HAIR recording question!

[Brodybaby03]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 10:48am

Can you only purchase the recording through Sh-K-Boom right now? IS it available anywhere that I could swing by on pick it up? PLEASE someone tell me ASAP.

[timote316]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 11:10am

According to the upcoming CDs listing, its available in stores today, but I'm not 100% sure. Try calling around to the stores in your area (I know that it won't be in my area, it may be in the city).

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 11:30am

weird amazon does not have it!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 11:34am

Don't most or all of the proceeds go to GMHC? I imagine Amazon wouldn't sell it, if that was the case. I'd say Sh-K-boom is the most reliable place to get it.

[parislover87]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 11:36am

Regardless of how you get it, it is amazing... Shoshana, Jennifer Hudson, Eden Espinosa, Ana Gasteyer.... they are all amazing on their tracks...

[timote316]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 12:29pm

The whole CD is amazing. I've never heard certain people on that CD sound better (most notably Adam)

[Demitri2]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 12:50pm

I just ordered it through CDUniverse.com.

[broadway betty]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 12:55pm

I ordered it from Sh-K-Boom back in March, I've been rocking out since then. If you guys could order it online why didn't you order it then? BTW, this cd is awesome!

[theatreboi11]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 1:27pm

I just bought it from the Borders by me. Try checking at that store.

[mandy2loveRB]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 1:37pm

..I got it from Barnes & Noble.

[Alix7272]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 2:53pm

what are the chances of a barnes and noble in jersey having it? i guess i'll have to call.

[mandy2loveRB]

Posted: 6/14/05 at 4:59pm

I checked www.bn.com and they have it, too!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:39pm

who sings: Going Down!??

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:40pm

Amazon or Borders

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:55pm

Gavin Creel - that is my fav. song on the CD

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:59pm

its REALLY great. i like Hippie Life and i disslikeEden and i love the Toxic Audio Electric Blues

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 4:44pm

Hair is in stores as of TUESDAY! I actually heard Seth talking about it on Sirius last night, saying he's in the midst of picking a show for this years concert already. He said people had suggested "Barnum" but that he didn't want to bore the audience to death.

Bitchy bitchy bitchy....

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 5:10pm

Only three "amazings" and one "awesome" on this whole thread? C'mon gang, you can do better than that.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 5:14pm

When I buy it, I will be so awesome, it will be amazing.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:37pm

I bought it today. I have to say, of what I have heard, I find it neither awesome nor amazing.

And it's weird, because I LOVE the score. Have bought and rebought the original every time they repackage it with extras and bonii.

So why doesn't this recording click for me?

There are performers I love whose performances on this I don't. Lilias White's Aquarius, for example. Why does it plod? Did they slow it down or were people just stoned?

Dead End. Love the song. Adore Ana Gasteyer. Not crazy at all about her rendition of the song.

Then there are people I remember who got slammed the day after the concert. Lea Delaria, for instance. I think her version of Donna is terrific, and having a lesbian sing it really upends the sexism.

Then there is a more quizzical category. Shoshana Bean. What more can be said of her performance of "I Believe in Love" but that it proves the theory of quantum physics? Apparently, Ms. Bean went back in time to the 1960s and brought the horrible late-'90s/early-'00s melisma trend of adding notes within notes within notes to notes that were perfect the way they were.

Thanks, Soshana, for ripping a hole in the time/space continuum and poisoning a perfectly delightful period piece with THE most annoying bad habit of showboating singers today! I wonder if my A Chorus Line recording now has Sheila singing "Up the steep and narrow stay-yaha-hai-haiir-hair-yayayayaya-yairwayyyyyyuh" now that Shoshana has altered history?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:41pm

My biggest complaint about the CD was that a lot of the songs were significantly slowed down from how they were at the concert. Hair and Aquarius are bordering the territory of painfully slow. I do really like it, though, simply because there are such fantastic voices. I've had it for a few months, but it also doesn't have the cohesion of a true cast recording.

ETA - someone mentioned Barnum as a possibility for next year. I know very little about it, but Raúl did a kick-ass version of one of the songs Monday night!

Updated On: 6/15/05 at 11:41 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:47pm

"[B]ordering the territory of painfully slow"? I would say Aquarius is the capital of that territory!

[insomniak]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:50pm

They slowed them down? *crosses new Hair CD off list of 'to buy'* That's a surefire way to kill a cast recording. And I can't stand the idea of hearing HAIR 90s-popified. GAH. It's a kickass score and period commentary and I don't want them to change a thing. Do they modernize the orchestrations? That'd be the worst. I love all the beauty, spendor and wonder of Hair's bad-sixties-recording-technology and tinny guitars.

And can anyone ever REALLY duplicate the original Flesh Failures? I think not. Change is bad. Very bad.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:53pm

Noooo, buy it. They only slowed some of the songs down. With a few exceptions, everybody gave powerhouse vocal performances on that CD. Adam quite possibly sounds the best I've ever heard him record.

And Norm's Flesh Failures is stunning. I love him.

Updated On: 6/15/05 at 11:53 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:56pm

There will never be, never has been and never is a better Flesh Failures than the original. Its haunting power comes from how real the fear expressed in the song was at the time of the recording. It was something that could and did happen. I don't know if that emotion can be so truly recaptured, even by the best actor.

As a teenager with typical teen funds, Emcee, I don't buy any CD I'm not sure I'll love. Pass. Don't chop up my Adam fangirl card. I'd have no home here.