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Yeah, my heart jumped when I noticed that Buy It Now price. Start price was 9 bucks, if I remember well. I have never seen this for sale before, and I wouldn’t know what a fair or good price should be. But 20 USD (23 including shipment) is uhmmm… a very very VERY lucky shot?

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/320802796707

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/230703758574 sampler for the two reissues

i thought, let’s get that one quickly, rather than ending up looking for it for months and end up paying quite a lot anyway (just like with those teargarden promos).
this seller had two auctions that ended at the same time, and i wanted to play it safe (not miss out), so i put a snipe on both, and ended up with two copies. [/quote:cqqbbxp0]
I’ve seen a few other copies too on eBay, and you paid the average price so far, it seems. If you must get rid of one, I’m willing to take 1 off your shoulders…?

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Looking good! Can’t wait to see that stuff irl.

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Awesome.

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I finally found a moment to listen (partly) to this 2 hr show… recommendable listen indeed.

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Damn, Sven, that’s cool! Congratulations, my man!

As you know I’m married, and actually it doesn’t change things much. But legally both parties have less to worry when it comes to the household, properties, children… But I felt very attached to my wife already, and that didn’t change after the marriage. One has still to prove every day that it is worthwhile to continue the relationship, in whatever form or state.

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Hmmm… This is a sudden moodswing from manillascissor I have never seen before… No idea if this is a silly joke or something…

Joking back: are you pregnant, mister?

Seriously: of course your work is being appreciated, no doubt. C’mon! But if I had been given compliments every time for the hundreds and hundreds of hours I spend on this website since 2003… It probably should have been put on a page twice the current forum size. Reality is: hard work, mostly taken for granted, the appreciation is rarely said in words. And when it is said, it really means something. That’s how I see it. So I’m hoping you could come back anytime soon, my friend.

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Hehe, 2,400 words came from a piece that I wrote this summer already, and I finally found a spot where to mix it in…

And thanks for the promo offer also! Cool!

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Update: 15,500 -> just over 19,500 now.

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Huh? wtf?

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Ashley Newton would be a perfect match for somebody to get a CDR of this song on the day of completion. Imagine the track arriving at Virgin and someone making this for her… that’s very well possible. [/quote:26y2se2q]
Ashley is a guy, actually

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Thanks for the compliment!

I’m aiming for 50,000 – 100,000 words (roughly 300 paperback pages), but it all depends on time, inspiration, focus, hard work, if the story needs that many words, etc. Sometimes I can write a few full days in a row, but the last week I was so busy with work, that I only wrote a few hundred words during that week. Nice feature in Word, that word count thingy, by the way… Maybe with 15,500 words now I’m already halfway, I don’t know. So far I write a part here, a part there, rewrite or extend older parts I already wrote… Most important: the flow needs to keep going. When I’m in it, it goes like hell. I hope I can finish my story like that.

And good luck with your projects, I’m afraid I want to focus on my story first… Hope you understand…

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Ashley might refer to Ashley Newton, around that time a Virgin executive/co-president, and later Vice-President of Virgin Records America, Inc. Don’t think so, but who knows… Just some quick research I did on the name Ashley combined with Virgin Records.

But I updated the Q101 release of Untitled already with the info provided above. If someone doesn’t agree, please say so.

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11/09 -> i believe this date to be wrong, not misread, but wrong by the date stamp on the envellope[/quote:3e7wlmlr]
Then most likely the envelope should have said DEC 09 00, that makes way more sense. Right? The competition on Q101 radio was on 11/29, when they aired Untitled for the first time. After that the 3 winners were sent their prize. And all this makes the "Ashley-copy" of Untitled the oldest source for Untitled around, I guess. Cool.

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http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?page=COLLDETAILS&item=3561

i understand the date choice on this item.
i find it strange the date would/could be wrong.

though… it HAS to be…
i was in Chicago when BC literally gave a cdr to the DJ of Q101 to play this song they had just finished.
from that cd and on that night 3 copies were given away.
it could be that these were mailed out on 29 nov. 2000.
and that there was an error in the stamp date machine somewhere.

remember:
Untitled didn’t leak before the United Center penultimate performance.
if three winners were to have had this, it would for sure have leaked.

i’d dare say the date of release is 001129 for the Q101 cdr of Untitled.[/quote:2fwkwaam]
Let me try to help you, this is the timeframe for November 2000:

11/09 Untitled send out by Q101
(check envelope date http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=2441)
(but on that date Smashing Pumpkins was travelling from UK/IE to South Africa for 2 gigs!?)
11/17 NBC Studios, Burbank: Cash Car Star in Jay Leno show (where he showed a copy of the M2 vinyl)
11/28 WXRT Studios, Chicago: interview
11/28 Untitled copy scribbled Ashley
11/29 United Center, Chicago: gig

When & where was Untitled recorded then? And do I misread the date on the Q101 envelope maybe?

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I am really curious about the background of this one:

http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3563

I played it many times now already, it’s a bunch of instrumentals that I never heard before. I do have to check it to the tunes that appeared on the official Stigmata soundtrack, but the titles on this cd suggest this is a set of studio try-outs of Billy Corgan for the movie. Maybe from these tunes (with working titles) the tunes for the movie soundtrack cd evolved?

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Let me try a fast Google translation that I improved myself quickly (sorry for the mistakes), to give you a little idea.

\"If one listened carefully, one could hear through the sound of the three tinkling sitars, the sound of swords clashing. The young knights were practicing, one group on the sitar, another group with the wooden swords, reinforced with pieces of metal. The exercises were led by an elderly knight lying on its side on a tree stump in the middle of the practice grounds. With some imagination, the rhythms of both types of sound were almost similar, and it even sounded like a nice little instrumental song. Pling, ping, plok, bonk. The light-epic prelude to the sometimes harsh, but often beautiful medieval life.

Sir Astamor proceeded slowly with his horse Mazark over the wooden walkway that led to the great stone gate, which in turn granted access to the interior of the castle of Lord Zanskar. He closed his eyes, enjoying the sitar sounds coming in gusts across the walkway towards him, and he had to laugh inwardly at the woody-metal sound of the practice swords when they were clashing. Years ago, it seemed like centuries ago by now, he had learned to fight with the sword too. It had been in the same place, here in the castle, near the wooden gate where now the young knights were practicing. He had been taught by his father, who died last year, too early and after a short but devastating illness. He didn’t want to think about that any further. But he never mastered the sitar, and he left the playing of the sitar to others who do master it. He never reached any level beyond some finger exercises, and he started to hate the strings of the instrument. He didn’t want to think about that any further too.

Meanwhile his horse Mazark, with a knight occupied by deep thoughts on his back, found his way back to the barn of the house of Astamor and Guinevere almost naturally. The small, dark, cozy barn with the hay rack, with the big wooden bowl of water, and with Lady Guinevere that would polish him with the hard brushes off the shelf to the right in the barn. Astamor fluctuated rhythmically with the slow steps of Mazark. As he looked around, he realized that inside the castle, little or nothing had changed. It felt good.\"

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cool![/quote:1g294lvp]
(taken from another thread, before it was leading to a huge derail from my side

Yeah, I hope so. Now I’m on roughly 50-60 paperback pages (just over 15,500 words), and more than half of it was read by a friend a while back. He said he was astonished by the flow of the story, that made him want to read on an on…

(but he is not working at a publishing company, to keep me away from Cloud 9 lol)

But I needed that kind approval before I could continue to write the story, as I did something that I considered to be a little risky or boring to the reader: I’m mixing a medieval story of an evil lord with his huge group of marauding knights against a peaceful little town, inside a story of a bank and its lawyers against 1 person in current times. These are the first lines of the medieval part (sorry, it’s Dutch! => crappy English translation after that!), just to give you guys an idea of about 1 page of the story. Hope you like it… It starts very peaceful… But that will change later…

"Als je goed luisterde, kon je door het getingel van de drie sitars het geluid van zwaardgekletter horen. De jonge riddertjes waren aan het oefenen, het ene groepje op de sitars, het andere groepje met de houten zwaarden, verstevigd met stukken metaal. De oefeningen werden geleid door een bejaarde ridder, die op een op zijn kant liggende boomstronk in het midden van het oefenterrein zat. Met enige fantasie liepen de ritmes van beide soorten geluiden ongeveer gelijk op, en klonk het zelfs als een enigszins aangenaam instrumentaal riedeltje. Pling, ping, plok, knok. De licht-epische prelude van het soms harde, maar vaak ook mooie middeleeuwse leven.

Sir Astamor liet zijn paard Mazark langzaam de houten loopbrug, die leidde naar de grote stenen poort, die op haar beurt toegang verleende naar het inwendige van het kasteel van Lord Zanskar, overgaan. Hij sloot zijn ogen, genoot van de sitargeluiden die in vlagen over de loopbrug op hem af kwamen, en hij moest inwendig lachen om het houtig-metalen geluid van de oefenzwaarden die tegen elkaar geslagen werden. Zo had hij jaren geleden, het leek inmiddels wel eeuwen geleden, ook leren zwaardvechten. Het was op dezelfde plek geweest, hier in het kasteel, vlakbij de houten poort waar nu de jonge riddertjes aan het oefenen waren. Hij had les gehad van zijn vader, die vorig jaar, te vroeg en na een korte maar slopende ziekte, het tijdelijke leven voor de eeuwige dood had verwisseld. Hij wilde daar nu niet verder meer over nadenken. Maar de sitar had hij nooit onder de knie gekregen, en hij liet sindsdien het bespelen daarvan graag aan anderen over. Verder dan wat vingeroefeningen was hij nooit gekomen, hij had het snaarinstrument bijna gehaat. Ook daar wilde hij nu niet verder meer over nadenken.

Ondertussen vond zijn paard Mazark, met een in gedachten verzonken ridder op zijn rug, de weg als vanzelf terug naar de stal van het huis van Astamor en Guinevera. De kleine, donkere, maar huiselijke stal met de ruif met hooi, met de grote houten bak met water, en met Lady Guinevera die hem met de harde borstels uit de kast aan de rechterkant in de stal zou komen afschrobben. Astamor schommelde ritmisch mee met de langzame passen van Mazark. Terwijl hij om zich heen keek, realiseerde hij zich dat er in het kasteel weinig tot niets veranderd was. Dat voelde goed."

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Updated cd:

http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … S&item=555 Soiled Gold Hits NZ compilation

New cds:

http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3551 First Love Last Rites JP promo
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3552 Live At Cabaret Metro JP bootleg
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3553 Transformers JP acetate promo
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3554 Greatest Hits UK 2CD inhouse promo
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3555 Rocked 07 NZ compilation
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3556 The Trip 6 NZ compilation
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3557 Remixes UK acetate, with the never seen before Ava Adore Puff Daddy remixes
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3558 Adore US promo (gold cd with different spelling of tracklist)
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3559 Greatest Hits US acetate (Virgin inhouse copy)
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3560 Perfect – Nellee Hooper Remixes US acetate (contains 2 never seen before remixes)
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3561 Untitled US acetate
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3562 Stigmata US first test pressing
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3563 Stigmata US acetate, set of BC tunes for the movie
http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?pa … &item=3564 If You Can’t Say No – Billy Corgan Remixes US acetate for the Lenny Kravitz single \"I Belong To You\"

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Hey Pipoka, great to see you drop by! Great pics, way better than mine, which I didn’t even bother to upload here anymore, though I said so

Great show, wasn’t it? We enjoyed it big times here in Belgium and Holland! Great setlist, great band, great mood, great solos, never a dull moment… Probably the best Smashing Pumpkins show I have ever attended. Really.

What was your favourite moment/song, Pipoka?

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Thanks for scanning that, mr. benway!

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lol @buipesto

It’s indeed a boot, to my opinion.

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Sven, I think you hit the nail on the head with that review of the HMH show.

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Several items arrived today.

-First Love, Last Rites promo cd Japan
-Transformers promo cd Japan
-Rocked 07, New Zealand compilation cd with Tarantula
-Soiled Gold Hits, New Zealand compilation cd with Set The Ray To Jerry
-The Trip #6, New Zealand compilation cd with Quiet

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