tedvanfrehley
Your Favorite Uncle
Oh, also OZZY OSBOURNE Speak of the Devil on vinyl! One of the first albums I got as a kid and still mint!!!! I keep it framed in my closet just because I think it's one of the coolest covers ever!
Pride and Joy
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Bryant
Mr. Sleepy
I have four LPs that are mide pride. Three are old and one is rare. The three old ones are Kansas "Point of Know return," AC/DC "Back in Black" and Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle." All are original pressings. The rare one I have is Accept's "Kazuku Ban" which is a live LP from Japan.
I don't have any "rare" CDs but I certainly have some a bit hard to find and out of print like Powermad's "Absolute Power.
Bryant
I don't have any "rare" CDs but I certainly have some a bit hard to find and out of print like Powermad's "Absolute Power.
Bryant
The most special item in my collection is probably the Fear Of God "Demo ´92"-tape, not so much because of the music (there are lots of albums I like better;and Fear of God´s "Within The Veil" is still my favourite metal album of all times, though since 2002 it has got to share this position together with Atrox´ "Terrestrials"), but because it is rare and it has a short dedication on it written by Dawn herself. Dawn had sent me this tape somewhere in spring 1993, some months after I´d managed to get into (snail) mail contact with her. (Unfortunately this contact broke up in the middle of 1993 - probably because Dawn "wasn´t much of a writer", as she had told me in a previous letter...and about 3 1/2 years later she was dead.
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As far as vinyl is concerned, I could perhaps mention the picture disc of Helloween´s first mini-album (featuring a short surprise track - not a "proper" song, but more some kind of joke - introducing Michael Kiske on vocals) and Metallica´s "Creeping Death" picture disc maxi-single. (Though I stopped buying their albums after "And Justice For All..." and don´t listen to them very much anymore, "Creeping Death" is still one of my alltime favourite metal songs, and I always liked the cover version of "Am I Evil" on side B of this maxi-single very much.
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Finally, I´d like to mention two CDs, but they have absolutely nothing to do with metal, so if you are only interested in metal, stop reading now and jump to the next post !grin: )
The first CD is a live-bootleg by Tori Amos, titled "Saint And Sinner", recorded on her German tour in 1996 in Berlin. This bootleg really has got an excellent sound quality and I like it much better than any of Tori´s studio albums. (IMO, Tori should just release live albums, because playing live is what she´s definitely best at!) It´s just her and guitarist Steve Caton (insofar it´s comparable to her official "Live From NY"-video) and what you get is - among other stuff - an entirely different version of "Bells For Her" and a version of "Father Lucifer" including excerpts from "Tubular Bells" and "Smalltown Boy" (amazingly, she makes it sound as if these parts had been incorporated in her song right from the beginning!).
The second CD - a mini-album titled "Voggesanger fra ondskapens akse" ("Lullabies From The Axis Of Evil") - isn´t something special in itself, because it is officially available, at least in Norway, but there are very special memories connected with my copy. Because last November I took this CD with me when travelling to Oslo to see a concert under the same heading by five (female) vocalists (from Palestine, Iraq, Iran and Norway) who are also featured on this CD. The evening before the concert I had the pleasure to meet two of these vocalists (two sisters from Iran) at their hotel lobby and talk to them for about 1 1/2 hours (mostly about music of course). With one of them I also exchanged some CD´s and tapes. (There were also some metal albums among the CD´s I had brought along, but I still don´t know if she liked any of them.) However, it was a very special moment (just like the concert the next evening) and I also had my CD-copy signed by these two vocalists. The memories of this special trip will always also be connected with this CD-copy. Well, the entire story is a bit longer, but as this is an "old school metal thread", I don´t want to bore you more than I´ve already done so far.grin: )
)As far as vinyl is concerned, I could perhaps mention the picture disc of Helloween´s first mini-album (featuring a short surprise track - not a "proper" song, but more some kind of joke - introducing Michael Kiske on vocals) and Metallica´s "Creeping Death" picture disc maxi-single. (Though I stopped buying their albums after "And Justice For All..." and don´t listen to them very much anymore, "Creeping Death" is still one of my alltime favourite metal songs, and I always liked the cover version of "Am I Evil" on side B of this maxi-single very much.
)Finally, I´d like to mention two CDs, but they have absolutely nothing to do with metal, so if you are only interested in metal, stop reading now and jump to the next post !
grin: )The first CD is a live-bootleg by Tori Amos, titled "Saint And Sinner", recorded on her German tour in 1996 in Berlin. This bootleg really has got an excellent sound quality and I like it much better than any of Tori´s studio albums. (IMO, Tori should just release live albums, because playing live is what she´s definitely best at!) It´s just her and guitarist Steve Caton (insofar it´s comparable to her official "Live From NY"-video) and what you get is - among other stuff - an entirely different version of "Bells For Her" and a version of "Father Lucifer" including excerpts from "Tubular Bells" and "Smalltown Boy" (amazingly, she makes it sound as if these parts had been incorporated in her song right from the beginning!).
The second CD - a mini-album titled "Voggesanger fra ondskapens akse" ("Lullabies From The Axis Of Evil") - isn´t something special in itself, because it is officially available, at least in Norway, but there are very special memories connected with my copy. Because last November I took this CD with me when travelling to Oslo to see a concert under the same heading by five (female) vocalists (from Palestine, Iraq, Iran and Norway) who are also featured on this CD. The evening before the concert I had the pleasure to meet two of these vocalists (two sisters from Iran) at their hotel lobby and talk to them for about 1 1/2 hours (mostly about music of course). With one of them I also exchanged some CD´s and tapes. (There were also some metal albums among the CD´s I had brought along, but I still don´t know if she liked any of them.) However, it was a very special moment (just like the concert the next evening) and I also had my CD-copy signed by these two vocalists. The memories of this special trip will always also be connected with this CD-copy. Well, the entire story is a bit longer, but as this is an "old school metal thread", I don´t want to bore you more than I´ve already done so far.
grin: )
Psychonaut
God Of Emptiness
I have a few here and there but my current highlights would include King Diamond's The Lake picture disc and Them picture disc as well as the No Presents For Christmas vinyl EP. I also have the first Katatonia CD as well as the ultra rare Saw You Drown EP. One of the newer ones is the Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon box which was only available from Germany for a short time and I managed to get my hands on it. Although it's not too rare, I have two of the first edition Eddie's Archives on my shelf. One remains shrink wrapped. Oh yeah, and a Danzig III: How The Gods Kill box with the video that I had signed by Glenn Danzig himself. He even asked me how the hell I got one since he pulled the plug on it as soon as it was released. I have all the Metallica vinyl through The $5.98 EP including Whiplash and Creeping Death EPs.
The best part of all of it is that I paid very little for all of them and now they're quite the collectors items.
The best part of all of it is that I paid very little for all of them and now they're quite the collectors items.
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