Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!henry From: henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Re: New stuff: Hula / D. Dax / Joe Jackson Message-ID: <8609230927.AA22906@THESEUS> Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 05:29:05 EDT Article-I.D.: THESEUS.8609230927.AA22906 Posted: Tue Sep 23 05:29:05 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 07:49:53 EDT References: <8609230746.AA29997@csvax.caltech.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu >> Joe Jackson "Big World" >> Started out brilliantly, a fusion of his early guitar-based energy and >> later musical sophistication, but lost me somewhere along the line. >> I'll have to listen to it some more (just got it today) to really be >> able to grok its fullness. (Love the DDD sound, tho.) The best part about this album is the environment in which it was produced. Jackson held several unannounced (more-or-less) concerts across the country, and attempted to make the album by taking down the music live at the concert. All fine and good, except he kept shushing up the audience ... Saw 'im in New York, -- Henri /