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I just tried registering a dummy username and it worked fine for me... -Dan

Coming over the wire now. Vick's camp is saying that he's not going to plead guilty to either killing dogs or gambling on dogfighting. He only plans to plead guilty to one count of interstate commerce violations. How does this fucker get off not having to admit to anything! Money talks I guess. Why would the feds even agree to this??? Sonofabitch.

You're in the same boat I am. Some of the shirts have 3X options. I have no control over what sizes are offered for which items... -Dan

Well 99% of the time you're right! -Dan

Status as of 8-20-07: phaffas: Damone - From the Attic Rycheage: Accomplice - She's On Fire Rycheage: The Alarm - King Biscuit Flour Hour Rycheage: Doug Aldrich - Highcentered Rycheage: Doug Aldrich - Electrovision phaffas: Harmony - Dreaming Awake phaffas: Narnia - Awakening phaffas: Aerial View - S/T phaffas: Allies - Shoulder to Shoulder phaffas: Petra - Jekyll and Hyde En Espanol aMetalhead1966: Anthem - Immortal aMetalhead1966: Anthem - Heavy Metal Anthem aMetalhead1966: Anthem - Seven Hills aMetalhead1966: Anthem - Overload chocularok: Broken Toys - Savage chocularok: Court Jester - King for a Day chocularok: Sign of the Times - Disengage chocularok: Great White - Live in New York chocularok: John Hahn - Out of the Shadows chocularok: Harpo - Live, Go Heavy or Go Home! chocularok: Harpo - Too Much Is Just Enough chocularok: Howe II - High Gear chocularok: Jester - Time Has Come chocularok: King for a Day - S/T chocularok: Richie Kotzen - S/T chocularok: Leggz - Here We Go Again... chocularok: Masquerade - Crazy About the Night Life aMetalhead1966: Anthem - Eternal Warrior aMetalhead1966: Anthem - Live Melt Down aMetalhead1966: Flatbacker - War aMetalhead1966: Flatbacker - Feed chocularok: Great White - Live at the Ritz chocularok: Great White - Live at the Marquee Official Bootleg Rycheage: Artension - Future World Rycheage: Circus Maximus - Isolate Rycheage: Colosseum II - Electric Savage Rycheage: Colosseum II - Wardance Rycheage: Conspiracy - S/T Rycheage: Cryptic Vision - In a World Rycheage: Edenbridge - Shine Rycheage: Edenbridge - The Grand Design chocularok: Metal Rose - S/T chocularok: Mr. Big - Live at Budokan chocularok: Mr. Big - Static EP chocularok: Mr. Big - In Japan chocularok: Mind Bomb - S/T chocularok: Piece Dogs - Exes for Eyes chocularok: Pitt Crew - S/T chocularok: Problem Child - Smashin Time chocularok: Blues Saraceno - Plaid chocularok: Blues Saraceno - Hair Pick chocularok: Schriek - Tattoo Smile chocularok: Shark Island - Alive at the Whiskey chocularok: Dave Sharman - 1990 phaffas: Barnabas - Approaching Light Speed Rycheage: Sacred Heart - Shake Rycheage: Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver Rycheage: Riverside - Second Life Syndrome Rycheage: Saracen - Vox in Excelso chocularok: Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos aMetalhead1966: Dead End - Ghost of Romance chocularok: Ten Inch Men - Pretty Vultures chocularok: Andy Timmons - Ear X-tacy chocularok: Toxic Web - Vicious Circle chocularok: Ugly Wanda - One Night aMetalhead1966: Anthem - No Smoke Without Fire chocularok: Uncle Sally - World of Hurt chocularok: U.S. - Peace, Love, & Pain chocularok: Velcro Pygmies - Dice chocularok: Neil Zaza - Staring at the Sun Studboy: Andy Kelli - The Big Bang Studboy: Broken Teeth - Guilty Pleasure Studboy: Cherry Bang - Generation Sexxx Studboy: Classroom Zero - S/T chocularok: Jason Becker - Perspective chocularok: Velcro Pygmies - 3? chocularok: Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony choculaok: Cacophony - Go Off! chocularok: The Cult - Live at the Marquee London MCMXCI Studboy: Dangerous Toys - Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour Live chocularok: Damn the Machine - S/T chocularok: Marty Friedman - Scenes Studboy: Kinights Reign - S/T Studboy: Loudness - Jealousy Studboy: Ladies Room - Eat a Peach Studboy: Kidd Robin - The Inevitable Return of the Dinosaur Monster Studboy: Suicide Alley - 13 Studboy: Suicide Circus - World of Hate Studboy: The Screaming Santas - Going Insane at Christmas Studboy: Skeleton Crew - Graveyard Shift Studboy: Skeleton Crew - Grind the Enamel Studboy: Wednesday 13 - Fang Bang Studboy: Wilkes Booth - One Night Stand chocularok: Drivin' Miss Crazy - S/T chocularok: Mr. Big - Big, Bigger, Biggest Rycheage: Mass - Crack of Dawn Rycheage: Rush - Snakes and Arrows chocularok: Ozzy Osbourne - Ten Commandments chocularok: Def Leppard - In the Clubs... In Your Face chocularok: Compilation - Classic Metal chocularok: The Cult - The Manor Sessions chocularok: Dream Theater - Scenes from a World Tour chocularok: Dream Theater - Graspop Festival 2002 chocularok: Dream Theater - A Sort of Homecoming aMetalhead1966: August Redmoon - Fools Are Never Alone aMetalhead1966: Brainfever - Capture the Night aMetalhead1966: Blacklace - Unlaced/Get It While It's Hot aMetalhead1966: Dead End - Shambara chocularok: Atrophy - Socialized Hate (BM) chocularok: Fear of God - Within the Veil (BM) chocularok: Kage - Shadow of Faith (BM) aMetalhead1966: Hellhound - Tokyo Flying V Massacre (BM) chocularok: Killers - Murder One (BM) chocularok: Killers - Menace to Society (BM) chocularok: Meliah Rage - Kill to Survive (BM) chocularok: Meliah Rage - Live Kill (BM) chocularok: Metallica - Fan Can No. 2 (BM) chocularok: Metallica - Fan Can No. 3 (BM) chocularok: Metallica - Fan Can No. 4 (BM) chocularok: Metallica - Fan Can No. 5 (BM) chocularok: Midas Touch - Presage of Disaster (BM) chocularok: Mortal Sin - Face of Despair (BM) chocularok: Last Crack - Sinisted Funkhouse #17 (BM) chocularok: Last Crack - Burning Time (BM) chocularok: Powersurge - MCMXCI (BM) chocularok: Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua EP (BM) chocularok: Steel Reign - Change to Insane (BM) chocularok: Toranaga - God's Gift (BM) chocularok: Glenn Tipton - Baptism of Fire (BM) chocularok: UDO - Animal House (BM) chocularok: United - Human Zoo (BM) chocularok: United - No IQ (BM) chocularok: Voivod - Dimension Hatross (BM) chocularok: Voivod - Angel Rat (BM) chocularok: Voivod - The Outer Limits (BM) chocularok: Voivod - Negatron (BM) chocularok: Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare (BM) chocularok: Vio-lence - Oppressing the Masses (BM) chocularok: Vio-lence - Torture Tactics EP (BM) chocularok: Wrath - Insane Society (BM) Studboy: Amulance - Feel the Pain (BM) Studboy: Amulance - The Rage Within and the Aftermath (BM) Studboy: Armored Saint - Nod to the Old School (BM) chocularok: Metal Church - Hanging in the Balancs (BM) chocularok: Rage - Perfect Man (BM) chocularok: Coldsteel - Freakboy (BM) chocularok: Various Artists - Deeper into the Vault (BM) chocularok: Firehouse - Here for You! chocularok: Lita Ford - Platinum and Gold Collection chocularok: Freak of Nature - Rescue Me EP chocularok: Guns 'N Roses - EP chocularok: Ignorance - The Confident Rat chocularok: Destruction - Best of Destruction (BM) chocularok: Metallica - Live in London (BM) Eaglesfan3000: Nuclear Assault - Out of Order (BM) Eaglesfan3000: Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli (BM) Eaglesfan3000: Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast (BM) Eaglesfan3000: Exciter - Long Live the Loud (BM) Rycheage: Altaria - The Fallen Empire (BM) Rycheage: Evergrey - Recreation Day (BM) chocularok: Die Happy - S/T (BM) chocularok: Die Happy - Volume II (BM) Rycheage: Halford - Metal God Essentials, Vol. I (BM) Rycheage: Evergrey - A Night to Remember, Live 2004 (BM) Rycheage: Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse (BM) Rycheage: Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox (BM) Rycheage: Edge of Sanity - Nothing But Death Remains (BM) Rycheage: Nocturnal Rites - Shadowland (BM) Rycheage: Nocturnal Rites: New World Messiah (BM) Rycheage: Nocturnal Rites: The 8th Sin (BM) Rycheage: Nocturnal Rites: Grand Illusion (BM) Rycheage: Nevermore - Enemies of Reality (BM) Rycheage: Nevermore - The Godless Endeavor (BM) aMetalhead1966: Sex Machineguns - Live Fire (BM) aMetalhead1966: Sex Machineguns - Made in Japan (BM) aMetalhead1966: Sex Machineguns - Sex Machinegun (BM) Jacob M: Pit Bulls on Crack - Feeding Frenzy (BM) chocularok: Exodus - Good Friendly Violent Fun (BM) chocularok: Fates Warning - FWX (BM) chocularok: Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace (BM) chocularok: Flotsam and Jetsam - My God (BM) chocularok: Iron Maiden - Maiden England (BM) chocularok: Iron Maiden - BBC Archives (BM) chocularok: Iron Maiden - Beast Over Hammersmith (BM) chocularok: Iron Maiden - Best of the B-Sides (BM) chocularok: Contagious - Long Time Comin' chocularok: Moon 'Doc - Realm of Legends Rycheage: Baltimoore - Ultimate Tribute Rycheage: Mark Boals - Edge of the World chocularok: Savatage - Sirens/The Dungeons Are Calling (BM) chocularok: Jon Oliva's Pain - Tage Mahal (BM) Rycheage: Pain of Salvation - Scarsick (BM) Rycheage: Pain of Salvation - Entropia (BM) Rycheage: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Part I (BM) Rycheage: Pain of Salvation - Be (BM) Rycheage: Cloudscape - Crimson Skies (BM) Rycheage: After Forever - Exordium (BM) Rycheage: Afterworld - Connecting Animals (BM) Rycheage: Cold - A Different Kind of Pain (BM) Rycheage: Cold - Year of the Spider (BM) Rycheage: Tool - 10,000 Days (BM) Rycheage: Abydos - Abydos: The Little Boy's Heavy Metal Shadow Opera (BM) Rycheage: Adagio - Sanctus Ignis (BM) Rycheage: Adagio - Underworld (BM) Rycheage: Adagio - Dominate (BM) Rycheage: Agalloch - From Which of This Oak (BM) Rycheage: Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind, and Pillar (BM) Rycheage: Agalloch - The Mantle (BM) chocularok: JAG - The Only World in Town (HM) chocularok: JAG - Fire in the Temple (HM)

Ok, with 10 days left in the contest, I have processed all of the pending submissions and updated the Status Thread. Still plenty of time to get entered into the drawing for the pair of Mezzanine Front Row Tix! -Dan P.S. I'd mention the Royal Box Seat Tix, but it looks like Matt has those pretty well locked up, unless someone gets a burr under their saddle...

Just coming over the wire. Michael Vick has agreed to plead guilty to the federal charges against him. No details on the plea agreement yet, but it looks like he will spend anywhere from 10 months to 3 years in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison... Too light if you ask me. -Dan

Damn. Has PJ gone round the bend? It seriously looks like he's taken the "I just don't give a shit" approach... -Dan

Actually, this has been my biggest beef with Sam and other bootleggers since day one: lack of full disclosure. His response has always been "people can always ask for their money back" which avoids the issue and puts the responsibility on the buyer rather than the seller. Of course there's the whole issue that selling bootlegs being de facto prohibited on eBay, so of course no seller is going to come out and admit what they're selling. Bootlegs have been part of the music "scene" since before I was born. Everyone know about them. I think that a bootleg of a long-out-of-print album that people are clamoring for is forgiven by most people, as long as it is disclosed as such... but don't try and hide it. There are plenty of times that I would purchase a boot if I were knowingly doing so (and I think others would as well). It's the deceit and trying to sell a boot as the real thing that gets my goat. If I wanna spend $20 on a boot for the sake of getting the music fine and dandy, but if, as a collector, I end up bidding up to $50 thinking I'm getting an original/legit pressing, and then wind up with a boot, I'm going to be fucking pissed... -Dan

I seriously doubt it. Even his boots are better quality than this... -Dan

I know this is going to be unexpected, but this time I'm going to come down on Sam's side, at least with respect to the Laaz Rockit CDs, assuming my hazy memory is correct. These Laaz Rockit reissues have been grey market for a long long time. I remember buying a few of them at Ultrasound 2000 directly from Century Media's table. They were on Old Metal, True Metal, or some other similarly-named quasi-official-unofficial reissue label. I no longer have the discs; they went in the big sell-off I had a few years back. If memory serves there was only a front card (or a 4-page booklet where the inside was blank). They had the SPV logo on the artwork, but the print quality was subpar. Definitely on the cheap. So in this case, I believe Sam is simply reselling what is out there, as opposed to being the entity behind their creation... -Dan

This is a joke, right? Are you serious? There are so many giveaways, it's not even funny: 1. Disc has crappy inkjet-printed peelable label on it. 2. Artwork is printed on inkjet printer (and one that hasn't had its heads cleaned or aligned in a while -- see the white parallel lines on the tray card?) 3. Tray card is hand folded, not perfed. 4. Disc is a black blank used to dupe games. Probably the most pathetic attempt at a bootleg I've seen in a LONG time. Who was the seller? Out him please. -Dan

Current status (I still have more BM submissions to process): chocularok: 88 Studboy: 19 Rycheage: 18 aMetalhead1966: 15 phaffas: 7 Not even close at this point. -Dan

A "Don't feed the Geoffadillos" shirt will be coming shortly. -Dan

Allrightythen.... it took me a bit longer than anticipated to get things set up. I had another option I was exploring for shirts, but thus far it hasn't panned out. If it does, I'll make more shirt options available. I've set up a storefront using Cafe Press, and have filled it with a number of different combinations of t-shirt, sweatshirt, and baseball jersey designs, as well as mugs, caps, and a few other things. I had tried using Cafe Press several years ago, but the durability of the shirts was very problematic. They have since updated their technology and offer 2 options: 1. A more durable heat transfer. Provides the most vibrant color, initially has a bit of a plastic feel but smooths out over time. Does fade, but supposedly nowhere near as much as the older method did. 2. Direct-to-garment printing. Much more durable, will not fade, but the colors are not as vibrant as the heat transfer. Rather than choose one method over the other, I've left the option for people to choose for themselves. Before I went live, I wanted to see for myself if the quality was any good, so I purchased a random selection of items: 3 shirts of different designs, 2 of the beer steins, and the HH wall clock. The order was shipped the next day and arrived 3 days after I placed the order. Lightning fast, in my opinion. The print quality on the beer steins was much better than I anticipated. I don't know what technology they're using, but it works very well. The wall clock is fairly cheap in quality, but whaddaya expect for $15. Print quality is good. The 3 shirts I got were all printed using the direct-to-garment method (I will be purchasing a few that are printed via heat transfer to compare). The quality looks decent, but I see what they mean by the colors being not as vibrant as heat transfer. Please be aware, the design colors end up being muted when printed on a colored shirt, so the BANEED! isn't as vibrant as I'd like. Not sure if I'll keep that product available. IMPORTANT! At the end of August (they have not announced a firm date), Cafe Press will be raising prices on shirts that are printed 2-sided, by $3 per shirt. If you want to get one of the 2-sided shirts, my advice is to order one ASAP. I may be tweaking the combinations of products and designs/logos that are offered. If you have a particular request, or a suggestion for a new design, please let me know. I'll do my best to accommodate. For the ladies, the BANEED! thong is perfect for oh so many reasons... Here's the link. It's also now included on all of the sites: http://www.cafepress.com/hh1,hh3,hh4,hm1 Get some goofy gear in time for the MR concert, and support HH at the same time. Go nuts! -Dan

I have not been able to be on the board much lately. So can someone explain what happened to get Sam baneed? If there is a thread that explains it, could someone please post the link? Thanks. http://heavyharmonies.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=14406

What am I, chopped liver? Actually for the last few weeks, Mike and I have been splitting the CD submission duty. I'm doing all of the contest submissions, and Mike has been taking care of the rest (I don't think Pete or Tim have been processing any lately, but I could be wrong). My apologies if there appears to be a bit of a delay in the contest entries being processed. Like an idiot, I'm running this contest during the months that I'm the busiest at my day job... having to work lots of unpaid overtime (UGH). -Dan

Not bad... not bad... you need to work on the presentation a bit though. You need more capital letters and exclamation points as well as some blank lines to break it up. Also, it's a little too coherent. Needs a bit more of a stream-of-consciousness feel to it. I give it an A-. Good effort! -Dan

Sam has always stated that if someone was dissatisfied with the "reissues" he sells, he would refund their payment following return of the merchandise (just make sure you send it back by Registered Mail). Please let us know how it turns out. -Dan

Convenience and durability of the CD format compared to vinyl. CD is the format that has been dominant for most of the time period that this music has been available. From the early 1990s onward, very little in the genre has been available on vinyl. Vinyl has been relegated to a niche format that audiophiles use; it no longer has mass market penetration. -Dan

Not that I don't believe you, but given what "he" has been able to get away with thus far, including using his eBay status/connections to bully others and have their auctions shut down on a whim, I'll believe it when I see it. However, realizing that these things do take time, and hoping that some good may ultimately come of it, are the primary reasons that I (1) placed a time limit on how long people can edit their posts here (to prevent the rewriting of history), and (2) have not simply removed the Retrospect forum, instead leaving it as a viewable archive of the public record (not surprising that "he" has repeatedly, begged, pleaded, threatened, and demanded that I remove that part of the forum... conceivably the contradictions therein could be used as evidence). -Dan

If you were a true fan you would be happy and bow down and be grateful that someone is making the effort and the self-sacrifice to take the time to make this music available to the masses. You're nothing but a "detractor". </SARCASM> No one believes the hogwash that Sam/Retrospect isn't the party behind all of the Time Warp/Rock-It "reissues". Unfirtunately, the reality is that at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter how much evidence you have, because unless an aggrieved party with deep pockets or the Federal authorities (unlikely) press the matter, he's free to do what he wants. Folks bringing up the illegal bootlegging here are just spitting into the wind. *shrug* -Dan P.S. Just because it was a CDR does *NOT* mean that some enterprising soul *cough* hasn't had a couple hundred silver pressed, in which case customers will never be the wiser...

Thanks for the submissions thus far. I have a request for the peanut gallery: I don't have time right now to go out and research every submission and verify that each one is (1) valid, and (2) appropriate for the site. If you see any newly-added CDs that set off alarm bells in your mind, for any reason, please post about it here and we'll discuss. For example, the Mind Bomb - S/T disc I initially thought probably wasn't appropriate due to references to the "industrial" nature of some of the tracks in online reviews, but Matt was kind enough to send me some samples, and in fact, I think the overall nature of the disc fits in perfectly. Thanks! -Dan

At some point, although I don't know how soon. I want to make sure that the system is working and stable at HH before I implement it at the other sites... -Dan