"Hey I will leave around 6:00 AM and be at you place around 9:30 AM."
I held the phone in my hand and thought; "Cool we'll be having a whole day"!! It was two days before carnut would come to visit me.
On Monday [07 - 11] he was was a few minutes late because he got stuck in traffic twice! So we had some breakfast and played some music.
Initially we wanted to go by car but then I remembered the parking rates in Amsterdam, 10 dollars per hour, and we decided to go by train. So we took two bicycles out of my shed and left for the central station in really perfect weather. A light breeze and a nice sunny day.
I was glad I had made a note of the albums I wanted to buy and the stores that would have a nice vinyl collection for carnut to check out.
The first thing we checked out was the Fame record shop that has a cellar devoted just to metal! When I reached for the note I made at home I could not find it!!! Damn!! I seemed to have forgotten it and left it at home!!
Still; I found a few nice cds:
Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds
Conception - In Your Multitude
Holocaust - Smoking Valves: The Anthology
Sabaton - Primo Victoria
Space Odyssey - The Astral Episode
Steve Walsh - Shadowman
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian [Remaster with Demo's and DVD]
Vinnie Vincent - Invasion
After this debauchery we needed some food so we looked up a nice bar were we had some bread with eggs and a few coke's, no JD, Cola's like the drink!!
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Then it was time to hunt for some vinyl! We searched and search for a place that had some vinyl metal treasures... and we could not find it. Sure there were stores that had vinyls on sale, but none of the vinyls on offer were metal records!
To make a long story short, we were back at my place at 4:00 PM and it turned out that my wife had already finished with her work at her flower shop. So carnut and Petri finally met each other and we told her of our failed hunt for vinyl. Then she told us that she knew a store right here, in Leiden were they had lots of interesting vinyl releases!!
Damn!! If we only knew!!
See I have always worked outside of Leiden so I hardly can find my way there. But my wife works there so she knows the place inside and out.
Within minutes we were on our way. 30 minutes later carnut, my wife and me were in a very small store that was loaded with vinyl records searching for something carnut would like! The place was great!! It was really stacked with albums. You had to step over them and watch it or you would trip over them. Anyway carnut found quite a handful interesting releases. I'll leave it to him to tell you what he found. Also because I can't remember what the hell he bought!! I also found a cd I did not have there, the guy also sold a few cds. Vinnie Vincent - Invasion!! And for 5$!! This is one killer album! I already had it on vinyl but I had not found it on cd yet.
After the successful raid of the record shop we left for a small village right at the sea. We had dinner at a beach house a few meters away from the beach, perhaps that why they called a beach house .
We had dinner there and it was great! After dinner we went back to our place and we talked about the day. carnut is really a great guy. One moment I asked him if he did not had a headache from all my talking. He said: " No I like it that way, then I don't have to talk!". I could just picture JD, Bryant, carnut and me in a room the 3 of us constantly talking and carnut just relaxing and listening!
He left around 10:00 PM and it was the end of a fantastic day! I really enjoyed myself and hope we can do it again sometime!
carnut you rule man!!
O and sorry, no pictures!
I held the phone in my hand and thought; "Cool we'll be having a whole day"!! It was two days before carnut would come to visit me.
On Monday [07 - 11] he was was a few minutes late because he got stuck in traffic twice! So we had some breakfast and played some music.
Initially we wanted to go by car but then I remembered the parking rates in Amsterdam, 10 dollars per hour, and we decided to go by train. So we took two bicycles out of my shed and left for the central station in really perfect weather. A light breeze and a nice sunny day.
I was glad I had made a note of the albums I wanted to buy and the stores that would have a nice vinyl collection for carnut to check out.
The first thing we checked out was the Fame record shop that has a cellar devoted just to metal! When I reached for the note I made at home I could not find it!!! Damn!! I seemed to have forgotten it and left it at home!!
Still; I found a few nice cds:
Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds
Conception - In Your Multitude
Holocaust - Smoking Valves: The Anthology
Sabaton - Primo Victoria
Space Odyssey - The Astral Episode
Steve Walsh - Shadowman
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian [Remaster with Demo's and DVD]
Vinnie Vincent - Invasion
After this debauchery we needed some food so we looked up a nice bar were we had some bread with eggs and a few coke's, no JD, Cola's like the drink!!
.Then it was time to hunt for some vinyl! We searched and search for a place that had some vinyl metal treasures... and we could not find it. Sure there were stores that had vinyls on sale, but none of the vinyls on offer were metal records!
To make a long story short, we were back at my place at 4:00 PM and it turned out that my wife had already finished with her work at her flower shop. So carnut and Petri finally met each other and we told her of our failed hunt for vinyl. Then she told us that she knew a store right here, in Leiden were they had lots of interesting vinyl releases!!
Damn!! If we only knew!!
See I have always worked outside of Leiden so I hardly can find my way there. But my wife works there so she knows the place inside and out.
Within minutes we were on our way. 30 minutes later carnut, my wife and me were in a very small store that was loaded with vinyl records searching for something carnut would like! The place was great!! It was really stacked with albums. You had to step over them and watch it or you would trip over them. Anyway carnut found quite a handful interesting releases. I'll leave it to him to tell you what he found. Also because I can't remember what the hell he bought!!
I also found a cd I did not have there, the guy also sold a few cds. Vinnie Vincent - Invasion!! And for 5$!! This is one killer album! I already had it on vinyl but I had not found it on cd yet. After the successful raid of the record shop we left for a small village right at the sea. We had dinner at a beach house a few meters away from the beach, perhaps that why they called a beach house
.We had dinner there and it was great! After dinner we went back to our place and we talked about the day. carnut is really a great guy. One moment I asked him if he did not had a headache from all my talking. He said: " No I like it that way, then I don't have to talk!". I could just picture JD, Bryant, carnut and me in a room the 3 of us constantly talking and carnut just relaxing and listening!
He left around 10:00 PM and it was the end of a fantastic day! I really enjoyed myself and hope we can do it again sometime!
carnut you rule man!!
O and sorry, no pictures!
Wish we had stores that carried so much metal! That rocks! What doesn't rock is your parking rates... yikes! 
