At 10:17 AM 6/24/2004 -0700, Craig Leve wrote:
>Was listening to Cosmic Peekaboo and doing a little web searching 
>around this wonderful band (speaking of 60's gems).  I noticed that 
>Light in the Attic Records is in the midst of a continuing reissue 
>series of all of the 7 original stereo albums on both CD and 180 
>gram vinyl.  The CDs include bonus tracks.  David Bash, Ponak, Jason 
>Ankeny..or...whoever - heard these yet?  How is the series so far?

They're excellently done, and the bonus tracks and liner notes are
extensive.  The only problem is the same one that troubles the original
albums: wildly inconsistent songs.

We saw Guy Maddin's new film THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD recently
(fabulous movie, btw, the best thing he's ever done), and I was surprised
to see Chris Dedrick's name in the credits: he wrote the score, including
most of the songs sung and played by various characters.

S