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Bossman just hooked me up with a copy of the Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe set.

I will be rocking mightily (to use an Endinoism) until the end of my shift tonight.

Also recently purchased:

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath: mostly so I can listen to "Paint It Black" and "Under My Thumb" over and over and over.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame: Much to my surprise, this shit is really good. (I've only barely dabbled in fusion.) I dunno if John McLaughlin got into all that Scientology shit like Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea did, but this strikes me as less hippie/Hubbard-y and more rock than a lot of other fusion I've heard.

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine: Haven't quite absorbed this one yet. I don't know if my brain can handle screaming in 17/8 time as well as it once could.

The Afghan Whigs - Going To Town EP: A British release with the studio version of "Going To Town", plus a pretty killer live version, and "Moon River" (!) I just saw a copy of this on Amazon for $49.00. I paid $5.00. Ha!

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Okay..."Moon River" has a very special place in my heart - which is a stupid story I will tell you some other time. Can I beg a listen from you?

Of course. I didn't bring it with me today though. Sorry!

Danke. :)

If you haven't yet heard it, I recommend the Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness live double CD. It's one of the few things a person could call "Fusion" that I've loved. Kind of a 21st century Bitches Brew done by very wild Jews.

Yeah, I think Zorn and almost any of the avante-garde NY Jazz scene, Laswell, Arto Lindsay, etc., need a label other than fusion. It may be electrified, but it's sure as hell no Al Demioloa

Oh, man, yeah - I never held my taste for fusion, be Mahavishnu is one that's always stuck. All the albums are pretty good, and there'es a live album that was released a few years ago that kicks ass. McLaughlin never went scientologist, but he went guru - he's major eastern mysticism freak boy. If you don't have it, also check out his early solo stuff - Electric Guitarist, and Love, Devotion, Surrender - the second being a collab with Santana - some of both's best playing. Apparently, and this could just be urban legend, there's a McLaughlin/Hendrix album in the can somewhere that McLauchlin won't let be released.