Nick C

Late post Painter - s/t Cats in Space - Scarecrow (signed didn't know they were signed!). Cheap Trick - We're All Alright

Just a bit of vinyl in a 2nd hand record shop I found in Heywood about 2 miles down the road that I didn't even know was there Star Star - Go Go Girls in Love (mint all round) Space Opera - s/t (vinyl near mint / cover VG+)

Steven Wilson - To the Bone (2CD DVD / Blu Ray 7" single Deluxe edition) Flag - Perihelion (remaster) Sanguine Hum - What We Ask is Where We Begin

Neutrons - Black Hole Star / Tales From the Blue Cocoons Des Horsfall's Kuschty Rye - The Bastard's Tin World Trade - Unify

Max Webster - Live Magnetic Air (CD at last!) Cherry Twister - At Home With Firefly - Where You Gonna Run (10p box in charity shop in Wales) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (2cd vers.) Zhenx - s/t Family - Anyway (vinyl) Man - Christmas at the Patti (vinyl)

Charity shop finds in Middleton today....someone must have been selling their rock off. Mostly Autumn - Glass Shadows (CD & DVD...still sealed) Mostly Autumn - Go Well Diamond Heart (2CD) Ten - s/t & Name of the Rose (2CD) Ten - Twilight Chronicles Neil Young - Harvest Monkees - Best of...(yay) Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (CD/DVD) T. Rex - Best of...(yay again) Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon All in £15 top. Thru the post Zon - Live Man - Live at the Padget Rooms...just checked and have been sent the wrong version so back that goes!

Tygers of Pan Tang - MCA Years box

Styx - The Mission Hawkwind - Into the Woods Pink Floyd - Music from the film More Rush - Solid Gold Live on Air Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast Flag - Book of Conquest (remaster)

Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr. Faustus Ozark Mountain Daredevils - s/t Goddo The Pretty Bad Boys Return

Allo mate! An Aerosmith fan who's fave album is Rocks.....bang on, best album ever!

I've done this list so many times in the past ...bored at work, or just trying to take account, but I never get a definitive list...All my tickets are scattered around the house too in CD cases and in the loft. Load of bands from various multi band events like Gods of AOR and the like I can't remember. Like Jez I'll try and add more when I think of them. Aerosmith (x8) Guns n Roses (x3) Kix Icon White Sister FM (U.K.) Thunder (x3) Accept (x2) Black Sabbath Queensryche (x4) Dio Porcupine Tree Cheap Trick (x2) Van der Graaf Generator Faster Pussycat Judas Priest (x5) Girl (x3) U.F.O. (X4) Foreigner Journey (x2) Ratt Motley Crue (x2) Saga Kiss (x4) Dave Lee Roth (x2) Magnum (x2) Santers Kings X Enuff Z Nuff (x2) Ten (x4) Adam Bomb (x3) Engine Drivin n Cryin Almighty John Waite Jon Parr Jon Amor Yes A.O.K. (Angels or Kings) Sam Thunder Shy Chrome Molly Slayer Balaam and the Angel W.A.S.P. Tesla Lynyrd Skynyrd Angelwitch Def Leppard (x2) Sammy Hagar (x3) Budgie Jackdaw 4 Ginger Ozric Tentacles Counting Crows Kings of Leon Crown of Thorns Kings of the Sun D.A.D. Dare Slade Rush Riot Diamond Head (x2) Dogs D’Amour (x2) The Queer Boys/The Quireboys (X2) Dream Theater Extreme Electric Boys Robin George Here & Now Grand Prix Hanoi Rocks (x4) Johnny Thunders The Darkness Gary Hughes Hugo INXS Jethro Tull Kingdom Come LA Guns Love / Hate Slade Straight Eight Marillion Marseille (x2) Metallica Mr. Big Pearl Jam Dan Reed Network REO Speedwagon Stryper Tangerine Dream Terrorvision Tobruk Tygers of Pan Tang (x2) White Lion Y&T Bernie Torme ZZ Top Marah Dan Baird & Homemade Sin The Babysitters Whitesnake Twister Sister (x2) Bon Jovi (x2) Iron Maiden Poison Black Crowes Sterophonics Lenny Kravitz Honeycrack The Grip Saxon Blacklace (not the agadoo lot…the NY band) White Trash Sacred Alien House of Shakira Von Groove Warrant Skid Row Wendy and the Rockets Bryan Adams Manowar (x3) Roadstar Toby Jepsom Little Angels Amplifier Quiet Riot Baby Tuckoo A II Z McCoy Quartz Tredegar Wrathchild Trojan Horse Bob Catley Kip Winger (acoustic) Eddi Reader (x2 ...don't ask!) Robert Fripp 68 - 75 Jayhawks Vain Romeo's Daughter

Jay Ferguson - Terms & Conditions/White Noise Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Lost Cabin Sessions Sanguine Hum - Live in America Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

I'll be looking forward to this - one of the few CDs I'll buy this year on it's release date probably or as close as dammit. I like a lot of the stuff Billy Sherwood is involved with Circa, Lodgic, The Key, his solo stuff and especially World Trade....some of his "work" can be a little hit or miss though sometimes trying to be clever for the sake of it or even a little samey in parts.

Fandango (Joe Lynn Turner) - The Complete RCA Albums 1977 - 1980 - 4CD Box set ZZ Top - Mescalero Mountain - Climbing

ZZ Top - Mescalero Wrabit - Tracks Bronz - Unfinished Business

Witchfynde - Divine Victims (3cd) Grateful Dead - Without a Net Grateful Dead - Europe 72 Grateful Dead - Dead Set Grateful Dead - Nightfall of Diamonds

I say yes too...he doesn't need super powers to fall back on, or X-Men style freakoid mutated powers. Just muscle, brains and a shit load of money to buy all the high tech gear he could ever need....and Albert, can't forget the butler....now where's mine with my eleven o'clock aperitif?

That's a hard one...I can see it from both sides. To refuse to do a famous song in your repertoire because it now conflicts with your beliefs - is a fair point, but as you say it is like telling a story but maybe it's a story they don't want to spread. Outside belief systems bands get bored with playing certain songs night after night as we all know and I suppose the more hard core fans who may have seen the band many times would like to hear a few more obscure ones rather than the same old "hits" as it were. But in the end unless you're a real cult band then people are there to see you play the hits. It's what they pay to see and it pays your wages. Bands do mix it up and play obscure stuff amongst their more recognised songs but Id say if you are so against playing fan favourites then do smaller gigs for the more selective fans...you'll probably inadvertently end up doing that anyway through no choice of your own if you alienate the more general and probably more numerous fans who are paying the big money to be entertained by what they know, people will vote with their feet.

Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees The Kinks - Ultimate Collection Jerry Garcia Band - Cats Under the Stars Steven Wilson - To The Bone (Deluxe Box) pre-order

Girl - What's Up? Rex (..or Stingray) - Where Do we Go From Here? Breathless - Can You Feel It? Black Spiders - What Good's a Rock Without a Roll? Starz - Where Will it End? New York Dolls - Who are the Mystery Girls?

A famous one is Steely Dan - In the song Everything You Did "Turn up the Eagles the neighbours are Listening" - to which Eagles responded on Hotel Calif. "They stab it with their Steely Knives" which was originally supposed to be "stab it with their Steely Dan" but it was changed Bulletboys - Owed to Joe - although it doesn't name Joe Perry (or Aerosmith) directly it's obvious through the lyrics who they are referring to "Bought his little Joe a Gibson guitar" (not true it was a cheapo bought from Sears hahaha!) "Stevie had the lips and Joey had the licks" "The Train Kept Rollin' right out of control - but they're Back in the Saddle today" Cheap Trick - Surrender "Got my Kiss records out" John Waite - Downtown "Got Johnny Thunders on the Radio"

Nice - I enjoy reading biogs of bands/Musos/Music genres - even bands I might not be interested in. The last directly musical book I read was Seasons They Change : The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk. I've loads of faves though like Aerosmith - Walk This Way and the Dan Hedges Yes biog from years ago, Ian Hunter's Diary of a Rock and Roll Star, Trash - The New York Dolls, Jaco about Jaco Pastorious amongst a few. But one that I've read loads of times is Life in the Bus Lane by Tony Bell - It mainly deals with his time in A.O.K. back in the mid 80's to early 90's (now reformed as Angels or Kings) but I recognise so many of the characters in the book and his details about them are bang on. It completely nails the "rock scene" in Manchester at the time. Really funny and a real nostalgia trip for me that one - one I can really relate to. At the moment I'm reading - The Man Who Hated Walking by Overend Watts (ex Mott the Hoople...R.I.P.) and although it's not about music it's a bloody good laugh.

Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead Grateful Dead - Go To Heaven Grateful Dead - One From the Vault Grateful Dead - s/t (Skull & Roses) The Darkness - as yet untitled - Pledge Campaign J Geils Band - Freeze Frame Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost Light

Drivin N Cryin - The Great American Bubble Factory Blue Horses - Ten Leagues Beyond the Wild World's End Hybrid Ice - s/t

Someone thinking their music is high art or over important....it's just entertainment at the end of the day.