Mr. Heartbreak

Agreed. There were so many great players, not just the ones I have mentioned, but Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, Grant Green, etc. etc. It seems they could just jump in with any configuration of the others and produce good to great results in a matter of days. FYI, I checked the sound samples on Amazon to refresh my memory, and Cat Walk and Royal Flush do sound good. There's nothing as unique as Wayne Shorter's Juju or Lee Morgan's Search for the New Land on them, but I think they are very solid and enjoyable.

I agree. Obama should find a well-qualified Democrat who is more of a peacenik than Hagel.

Yeah, on Blue Note. I just looked him up on Wikipedia while I was bored at work. I definitely have The Cat Walk and Royal Flush at home, not sure about the others. They were at least enjoyable, can't recall if they were great. Wayne Shorter, on the other hand, had some undeniably great Blue Note records during the early 60s: Juju is probably the best, along with Night Dreamer and Speak No Evil. Phenomenal stable on those, including folks like Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock...really the cream of the crop. Shorter had an unreal run on Blue Not

I'm going to say '61 was the peak year for Byrd. He recorded four albums, Chant, The Cat Walk, Royal Flush and Free Form. Most of these feature the (very young) Herbie Hancock.

True. I just found the worst thing on wikipedia and posted it because it was a shock to me, and pretty funny to boot.

Yeah, I was never much into Byrd's funk-oriented material either, though I can see where it was a natural progression for an African-American musician at that time. I really mostly dig his 50s-60s material.

On the not-so-glamorous side: After the Beatles fired him, Pete Best got a job "loading bread into the back of delivery vans." He later became "a civil servant working at the Garston Jobcentre in Liverpool." Zappa alum Warren Cuccurullo "took the plunge into adult print in 2000, appearing in a nude photo spread in Brazilian gay publication, G magazine, in which he appeared nude with a full erection in several photographs." Eventually, both of them returned to music.

Wayne Shorter is one of my old favorites. I love a bunch of his solo Blue Note albums from the early to mid-60s, much more than his time with Miles. But then he started doing some awful stuff in the 70s and onward. Not sure what he's up to lately. Herbie also did some fabulous work on his own, and he was in Miles' band in an interesting time as well. Like Wayne, he has done quite a lot of material since then that is definitely not my cup of tea. He piqued my interest with the Joni Mitchell tribute album, but when I listened to it, I found it almost intolerably boring. Of course, it's hard to c

That would knock me right the fuck back out.

One of my first exposures to the Dead was on SNL, a couple years before that, I believe. They played Casey Jones, Good Lovin' and I Need a Miracle. At that point, I was heavily into Kiss and Van Halen, and just thought the Dead were "pretty good." By '82, I was on the bus for the long haul.

I may not agree with you on everything, but I have to admit, this is pretty classic.

Reading this news made me want to see some of the guys who are still around. I see Ron Carter and McCoy Tyner both have dates booked at the Blue Note club in NYC. I only wish they toured like Buddy Guy does, all around the southeast.

This performance should wake up anyone who is bored by the Dead. Very lively version of a great song.

Bummer. It would be worth buying a roadcase show just to have a nice soundboard of that song.

Anyone know offhand if any of these shows features Cars Can't Escape? I scanned through the set lists and didn't see it, but I coulda missed it.

I probably shouldn't rag on Donna, as I love her contributions...when she was on-key. I guess by now it's legendary, her problems with not being able to hear herself in the monitors during her early tenure with the band. She makes up for it with some great harmonies (with Jerry solo too), between '76 and '78. But those early days...ugh. I have only listened to this release once so far, but there was something that I found really jarring during that PUMUP sequence. I remember at one point hearing them lurch into Uncle's (I forget if it's before or after Dew) and thinking, "Well, that was ill-ad

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Another great jazz player. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/arts/music/donald-byrd-renegade-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-80.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

The great thing about it is that I can burn a copy and then resell it on Amazon, which hopefully pays for part of my subscription for the rest of the year. The Playin' on it is pretty stellar, too, but you know it's only a matter of time, and then sure enough, Donna comes in with that awful caterwauling at the end and ruins it. At the very least, they should have put some nice filler on Disc 3. There's no excuse for a 40-minute disc in a 3-disc set. Still, I doubt I will regret my purchase when that next installment comes out - 12/20/69 & 2/2/70 - as they have, at least, never been heard

I think that is the highlight. Great version. Much of the rest: too many weak and/or off key vocals. Hoping Vol. 6 is better. For anyone who is trying to get into them, I agree with other posters here about Europe '72 and Reckoning. If you listen to both and don't like them, you're hopeless.

Finally got around to watching The Wire on HBOGO. First season is very good (though I need close captioning to decipher some of the hood rats), but so far the second season suuuuuuucks. Hate the plotline with the dirtbags stealing stuff from the docks. Very unlikeable bunch of "new" characters, and boring to boot. Please tell me this gets better again!

The first few Dead shows I attended were from '82-'84. Caught them one last time in '91, and didn't want more. The energy had changed so much for the worse, with lots of drugged out Heads following them around, people selling doodads to try to support their habit, etc. etc. It was a major, if trippy, drag. My first show (http://archive.org/details/gd82-09-23.sen421.miller.12520.sbeok.shnf) was probably just average for '82, but for me it was special and life-changing in so many ways, and the crowd response had a lot to do with it. Jerry came right out of the gate with Alabama (in those pre-I

Fantastic post. Your experience greatly mirrors mine, not only in terms of life in general but also of this tour in particular. Reminds me of another great rock song quote: "Music is my savior/And I was maimed by rock and roll/I was tamed by rock and roll/I got my name from rock and roll." Rock on, brother.

Maitre Cornelius - Honoré de Balzac

My copy of Dave's #5 has arrived at my local post office. Looks like if it's not out for delivery today, I will have it by tomorrow. Looking forward to hearing this. I had a mail hold in effect for the past week while I was in Bangkok, so I wouldn't have heard it until tonight anyway. By the way, listening to Mama Tried on your iPod while you're in the Beijing airport if pretty f-ing surreal.