The Sapporo show is very clear, and is a good show. The only thing lacking for me was the bottom end, and unless it has been upgraded is most likely the same in all forms. I have the Munich from '73 but need to listen to it again. Zurich is a winner, love the San Diego-never heard them play quite like that, a unique show. Hollywood Bowl is up there with Oakland '77, haven't heard the Brussels show. Fantastic list you have there @frightwigwam It really is one of the best I've heard, in sound which is incredible, only matched by a searing performance. My own story from the first or second time I ever heard it: Shine On was playing and Gilmour broke into a solo that was so long and intense, that at well over 5 min or so, I imagined that music was not supposed to be this electrifyingly great, and had to cut it off, or I'd lose my mind. lol The Dead DiP Volume 12 was the only other time I can ever remember that happening, (maybe a Steve Tibbetts 'experience'), and I listen to some pretty weird stuff. All versions are pretty good, but I think the best is Sigma's The Definitive Oakland... it is definitive, and an upgrade in audio.
That is a great live record there, great band, and Joni has that smoky-diva voice. It's a great 'crashing' record for sure. NP... there's an informative, newer thread on the Byrd's Fifth Dimension long player, and it seems to be split between 'love its' and it's ok's'. I know the Byrds music fairly well, but mainly starting with the year 1967 onwards. I played the first side (after many years of not having listened to it), and I gotta say it sounded great to me.
Now Playing: Grant Lee Buffalo- Fuzzy Keith Jarrett- The Survivor's Suite Hickoids- Waltz A Crossdress Texas Neil Diamond- Tap Root Manuscript Man- Slow Motion The Sugarcubes- Stick Around For Joy
Carole King - Speeding Time I never thought I would hear a more creepily synthetic and awful sounding album than Elton John's Leather Jackets. Welp, this certainly rivals it just about! I cant speak to the quality of the songs but the album cover and the synthetic production creep me out But I cant stop listening - its like listening to a train wreck in progress
Liked for the burritos, sans Brothers, as it's 2245 EST and I've got carrots, lettuce, and peanut butter in the kitchen. Finally shelved those 8 Wussy albums I lionized 3ish weeks ago after pathological play in the car since. Xgau and I diverge on many things musical, like just about any hue of Prog and improvisational work outside of jazz, but butter my beans he's right about Wussy. Wonder if my favourite artists would come to dinner if I called? I'd have to grocery shop, get some celery to go with the pb.
. Lumpy Gravy. Frank Zappa, 1968. The first time I listened to this album I didn't know what to make of it. Beautiful instrumental passages mixed with abrasive sonic collages, surrealistic dialogues recorded inside of a piano, prosaic dialogues recorded outside of a piano, sped-up tapes, you name it. It was a bit too much information for the 17-year-old me (even though an experimental album like Floyd's Ummagumma was already a favorite of mine). I didn't give up and eventually it became one of my favorites by Frank. (The list of my favorite Zappa albums is quite lengthy, though).
