-> On 07-22-97 DAVID MARHEINE wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN...
->
-> DF> ObProg - Tony Williams Lifetime @cd "best of" set - very
->
-> KN> How's the recording quality on this? I have the CD releae
-> KN> of _Emergency_ and while a lot of it is excellent, it can
-> KN> be a little rough on the ears.
->
-> DM> Was that Johnny M's last stop before forming Mahavishnu Orchestra
-> DM> Or did that come before his work with Miles Davis?
->
-> Just before Miles, back in 69.
->
-> DM> I listened to some of the eponymous debut by Billy Cobham's band
-> DM> Dreams
-> DM> (with the Brecker Bros and John Abercrombie) at a used CD store t
-> DM> other day.  Very slightly fusiony, I suppose, but mostly Blood Sw
-> DM> & Tearsish.  Which isn't all bad, but I didn't feel the need to
-> DM> spend the bucks on it at the time.
->
-> It's ok but nothing that you have to have. For a buck or
-> less , maybe.
->
-> DM> They DID have the 2 disc Various Artists _Isle Of Wight 1970_,
-> but DM> I couldn't see $16 just to get ELP doing "Rondo"...
->
-> ELP did do a really good "Lucky Man" and "Take a Pebble"
-> on the 1971 _Mar y Sol_ album, done in Puerto Rico, also
-> worthwhile for the version of "Noonward Race" by
-> Mahavishnu at their peak.
->
-> Cheers,
-> Kenneth
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->I have Tony Williams "Collection">It's 2 older albums "Believe It",and
another older Tony Williams Lifetime album on one cd.Tony Willaims might
have played with Herbie Hancock,but I don't think with Mahavishnu,the
drummer for them was Lenny White.
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