Recordshoppers Anonymous #17

Well, if following the trend in the earlier posts regarding records I supposed this should have been #32 rather than #17... But I haven't found the time to write very much lately! But I've had the time to shop for records. Me and Peter have about 80-90cm's pile worth of new LP's, apart from the BIG box arriving from TPL records last Friday. Peter checked out 5,5kg records!
It sure is for good and bad to have a personal shopper when it comes to records. The convenient thing is that I just send my wants to Patrik and about every 6 weeks it's time for a new package. With this I don't have to order from Nuclear Blast, High Roller, Pure Steel, Underground Power and more every month.
So now that only happens on occasion, but there are packages coming in every now and then. And of course, start digging into Discogs and eBay for real, so much irresistible for sale there.  

The first must have for the collection was the boxed set of the digi re-issues of all Savatage records. Sure, I had them all already but as this one was a full box I had to have it too.

 

But getting it and have a chance to look at it for real it was kind of a disappointment. It really is a shame that the company didn't put more effort into it. The box itself has quite poor quality but... See the logo???

Yep, it must have had to do with the fat version of Streets - Narrated... Half the T in the logo is gone, they just excluded Japan Live -94 from the box, it looks like shit! And there's not enough room to squeeze in one more into the box either. Such a good thing done in a cheap way, it really sucks.

Then the next must have was the vinyl release of "Maniacal Renderings", regular black vinyl and Clear vinyl limited edition. Still very small editions of both so I think both should be listed as limited. Then I also found a bootleg version of Ghost in the Ruins on vinyl. It looks kind of cheap but I assume it will  be as expensive as "Dead Winter Dead" or "Handful of Rain" which also is bootleg releases. 

The fun thing (or bad perhaps) with Discogs is that it is very easy to find versions of records, completely crazy to get something I already have just because it's a different print but that's what collection is all about. So the collections are now enhanced with some Russian and Brazil prints of a few albums...

Then what? Yeah, the big box... Both vinyls and CD's in it of course. Some new, some old and some re-issues. It's crazy how much music that is released these days. But it held some real highlights, Iced Earth, Grand Magus, Sahg, Blaze Bayley, Satan's Host...
Ok, it wasn't just the big box that had arrived when I came home this Friday, some from eBay too...

I really know what to do this weekend as you see! Gonna be a lot of Metal, that's for sure.

 
Also, included was a very nice version of Iced Earth's (apart from the regular vinyl) new "Plagues of Babylon", 3x10" in a box. Big and nice booklet and a poster. Me like!!!

 
It sure is a good thing we bought a big house! It would have been a shame if it would have been filled to the limit now already! :O)

Well, dinner time!
Meet & Beer on the menu tonight, that'll be nice!

Cheers
E

NP: Satans Host - Virgin Sails

 
 
 

 

But life goes on

I really want summer now!!! Everything feels so gloomy and dark right now, for several reason. But the weather, it's depressing. Let the snow stay or come summer!
The good thing with winter, and travel is that I get time and peace to read. Sure, the books get old before I get my butt around to pick them up but that's the good thing with books, especially band bio's and such, they keep actual regardless if they're laying around for years before I pick them up or not.

Most recent book was Blod, Eld, Död (Blood Fire Death) a Swedish Metal History. Very interesting I'd say, cool views in many aspects of Development of Brutal music in my dark corners of the world. The difference between this book and the ones I've mainly been reading is that I've lived through the development of Death Metal and Black Metal, tape trading, fanzines and so. Nostalgic for sure. And very interesting reading. 

A full review will be up on Metal Kaoz in a while!

And since I was in the middle of a travel when finishing the book, I had to get something more to read. I was looking in the pocketshop at first but decided to go for the latest issue of Terrorizer instead. Not very surprising choice, but the fun thing was on the plane, the man next to me looked VERY surprised when he saw the title of the book. Finishing that one and picking up Terrorizer instead, well, he moved towards the guy sitting next to him on the other side instead... 

So back home I needed to choose a new book to read, I've bought a lot lately and are not reading in the same pace as I buy them! So I better at least keep a steady pace.
My choice this time was Kiss - En osminkad historia (an unmasked history), by Sweden Rock Mag Carl Linnaeus. I've just gotten through the first 1½ chapter yet but it sure seems promising, good language this far at least!

Both books are in Swedish though, have no clue if they're available in any other language yet... 
But while I'm at it, one more book well worth reading, despite if you like the band or not is The Legend of Hammerfall, amusing, well-written and to the level of detail you really want to have in a band Bio... Also just in Swedish though.

Next up should be Iced Earth concerts in Copenhagen and Gothenburg... I'm really looking forward to some Metal Gigs now... I can't start playing with my new camera yet though, seems like the Camera Raw isn't compatible with PSE7, need PSE10 at least... And I suppose PSE10 won't support Raw-files from my old camera, my computers SURELY can't take both versions of PSE so I assume I need a new computer too! Anyone who has any experience here and can help out? What do I need to support one Canon EOS 50D and one Canon EOS 5D MkIII? Gonna be good when everything is in place though.

Cheers
E

NP: ICED EARTH - Plagues of Babylon