Randall Ries

Kinda makes me wonder if it will get a purp for being trimmed. That's a man made cut there and not a result of a termite or baby chew. I personally can't own books like that.

They really took a hard right, didn't they? They didn't seem to like performing live anyway. They couldn't be heard. Everything changed when Paul died and they hired Faul.

Yes! I would look at what he was doing and almost yell "OH, COME ON! THAT ISN'T EVEN A CHORD!" Haha!

The new 5.1 mixes of The White Album bear that out. Each tune is treated to 3 mixes. Rear, front then center channels. Rev9 is interesting to say the least. Some are nearly karaoke.

Good job! I have seen him live several times. Just sit there dumbfounded. Then stare at my own guitar for 2 weeks. "Why can't YOU do that?" LOL! One of my favorite pro vids of VBL 1952. Even his stage co-hosts are awestruck

All I know is The White Album and Let It Be always have a place in my collection. "Dear Prudence" was one of the most beautiful songs that ever came out of a Beatle. "Across The Universe" was as well. You saw "Pleasantville".

Tough book to find in high grade. This one is 7.0. Great wrap up to the Ra's Al Ghul saga.

Pop has to be primitive, I guess. Or they aren't going to sell millions of "units". Jazz is nuts. Classical is, too. Bluegrass is otherworldly. You really have to have it together to play bluegrass. Some people might think it's "hick" music but try playing it. I think in the cases of the Beatles and Led Zep, there is music to listen to while getting baked or laid. Then, there is music to listen to to listen to. Like listening to a kaleidoscope. The Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia "Saturday Night In San Francisco" was just a taste of that tour. Listen to the audience recordings of that tour and you will be wearing you head in your back pocket. It boils down to personal taste, I guess. Listen to Led Zeppelin all you want to. Just saying there's better stuff out there. We cut our teeth on that. After a bit we were like "Yes, yes. "Whole Lotta Love, Stairway To Heaven, Kashmir. What else is out here?" It gets tiresome after awhile. "Clapton, Ma-a-a-a-ann! PAGE, Ma-a-a-a-ann!" You go "Richard Thompson, Ma-a-a-a-ann!" or "Alejandro Escovedo, Ma-a-a-a-a-ann" and most people go "WHO?" Yeah. That's THEIR fault, not mine.

Guess I can't stand Led Zeppelin. Pretty simple to understand, I think.

His "estate"? That sounds serious.

It is a beauty. A complete, 9.0 o/w pager with only dirt removed. The buyer got it for a great price. Heritage says the owner is open to offers. Who among us would be trite enough to offer what the book sold for 1% over prime? In my mind, the book is unrestored. And yet, there are hundreds of books in that same category that got nailed for the same thing. Like an HOS 92 in 9.4 with a dot of black color touch at the top of the spine. The purple is a turn off. But in blue explaining the dot, it's less of a stigma to me. The CGC colors add insult to injury to me. I see CBCS books and I read the label before buying.

There is a Bat #1 in a purple holder. The only restoration done was.....cover cleaned. So, the resale value takes a hit because of the color of the label. Fact is, it's a Bat 1 as a Nine - Pernt - Oh. Unfairly penalized because some 75 years of light grime and particles were removed by apparently a liquid bath. The fact that CGC/CSS or whatever subdivision of CGC won't reveal their "dry" cleaning method leads me to believe that there has an aqueous element to it. Some sort of steam cleaning. I read something here awhile back that alluded to it. Huh. Last I heard, steam is aqueous. It isn't a gas. Not a solid either. Two faced at best. Manipulative at worst. I would own that book all day and ask full blue label value if I were to sell it. As you pointed out, prejudice is immediate with a color scheme. CBCS blue at least allows a buyer to read the statistics, thereby having full disclosure. If 90% of the book isn't even the book, then I want to read about it. I DO appreciate the nature of disclosing restoration. Colored labels make it easy to discern. But it also can lead to in many cases complete dismissal of possibly owning a book that isn't as bad as the purple label make it out to be.

Do you really mean "Take advantage of buyers who can't read"? The fact is the purple label can make up the mind of a buyer immediately. That is unsophisticated. But just my opinion. If I am to put a lot of money onto a book, I sort of want to be forced to read the label. If I see a purple label, I'm already prejudiced. If I read a CBCS blue label, I can get the same information I need without the purple, green thingy. It makes me consider the book info more closely. I am paying attention. If I see the words moderate or extensive, I'm out. Purple or blue. Slight? Then I can decide if I can live with slight CT or right edge trimmed. I can. I'm sorry for those that need a color schematic to make their minds up for them. I prefer doing my diligence. If someone dumps $4k into a book without seriously researching the label that's right there in front of them, well what can I say? What can THEY say? "Oh no! I didn't read the information! I wanna refund!"

Only one I have heard of was the urban legend where the boy climbed out onto a high rise roof in the 1950's and put on his Superman cape and flew straight into the sidewalk. I have to imagine most - if any - were like that. Children who thought it was the cape that was doing the flying. Most people who are emulating people these days are either emulating fat-headed celebrities like any given Kardashian or emulating serial killers or school shooters and those are labeled so called "copycat crimes". Seems like no one ever takes it into their heads to do anything drastically heroic like intervening in a bank robbery and beating the living fux out of a bad guy. They just cower under the shelving. I have a pretty keen sense of right and wrong and many times have wanted to go out and stop this garbage but it just isn't realistic. People like that go from being called "vigilantes" to "weirdos" to "Hey we gotta stop that psycho" in the media. Remember in the 1980's when the "Guardian Angels" took it upon themselves to guard neighborhoods? That caused more trouble than it stopped just by its very nature. Kinda like there would have been no Joker if Bruce Wayne hadn't lost his marbles as a kid sort of thing. But, don't we all feel a little tingle when someone actually foils a violent crime in progress and messes up the "perp"? Real good? I think we need that. All the whoopings we take, the corruption in politics and big business. The robbery that is American Medicine. The theft that is Big Oil. Once in awhile it does my heart good to see some corrupt pig get what they deserve. Too bad it happens so infrequently. We have become numb to crime right under our noses as we get screwed every single day of our lives and have to eat it.

I think 7.0

Probably 5.0 as it lies.

7.5

"And starring Elvis Presley as Batman." Part of the problem I have with the movies in general IS the suit. The comics (up to a certain year) portrayed his costume as cloth material except for the boots, gloves and utility belt. Not chainmail armor. Not heavy rubber. Not anything except suicidal cloth. It gave me the impression that when he said he trained himself to perfection in body and mind, he meant it. It implied he was confident enough to use cloth and not a Firestone, double ply, steel belted radial as a costume. And sure. I get it. The unrealistic part was the law of averages dictated that he is going to take a bullet or a knife at some point. But the panels that showed Bruce getting out of bed or working out illustrated that he was pretty messed up from the battles. Scar tissue galore. Which most wouldn't be there if he had been wearing a raised rubber tile floor as a costume. It also added to the human aspect too, of course. He has no otherwordly power or "super strength". He only relies on his wit and skill and employs help like Alfred or Oracle and even uses a teenager as a colorful target so he can close in and wreck someones life. I think this is the comic Ross was referring to. I read that one as well and it made a point.

Yep. Noticed that as well. Little too cranial.

Same. That death scene was completely unnecessary. Really? Suddenly needed to commit suicide to make one of his home spun morality plays? And people say I overreact sometimes. Martha must have been like "WTF, Jonathan?"

Man, I can't STAND ADC. Never could. Nothing even remotely funny about him. Clod.

Whoops. Perfect.