Uncle saxon

Just grabbing your attention. I know it has been a handful of minutes since I have said Hello, but I want to say "How the Hell ya doin" right now.  Our society is pretty horked.  Just wanna throw my head against the HH wall and see what sticks.  Hope you are all well.  Are all making plans to come outta these things stronger  And loving your people harder and your particular brand of Rock/FUCKING METAL even stronger.  Thx for looking.  I'll make it up to you though.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOGy0CvR9Y

Have not been around for a while - but, James was also a good friend of mine years back. Terry - I feel what you feel. Peace to a really good guy, man. Fuck.

I think it also comes down to what you're selling.

 

 

Exactly. If I was selling a $400 cd, the customer would not have a choice but to pay for registered package.

There you go. That makes all the difference in the world (literally).

 

So what happens if it is a digipak or a CD with special embossing/lettering, etc.? Do you just eat the overage for having to ship parcel rates?

If it is just one digi-pak, I ship it the same way, but without padding. The digi-pak itself does a pretty good job as protection. I know it seems like a pretty flimsy way to ship, but It's worked well for a couple of years now. Of course, I always give the customer the option to ship package rates or priority, too.

They also charge 21 cents for "non-machineable" [to make sure it is sorted by hand].

I ship all international cds without the jewel cases. That way it sneaks under the 1/4" limit for "letter rate". 3oz to most countries with this method is $4.16-$4.70. I have about 1% breakage, but I have no problem eating the refund. Most of my customers understand the ridiculous situation the USPS has become in the last 2 years.

Where are they playing Gringo?

Loverboy was my first show ever - July 1983. Life is coming full circle!

I am only going for the Thursday night Canadian Invasion, but it is going to be a fun time!!!

Anyone else gonna be there?

3 and a half words about Lonnie and the Ar-Kansas Gang:

Drugs Are Bad, MMMKAY?

Bob's your Uncle... Or is that me? Either way - Super great seller!!

I know, brother.....Go to box - 2 minutes - feel shame.

Bumping for selfish reasons [back in the game for a bit..].

Bai Bang? No idea those guys were still around. Never heard of the rest of 'em. I would LOVE to see Bai Bang though.

Fine. My Prince post affected no one. So, I will go with my fav ROCK shows. [these ALL hold more youthful memories than actual appreciation of the talent on stage].

Judas Priest/Dokken/Waysted - Met Center - Bloomington, MN - Turbo tour 1986[?]

WASP/Metallica/Armored Saint - First Ave, MN 1984

Saxon/Powermad - March 1986 - First Ave, Mpls [popped my Saxon cherry!!]

Kiss/WASP - Civic Center - St Paul, MN - 1986 [ended up with the hottest chick in Minneapolis that night and never went back to boarding school. This was the end of my academic career....totally worth it!]

Illusions/Savatage/Rogue Male - summer 1985

Motley Crue/Loudness - Civic Center - St Paul, MN - 1986? [Theatre of Pain tour]

Iron Maiden/Ratt/Accept/Mama's Boys - Trout Aire - Forest Lake, MN summer 1985 [lots of weird drugs floating around - hooked up with a superbabe that I dated for the rest of the summer]

Dio/Twisted Sister/Obsession/Paradox - summer 1985 - Navy Island - DT St Paul, MN [to many stories to tell about THAT day!!]

Metal Church/Powermad/Impaler - First Ave, Mpls - 1986?

Megadeth/Fuckin Shit Biscuits - First Ave, Mpls - 1985? [Killing Tour]

Anthrax/Powermad - 4.12.1986 - First Ave, Mpls [only remember the date cuz my bud ran soundboard and recorded it and I transferred it to cd a bunch of years ago]

David Lee Roth/Cinderella - Met Center Bloomington MN - 1986

Honorable mention: Helix - Riverfest - summer 1985

ACDC/Yngwie - 1986/87?

Weird Al - all 7 times I have seen him! A better musician than anything above^^^^^

Another great concert was Roxy Blue, Wildside, Babylon A.D. and local band Bomb Squad back in summer of 1992

Hot n Cold running-'tang for THAT show I am betting!

I can give you my Top 3:

Prince

Prince

Prince

Most unbelievable showman on the planet.

It was definitely a rager! Of course, Saxon was the highlight. Other than that, Harnell w/Fox and Sweet absolutely slayed. Russ Dwarf blew me away. Y&T destroyed. Dangerous Toys and Kix were ultra-fun, as always. And Loudness made fans of everyone on the ship.

Got to hang out with melodicrockoz who was a really cool guy. Eddie Trunk, on the other hand, is a complete douche.

Some pics:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.546196398757841.1073741825.196386640405487&type=3

I wanted to stumble home around 4pm today and see if I could fiind a ride. Of course, when you are stumbling at 4pm, you forget what the heck your real goal is.

Jeff - give me a buzz. I am less than 4 weeks from dumping all of my cds in the dumpster behind Fuddruckers.

My fucking head hurts.

I'm on the road. See you catz on Saturday! Safe travels.

I copywrited Vainy Titz 20 years ago....Ok - you can have it.

Ahhhh! Now it makes sense to me.

You already know my suite - so just stop by. I'll sell ya some cds [seriously]. haha!

I don't get the dictionary referrence. I just HOPE HOPE HOPE they are better then when I saw them on the Glory Hole tour [and the couple of times previous to that]. Keep the goth stuff for the Euro-tours....

Anyone mention the T-Mobile chick yet? I gotta tell ya - I LIVED for those commercials while in prison!!! haha.