Over on the Vinyl Record Collectors group that I moderate on the professional and business on-line networking site, LinkedIn, I started a fairly active discussion that generated many responses. I stated what I thought are the Best All-time DLA's, that is short-hand for Double Live Album. Here is one that, among the 30-plus and counting comments, no one has mentioned. It is Joan Baez's From Every Stage. According to the jacket, these are recordings of her live songs she performed on tour in July and August 1975. Some all-time greats, and one of the most tragic figures in the annals of rock and roll, play on this record with Joan. Motown's own baddist bassman James Jamerson, who many consider one of the greatest of all time is in the group photo on the back cover. Just today, in the Chicago Tribune, in a story about the great sidemen of all time, local rock critic Greg Kot states, "The dancefloor pulse behind a trove of Motown hits for the Temptations, the Supremes, the Four Tops and more."). Now the tragic part: It is hard to write the name Jim Gordon here. Jim Gordon co-wrote Layla. He was a protege of the great Hal Blaine. Jim Gordon's name seems to be listed as drummer on every record I pick up in the basement. I don't care to go into more details here, but feel free.
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