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From: ryan@fremen.DEC (Mike Ryan	DTN 264-8280 MK01-2/H32)
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Subject: Re: Sea Level query
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:17:28 EDT
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>Posted by: decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646
>Organization: New York University
> 
>Anyone know where I can get albums by Sea Level, which may be out of
>print.  I have one of their albums, "On the Edge," which was released
>by Capricorn, and I know htey made at least one ohter album,
>"Cats on the Coast," but I don't know who released that one (or others, if
>there were any).
> 
"Cats on the Coast" was released by Capricorn.  It's pretty decent (not as
good as "On the Edge" of course).  Their debut album "Sea Level" I believe 
was also on Capricorn, but I've never heard it.  I think, though, that 
Bramblett wasn't with them yet at that point.  I also have "Long Walk on a
Short Pier" (which followed "On the Edge"), which is also pretty good.  They
had another album called "Ball Room", which was rather straight-forward (and
dull) rock - it's the last one I know for sure of.

>Incidentally, are they still around?  I suppose they broke up when the
>Allmans got back together, but I'm not sure, and I don't even know if
>the Allmans are still together (who really cares, given the tripe they
>released most recently).  Any information about the band or its members,
>particularly Chuck Leavall and Randall Bramlett would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
I've been wondering that myself - the last thing I'd heard was that they were
on the verge of releasing a new album when the bass player Lamar Williams died
(cancer, I believe).  I don't know if that album was ever released.  I'm pretty
sure that Leavell and Bramblett were not with the reformed Allmans (now defunct
- they lost theit record contract, and Dickie Betts and Gregg Allman weren't
getting along too well, so they've got their own bands now).

>					Thanks in advance,
>					Mike Sykora
> 
> 
>P.S.  --  I highly reccomend the album "On the Edge" to all.  If I had
>to categorize it, I'd say it is tasty, bluesy fusion, with little if
>any of the excess that one often finds in fusion.

Yes!! One of my all-time favorite albums - jazz-rock fusion with some healthy
tastes of funk.  About half the songs they did (at least previous to "Long 
Walk...") were instrumental. Unfortunately, my copy jumped out of my hands to
the floor a few months ago, and I haven't been able to find a new copy (and
I'd lost my tape copy, too). Sigh...

Mike Ryan
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