[kj] Latest KJ Merch

[Paul]

The lyrics book, is nice to pick up from time to time and just read a page
or two. My Mrs. slags me off, as I have mine in the bedside locker, she
calls it my Gideons Bible.

The first print, the cover was black, with purple inside, but I've seen the
wine with yellow inside page and they do look nice.

Youth's picture book did not really appeal to me as I'd seen most of it on
FB and Instagram already I believe. I wish he'd of waited till this year
and included the Dublin show too, I'd of possibly sprung for it then. I'll
most likely just get a tour T shirt though, hopefully with the Dublin date
on it.

I too got the CDs and play both Berlin and London regular. I think Geordie,
louder in Berlin and Youth, louder in London, but London I agree is
definitely the better sounding of the two.

Do you keep the vinyl sealed or will you eventually play them? I never
really got into the vinyl collecting, but do still own and play some. I
just love some of my old 70s and 80s stuff and on some even the scratches
bring back memories of what party or session it got scratched at ...lol

Anyway, nice review of your KJ purchases and good to know they got the
packaging right for mailing/posting, always a worry, especially with vinyl.
Have heard some horror stories on this list of how stuff had arrived, not
nice after shelling out good money.

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 01:31, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:

> I ordered the lyric book, the 2018 tour photo book and the2018 Live At The
> Roundhouse LP set.  It took almost exactly a month to get here to SoCal (it
> appears it shipped about 2 weeks after the order was placed) in the US but
> packaging was good and everything came in top shape.
>
> Lyric book is cool.  It is the 2nd printing limited to 200 copies.  I don't
> know if it's supposed to be lyrics to every officially released song as it
> covers 1979 - 2015 as there's some significant, telling  omissions (no
> Eighties among others) while some odd B-sides like Universe B are included.
> There's an intro by Jaz.  Song lyrics take a page each, although a few take
> up two pages.  Organization makes it a bit tough to find specific songs
> without checking the chapter index in the front of the book as the book is
> broken up into 14 thematic chapters (Pre-Upheaval Migration, Berlin,
> Globalism and Big Brother, ect) with relevant songs sorted in an almost
> haphazard way, not chronologically or alphabetically - kind of like a
> setlist.  Still, nice clean, simple text, the cover is wine colored with
> silver embossed text and KJ logo.
>
> The 2018 Tour photo book by Youth is a nice photo journal of the tour.
> Also
> hard cover, it's kind of small to do some of his photos justice but the
> selection of B/W and color shots is great.  Lot of photos of fans,
> locations, backstage and onstage. Aside from an intro by Youth and an index
> of what city each photo was taken, there's no accompanying text. Much of
> the
> onstage photos aren't on the level of what you'd find in some big photo
> book
> of a band like Led Zep or whatever as most appear to be Youth snapping a
> quick pic with his iPhone so don't expect Neil Zlozower or Anton Corbijn
> staged rock god quality or art(ific).  It is more or less like scrolling
> through someone's phone full of pics from the tour.
>
> The 3 LP set graphically and packaging-wise appears to be on the same level
> as the 2016 Great Gathering set.  I bought this Roundhouse show also on CD
> a
> while back so I know how it sounds (better'n the Berlin show).  I haven't
> popped open the set to give the records a listen so I can't comment yet on
> how the vinyl sounds compared to the CDs.
>
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