[kj] Latest KJ Merch

Sat Jun 22 12:15:02 EDT 2019

I just ordered twilight of the mortals along with some colsey stuff about 1-2 weeks ago and it was in Detroit USA in 5 days. 
I had horrible experiences dealing with orders from Candelight UK on multiple occasions and they wouldn’t even respond to my emails. Took forever and all banged up. And I paid good money for the fancy editions. 
Pledge forgot some things but it was packaged fine and they did fulfill everything eventually. BUT I think the last thing I got from them was Down by the River. I didn’t want anymore live records. 

> On Jun 22, 2019, at 11:54 AM, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:
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> From: Gathering [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Paul
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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  
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> 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. 
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> +++++++++++++
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> Regarding the 2018 Berlin and London shows, Geordie's guitar tone sounded really shrill and harsh - I noticed that at the show I caught in LA as well.  It's loud and upfront, but it comes close to sounding like a typical nu-metal guitarist.  I'm glad he kind of took a step back this year and did whatever he did to his rig to get back a bit more of an organic tone.
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> I do listen to the vinyl versions of the live albums maybe 3-4 times total for each one.  I have a pretty nice turntable rig but admittedly, playing records is such a hassle, it's only on specially occasions (wife and kid out for the day, etc) that I play actual records anymore.  But it's the CD(R) versions I play normally either for headphone listening or in the car.  I really do collect the vinyl releases only because I'm a completest with Killing Joke, especially because I still have my original LP releases from back in the early 80's when I first got into them so I kinda feel compelled to keep the vinyl collection complete with every new release.  I also hope with every release, a new record will somehow be significantly "better" sounding then their cd/digital counterpart which arguably has only happened with the KJ2003 remaster (it's just a bit different, not a massive upgrade).  Kind of silly in that all the live albums since XXV Gathering have been cut from the same digital fi
> les as used for CDs.
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> I'm always a bit leery of ordering stuff from the UK, especially from band websites.  I don't know what the process packages go through to get from there to the US, but it seems going through a paper shredder or wood chipper is part of it.  A few years ago, I ordered the signed/numbered Lucifer soundtrack from Jimmy Page's site and it came in a large flattened box that had tire marks on it and was really beaten to hell.  Miraculously, the album was fine although one corner of the LP sleeve was bent. I also buy Wayne Kinsey's Hammer Films books and he's had to send me duplicate copies for two books because they've arrived in destroyed condition.  I think my DC/DVD copy of Down By The River from Pledge was pretty dinged up when I got it - I know I bought another copy to replace it and wound up gifting my beat up copy.
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> I really wish I didn't sit out the "Twilight Of The Mortals" photo book.  That seemed like a nicer package then Youth's little book but it apparently sold out quickly.
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