On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:58, mwisckol@ocregister.com wrote:
someone said that this box was better as an academic study than a musical listening. although i am a huge fan of '70s miles, i'd have to agree.
My immediate reaction to the box (as well as to the "In a Silent Way" box) is that it shows us how important what Teo Macero did with the tracks was to the result. I've enjoyed the box, but, yeah, the finished tracks please me nuch more than the source material. I'm excited, though, to have them. And since I've never been a big fan of the live tracks on "Live/Evil", I'm psyched to have the Hermeto Pascoal tracks all together. I haven't heard of a single-disc sampler from this, so I may make my own for in-store play. On Friday night, I put on the finished "Jack Johnson" tracks. I kid you not: people were dancing in the aisle, looking wide-eyed up at the speakers, and rushing over and asking "What *is* this?!" (However, none of them bought the box since it was out of their budgets.) I'm guessing that Sony will release a rerererereremastered single disc of "Jack Johnson" soon, which we should play to death and sell like crazy. BTW, in the booklet, some tracks are referred to as "takes" and some as "inserts". What's the difference between these? And is there any plan for a box of "In the Corner" and the remaining bits of "Get Up with It"?