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[whizzer]

I've looked for this on CD for awhile--Ten Years After "Rock and Roll Music to the World." I love this album--there's nothing on it I don't like. It's available as an import. Alvin "Lightning Fingers" Lee can sometimes go overboard on blues, but this album is both tasty and tasteful. Yes, yes--I know--the critics never liked this one as much as "A Space in Time," or "Cricklewood Green," but it's always been not only my favorite Ten Years After album, but one of my favorites, period. On a different level entirely, I also pulled out my rare old copy of "Alvin Lee & Mylon." Mylon LeFevre's father was so upset his son had made an album with a long-haired British rocker, he tried to buy up all the copies he could find and destroyed them. Strange. It's the most mellow thing Lee ever did so far as I know, although "I'm Gonna Keep on Rockin' Till the Sun Goes Down" is an excellent low-key rocker.

[SEAWOLF97]

the critics never liked this one as much as "A Space in Time," or "Cricklewood Green," but it's always been not only my favorite Ten Years After album, but one of my favorites, period. O.

I wud include "A Space in Time" in my top 5 DID's

[whizzer]

I wud include "A Space in Time" in my top 5 DID's

Uh--whatsa "DID"?

[SEAWOLF97]

Uh--whatsa "DID"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs

[whizzer]

Okay--how would you play it on said desert island? Or is the sheer possession enough?

[SEAWOLF97]

Okay--how would you play it on said desert island? Or is the sheer possession enough?

Its a concept, dude ... not a real possibility. The top 5 or 10 disks/Lps/CDs/SACDs/MP3/wavs/flacs/or watevers that you could listen to over and over and not tire of...

[whizzer]

Its a concept, dude ... not a real possibility. The top 5 or 10 disks/Lps/CDs/SACDs/MP3/wavs/flacs/or watevers that you could listen to over and over and not tire of...

I'm sorry--I didn't mean to cause frustration--I thought the "Maybe a Stupid Reply" bit would be a clue that the reply was what they call in France or somewhere, "tongue in cheek," but I don't know why. It was an attempt at humor, but evidently not a successful one.

But back to Ten Years After--"A Space in Time" is truly a classic. Alvin Lee still has a band, you know--The Alvin Lee Band. He sells direct to the public from his web site--the last few albums have been very good, but not up to the "classic" standard of his earlier days--although, technically, he's still as good as ever. It's the creative energy that's fallen off.

[SEAWOLF97]

The Rubber Soul & King Crimson have 1 scratched side and 1 perfect so I gave them a try....LZ is a double... I just watched the DVD ...The Pink floyd & Syd Barrett story ....which is really strange as I picked up an album mentioned in the movie ....the unreleased "Vegetable Man , where are you ?"
according to the interviews..."wish you were here" was written for the drug lost Syd ..the line "2 black holes in the sky" are his eyes...

[SEAWOLF97]

The Rubber Soul & King Crimson have 1 scratched side and 1 perfect so I gave them a try....

Rubber Soul looked worse than it is...sounds fine...lots of old favs

Picked these up today....both in remarkable condition ...the George Harrison has all 3 disks & the poster, only flaw I cud find is that the front and rear of box arent attached to each other anymore...

[JeffW]

Just heard Gretchen Parlato singing Herbie Hancock's "Butterfly" off her new album In a Dream. Quite a mesmerizing voice.

[SEAWOLF97]

Grabbed up 2 licorice pizzas yesterday & 4 today ..

a photo just showed up in my mailbox....the vinyl safari with a GW LP on the bars....
(hurts my aerodynamics, tho)

came home today with 4 , nothing hirsute..

Nelson Riddle's GH
Gary Wright Dreamweaver
Kansas Leftoverature
& soundtrack from "An officer & a Jellybean" (as we used to call them)

[SEAWOLF97]

well yesterday I watched..Shine a light ; directed by Martin Scorsese.

Recorded at New York's Beacon Theatre during the fall of 2006, and features performances by The Rolling Stones with special guests Christina Aguilera, Jack White, and Buddy Guy.

I drew 2 conclusions from it...

1, I enjoy the Stones in studio more than in concert.
2. I dont enjoy Martin anywhere.

audio not very good, cinematography nothing special, nor direction.

(and I'm a Stones fan)

[SEAWOLF97]

But back to Ten Years After--"A Space in Time" is truly a classic. .

after reading this I went back to listen again with the HD-580's on the pod....just an incredible coherent album, but MP3 quality.

Cudnt find a local non-compressed copy, so put one on hold at the lib...then found my CD and currently dubbing to MD...much better than the mp3..

Did this album ever get the Mofi treatment ? or SACD or remaster ?

http://social.zune.net/album/Ten+Yea...2a3933/details

A Space in Time was Ten Years After's best-selling album. This was due primarily to the strength of "I'd Love to Change the World," the band's only hit single, and one of the most ubiquitous AM and FM radio cuts of the summer of 1971. TYA's first album for Columbia, A Space in Time has more of a pop-oriented feel than any of their previous releases had. The individual cuts are shorter, and Alvin Lee displays a broader instrumental palette than before. In fact, six of the disc's ten songs are built around acoustic guitar riffs. However, there are still a couple of barn-burning jams. The leadoff track, "One of These Days," is a particularly scorching workout, featuring extended harmonica and guitar solos. After the opener, however, the album settles back into a more relaxed mood than one would have expected from Ten Years After. Many of the cuts make effective use of dynamic shifts, and the guitar solos are generally more understated than on previous outings. The production on A Space in Time is crisp and clean, a sound quite different from the denseness of its predecessors. Though not as consistent as Cricklewood Green, A Space in Time has its share of sparkling moments. ~ Jim Newsom, All Music Guide

[BMWCCA]

For all I know this could be the tenth time I've promoted this fine CD here, but in pulling it out once again (family out at the movies) I continue to be impressed. And not just because I heard most of it performed live or that I have a twenty-five-year history with its predecessor, but because it's so well recorded, the instruments so well-played that it's a real treat so rare these days.

I don't hesitate to recommend Mike Marshall and Darol Anger's Woodshop to anyone:



or their 1985 Windham Hill release, Chiaroscuro (could it be out of print??). Holy cr*p, $85 for a new one?? I commend the pedestal on which they've placed it, but . . .

Let me suggest this link, instead:

[SEAWOLF97]

Canadian Railroad Trilogy

also:
Early Morning Rain
For Lovin' Me
Go-Go Round
Pussywillows, Cat-Tails
Bitter Green
If You Could Read My Mind
Summer Side of Life
Cotton Jenny
Beautiful
Sundown
Carefree Highway
Rainy Day People
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Race Among the Ruins
Daylight Katy
The Circle is Small
Baby Step Back
Stay Loose
Restless

Did OKAY on the vinyl safari today...

also after researching the Syd Barrett album, I hauled out "Wish You Were Here" and enjoyed it so much that after 3X plays on vinyl, its now being dubbed to MD.