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JONAH 33: s/t

SEVENTH DAY SLUMBER: "Once Upon a Shattered Life"

DAY OF FIRE: s/t

with everyone else. NEH Records is one of the best melodic hard rock/metal stores out there. Dealing with them is almost as good as dealing with Vegasmetal!

(OK, I apologize for the sarcasm.)

Seriously, you can't go wrong with NEH.

KK WILDE: "Cocaine Cowboys" (bootleg)

 

Bootleg ? or CDR ?

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Truth is, it appears to be a high-end silver CDR, complete with writing (band name, album title, record company, tracks, year) on the front of the actual disc. However, there is no catalog number, and while the inserts are done on high-grade glossy paper, there are no liner notes. So CDR, bootleg, whatever...I'm just happy to have my hands on it!

In the apartment, a little PINK CREAM 69: "Electrified" is making things sizzle...

In the truck, I still can't stop playing FIFTY-SEVEN STITCH: "Nerveblock." (Yeah, it's that good, IMHO.)

Recent acquisitions...

KK WILDE: "Cocaine Cowboys" (bootleg)

LOUD 'N' NASTY: "Too Much Ain't Enough"

I think the point cook jaime was making is that the (completely unsolicited) offer was that the guy would make anyone on the board a free CDr to show his good will and humanitarianism (in so many words) no questions asked.

 

That's not halibut you smell.

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You're right, Jimbo, the shady shyster did offer free CDRs for anyone who asked, and free should mean free, not $7.

And actually, it WAS halibut I smelled...I'm having fish for dinner.

FIFTY-SEVEN STITCH: "Nerveblock"

Actually....$21 for cdrs with full color inserts is not too great a price. I've seen people ask as much as $10. Of course it's all relative.....

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I agree with Jim...$7 for a CDR with full color inserts isn't unreasonable. Your paying for the person's time, wear & tear on his computer, ink for the printer, and the CDR itself. Seems like everybody's looking for freebies nowadays...

BOWLING FOR SOUP: "Drunk Enough to Dance"

Two packages in the mail today, containing the following goodies:

40 FT. RINGO: "Funny Thing"

TAINTED ANGEL: "Say a Prayer"

RONDINELLI: "Our Cross Our Sins"

DAMN CHEETAH: "Primal"

LIBERTY N' JUSTICE: "Welcome to the Revolution"

SKELETON CREW: "Grind the Enamal"

SKELETON CREW: "Graveyard Shift"

ACES: "Kick Off"

OPEN FIRE: "No Uncle of Mine"

SLIPPERY LIP: "Locked"

CRASH ALLEY: "Loud 'n' Ugly"

After letting it sit on the shelf for about, oh, the last 3 yrs., I finally popped in PINK CREAM 69: "Food for Thought" again. It may be another 3 yrs. before it sees the inside of my stereo again...

Today in the mail I received FIFTY SEVEN STITCH: "Nerveblock," which is an excellent helping of aggressive, in-your-face, attitude-driven hard rock and a must-own for anyone who enjoyed the last Saliva CD. Mucho thanx to whoever posted the thread about these guys (I can't recall who it was at this exact moment). Forget the hype about Revolver and pick these guys up instead. Wait a minute, better yet, buy both CDs!!

In the stereo...PRIMAL FEAR: "Nuclear Fire"

In the computer...WIG WAM: "667, The Neighbor of the Beast"

In the truck...ROXX: "Outlaws, Fools, & Thieves"

My latest acquisitions:

STARWOOD: "If it Ain't Broke, Breat it"

VICTORY: "Hungry Hearts"

WILD BOYZ: "Unleashed"

XL: "Rock all Over you"

RATTLESNAKE KISS: s/t

BLIND DATE: s/t

PSYCHEDELIC COWBOY: "Are you Alive"

In the stereo: FIREWIND: "Between Heaven & Hell"

In the computer: AXEL RUDI PELL: "Nasty Reputation"

In the truck: PETE LESPERENCE: "Down in it"

Was a bit busy today, so only got to spin one CD:

FIREWIND: "Between Heaven & Hell"

Plus, gotta make sure he sells enough to get some attention.

And here I was hoping his sales would be poor and he'd go back to making good music...

(Just kidding, HSF.)

If we're allowed to count obscure, direct-to-video crap, then I have to go with "The Terror Within." A co-worker, upon hearing of my love for gory horror movies, bet me $5 I couldn't watch the whole thing in one sitting. Well, he's now $5 richer, because it took me three sittings to endure the torture of watching this video.

Now, if you want to just talk mainstream, then I'm going with the hugely overrated "The Missing," that revisionist western starring Tommy Lee Jones. Good Lord, spending 2+ hours having my nuts prodded with burning torches by a mob of midgets would be preferable to suffering through that film again.

Now, for those dissing on "Evil Dead"...

In the house, the classic JEFF PARIS: "Wired up".........in the truck, SEVENTH SEAL: "Seventh Seal."

Picked up the "new" PSYCHEDELIC COWBOY: "Are You Alive?" CD from Metal Mayhem the other day and all I can say is, damn, what a killer hard rock CD, a raw, in-your-face mixt of Skid Row, Babylon A.D., and Vamp Le Stat.

While I consider myself a collector more than a dealer, I do sell CDs on my website as well as on eBay, so I guess I could fall into the dealer category, and my policy is to never lie about a CD. Without mentioning names, there are several sellers who hype their discs to unbelievable heights in the name of bilking a few more bucks out of drooling melodic hard rock collectors. I've fell victim to these charlatans in the past, as have many of us Heavy Harmonies members, I'd wager. On the flip-side, there are people whose judgement I trust almost completely. Bottom line, I've taken a few lumps along the way and been burned by misleading descriptions, but I chalked up those lumps to lessons learned.

As a final thought, comparisons can be such a headache. Where one man hears Warrant, another man listens and goes, "What the &*!@?" No joke, I once sold a customer Blue Tears after making the typical Def Leppard/Bon Jovi comparison on my website and he sent me a scathing email after receiving it wanting to know where I got off making such a comparison, because all he heard was Queensryche!!!!

So, the moral of this story should be obvious: one man's Def Leppard is another man's Queensryche.

I know I was naughty, but Santa must've thought I was nice, because over the holidays I scored these CDs:

SEVENTH SEAL: s/t

PETER LESPERANCE: "Down in it"

SHOTZ: s/t

STARWOOD: "If it Ain't Broke, Break it"

TWISTED SISTER: "Still Hungry"

BON JOVI: "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't be Wrong"

SUICIDE CIRCUS: "Fallen"

WHITE RUSSIAN: "Broken Mirror"

In my apartment stereo, I've got IT'S ALIVE: "Earthquake Visions" shaking the walls. In my truck, it was a little nu-breed in the form of GOOD CHARLOTTE: "Chronicles of Life & Death" keeping things lively.

In the apartment I'm spinning FRICTION...do power ballads get any better than "Wave Goodbye to a Friend"? I think not... Anyway, in the truck I'm still tapping my foot to the new CASANOVA: "All Beauty Must Die" CD, which practically defines the word "catchy."