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Click on any album cover below to go over to the main site and listen.

I like the Survivor cover, but I agree with some of the other sentiments about the album being "over-sung". It's like they're perpetually trying to push things to 11. It's good musically and sonically, but it's is if the air is always being sucked out of the room.

People in the public eye get it from all sides by anonymous keyboard warriors. Look at all the hate Emily Armstrong (new vocalist for Linkin Park) has received after self-appointed police dug into her past, regarding (#1) her past association with Danny Masterson, and (#2) having been RAISED in a Scientologist family. It's none of people's fucking business, but social media does what it does. Decades from now, society (if one still exists) will look back at social media as the worst innovation in the entire history of humanity.

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Well... I mean... it's true. Time once again to nag/beg/plead/insult (wait, what?) to help out covering Heavy Harmonies' expenses. Costs for the site run roughly US$195 a month, roughly the same as last several years. So when I say "costs", what do I mean? It's the out-of-pocket expenses to keep Heavy Harmonies running: server lease, bandwidth, hosting support, and the subscription for this forum software, domain registration. The 2023 drive did pretty well, reaching 83% of goal of covering the annual costs. Let's see if we can meet, or better yet, beat that goal! The donation drive will run through Halloween, October 31. Anyone who makes a single donation of $20 or more and has a board username will be added to the group "2024 Donors". This gets you the following benefits: A nice shiny icon in your profile showing that you are an HH Donor for 2024: An increase in the size of your PM storage from 200 to 500 messages An increase in image attachment/upload storage from 20MB to 50MB Exempt from the search flood control (normally if you try and do a search more than every 10 seconds, you get an annoying little "please wait" message) No time limit on editing your own posts! This will especially be useful for those with trade/sale lists as you'll be able to edit them rather than posting revised versions. A warm fuzzy feeling inside that you are helping support Heavy Harmonies! If you donate $50 during the drive, either as a single donation or across multiple donations, you will be added to the group "2024 Gold Donors". This gets you the following in addition to the above: A bigger, shiny badge: All your posts will be highlighted, because if you show this much dedication to HH, what you have to say is obviously more more important! (just kidding, but your posts will be accentuated). The ability to create a forum "signature" that will be added to all of your posts. If you donate using buttons on the main site, please put your board username in the notes section, and if you donate from here on the forum, please PM me the email address that you sent the donation from! Otherwise I have no way to tie your donation to your membership here on the board. If you are currently in the 2023 donor groups but don't wish to donate this year (or can't), at the beginning of the donation drive, your group membership features will revert to the regular non-donator membership group. Membership in the 2024 Donors group will last until the beginning of next year's donation drive, at which point you can donate again to remain in the Donors group with the same benefits, or revert back to your current member group. PayPal donation buttons are found at the top of all the pages on the main site and here on the forum on the right side at the top, or if you'd prefer to send a money order, check, or cash (not recommended, but I know some people prefer to do so), you can make payable to Dan Harding and send to: Heavy Harmonies P.O. Box 17021 Urbana, IL 61803 USA If you can't give $20, give $10... if you can't give $10, give $5... it's just once a year. (And if you happen to be fortunate enough to be earning gobs of money, please feel free to give bunches! I'm not opposed to having a sugar daddy... or seven.) As always, your support is greatly appreciated! -Dan

You hate all women in music, we get it.

Actually, this was a brilliant move. She can do Chester's lines on the older material with very similar vocal characteristics to keep it faithful, yet she has a fuller bodied voice in that register. Also it avoids much of the inevitable "Chester wannabe" criticisms. The live tracks also come off well right out of the gate, let alone once she grows into the position and they gel more.

Dredging this up again, as you can now find this set new for about $50-60 shipped on eBay. I just finally bought it to get the 5.1 channel blu-ray version of the album. $179 for the set? No fucking way. But $50? Ehh, ok. more reasonable IMO.

Meh.

Good stuff... lots of YT vids... album?

Delightfully campy.

Yep, spammers/botters, posting in Russian. Mike and I could see the posts until I banned them, but nobody else. Since I implemented the anti-spam group probationary measures about 10 years ago we haven't been hit by spammers like some other boards/blogs do. They're out there, but there posts never make it to being public...

Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about this, as the board is a hosted service; I don't run it on my own server.

Not gunna lie, I LOLed quite a few times...