- These ones.
- They are, as I already mentioned, excellent. Excellence is so rare! Press excellence to your loving bosom; grill it a cheese; ask your mobster buddies to find it a no-show job. Love up on excellence.
- These shows were shared with us, undeserving sinners and slackers tho we are, by Cascadia’s own Mr. Completely. That’s a Seal of Approval right there, boy howdy. That guy’s the Michael Jordan of recommending stuff.
- Maybe if you don’t, Mr. Davis comes to your house and punches everyone living therein? Sure, he died 30 years ago, but would you put it past him? I wouldn’t. Mr. Davis was and continues to be a feisty dude.
- At least one of these recordings features a band that contained Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett. At the same time! That’s like getting soup and salad.
- At least one of the recordings that does not feature Messrs. Corea and Jarrett features Pete Cosey, and he looked like this:
Which you’d have to believe scared some white people, and that’s–returning to my initial assertion–excellent. - What else are you gonna listen to? Goose? Grover Washington, Jr.? Dokken? You gonna throw on Dokken when there’s nine or ten hours of Electric Era siting there plump and lovely like a Fresno rentboy? (Fresno has the plumpest rentboys. Everyone knows this.)
- Cuz if you don’t, you’re a non-playing motherfucker. And we all know what Mr. Davis thinks of non-playing motherfuckers.
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The downside (and upside) of being a collector is that I have about 250 Miles shows, so if there are any you particularly want LMK. I’ll probably tell you it’s one I don’t have and that it may never have been recorded at all, but that’s life and you’ll never know unless you try.
Even a cursory review shows that these appear as they will sound better than the previously circulating versions. Go get them!
I too have a zillion Miles shows, and am very excited to hear you say that these are probably upgrades!
How long was John McLaughlin in the band for? Did he only play live with Miles that one night at the Cellar Door?
I think I’ve read that John McLaughlin declined an invitation to join Miles’ regular working band because he felt committed to Tony Williams, and then by the end of 1970 Miles encouraged him to form his own group, but he did make a special appearance with Miles at the Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival on 2/21/70.
Best purchase (because, let’s be honest, I’ve never spent a cent on Grateful Dead music) was the Bootleg Series 3, the June 1970 shows from the Fillmore. Just awesome. Listening again since you been posting this.
I can’t overstate how important electric Miles was to me–Dark Magus was the album that got me into jazz. I never knew you could make music like that, and neither did anyone else.
Because we sometimes get things that no one’s been good enough to deserve, here’s a complete video recording of Miles playing Vienna in ’73. Bonus: check out Cosey’s epic coke nail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOA9_TdRFt4&list=WL&index=71&t=491s