity Bump... Just in case some of the newbies can't find this Gram Parsons obsession thread. LouieB

Sorry I dumped this comment from my last reply to you. I now know that you are 20 and truly were NOT born when I got MY Dylan obsession and you certainly have not read through very much of the old threads here either youngblood. Before you make such a snap judgement go back and read through some posts that ARE about personal obsessions I start one about every few weeks because I have different obsessions than some people here. In fact I am about to go find some of the threads that few if anyone responded to because I love talking to myself about those obsessions. Actually VCers have a

Actually even old timers like A-man and I get ignored just as often as you do. You can't expect everyone to share your enthusiasm for everything, particularly since some of us have been Dylan obsessed since maybe before you were born. If you are really looking for total acceptance you should start a myspace or facebook and go with that. Don't you know.....everyone here has found that words written on the internet can be taken the wrong way. It is just how it goes. Internet postings are written quickly and sometimes in the heat of emotion and posted immediately. How many words and phrase

See other Dylan thread for Another Side talk.... LouieB

I can certainly vouch for that.... Making new posters feel welcome is okay, but on the other hand directing a new poster to a thread that is still quite current and may contain information that will be helpful to them isn't such a bad thing either. When I want to know about various albums I don't automatically post here, I usually check out comments on Amazon or maybe check out Wikipedia or some other site. I mean how many times have we patiently said sort of the same stuff about Dylan, Gram Parsons (see the other thread), the Kinks, or the Beatles or any number of other artists. These

Sounds like fun. Wonder what label it will come out on. LouieB

I have nothing of use to offer in this thread, but I did Google "classical music" and found several sites that are offering classical music so there must be one that will utilze the player that will work. Some of them do require some money being given however. http://www.classicalarchives.com/ seemed to have an extensive collection which they offer for $25 a year. I got www.classical.com to work fine also. Lots of cool stuff on there it looks like. I also felt badly that no one responded at all. LouieB

I haven't heard this album yet, but Alejandro has never not had good press for his material and has always toured relentlessly unless he was too sick to do so and even then he got a ton of positive PR for himself. Somehow I doubt this album will bring him wide spread fame; he is famous for what he does and will continue to be so I think. LouieB

Being not fond of a song or two hardly makes this album not good. It has five or six of the greatest songs Dylan ever wrote. LouieB

Not sure...I PMed Wendy immediately.....and it is all so facinating... LouieB

Me either...frankly not liking it is sort of bizarre... Done in one night, it is nothing short of a solo masterpiece. LouieB

Uh yea.....the exact state of my condition will have to wait for a personal discussion on our respective altered states. I saw it when it first came out at the Cedar Lee theater in Cleveland Heights....I was still in college which made it the early early 70s I believe. Wikipedia has lots of interesting trivia about the movie. LouieB

Now see I really dislike Red Sky (probably one of the lowest points of Dylan's career), but I do like Empire Burlesque. Then again Down in the Groove may be the complete low point. So true so true... LouieB

It does seem to look like Christ though....maybe that IS what Cherry Ghost means... LouieB

Yea, the storefront church thing is not something very original I admit. There truly are an infinite number. Although I am sure there are other such institutions in other cities, somehow Chicago has really developed them into some sort of an oddball art form. Because of my job I have actually visited several and if they appear interesting from the outside, I bet the actual church services are really really interesting. I have to go spend a bunch of time in one called Bibleway down around 45th and Ashland sometime next week. This is true some Chicagoans, only ones that are not really from C