Stimp (stimpson@total.net)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:39:12 -0500
I'd have to agree with the suggestion of Agharta over Bitches Brew or
even Big Fun in terms of overall funkiness. Actually, I'm a little
surprised that none of you have suggested either Miles live at the
Philharmonic Hall (part of the same batch of reissues put out last year,
which included Live Evil and Dark Magus), or Get Up With It, which totally
rocks my world. I find both of these records to be at least on par with the
best of Miles funky period, and quite frankly, better than records like Big
Fun, which I thought lacked a certain something and repeated the same
musical themes too often.
Then again, I guess that the same can be said of On The Corner, but I
just love that record, so who's to say why On The Corner works and Big Fun
(for me, at least) falls a little short? If the original poster is looking
for a very percussive, tribal sort of funk groove, then I'd say go for
either Dark Magus or Live Evil. For that heavier rock-funk sound, I'd go
for Jack Johnson or Agharta, although Live Evil's really heavy as well as is
Miles Live at the Philharmonic. I'd say that the trippiest records from
this period would be Get Up With It and Bitches Brew or In a Silent Way,
while On The Corner, for me, stands in a totally dirty, stanky, incredible
class of it's own. The one record I don't own or know is Pangea, so if any
of y'all have an opinion on it, I'd love to hear it. In terms of
good-but-not-a-must-have, I'd place Black Beauty in that category, with Big
Fun being the record that probably does the least for me.
Just my $0.02
Stimp
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Witherspoon <arzachel@best.com>
To: Art Vandelay <markeg@hotmail.com>; funky-music@ai.mit.edu
<funky-music@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: warnin:" Funky Miles should I go for?
>At 12:53 PM -0800 11/10/99, Art Vandelay wrote:
>>dear list: if The poster did not like bitches rew He will not like
"Agartha"
>>. Its more live sounding and it has even less regular rhythms. He may
need
>>to move backwards rather than forwards. as to the others including the
>>reissue of live evil and the fillmore thingy that were rereleased a
couple
>>years back(along with i thingk Black magus) i dont know but this guy
might
>>need to move back and then move to herbie
>>
>
>Maybe we've got different copies of _Agartha_, but I'm listening to mine
>right now, & it's funky as fuck. There's even an hour-long version of
>"Jack Johnson", surely one of Miles' funkiest moments--
>
>The poster did like _Big Fun_ & _On the Corner_, so I really see no reason
>to move backwards to pre-electric Miles. _Big Fun_ is much less solidly
>on-the-one than _Agartha_-- again, I've got to wonder if we're even
>talking about the same album.... Still, I'd go w/_*Dark* Magus_ first--
>
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> Jason Witherspoon
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