SDE packaging (or an old guy rambling)
Some thoughts on the SDE-
I was on the fence to get this, but I heard an interview with EV on a Charlotte-area radio station where EV said he wasn't too keen on the reissues, but once it was decided, he and Jeff really wanted make it something they as music fans would have wanted from their bands back in the 70s. I came off the fence then - I just got the feeling Eddie was on the same wavelength as me
So... some thoughts on the packaging:
1. I loved opening the cassette tape. That's what I grew up with - cassettes, and I think the last cassette I bought was a Cranberries one in 1996. God that makes me feel old. Yeah, I know opening a shrinkwrapped CD is essentially the same, but it felt different, yeah, it made me feel like I was in h.s again.
2. I love opening up a gatefold and seeing the album artwork. Haven't done that since the early 90s. And holding a black record, looking a the grooves, anticipating the music... a great feeling
(a quick aside - do you remember the scene in Almost Famous when the Cameron Crowe character takes out Tommy and plays it for the first time - the slow shot over the vinyl, the record sleeve, the close up of the needle on the record - nothing better catches the magic of rock and roll records than that scene).
3. The book. Shit, I remember being in high school, doodling the names of my favorite bands in the margin of my notebooks, clipping the concert reviews from my local newspaper, the only newssource I had, and saving them in folders or dresser drawers. Looking for any reference of my favorite bands (then it was the Grateful Dead) in magazines and tearing out the pages... I bet I still have some notebook that won't look that far from the comp book somewhere in my parents' attic. And I bet that if I were aware of a band called Mookie Blaylock then, I would've saved that player's card as well.
So bottom line, I am quite pleased with the set. Yeah, $133 was a lot to shell out (Best Buy + tax, so anyone complaining they didn't get the best price from 10C - it was only $7 for me), but it's something that brought back a lot of memories, not all PJ related. Now I have to figure out a way to justify the follow-up SDEs
All this and I haven't even mentioned the music... but I think that's been adequately discussed elsewhere
I was on the fence to get this, but I heard an interview with EV on a Charlotte-area radio station where EV said he wasn't too keen on the reissues, but once it was decided, he and Jeff really wanted make it something they as music fans would have wanted from their bands back in the 70s. I came off the fence then - I just got the feeling Eddie was on the same wavelength as me
So... some thoughts on the packaging:
1. I loved opening the cassette tape. That's what I grew up with - cassettes, and I think the last cassette I bought was a Cranberries one in 1996. God that makes me feel old. Yeah, I know opening a shrinkwrapped CD is essentially the same, but it felt different, yeah, it made me feel like I was in h.s again.
2. I love opening up a gatefold and seeing the album artwork. Haven't done that since the early 90s. And holding a black record, looking a the grooves, anticipating the music... a great feeling
(a quick aside - do you remember the scene in Almost Famous when the Cameron Crowe character takes out Tommy and plays it for the first time - the slow shot over the vinyl, the record sleeve, the close up of the needle on the record - nothing better catches the magic of rock and roll records than that scene).
3. The book. Shit, I remember being in high school, doodling the names of my favorite bands in the margin of my notebooks, clipping the concert reviews from my local newspaper, the only newssource I had, and saving them in folders or dresser drawers. Looking for any reference of my favorite bands (then it was the Grateful Dead) in magazines and tearing out the pages... I bet I still have some notebook that won't look that far from the comp book somewhere in my parents' attic. And I bet that if I were aware of a band called Mookie Blaylock then, I would've saved that player's card as well.
So bottom line, I am quite pleased with the set. Yeah, $133 was a lot to shell out (Best Buy + tax, so anyone complaining they didn't get the best price from 10C - it was only $7 for me), but it's something that brought back a lot of memories, not all PJ related. Now I have to figure out a way to justify the follow-up SDEs
All this and I haven't even mentioned the music... but I think that's been adequately discussed elsewhere
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Nice post - put a smile on my face reading it
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A Nagahyde covered case that carried only 10 8-track Cassettes... in a '73 Ford Econoline Van with shag carpeting in the back... with a Budweiser beer tap handle on the shifter... bubbled plexiglass windows... a Budweiser mirror hung on the wood paneled walls... a feathered roach clip hanging from the rear view mirror... roaches in the ashtray and Led Zeppelin IV playing on the Quad System 8-Track player.
Anyone remember THAT? Didn't think so.
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...it was worth every penny, even if just for the memories... (which, of course, isn't the case at all)
i do....and i loved 8 tracks
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