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[chimp]

Just got in, there is a royal mail card on the carpet, a parcel to pick up, must be it, i'm not waiting for anything else :-)

[ZepRex]

Just got mine!!!! It's number 143 out of 418. Well happy I am now!! I just thought "Oh my god, this is the closest you've ever been to Jimmy Page^^". I still wonder who hand-numbered the editions..

[hecube]

Number 264

slightly annoyed that the record wasn't better protected. The top left is ever so slightly bent...

Here is the number alongside THE BOOK:

Edited by hecube, 12 April 2012 - 06:02 PM.

[mrledhed]

It came. On friday the 13th LOL. Satan ROCKS.

[beetleron]

[DAS]

Got mine. #317

[Crowley]

Is anyone going to play their album and give a review?????????????

[JTM]

Bizzare music indeed. Just listened to side one..Very strange, picks up a bit though around the 14m 15s mark....Got side 2 on now tk 1 !!! now tk 2 !!!! tk 3(unharmonics) it's getting better tk 4 ( damask ambient) things are looking up...maybe I'm just getting attuned to it ..tk 5 uh oh ..here we go wierd again...Well thats it, finished...Thanks to dadgad and the little green devil with the three pronged fork for saving me a packet.

[Major Major]

Thanks to dadgad and the little green devil with the three pronged fork for saving me a packet.

I was just going to say the same thing.

I'd be very disappointed if I'd coughed up for this. Heard side one before, unimpressed then, no change 2nd time. Side 2 is only about 11mins long, the longest being a 3.30 reprise of the main theme.

Not exactly a 'must hear', then. Doubt I'll listen to it again.

[publicenemy3]

It is quite weird stuff, but it is exactly what was expected. Worth the extra price for the deluxe? Maybe, maybe not...I'm not quite sure yet. The first side gets interesting about halfway through when the synth comes in and later the drums. The second side, man...I wish these songs were longer. Spacy, ambient, bowed guitar noise. Exactly what I like, seriously. Too bad they are all about one minute each. I may have to assemble these into a longer piece of music. I've yet to listen to it all the way through.

Any pictures of the non deluxe? I am curious to see what the subtle artwork differences are...and if it's just the # box

[DAS]

Has anyone noticed just how thick and heavy the record itself feels?

[luvlz2]

Has anyone noticed just how thick and heavy the record itself feels?

That's quality for you...

[luvlz2]

Thanks for sharing...

[Achilles Last Stand]

The standard £20 edition, came today!

And for the record in regards to the vinyl only release; I am 19 and I have a vast collection of records. Many of my friends of similar age like vinyl and prefer to buy the LP instead of the CD.

Edited by Achilles Last Stand, 16 April 2012 - 08:46 AM.

[PlanetPage]

Just very gently had a look at mine. The text on it is as follows:

The music presented here was recorded in my home studio in Plumpton, Sussex.
Experimenting with the theatre of the avant-garde, during the early seventies on eight-track,
one-inch analogue tape. I had been asked to provide some music for the soundtrack of
Lucifer Rising by Kenneth Anger. I had already been experimenting with some textures
I thought might work and went about doubling the length of a piece for the film.

The instruments and overdubs were treated at source with processing and sonic effects.
In some cases sub-mixes were employed.

The current mixes involved balancing the track levels with no additional effects for the
final mix. Two of these ideas were to surface on Death Wish II ten years later.

I'd been quite involved in what had gone on in art labs prior to Lucifer Rising. I had an
interest in underground everything. Art college was a hotbed of everything that was
alternative, whether it be poetry, music, film and certainly art. It's not well known but in
The Yardbirds we did a number called Glimpses, and Glimpses was something that involved
a bow. The bowed guitar wasn't a novelty to me; I really considered that it was making music.
The manifestation of that is in The Song Remains The Same with the bow and the whole
imagery of the hermit. Anyway, with Glimpses I was playing with tapes. I had all these
sound effects, like the Staten Island ferry, crunching noises and the rattling of a locomotive
with its lonesome horn. The juxtaposition of sound you could have taken out of the Fillmore East
and put into an art lab. The bow was used extensively on the music featured here.

When light beams were used with security alarms I had an idea of using tape recorders that
were triggered by the beams. You could have a dancer affecting the music, interrupting the
light beam. The musical combination was whatever the dancer would be inspired by; by the
ambience of the audience and their own imagination.

So the fact that I got involved with Kenneth Anger and Lucifer Rising was really just a step
along the road of my interest in the extreme and alternative.

Jimmy Page, March 2012

side one

1. LUCIFER RISING - MAIN TRACK

Whilst in India I had acquired a bass tanpura, that provides a majestic drone.

I applied a chant, tabla drums, bowed guitar, acoustic twelve string guitar,

mellotron and a newly acquired ARP synthesiser that provided the Horns of Jericho.

A mix of music was presented to Kenneth Anger and was used

on showings of the first third of the film but not in the final cut.

side two

1. INCUBUS

This suggests the icy scratches and cutting embrace of the incubus at play.

Instrument: Guitar

2. DAMASK

Inspired by my journeys both on foot and through the

recordings of the masters. A simple homage to the sarangi.

Instrument: Six String Bowed Guitar

3. UNHARMONICS

With the harmonics and demonstrative bowed glissandos the

naked solo guitar moves cautiously through a sonic landscape.

Instruments: Six String Bowed Guitar, Bowed Guitar

4. DAMASK - AMBIENT

Damask Mix II returns from the original recording

with a more dense, heavily perfumed ambience.

Instrument: Six String Bowed Guitar

5. LUCIFER RISING - PERCUSSIVE RETURN

The main title with a surprise visitor. I had forgotten about

a percussive overdub courtesy of the ARP Odyssey synthesiser.

Instruments: Phased Chants, ARP Synthesiser, Mellotron,

Twelve String Guitar, Tabla

All songs written by Jimmy Page, published by Succubus Music Limited

All instruments played and recorded by Jimmy Page

Original engineering and mix Jimmy Page

Additional engineering and mix Drew Griffiths

Mastering John Davis

Art direction Tex Higgins

Cover image based on Gustav Dore's The Eagle

Produced by Jimmy Page

Inscribed on the laquer bit middle thing of the first side is 'LUCIFER RISING 0001 A-2'

And on the second side is 'LUCIFER RISING 0001 B1'

There is a cardboard slipcase that contains the record itself, with the text I have provided above on either side. The record itself comes in a plastic sleeve and is protected by bubble wrap.

...thank you sharing these Notes so promptly, I have received mine today...

Reading these notes, they truly reflect The Legendary Musician's senstive and humble side as always, a simple homeage to Masters of Sarangi, he states......He is Master Guitarist himself, one of the Greatest Musiicians of This Century... ....

[Laura_Page]

I've just picked up mine from the post office

It's the cheapest edition. I'm student and I can't afford anything more hehe. But I have to wait to have my turntable fixed to have a good listen... I know what's in, but I REALLY like this soundtrack and wanted to have it, not downloaded by youtube audios or something like that

(There's a bit of me in the last photo )

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[Fortuna]

Deluxe Edition number 374 has just arrived. The 4 looks a bit strange. I think it was first written as a 3.

[nirvana]

I'm sorry - I just don't get it. This is a non-relevant piece of music. It COULD have been re-invented and a visionary piece of work but -
It just isn't much more than what it once was...

[Jahfin]

I'm sorry - I just don't get it. This is a non-relevant piece of music. It COULD have been re-invented and a visionary piece of work but -
It just isn't much more than what it once was...

I missed the part where someone was forcing you at gunpoint to purchase it. Others seem to be quite happy to have it. It may have been available as a bootleg release for years but for him to officially release it and as a limited edition at that is quite another thing altogether. Just be thankful that he's releasing anything at all.

[nirvana]

I missed the part where someone was forcing you at gunpoint to purchase it. Others seem to be quite happy to have it. It may have been available as a bootleg release for years but for him to officially release it and as a limited edition at that is quite another thing altogether. Just be thankful that he's releasing anything at all.

Jahfin - that's the problem!! Jimmy's fans have gotten to the point where they are "happy" or "content" with anything, no matter how nondescript, that Jimmy decides to release!
All this re-packaging and limited release and autographed merchandise is and should be viewed as unacceptable material, not worthy of Jimmy or his legacy.
If Jimmy spent as much time creating NEW material as he does in his re-packaging of older, no longer relevant material than he would be considered a REAL artist once again.