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Re: Vanguard Tapes on iTunes

I believe it's called "Indian II", I don't have access to the iTunes music store
in Hong Kong, so I got some friends in the US to download it for me about a year
ago. Listening to the intensity of this work, it's clear that some of the
passion was lost in later recordings... some of the songs appear on Visions of
the Country, also Rainbow Thunder, but not with the same delivery. I'm just
reading between the lines here, but I guess the loss of a major record deal must
have been something of a blow. There's nothing polite or people-pleasing about
this recording, it's pure distilled Basho.






Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:38 am

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Greetings friends! The Vanguard tapes are an entire unreleased album, recorded by Robbie in 1975-1976, and for me his finest hour by a million miles, it seems...
Alan
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Jun 24, 2009
4:28 pm

Greetings friends! The Vanguard tapes are an entire unreleased album, recorded by Robbie in 1975-1976, and for me his finest hour by a million miles, it seems...
Alan
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Jun 24, 2009
4:28 pm

Hi Alan,Thanks for the info.  I tried locating this on itunes and Vanguard, and I am striking out.  Can you send some light to guide me to the correct path...
ryan leaf
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Jun 24, 2009
7:43 pm

Alan, I was most interested in the tail end of your comment, when you mention "...before his spirit was broken." Could you elaborate on that? On another...
artpaws
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Jun 24, 2009
11:30 pm

I believe it's called "Indian II", I don't have access to the iTunes music store in Hong Kong, so I got some friends in the US to download it for me about a...
Alan
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Jun 25, 2009
4:39 am

Greetings Alan, Your impressions and 'narrativization' of Indian II are very attractive, and I'm sure many people here would share your understanding of...
Robbie Dawson
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Jun 25, 2009
5:26 pm

Hey Artpaws, Reading your post, two quotes came to my mind that I feel might be worth sharing. One closer to home, the other further. In an interview with John...
Robbie Dawson
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Jun 25, 2009
5:46 pm

  maybe i'm too out of tune about this issue, but i don't understand why Robbie's Indian Music interests by then didn't fit Windham Hill stylings i think...
Toni Ruiz
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Jul 1, 2009
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Hi, Toni, When Windham Hill got its start, its focus as an instrumental fingerstyle guitar label was very, very narrow.  The "Early Pierre Bensusan" album,...
cmclaw2001@...
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Jul 1, 2009
9:47 pm

Well, it does seem odd in hindsight, but the power dynamics between Windham and Basho were odd to begin with, and were not like that of a newly signed artist....
Robbie Dawson
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Jul 1, 2009
11:14 pm

Let me state from the outset that I am a contrarian on the Windham Hill recordings. To my ear, both of them are disasters. My main criticisms may go to the...
artpaws
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Jul 2, 2009
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I stand by my original comments, and it's just based on the music, I'm a composer for what it's worth. I don't believe these recordings are outtakes from Voice...
Alan
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