How's that? I realize remastered editions of all the albums are on the way but it's unclear at this point if they'll be in digital format only. Not to mention the box I have is a limited edition. I also got it onsale when the Turtles Music chain went out of business a few years ago. In fact, I racked up on lots of stuff since prices were lowered each day leading up to when they closed their doors (a date they wouldn't reveal). I'd also like to pick up this companion piece, a limited edition box of EPs but I've never seen it on sale for less than $100:

Yes, there is and with all due respect to Jason, that's a good thing. I do love me the sound of a sweet pedal steel.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/articl...smell_the_glove SMELL THE GLOVE Writer: Patterson Hood Two things we can all agree on: 1. We all love Michael Jackson 2. We’re all glad he’s not our uncle. I was 18 and working at a record store in Florence, Ala., in the fall of 1982 when Thriller was released. At the time, it was considered the inferior follow-up to his 1979 solo breakthrough Off The Wall. It had that weak McCartney collaboration as a first single. Then again, it also had “Billie Jean” and “Beat It,” although neither of those had become ubiquitous by then. The elements were all there, but he hadn’t quite moonwalked into our collective consciousness yet. The Vincent Price thing seemed like a campy diversion, and “Human Nature” sounded like fucking Toto. Oh wait, it was fucking Toto. Then the shit hit the fan and nothing has been the same since. Thriller was the Star Wars of the music industry—it created a monster that’s hard to separate from the original work. Its artistic merits will always be weighed against the seismic cultural waves it unleashed. For the record, I consider “Billie Jean” one of the definitive singles of the entire Rock Era and a piece of pop songwriting at its best. I never really embraced the album, though. Preparing to write this piece, I went to the shelf and pulled out Off The Wall instead, and I’m really enjoying listening to it as I write. It’s an undeniably great work of pop and—post-Jackson 5—it stands as Michael’s finest hour. Patterson Hood is the co-founder of the Drive-By Truckers. Their latest release is entiteld "Brighter Than Creation's Dark."

Glad to hear you like it, it's still growing on me as well. And just to clarify (and you may already know this) but John "Sho' Nuff" Neff has played pedal steel on every DBTs album since the beginning. He also toured with them back in the early days but due to the poor acoustics of the smalll clubs and other factors (like playing in at least a dozen other Athens area bands), he had to drop out for a few years. Glad to see him back touring with the DBT and making even more contributions to their records (on both pedal steel and guitar).

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003708240 Geffen/Ume will re-release Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" as a deluxe edition on March 4. The double-disc collection contains a number of unreleased gems associated with the eight-song original album. The second disc contains demo and alternate mix versions of "What's Your Name," "That Smell," "You Got That Right" and "I Never Dreamed." The reissued "Street Survivors" also includes five previously unreleased live recordings from August 1977. Lynyrd Skynyrd's sixth and final album, "Street Survivors" was first released in Oct. 17, 1977, three days before Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in a plane crash. -- Katie Hasty, N.Y.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003708697 Eric Burdon Greg Prato, N.Y. For the first time in 37 years, Eric Burdon and WAR will be performing together -- for one night only -- at London's historic Royal Albert Hall on April 21. Tickets go on sale Feb. 14. The announcement precedes Rhino's reissue of Eric Burdon and WAR's classic albums. The two Burdon/WAR collaborations, 1970's "Eric Burdon Declares WAR" and "Black Man's Burdon," will be released March 24 in the U.K., followed by the release of their 1976 compilation album, "Love Is All Around," on March 31. Additionally, all of the Burdon-less WAR reissues will follow throughout the month of April, before wrapping up April 14 with the release of "The Best of Eric Burdon and WAR" and "The WAR Anthology." Along with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sly and the Family Stone and Santana, Eric Burdon and WAR was one of rock's first multi-racial outfits. And while WAR scored some of their biggest hits without Burdon (who was previously a member of the Animals) circa the mid '70s -- "Low Rider," "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?" -- it was the Burdon-led, near-chart-topping "Spill the Wine" that introduced the masses to the group in 1970. "My music has always had a message; working with a great multi-racial band was part of my statement at that time," Burdon tells Billboard.com. "The name WAR forced people to look at the political environment of that time and obviously it is just as powerful today. I think people need to be challenged with a reality check, and this reunion is just the thing to help wake people up." The Eric Burdon and WAR lineup for the show will be comprised of Burdon and keyboardist Lonnie Jordan, as well as Start Ziff (guitar), Francisco "Pancho" Tomaselli (bass), Fernando Harkless (saxophone), Mitch Kashmar (harmonica), Marcos Reyes (percussion) and Salvador Rodriguez (drums). The performance will also be filmed for subsequent DVD release.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003709331 The Who Mulls Next Album, Revisits Classics The Who Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. The Who has begun mulling its next studio album, on the heels of 2006's "Endless Wire," its first new disc in 24 years. According to a post on TheWho.com from Pete Townshend, the band is considering working with producer T-Bone Burnett. "I am hoping to come up with some songs for a more conventional Who record," Townshend wrote, adding that Burnett "is an old friend of mine." 2008 will also likely bring live shows in Japan in the fall, to coincide with the release there of the recent Who documentary "Amazing Journey." In addition, Townshend and vocalist Roger Daltrey are discussing "revisiting 'Quadrophenia' the way we did it in the '90s," the guitarist says. Beforehand, the Who may play "some shows in the festival season this summer," Townshend says. "I would want to do that purely for fun, and I don't want to turn it into a big tour. I need to stay focused on my writing." In other Who news, the group is planning a late summer/early fall release for DVDs chronicling two well-known shows from its archive. The first, taped Dec. 14, 1969, at London Coliseum, boasts a complete performance of "Tommy." The second, from Dec. 15, 1977, at Kilburn State Gaumont, was filmed for use in the documentary "The Kids Are Alright" but has never been released in complete form.

See the video for Supernatural Superserious here: http://www.warnerknask.no/rem Accelerate CD/DVD Special Edition http://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-CD-DVD-R-...174&s=music Disc: 1 1. Living Well Is The Best Revenge 2. Man-Sized Wreath 3. Supernatural Superserious 4. Hollow Man 5. Houston 6. Accelerate 7. Until The Day Is Done 8. Mr. Richards 9. Sing For The Submarine 10. Horse To Water 11. I'm Gonna DJ Disc: 2 1. 6 Days (48-minute film) - DVD 2. Red Head Walking - DVD 3. Airliner - DVD Product Description Accelerate, the first studio album in four years from R.E.M., finds modern rock's most acclaimed band returning to the stripped-down, guitar-driven power that first enraptured fans. Helmed by the band and, for the first time, Jacknife Lee (co-producer of U2's '05 Grammy® Album Of The Year How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, The Hives and Snow Patrol), Accelerate puts the 2007 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group once again firmly behind the wheel of alternative rock, a genre R.E.M. helped invent. Accelerate is available as a CD-only in a Softpak; a CD+DVD that features a 64-page book and the Vincent Moon film 6 Days (which includes behind-the-scenes footage and performance pieces of various songs on the album) plus two bonus tracks (audio only) Red Head Walking and Airliner in a board package.

I remember the day I found this in the record store. I hid it in the wrong section so my friends that were shopping with me wouldn't find it and buy it before I had a chance to. I love it but so far it's my only Roy Harper purchase.

During Live 8 Kanye also said AIDS was a disease "invented by the white man".

Except for folks like Steve Earle. He won in his category but that portion of the Grammys wasn't broadcast, at least on TV (it was broadcast on the web, however).

This year there was a webcast so you could see the awards that aren't usually broadcast.

Vince Gill had the best comment of the night in regards to Kanye, perhaps the most sore loser the music world has ever known.

You're reading things into this discussion that never even took place, much less have any basis in reality. All I did was try to offer a helpful hint on how to easily open CDs and remove the residue left by stickers and it escalated from there. Simple as that.

"Age" never even entered the conversation until you mentioned it. Now you're just totally fabricating things as I haven't a clue as to what you're talking about. In regards to the radio station thread, Kissandra would accomplished her goal by remaining mum on the entire subject but instead entered the thread to inform all of led-zep.com that it was a subject no one would be interested in.

Does this have anything to do with Steve Van Zandt's (E-Street Band, Sopranos) radio program of the same name?

Protest is "selling"? Can't see that I see that happening. I know of lots of artists who have cut protest songs in recent years but the chance of them receiving any sort of commercial radio airplay is pretty much zero. Just ask Fogerty, Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, R.E.M., Pearl Jam or most any other artist that has spoken out against the war in song. What can you see from your window? I can't see anything from mine. Flags on the side of the highway and scripture on grocery store signs. Maybe eighteen was too early. Maybe thirty or forty is too. Did you get your chance to make peace with the man before he sent down his angels for you? Mamas and grandmamas love you 'cause that's all they know how to do. You never planned on the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues. Your wife said this all would be funny when you came back home in a week. You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you in a bar or a tent by the creek. Your baby would just about be here. Your very last tour would be up but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups. Mamas and grandmamas love you. American boys hate to lose. You never planned on the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues. Now the high school gymnasium's ready, full of flowers and old legionnaires. Nobody showed up to protest, just sniffle and stare. But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters and there's silent old men from the corps. What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war? Nobody here could forget you. You showed us what we had to lose. You never planned on the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues. No, no you never planned on the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues. Jason Isbell Dress Blues From the album Sirens of the Ditch

I may be in the minority but I consider that album a classic, one I can listen to from start to finish without ever skipping a track. In regards to their latter material, I like quite a bit of it as well, including A Bigger Bang. As for the live show, when I saw them last (couple of years ago) I thought they were all very into it and not just "going through the motions" as they're so often accused. I hope they keep performing and recording as long it makes them happy.

The hippest album to like by the Beach Boys is Pet Sounds.

Maybe I'm missing something here but I was wondering who "Craig" is.

Can't say I've ever figured out what the big deal is about her. The vast majority of her music sounds very generic and uncreative to my ears. A few years back when tribute records were all the rage you would think she was the only female vocalist in existence because she was all so many of them when there were much more capable and talented female artists out there to choose from such as Lucinda Williams, Tift Merritt, Kasey Chambers, etc. I equate Sheryl as the female version of Lenny Kravitz, who's attempts at a retro sound come across just as uninspired as hers.

I could really give a shit about an artist's longevity, not to mention there's no way such a thing can be predicted. Who knew way back when who would still be around 20-30 years later? I listen to what moves me and that's pretty much all that matters.