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Glyn

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  1. My contract was up at Christmas and I decided to upgrade from the Galaxy SII to the Galaxy Note 3 - otherwise known as the tablet phone :P

    I almost switched back to Apple for the iPhone 5s...but what sealed the deal for me was the Note 3's 13 megapixel camera.

    I am absolutely in love with it. I mainly use it for email, music, and the camera...don't really text as much as I used to. The battery life is pretty good, I can get about two days out of a full charge with at least 8 or 9 hours of music and about three or four hours of screen use.

  2. Darn! I guess I just got an regular old III, Thanks for the info :heartbreaker:

    For what it's worth, my later pressing of III sounds much better. I don't know what it is about the early one, but I think it might have something to do with being water damaged during shipping. It could also be the immense amount of nicotine that has saturated the album. I've already put it through the Spin Clean once...will probably do it again.

  3. Just to add my two pressings of Led Zeppelin III to the discussion :P

    1. SD 7201 - 75 Rockefeller Plaza - Brown/Green Atlantic inner sleeve

    Side 1: ST-A 702005-AAA 1-11 (1) one Mastercraft PR So mote be it PRC AT

    Side 2: ST-A 702006-AAA - 1 (2) two Mastercraft PR PRC Do what thou wilt - AT

    2. SD 19128 - 75 Rockefeller Plaza - White/Cream Atlantic inner sleeve

    Side 1: ST-A 102005-K 1-1 sflatl SRC

    Side 2: ST-A 702006-K 1-1 sflatl SRC

  4. It's the standard US Atlantic label, there's the UK red/plumb labels as well.

    I believe I have a second US pressing. No quotes in the deadwax, but I still have the 1841 Broadway address on the label.

    When/If Pb! comes back he might have a more definitive answer...

  5. It would appear from some internet research that there are at least three, possibly four, combinations of "first" pressings. These would have all been lacquers cut at Mastercraft. Some with "Do what thou wilt" and "so mote be it", some with one but without the other, some with the same one on each side. It's a complicated mess.

    Some first pressings also have the MO etched into them, denoting Monarch (pressing plant)

    These differences seem to extend to the white label promos as well...

  6. More than similar....Gene owns the rights to the make-up designs now and will put whomever is playing guitar and percussion in those designs, as he sees fit. Apparently there is a new interview out with Gene calling out Peter and Ace as life-long "losers".

    From Rolling Stone

    Ace Frehley and Peter Criss recently published memoirs, and they both made you out to be the bad guy. Do you feel like the bad guy?

    I am the bad guy. I won't stand for drunks and alcoholics, who get up on stage and consider it their birthright. I consider it a privilege to get up there and arrive on time and be sober, and I'll be an asshole to anybody who thinks otherwise. You know who else is an asshole? Your teacher was an asshole. Your parents are assholes. Your drill sergeant was an asshole. Because they wouldn't let you get away with shit. Ace and Peter have had a lifetime of being losers. And not just with drugs and alcohol. They're losers because of wrong decisions. You sleep in the bed you make. How many chances in life do you get? They were in and out of the band three different times. Why should they get another chance?

  7. The photo below was posted by Glyn in the other thread he provided the link to, but I reposted it here for ease of my description.

    As far as sewing and embroidering a copy of this jacket, I can tell you that the red poppy is not embroiderded. It is a separate embellishment that has been either edge stitched on or glued. I can tell this by it's raised qualities and the slight dark shadow surrounding the poppies. The leaves surrounding maybe the same, but more likely lots of heavy embroidery.

    On the sleeve, the gold colour poppies are probably also a separate embellishment attached and then over-edged (sewn) on. There are also obvious fake red gemstones glued onto the centre of the gold poppies and up and down the sleeve. The rest of the gold colour leaf and stem on the sleeve is straight forward decorative embroidery.

    Good post.

    In this photo (enlarged from the black and white one) it looks like it could be a separately embroidered embellishment that was stitched to the jacket. At first I thought it was completely beaded, but it doesn't look that way in this picture.

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  8. Yeah I have two for Tuesday on my station. On rare occasions Kashmir appears on the radio. Oh, and Immigrant Song.

    Live songs as in official, right? (Off topic, I know. :P)

    Yes, live songs are official, but you never regularly hear them. The Sound played Achilles, Kashmir, and Carouselambra all in a row a few weeks ago.

  9. ^That's pretty much exactly it. You get different songs on "two for Tuesday", or "triple play Thursday." The "Get the Led Out" segment on KLOS sometimes even plays live songs.

    Back on topic...I have no idea. JPJ said the same for "In The Light"...too difficult to replicate. I'm sure they could have done it. As far as it it being too easy...maybe? "Kashmir" is incredibly easy to play and they played it at every show (I think) 75-80. "The Rover" would have been amazing.

  10. I thank the man upstairs for giving me an open mind to like and appreciate aspects of all styles of music from Punk to Classical and everything in between. KISS to me is a warm tie to my Childhood and I make no bones about it.

    This. KISS was the first band I was ever into as a kid (early 90's). The first album I was ever obsessed with was Alive II. The makeup, the gate fold that showed the stage with the all the fireworks and drum riser...just pure epicness. Listening to it now, sure the lyrics are pure cheese....but Ace is a guitar god and Paul is one of the best front men ever.

    I can understand being turned off by KISS' current state and the commercialism....but to accuse KISS to be fake and in it for the merch from the beginning is just plain wrong.

  11. I don't listen to rap all to often, but I do a little bit. I prefer early 90's rap like Dr. Dre, Snoop, or Tupac.

    One of my favorites...

    As far as new rap artists go, Kendrick Lamar is one that I've heard on the radio and actually bought both of his albums.

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