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Two more from the ol' second hand shop: Samson - Shock Tactics Deep Purple - Machine Head

Latest finds from my favorite second-hand haunt: White Lion - Big Game Saxon - Crusader Alice Cooper - Killer Cheap Trick - Dream Police (2006 remaster w/bonus tracks)

New song isn't terrible, but geez, Don's voice is barely a shadow of what it once was. I'll still buy the album, of course... once a fan boy, always a fan boy...

Second hand pickups this past weekend: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - s/t Rainbow - Down To Earth Deep Purple - Fireball

Heh. Heh. "Shaft." Huh-huh. Huh-huh.

Meh. Sounds like warmed over Motley Crue.

Over the past couple of weeks: Aerosmith - King's Chronicle (live 1978, bootleg) Metallica - Enter Mudman (Live @ Woodstock 1994, bootleg) AC/DC - Angus Cha Cha (live @ Hammersmith Odeon 1979, bootleg) Bloodgood - Detonation (2019 "Special Edition" reissue w/3 bonus tracks) Galactic Cowboys - Space In Your Face Raven - All Hell's Breaking Loose Holosade - Hell House (Divebomb Recs. reissue) Pierce - III: The Anthology

Record store pickups this past weekend: Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid* *replaces the used copy I bought about ten years ago, which was a scratched-to-shit, skipping clusterfuck from the day I got it.

Various - Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper W.A.S.P. - s/t Deliverance - Weapons Of Our Warfare L.A. Guns - The Missing Peace

My parents friggin' LOVED "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." They watched it a bunch of times when it first hit cable back in the day. It didn't occur to me till many years later that the reason they watched it so many times was probably cuz it got their motors runnin.' (shudder)....

How can you not love Dolly? She's like everybody's cool aunt. She's a god damn national treasure. That said... this rock album seems like a "listen to it on YouTube" not a "buy."

Over the past week: Overkill - Scorched X-Cops - You Have The Right To Remain Silent... (reissue) Black Sabbath - Deep Black (radio broadcast bootleg, live in 1983) AC/DC - The Massachusetts Massacre (radio broadcast live 1978)

Good grief. This isn't even listenable as comedy.

I wasn't sure if I even remembered my fuckin password after all this time

I guess not.

Well, fuckin' A... it's been a while. How the fuck is everybody doin'?

"Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage" (2010)Way cool, in depth history of the Canadian power trio's long and storied career, loaded with vintage clips, interviews, and commentary from famous friends and fans incl. Gene Simmons, Jack Black, Billy Corgan, and more. A treasure trove of eye and ear candy for Rush fanboys and an entertaining, educational doc for newbs too. "The Amityville Terror" (2016) A dysfunctional family moves into a creepy old house which, of course, has a dark past. When weird supernatural stuff starts happening, it's up to the teenage daughter to uncover the secrets of the house before it claims her and all of her loved ones. In other words... same sh*t, different movie! ...I've been on an "Amityville" kick lately for some ungodly reason, but holy crap, this was bad. It made "Amityville 3-D" look like the Royal Shakespeare Company. I soon learned that this no-budget, community-theater level slab of schlock is part of a recent wave of cheap horror flicks that have no connection to the "real" Amityville franchise aside from the town's name in the title. So at least I learned that I can safely avoid the other in-name-only knock offs that are floating around my various streaming channels, like "Amityville Theater," "Amityville Asylum," "Amityville Death House," and "Amityville Exorcism." AVOID.

Garage sale pickups: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (replaces a prior copy that was a scratched, skipping clusterf**k) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction

"Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" (2017) As DC's teen heroes plunge into battle against Deathstroke and crazed religious cult leader Brother Blood, they learn that they have a traitor within their own ranks. This animated adaptation of the classic Marv Wolfman/George Perez epic (one of the best comic books of the '80s IMO) has been updated from its '80s origins to fit current DC continuity, so some of the faces and characters have changed from the story I remember, but it's still a fun, action packed flick with plenty of the usual cartoon ultra-violence and cool voice casting (incl. the late Miguel Ferrer making his final film appearance voicing Deathstroke, and Christina Ricci as Raven!). "Amityville II: The Possession" (1982) Another ill-fated family moves into the infamous house on Ocean Avenue and soon their teenage son is hearing demonic voices that inspire him to put the moves on his own sister (yuck!) and eventually commit all-family homicide. This sequel is actually sort of a semi-"prequel," as it's basically a very loose adaptation (with plenty of supernatural embellishments) of the real-life murders of the DeFeo family who occupied the house prior to the Lutz family moving in. As an added bonus, the movie turns into a pretty decent ripoff of "The Exorcist" in the last 20 minutes, as the family's priest struggles to save the boy's soul before he gets the electric chair. "Amityville II" is nastier, more mean-spirited and way sleazier than the original film, and as a result it's the best movie of the whole damn franchise!

EPIC yard sale score this AM! I filled in a lot of the holes in my RUSH catalog, and grabbed a few other odds n ends too RUSH: A Farewell To Kings Permanent Waves Signals Grace Under Pressure Hold Your Fire Presto Roll the Bones Clockwork Angels Plus Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers David Lee Roth - A Little Ain't Enough All in great shape, all for a buck each. Happy dance!

Had some luck at Goodwill this morn: Flotsam & Jetsam - Unnatural Selection Def Leppard - Vault: Greatest Hits 1980-1995 Petra - Jekyll & Hyde

Lazy Sunday double feature: "Justice League Dark" (2017) A series of violent deaths seem to be caused by magic, so Batman enlists some of the DC universe's supernatural anti-heroes like John Constantine, Zatanna, The Demon, Deadman, and Swamp Thing to help solve the mystery. The usual blasting, zapping and ultra-violence ensues. Nicely animated as usual, and it's nice to see some different characters getting to play in one of these DC 'toon movies for a change, instead of the usual Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman triad. "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984) The heroic Buckaroo Banzai - a skilled neurosurgeon, rock n roll star, adventurer and all around awesome dude - has to save Earth from destruction by inter-dimensional aliens in this utterly bizarre cult sci-fi/action comedy. The last time I saw "B.B." was when it hit cable in the late '80s and I remembered next to nothing about it except for a vague feeling that it didn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Re-visiting it all these years later... it still doesn't. "Buckaroo" has a great cast incl. Peter "RoboCop" Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, and more) but it feels like it was made up as they went along. I guess this is one of those movies that you either "get" or you don't, and I don't. (shrugs)

Poison - Native Tongue ...my first Goodwill Store score in a couple of months! It ain't much but I'll take it. Hopefully this is a sign that the dry spell is coming to an end.

"Batman and Harley Quinn" (2017) Batman and Nightwing grudgingly enlist Harley Quinn -- who's been trying half-heartedly to go straight -- to help them stop an apocalyptic plot by her former BFF Poison Ivy in this entertaining cartoon flick. This fast, funny team-up is a throwback to the style and feel of the classic early '90s Batman animated series (though this flick's PG-13 rating allows for a few risque gags that the old show wouldn't have gotten away with!), and is (thankfully) less grim than the last few DC Animated Universe installments I've seen. Cool fanboy stuff.

Coming soon from Stormspell: VISIONS by Carriage Virginia based retro/occult metal band. Fans of Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, check these guys out. "PRIMAL RITUAL" on YouTube: Review @ my blog (shameless plug, shameless plug) https://spinditty.com/genres/Carriage-Visions-Album-Review