A polycarbonate Karma -- three CDs (does anyone here still listen to CDs?)

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
edited March 2017 in The Clubhouse
This forum & its denizens have been incredibly gracious, generous, and nice to me (tolerant of me!) over the years.

Once in a while, I remember this fact :) and try to repay, in a tiny way, the favor with a karmic offering. 'bout time I did another one!

This one's small but sincere. I have three CDs that I am offering up. All three are very plain-vanilla versions of these albums: Who's Next, a greatest hits 'OO album called Who's Greatest Hits (with a moderately interesting selection of tracks), and - last but not least - the Grateful Dead's 16-track* psychedelic masterpiece, aoxomoxoa. Well, maybe not a masterpiece, but it does contain studio versions of some of my favorite Dead songs.

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33244742866_38e74e40a0_b.jpgDSC_7295 (2) by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

I should probably mention that the aoxomoxoa CD is the more-familiar 1971 remix, not the original (and truly bizarre) mix. The latter was finally re-released by Rhino some years back -- for any interested parties who might not have known that.

Simply reply to this thread that you're "in" -- and you'll be "in"!

I will randomly select a winner on Sunday 12 March in the evening.

PS remember that Daylight Savings Time also starts on Sunday 12 March! "Spring Forward, Fall Back"! :)

Thanks for everything, Polk folks, thanks for looking, & good luck!

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* aoxomoxa might have been the first rock album recorded on a 16-track tape recorder (the legendary/famous/infamous Ampex MM1000); the boys, full of nitrous and other recreational pharmaceutical agents :)filled those tracks to the brim and them some when they created this album.

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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    In, still have a spinner, thank you.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • sandworms
    sandworms Posts: 1,043
    In, very generous sir
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    "In" for the grateful dead CD! Great Karma!!
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    The "Who's Next" cover photo further adds to Russ' column conundrum. :o

    Great karma, Doc! Not in.
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,064
    In...nice!
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,734
    Not in, but hell yes I listen to CD's and SACD's everyday.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,023
    ^^^ Yeah, me too. Not in, but nice karma.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    Just to clarify -- the lucky winner does get all three of these fine albums.

    Bonus points (worth absolutely nothing but bragging rights) to the first person who can articulate the connection between these two bands -- besides being two of my own vintage favorites, of course.

    It's easy, so, if you have to google, you're a wuss ;)

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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    In, great karma.
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  • Jimbo18
    Jimbo18 Posts: 2,337
    Awesome karma, not in but nice offering.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,779
    In please! Listen to CD's all the time and don't own any of these.
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    edited March 2017
    Great karma. In please

    mhardy6647 wrote: »

    Bonus points (worth absolutely nothing but bragging rights) to the first person who can articulate the connection between these two bands -- besides being two of my own vintage favorites, of course.

    c8611e18e3cf71b0a8d57eccff7c907b.jpg

    They were jointly involved in the ad campaign for the Coca-Cola can pipe?

    My second guess would have to be Woodstock
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    edited March 2017
    Woodstock is true but their juxtaposition was more coincidental than deliberate -- but, benevolent despot that I am, I do grant you half-credit for your answer ;)

    The two bands were deliberately juxtaposed, once (that I know of) -- which struck me as kind of odd (but, then again, I really did like both).


    PS -- come to think of it, "jointly" was a nice choice of word ;)
    littlewoodboats wrote: »

    They were jointly involved in the ad campaign for the Coca-Cola can pipe?

    My second guess would have to be Woodstock
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,091
    lovely karma. In please
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  • marvda1
    marvda1 Posts: 4,904
    I'm in.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited March 2017
    Not in, but great Karma Doc B)
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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,103
    Nice karma Mark! Not in as you've already been super generous with your 'karma' of LPs for my daughter.

    Also, as a side note, anyone guess what the Dead album title has in common with these phrases?

    "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!"
    "Too hot to hoot."
    "Do geese see God?"
    "Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?"

    OK... too easy.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    Yep, since the "lysergic palindrome" titled album is part of this very karma. :)
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,898
    Not in but a nice thing to do.
    Yes I still listen to CD's and SACD's :)
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  • Libertyc
    Libertyc Posts: 915
    In please! nice karma.
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    Not in since I have all 3 but great karma!
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,121
    I still spin those little guys . . .

    In please

    TY Mark!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    I am takin' names now & will randomize in but moments -- one last call for any stragglers!

    :)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    By the power vested in me by Micro$oft Excel 2016 :)

    The completely pseudo-randomly chosen winner is:


    nbrowser

    <golf clap>

    nbrowser, please PM me your shipping info and congratulations!

    Thanks to all!

    I have another small but sincere karma planned for soon. Keep an eye out.
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  • HzTweaker
    HzTweaker Posts: 790
    I don't know how I missed this! Great Karma. Congrats nbrowser.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,964
    got it -- we'll see if I get to the post office first, or the Nor'easter of 2017 gets to New England first. Knowing me -- I'm betting on the snow :blush:
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