Nick C

Over last few weeks

Doobie Brothers - Brotherhood

Redd Kross - Born Innocent

Doobie Brothers - Sibling Rivalry

Doobie Brothers - Cycles

Alan Parsons - Eye to Eye

Aristocrats - Tres Caballeros

Live on the Ley - St Dunstans House...folky oddity this one!

The Dowling Poole - (One) Hyde Park

Cheap Trick - Bang Zoom Crazy...Hello

Ace Frehley - s/t

Raging Slab - s/t

Raging Slab - Sing Monkey Sing

Raging Slab - Assmaster (expanded)

Mother May I - 33 1/3

Mother May I - Use Your Appetite for Spaghetti

Mother May I - Splitsville

Mother May I - Demos

Dennis De Young - One Hundred Years From Now

Deep Purple - Fireball

Raging Slab - The Dealer

Raging Slab - Pronounced Eat Shit

Raging Slab - Monster Boogie Concert

Se Delan - The Fall

Kings X - Ogre Tones

Mary Fahl - Love and Gravity

Dave Greenslade - Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (to compliment vinyl)

Tony Carey - In Absence of the Cat

Tony Carey - I Won't be Home Tonight

Tony Carey - Some Tough City

Tony Carey - Blue Highway

Tony Carey - Bedtime Story

Tony Carey - For ​You

Tony Carey - Storyville

Tony Carey - The Long Road

Tony Carey - Cold War Kids

Tony Carey - Island and Deserts

Tony Carey - Only the Young Die Good (compilation of Islands and Boystown Tapes...Boystown Tapes is a small fortune now so had to download it to burn to CDR until I can find it at a decent price)

Tony Carey - The New Machine

Todd Rundgren - Liars

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon - vinyl,(vinyl is mint - with the stickers and posters intact £10 so I was happy with that)

I'd say along the lines of:

Starz - Violation

Aerosmith - Rats in the Cellar

Yes - Awaken

Max Webster - A Million Vacations

Aviary - Maple Hall

Jellyfish - Sebrina, Paste & Plato

No-Man - Housekeeping

Kix - The Kid

John Waite - Euroshima

The Godz - Gotta Keep a Runnin'

Marvel are saturating the movie industry the same way they do the comics market.

Find something that works and repeat, repeat, repeat for maximum profits until profits level out or fall...I mean how many Spiderman titles are out there for instance comics wise (and film wise). It's getting a bit too formulaic.

Yay!

Native Window - s/t

Help Yourself - s/t & Beware the Shadow

Help Yourself - Strange Affair & The Return of Ken Whalley & Happy Days

Help Yourself 5

Doobie Bros. Takin' it to the Streets

Doobie Bros. - World Gone Crazy

Stories - s/t & About Us

Pablo Cruise - It's Good to be Live

Pre orders

Van Wilks - Bombay Tears

Knifeworld - Bottled Out of Eden

 

He was only 5 years older than me but looked from that photo like he was 25 years older.

 

Yeah..... I have to agree. He looks way older than 45. Probably lots of drug use and cigarettes.

 

45 ....I'm gonna be 54 this year and I hope to hell I look in way better shape than that. Anyway I know he pissed off a lot of folks here but RIP.

Fierce Heart - s/t

Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love of Shared Disasters

Yacht Rock week here .....

Pablo Cruise - s/t

Pablo Cruise - Lifeline

Pablo Cruise - A Place in the Sun

Pablo Cruise - Worlds Away

Pablo Cruise - Part of the Game

Pablo Cruise - Reflector.

Duke Special - I Never Thought This Day Would Come.

Why is the word yacht so hard for me to remember how to spell, I had to look it up.......I always get it wrong even when registering my craft at the local Marina.

Remember these are just opinions of what I saw at the time - a lot of these bands I like (except Stereophonics and Bryan Adams...I like bits of Dream Theatre...oh and especially Guns and Roses who I couldn't give a piss about anymore)

Dave Lee Roth - I think it was the A Little Ain't Enough tour (Warrant were support )....jeez boring wasn't the word, staid cheesy performance that just didn't get going I left well before the end.

Rush R30 - Manchester Arena. After the first half me and my mate both thought "Can't handle another another hour - two hours of this" and we went for a beer, I was back in my local so early I was able to join the pub quiz!. Now I really like Rush but after that I have no desire whatsoever to go and see them again.

Stereophonics - Supporting Aerosmith at Wembley at the Toxic Twin Towers Ball....f*ckin awful possibly worst (biggish) band I've ever seen, well out of their depth with a stadium audience.

Dream Theater - One of the Manchester Academy gigs no idea what tour .....guitar solos, keyboard solos, drum solos for the sake of it...boring.

Bryan Adams - Ashton Metro (Cuts Like a Knife Tour 1983...Wendy and the Rocketts as support who were quite good) - cheeky happy chappie full of smiles jumping about but just didn't do it for me.

REO Speedwagon - Wheels are Turning tour Manchester Apollo, just dull....some cool solos but things weren't clicking.

Guns and Roses - Maine Road football ground...out and out head and shoulders ....in fact scratch the comment about Stereophonics being the worse band I've seen, this gig eclipsed it by a country mile. Original date cancelled and I booked a day off work for it ....band promise to make up for it with a special surprise/performance. I guess the special surprise was the band coming on about 2 hours late and playing a short curtailed set.They came on half arsed, sloppy, and with absolutely no energy or vibe. Oh Axl gave a few flowers to some people at the front maybe that was the special surprise. What a change from the Manchester Apollo in 1987 when Faster Pussycat and .... shee-it can't remember the other band supported them, when they were great (but even then I preferred Pussycat that evening). But at least GnR kicked arse that night.

It's okay, no big shakes....same with Red White and You, just okay bordering on bland...which Tyler seems to excel at even in his capacity in Aerosmith. He's too obsessed with scoring hit singles and as such follows the rules laid down by the music industry and ends up being the same as every other fucker out there. Time he started writing properly with Perry with outside writers kept to a minimum rather than following the current rule book about what other people perceive as a good song because if back in the day it had been left to these "do it by numbers" pussies songs like Rats in the Cellar would never have been written. Hear it over a supermarket speaker system near you soon.

Since the start of this year ... not counting vinyl which I've listed elsewhere. Little slower than usual as a fair bit of cash has been re-directed into buying some PS Art Books Pre Code Horror comic reprints.

Anyway

Gary Hughes - Strength of Heart

Rick Springfield - Rocket Science

Gowan - s/t

Gowan - Strange Animal

Gowan - Lost Brotherhood

Gowan - But You Can Call Me Larry

Gowan - The Good Catches Up

Gowan - Great Dirty World

Intelligent Music Project I - The Power of Mind

Intelligent Music Project II - My Kind o Lovin'

Intelligent Music Project III - Touching the Divine

Magnum - Sacred Blood, Divine lies (pre order)

Eagles - Live at the Summit Houston 1976 (pre order)

Memories of Machines - Warm Winter

The Guess Who - Live at the Paramount

Tal Bachman - s/t

Tal Bachman - Staring Down the Sun

Johnny Flynn - A Larum

Johnny Flynn - Been Listening

Steven Wilson - 4 1/2

Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle

Vinyl over the last month or so :

Creed - s/t (The 70's band) as my orig had a big scratch right on the last track from god knows where.

Eagles - Motel Six...strangely bought a few days prior to GF's death ... I was in the process of assessing things I wanted by them back on vinyl (or ones I always wanted in this case) and this was the first and then the news struck...maybe it accelerated me in getting the others...all of which I'm recollecting from ones I had (even though I've got them all on CD in that box set that came out some years ago..and some still on vinyl, but different ) ... hence Desperado had to be the white label.

Eagles - Hotel Calif (Green Vinyl - already have it on black)

Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971 - 1975 (Green vinyl)

Eagles - Desperado orig white Asylum label.

Eagles - The Long Run

Boatz - s/t

Styx - Cornerstone (Triptych sleeve)

Next month....probably Eagles - s/t but the Rhino re-issue where the original sleeve concept is realised as the foldout poster rather than the compromised gatefold version Asylum put out originally. I've already got the album in gatefold on the blue Asylum label as a Canadian pressing that I bought in 1980 while over there (with the inner sleeve from my orig U.K. white label version...bit of a hybrid that)

Maybe Eagles - On the Border (again has to be white Asylum label),

and maybe again Eagles - s/t on the white label.

Maybe a decent copy of Eagles - Crazed and Snake Eyed if I can track one down at a decent price in good nick.

No rush with these though. Then I'll be done with them haha!

The Big Short.

One for my list this upcoming year!

The Hateful Eight....really enjoyed it.

Not been far away from the old CD player - rather top!

ELO - Alone in the Universe.

Atlanta Rhythm Section - 3rd Annual Pipe Dream/ A Rock and Rol lAlternative (to replace a copy I gave a mate 3 months or so back!!)

So while I was at it:

Atlanta Rhythm Section - ARS/Back Up Against the Wall

Atlanta Rhythm Section - Underdog / Boys from Doraville

ARS - Champagne Jam

ARS - Dog Days / Red Tape

Joe Perry - Merry Christmas E.P.

Kings X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

I still pick up vinyl every so often and I still have I would say around 500 albums. Stupidly I got rid of loads back in the day when CD reared it's head.

Recent buys over the last 6 months

Aerosmith - Live at Paul's Mall

Aerosmith - Rocks Donington

Aerosmith - Virginia Connection (clear wax)

Triumph - Rock and Roll Machine (silver wax)

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Led Zep - Physical Graffiti

Some jizzingly good new AOR:

 

Find Me - Dark Angel

Love the description!

Oxfam Bury branch

Holly Knight - s/t £1.49

Playing it now and it's not grabbing me completely though. For every decent song there's a stinker. The version of Love is a Battlefield is cool though. Just had a laugh Windows Media Player is showing the song Nature of the Beast as Nature of the BREAST. Hohohoho!

 

 

 

Mother's Finest - Subluxation

Nice - wish someone would get around to releasing Iron Age on CD again....saw it for just under £20 about a year ago on discogs but I thought nah too expensive ... I could kick myself for not picking it up there and then.

Wasn't it reissued by Rock Candy?

 

 

 

Wounded Bird did it. Rock Candy have mentioned reissuing it, but so far nothing

 

 

 

Torino - Customized (Reissue)

Mandoo - Sweet Bitter Love

 

...and it's the Wounded Bird one that costs a pretty penny now, and all I have are godawful ugly pennies....should've bought it way back in the day.

Anyway not much this week.

Cain Rising - s/t (on it's way )

Kingdom Come - In Your Face

 

"Robot Overlords" (2014)

Three years after Earth has been conquered by robotic aliens, a quartet of British kids run off to join the human resistance. An entertainingly low budget dystopian sci-fi flick, aimed squarely at the "Divergent"/"Maze Runner" youth crowd. It must be noted that Gillian "Agent Scully" Anderson, who plays the Mom of one of the kids, is looking quite MILFy nowadays.

 

Read the book a few months back...quite a no brainer, fun sci fi adventure. I'll have to get around to watching the film.

Mother's Finest - Subluxation

Nice - wish someone would get around to releasing Iron Age on CD again....saw it for just under £20 about a year ago on discogs but I thought nah too expensive ... I could kick myself for not picking it up there and then.

Late again...it's knack I've got - best wishes mate...hope u had a great day!