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Fair Warning, then VH1, VHII, Diver Down, Women and Children First. Alan

+1000 for "Live And Dangerous". "Jailbreak". "Life/Live". I'd put "Thunder & Lightning", "Black Rose" and "Bad Reputation" a notch below those. Alan

I'll give him $350 for it. Alan

Damn - I forgot the LLB DVD. They smoke on that one. The one-handed bit is great. Also, about Quadrophenia - while that show is good, I think I prefer a couple others to that one. It's been a while since I saw the Tommy show and Isle of Wight, but they were both pretty good. And I like Pete's solo show in support of Psychoderelict. Alan

Another vote for SRV at El Mocambo, and Rush's R30. I'll go w/Queen On Fire At The Bowl w/the caveat that I have not yet watched the Montreal DVD I got for Christmas, but the Montreal includes their Live Aid performance (I already have the Live Aid DVDs), and Queen OWNED Live Aid. I'll add these in no particular order: The Bears - Live At Club Cafe King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open Devo - Live In The Land Of The Rising Son (awesome) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (awesome again) Concert For George (the full concert disc, minus the Indian music) Damn Yankees - Uprising (would be better if it was the straight concert w/the interview stuff outside the show) Kissology Vol. 1 - especially if you can see the Largo show bonus disc Flaming Lips - UFOs At The Zoo Queensryche - Livecrime Jill Sobule - Live In Pittsburgh and especially Frank Zappa - Does Humor Belong In Music? Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes I wish Dire Straits' "Live Alchemy" would see a DVD release, though. Alan

Sorry to hear this - hang in there. Alan

Ah, and here I thought BTMN meant "By The Mighty Nuge..." Silly me! Alan

My bad - the Alive thing was an Ultimate Album show. Interesting, but could have been better. As for a trade, that would disappoint my wife - but I've been doing that for years. I do have the 79 Largo show (boot version - actually two versions) that you mentioned somewhere along the line. I don't think *I* said anything about Aerosmith, but I did see them years ago in Richmond, VA - Ted Nugent was the opener, and the real reason I went. Alan

I'm with ya, but you can piece one together for all the above. They all have large amounts of video out there. Queen's got at least 3 major concert vids (the "We Will Rock You-Live In Canada" deal is the best), tons of Who stuff is out (Kids Are Alright covers alot) and Elton's got quite a few things as well (the 60th birthday DVD is chock full of great stuff), AND, they all have "Classic Albums" series out, which are pretty much the best videos of their kind. And that's just the licensed stuff... Well, I was thinking something more along the lines of Kissology, something that's career-spanning. Of the three, Elton's probably the best represented, but I'd love to see some official release of the early TV performances (BBC In Concert, etc., although the 60th birthday DVD gathers a lot of those). Most of the Queen stuff seems to be centered around the mid-late 80s stuff. I'd like to see some of the 70s stuff, the Kampuchea show, etc. Although I do like what they did w/their videos collection (and would love to see someone in Kiss pick up a copy of this and say, 'Hey, we could do something like this...'). Something else I'd like to see on DVD - "The Magic Years". Some nice studio footage on there. The Who stuff is virtually all post-Keith, and as great as a lot of it is, it's not classic Who. I don't know how much pro shot stuff w/Keith is actually out there (I've heard rumors, but who knows how accurate they are). I've got a Cleveland show w/Keith, and I've heard about the Houston show, but it would be great to have a few shows of that vintage. There were rumors about that kind of stuff coming out w/the "Amazing Journey" set, which didn't happen, but there are also rumors those shows may see separate releases. The Classic Album series is fantastic. I have the Who and Elton versions, and I'd love to get the Fleetwood Mac one. They did one on "Kiss Alive!", but it hasn't seen home release yet (that I'm aware of). Alan

Let's see, for starters, I'd like to see a set like this from: - The Who - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Johnny Cash - Elton John - Queen - Michael Hedges - Prince Alan

Something I don't recall anyone mentioning (although if I'm repeating someone else, I apologize) - after the credits on disc 3 of volume 3, they show Peter destroying his drum set, and then backstage saying something like "That was cool!" I still have the Coventry and Brazil show to go. Alan

I don't know anything about that, but the drummer sang it and it was REALLY well done. It was one of the songs trotted out on "Rock The Nation", I believe, and Gene (and maybe Paul) used it as an example of the kind of stuff they couldn't do w/Ace & Peter because they couldn't play it. So I'm glad to hear (because I forgot to ask) that it was well done. I'm through two discs of volume 3, and so far, I'm not seeing Ace & Peter as being major problems onstage. Offstage may very well have been another story, but I also suspect that Gene was looking for any excuse to jettison Ace & Peter to pay the other guys less. Back to the Tiger Stadium show, it was definitely rough in parts, but not horrible by any stretch. Some missed notes here and there, but that's not unusual for the first full show of a tour. By far, I thought the worst moment was after the solo in "Deuce", and it was Mr. Stanley who derailed the train there. But the MTV footage was dynamite - they were very tight. The Dodger Stadium stuff so far has been pretty good. I'm still disappointed at how much they cut from the shows - and almost always Ace or Peter songs or vocals. Alan

I'm sorry, isn't "Love Her All I Can" one of the songs Kiss pulled out that Ace & Peter supposedly couldn't play? Alan

To reply to Bonedadyo's post... I have not watched the Tiger Stadium show yet, but I've read (either in the booklet or in a review elsewhere) that it was not a great show for the band as a whole. For the first show in a tour, let alone the first show as a band in 18 years, I'm not surprised by that, so I wouldn't necessarily use that as a milestone. But, as I recall, comments were made about how Tommy Thayer had to teach Ace his parts for the tour, and I know I've read comments where Ace said he had trouble relearning some of the parts from the records because of how weird they were. What I took from that was not so much that Ace couldn't play those parts anymore, but that Gene and Paul wanted things to sound just like the records (and I believe that was explicitly stated somewhere in an interview). I'm not a fan of that mode of thinking in the first place - the studio is one thing, live is another. It's one thing to be somewhat faithful to the original solo, it's another to be slavishly faithful. If you listen to "Alive!", there are quite a few deviations from the records. That seems to have gotten lost since the reunion tour (although I've heard some variations in solos, especially length, here and there). So it may be less a case of not developing as not be allowed to show any development. Someone else mentioned the VH1 Rock Honors thing - Ace didn't look washed up that night. I think sometimes Gene throws some of this stuff out to direct attention away from the other issues (like people who don't accept Tommy Thayer in Ace's makeup - like me!). Alan

I'm jealous! I went to meet Ace at a record store signing in the 80s, but I was on lunch and the line was way too long to wait. I'd love to find out some of the real scoop about what went on behind the scenes with some of that stuff. The new DVD mentions that the Unplugged reunion almost didn't happen because of some 'legal issues', but never says what they were or who caused them. It's pretty clear that they're saying it was the Ace & Peter camps, but they never say more than that (and I haven't looked to see if there are any details anywhere). There was some dispute when 'Kiss My Ass' came out because they didn't use Ace's makeup, and a lot of people took it as a shot at Ace. Gene blamed it on Ace, saying he owned the rights and wouldn't let them use it. It came out later that, supposedly, a lawyer in Ace's camp tried to get a big payment for the use and they wouldn't pay, and supposedly Ace knew nothing about it. I'd love to get the real story about a lot of that stuff, but I guess much of it has been lost in the mists of failed (and damaged) memories. But I'm still jealous! Alan

Thanks - I meant to mention the quality, or lack thereof. It's old movie footage, and it's kind of funny to see that second-grade classroom badly threaded film roll in there. But, as you said, it's great to have footage of an event that a lot of us fans heard about but never got to see. Alan

That should be the second volume because it fits the time period. The guys were jamming at Ace's wedding without makeup. Yeah, that's it, I need that one. Nope - it's volume one. It's on the second disc - Ace & Jeanette's wedding, May 1, 1976. The first disc has "Deuce", I think, from the Coventry show that's on volume 3 in its entirety. The second volume has a video of Eric Carr in the hospital (after the final credits), an interview w/Mark St. John, and I saw somewhere that there's a way to watch the "God Gave Rock & Roll To You" video w/o the credits rolling over it. Alan

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, good feasting, and great music to all! Alan

Thanks to Greg, I done got this as my only Hamer purchase of the year. Alan

+1 for Larrivee. Alan

Yep. Evidently McCarty is the inventor of record for the Les Paul, Explorer, Flying V, Moderne, and several others, but Gibson is the assignee. Moderne patent Paul never mentioned the actual ownership at my sessions, just that he had the patents. I assumed that Gibson had to still own them, but I wasn't sure so I kept my fingers off those keys. Personally, I hope this all bodes well for Hamer, but my experience w/company mergers hasn't exactly been positive, so I'm not holding my breath. Alan

And according to that company, one of their valuable allies in the fight was...FMIC. Alan

Well, I'm not a lawyer, so take all of this w/a grain of salt, but... Hamer's been making the Vs and Standards for quite some time now. When you hear about companies going after people for trademark infringement, especially when it's something like a Disney going after a day care center for having characters painted on its walls, one of the points that gets overlooked is that there's a provision in the trademark law that if you are seen as allowing people to use it somewhat freely, you can lose your trademark protection. So, assuming "gentleman's agreement" means "unwritten", there may be grounds to say that Gibson allowing the use of the shapes abandons the trademark. Second, there's the question of whether or not the case would go Gibson's way. Remember the Paul Reed Smith case? There's a question of deception - is Hamer/Fender trying to make people think they're getting a Gibson? In the PRS case, that was one of the points that hung Gibson - Gibson themselves admitted that only an "idiot" would buy a PRS Singlecut and think it was a Les Paul. Oh, and guess who has the patent papers for the Explorer and the Flying V? It ain't Henry... Not sure who actually has ownership of the patents, but the papers are in Maryland. Alan

I really like the live Head East album - I wish I had that on CD. I think my cassette went bad. Not to nitpick, but I'd consider the Hooters somewhat well known - a couple big national hits. And Bazilian has kept a pretty nice career going. I loved the first Honeymoon Suite record, although I haven't listened to it in years. Alan

God, I have several... - New England. Saw them open for Kiss in 1979 and really liked the stuff. I still love the first album. Just got it off CD Baby, along with a live album that covers a lot of the first album. I also have a promo 12" that has six cuts from that album live, done around that time. - Iron Horse. A buddy turned me on to them. Randy Bachman, post-BTO. Only two albums, as far as I know. I need to do a needle drop on them. - Uncle Bonsai. Two girls and a guy from Seattle. Discovered them because the local morning show played a couple of their novelty cuts - "Penis Envy" was the biggie. Picked up a couple of their albums - they did a really cool doo-wop version of the national anthem, and a gorgeous tear-jerker called "Silent Night". - Planet P. Discovered by the previously mentioned buddy's buddy. Tony Carey's band. Kind of a sci-fi concept debut album, followed by a concept double album. Released a third concept album for free as MP3s a few years back, and there was supposed to be another album coming, but I haven't looked for it for a while. - City Boy. Now, these guys may be more well-known in some circles, but pretty much no one I know has heard of them unless I've told them. I love "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" - possibly the best 25-cent album I ever bought. - Rebecca Timmons. Gorgeous singer from Toronto, did two albums, only one of which I could actually obtain. I could come up with more, but I'm wearing out my welcome, and I'm starting to veer towards artists who are somewhat known in certain circles but not in the mainstream. Alan