Time for a real fun post Folks!
A little background info for those who don’t know but Mike’s site was the first WordPress site I stumbled on almost over 5 years ago after I did a Google search on Helix and Mike’s interview with Brian Vollmer came up. I clicked Mikey’s site and the fact that I thought it was cool that just a regular loving music fan could just kick back and do an interview done by a fan like Mike was more cool than some paid hack who knows jack crap! Mikey did his homework and after I read it I commented that I really dug it and what not and told him about the Helix Tbay shows I had seen and it went from there.
What was even better was that Mike’s site had a ton of Music Reviews like KISS/Maiden/Priest/Halen all the heavy hitters and the fact that it was written by someone who shelled out for said product was cool. I quickly bookmarked Mike’s site and became an everyday Creeper and from there met Aaron and The KMA/HMO and a ton of other great writers and I was off and running ….
Check Out Mikey’s stuff here…
One thing I learned from Mike was his love of the bonus tracks on albums basically you know the ones were in Japan they get a 13 song album whereas here in Canada we might only get say 10 songs…
Mike is hardcore and orders a ton of stuff from Japan(Physical CD Copies) and it’s fantastic but for myself I’m a iTunes kinda guy and I have my views on it as Mike has his views on it but then this email came through ..
Boom …
And yeah this is the actual transcription of our dialogue printed without Mikes permission hahaha ….(but I think he will be cool with it!)
DATELINE…Thursday February 2nd 2017….
Here’s the Classic Conversation between Myself and Mike…..
From Mikey…
“Hey dude, I was wondering if you can check something out? I can’t access my iTunes. Can you check the Glorious Songs “Union” and see if there are two bonus tracks that are for sale?”
Deke to mladano
“sure man…will go right there”
As per Rock Protocol I got right on it…..
Deke to mladano
“its a 13 track album….
last 3 are…
Amigo
Mama (live)
Sometimes On A Sunday
Does this help?”
mladano to Deke
“YES! The last two are bonus tracks! Are they available for sale on their own?…”
Deke to mladano
“yep there a $1.29 each!”
mladano to Deke
“Done. I’m going to get my account back and buy them. THANKS DUDE.”
Deke to mladano
“no worries dude….I may have to blog about this at some point! hahaha”
mladano to Deke
LOL! “LeBrain lost his Itunes Login Part 1”
Classic Email Banter….I’ve waited 5 years for Mikey to cave into ITunes…hahaha….
Glad LeBrain found his bonus tracks! All these multiple editions with different bonus tracks though… it’s a total pisstake.
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YES AGREED. I did the math one time. I got all the bonus tracks for Alice Cooper’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare. I compared what I spent on that, with how much it would have been if just released them as single B-sides instead. It was about twice as much.
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I don’t mind so much if you can buy the tunes on their own like you could here, but when you have to buy the whole album over again…
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YUUUUP and my iTunes folder has lots of examples of that. Them Crooked Vultures, Alice Cooper (more than once), Alice in Chains…
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Don’t think I’ve bought that many… there was a Saxon one with Sacrifice. The KISS one with Monster (and I ended up getting that in CD later anyway). I’m not very good at keeping an eye on these things!
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Hold up! There are Them Crooked Vultures bonus tracks?
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YESSIR. On the iTunes edition and on a red 10″ single. I shall email you. I am missing one bonus track. It was an iTunes pre-order only.
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I didn’t know this… iTunes, eh? I see a live version of Gunman was the pre-order bonus.
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Well Deke here is the good news! The Glorious Sons tunes ROCK. They are amazing. Well worth it. I will review the bonus tracks.
I also bought “All Bad Things” by Motley Crue. That sucked.
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It’s funny as when bands put out singles only there junk…I seen that Crue tune forever….no interest whatsoever…
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Well I sent you one more email, just advising that if you know of iTunes bonus tracks I want, just shoot me an email. As you said it’s been like 5 years so I have no idea what bonus tracks may be out there….
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check your email sir!
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A Deke post, helping LeBrain find bonus tracks on iTunes, by a Kingston band, with a happy ending? Fabulous story to start a Sunday!
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I didn’t actually realize they were a Kingston band!
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Ladano’s Backyard!
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Hahaha noo…that’s a 4 hour drive! Maybe in T-Bay miles it’s in my backyard.
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Thanks Geoff….this was indeed a fun one to write about….
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How long before the login details were located?
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DEKE TO THE RESCUUUUUUEEEE!!!
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