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Max Roach and Cecil Taylor Live at the Barbican, London 1999

This is a really great recording, fantastic music with a fantastic pairing. Roach is obviously a masterful drummer and Cecil Taylor's playing style is always percussive, so they sound great (and powerful) together.

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Selaws said:
Do you have a preferred Waits era @Joe Mac? Closing Time is the one that pulled me in, so it holds sentimental value (as well as being a great album), but I also like his later era stuff.
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Yeah I really like his asylum era, that’s my favourite and this is my favourite album of his. I like the later stuff as well but I have a definite soft spot for the early barfly troubadour!

That said I really wished they hadn’t remastered these, that’s why I’m still on the old cd copy, I hate the remasters of the asylum era stuff that him and his wife released a couple of years back!
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah I really like his asylum era, that’s my favourite and this is my favourite album of his. I like the later stuff as well but I have a definite soft spot for the early barfly troubadour!

That said I really wished they hadn’t remastered these, that’s why I’m still on the old cd copy, I hate the remasters of the asylum era stuff that him and his wife released a couple of years back!
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I completely agree. I picked up a couple of them and had to get replacements. The VMP one isn't too bad (not great though), but generally I have also found that they are all of a poor quality. I have a few OG's which sound so much better.
 
Selaws said:
I completely agree. I picked up a couple of them and had to get replacements. The VMP one isn't too bad (not great though), but generally I have also found that they are all of a poor quality. I have a few OG's which sound so much better.
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To be honest I couldn’t speak to the pressing quality, I never bought any of them. The reputation isn’t great though! I streamed them all when they were first released and I just didn’t like the mixes, they sounded radically different to my ears.
 
Joe Mac said:
To be honest I couldn’t speak to the pressing quality, I never bought any of them. The reputation isn’t great though! I streamed them all when they were first released and I just didn’t like the mixes, they sounded radically different to my ears.
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I read a discussion thread ages ago about the different Waits pressings. Supposedly the 2010 Rhino pressings are good, I think it was Bellman that mastered those. I haven't got any of those though so can't really comment other than what I have read. I have first UK pressings of ' Swordfishtrombones' and 'Bone Machine' on Island and they sound good to me, especially Bone Machine as I previously had a boot of that (which sounded garbage).
 
Selaws said:
I read a discussion thread ages ago about the different Waits pressings. Supposedly the 2010 Rhino pressings are good, I think it was Bellman that mastered those. I haven't got any of those though so can't really comment other than what I have read. I have first UK pressings of ' Swordfishtrombones' and 'Bone Machine' on Island and they sound good to me, especially Bone Machine as I previously had a boot of that (which sounded garbage).
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Yeah the rhinos are supposedly good pressing and they’re also before the two of them tinkered with the mix so I’m guessing they’ll be good. Anything after Heartattack & Vine should be ok mix wise regardless, he hasn’t, to my knowledge messed with the mix of any of his Island or Anti releases. The issue with some of them is lack of recent pressing meaning rare and expensive...
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah the rhinos are supposedly good pressing and they’re also before the two of them tinkered with the mix so I’m guessing they’ll be good. Anything after Heartattack & Vine should be ok mix wise regardless, he hasn’t, to my knowledge messed with the mix of any of his Island or Anti releases. The issue with some of them is lack of recent pressing meaning rare and expensive...
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Yeah, its a nightmare. The Orphans box set is a prime example, only releasing them as the box set initially. Then when they eventually released them separately it was 'limited' RSD release (although god only knows how many). Its all a marketing ploy to bump their value.
 
Poly-Rythmo said:
N&G 500 - my top 50

#44: The Saw Doctors - If This Is Rock and Roll I Want My Old Job Back

I have a smile on my face from when I see the bands' Dads on the front cover all the way to the end. Joyous Irish folk-rock.

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It always makes me smile when you spin the Saw Doctors! I know area around the Galway/Mayo border that they hail from very well! Lots of memories of driving to my Gran’s from Knock Airport down the N17 with that song on! Also, one of the former band members lives in the local village that my Mum came from, his daughters went to school with my cousins!
 
Joe Mac said:
It always makes me smile when you spin the Saw Doctors! I know area around the Galway/Mayo border that they hail from very well! Lots of memories of driving to my Gran’s from Knock Airport down the N17 with that song on! Also, one of the former band members lives in the local village that my Mum came from, his daughters went to school with my cousins!
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I knew you had a connection but didn't know it was that close. Love them so much. Haven't been to Galway/Mayo nearly as much as you but love that part of the world too - we spent a couple of summers in and around Connemara when I was a teenager and went out to Clare Island etc. Gorgeous
 
I don’t know Pearse at all myself but my Dad would know him to say hello to and my Aunts and Uncles would know him well. Two of my younger cousins are good friends with his daughters. He left the band quite a while ago though I think, the whole grind of touring with small kids can’t be fun!

Yeah my Mum came from a farm just outside a small village on the Galway side of the county border near enough to Connemara. It’s a lovely part of the world and I love visiting down there, the parents built a house on a field my mum was left so I try to go down pretty regularly for a chill out and to see all the family!
 
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