ebay tokyo cd's to be listed tomorow..

[TheBang]

Just to add a little info here. Please read this on the official Electraglide site about the Underworld recording:

http://www.electraglide.info/en_html/news/uw2.html

Of particular note, "The 3CD set will only be made available to fans who have attended Electraglide 2005 and will not be available at any other time or from any other source."

The "hoops" I had to jump through to get this set were really very minor in consideration of the fact that this set was really only supposed to be available to people who attended the show. I did not have to go to Japan for the show, nor did I have to pay an exorbitant amount to someone who did make them part with their one copy (note the "one 3CD set per person" limitation).

Yes, you have to make some effort to get one. I even wrote a script that scraped the eBay pages every minute and paged me when one showed up. But for such a super limited set with such a great quality recording, it was worth the effort to me.

I am grateful every time I play it that the band made these leftovers available at original list price (approx. $30US), under the table, to the super hardcore fans. I'm tired of hearing complaints that the whole thing is so confusing and convoluted. If you actually put a little effort into it, it's not that hard. And right now, it's not exactly rocket science to get one:

1. Yannick posts that 50 copies will be available first-come, first-served on eBay at a fixed price at a specific time.
2. You log on to eBay at said time and purchase one.

I mean, how hard is that?

Finally, as to the number pressed, I had heard 7500 copies from somewhere, but don't remember where or if that source is reliable.

[m.g.]

I’ve been reading this thread and… suddenly I feel in a writing mood…

Back in the very end of the 70’s to the beginning of the 80’s I was living in a small town in the south west of France (not the best place in the world at the time to get music from the UK…). I remember the fights to get some (old) copies of the NME or the Melody Maker (quite expensive for me at the time) just to be aware of what was out or newly released. Then, when I knew what I wanted, it was another fight to have this or that being found, ordered & delivered to the small town record shop where they didn’t even know the names of the bands (also, I had to convince a minimum of 4 other people for buying the same vinyls, as the record company or the distributor would not take the order for less than 5 copies…)

This process was lasting very long, I remember waiting sometimes months to finally get a, for instance, some records by New Order or Depeche Mode, or even a 12’’ by an obscure band called… Freur.

When I was lucky, there was a gig 2 or 300 kms away from my place, and after hours of negotiations with my parents (and if I had the money…) I was sometimes allowed to go to the gig… I don’t even speak about how to get the tickets in these times.

Once a year, I could manage to go to Paris (900 kms from where I lived), for 2 or 3 days, where were the only record shops where I could buy “easily” what I wanted (well…if they were not sold out). A goldmine for me but for the price of gold… and I was soooo happy.

And sometimes, in some open air marketplaces, some weird people were selling in a kind of hidden way (from the back of a car…) some bootlegs on these C90 tapes with a sound quality that would be called now inaudible.

In this time, fax machines, mobiles phones, laptops, internet & mp3 were just sci-fi, but if I remember well, the earth was not inhabited only by dinosaurs back then...

So, time changed a bit. I’ll write now about a band called Underworld, with its kind of community of superfans mainly here, in this board. This band, Underworld, in the last few months, updated their site, gave us hours of music (studio or live), were kind enough, just in case some people missed it, to re-upload in their site some “pre 2005 archive”, gave us also images (moving or fixed), made webcasts for us from their studio or even from gigs (and some of the webcasts were apparently very uneasy to settle…), and also… mmm?… we, the superfans, had to pay the tremendous amount of 10£ to get nearly 54 minutes in two parts of completely new and amazing music… and what else?… ah, yes, two batches of gigs in Europe and Japan, during which, minimum once every gig, Karl shouted something nice for the superfans, for listening, downloading, buying RRP or just being there… and?... also quite every day in their home page (and/or in the member section) there are few words or even sentences directly addressed to us, and not always in a cryptic way (anyway, just in case someone misses it, some people in this board is, generally right after, “decoding” it, repeating it, “did you see?”, “did you check it?”, “did you get?” etc etc… well, just in case, indeed… generally people with more than 500 posts… very easy to find…).

About the “Live in Tokyo” cd set, I remember I read Karl’s sentence about keeping an eye on eBay, and few time after I read here that the cds appeared. Believe it or not, but at the time, I never ever went on eBay. So, reading that the cds were there, I registered, struggled a bit with this paypal thing, of course I missed the 1st batch, then made a mistake with something I don’t know and apparently bought 2 sets instead of 1, someone instantly in this board wrote me that this wasn’t fair, I apologised, cancelled (or tried to…) my double order, missed another batch, tried again successfully and… finally received an email by Danielle saying that she’ll be very happy to send me the famous cd set in few days… which I got 3 days after, 27th February… I really believe that if somebody like me (a “n00b” if I learned well from this board) could get this cd set, everybody could have done the same, easily.

I’m buying music since 1975 (I was 10, and my 1st record was Kraftwerk’s Autobahn) and I can’t imagine spending one day without listening music, working or not. But I never saw or heard any band as close, nice and careful with their fans than Underworld, neither saw anything as fantastic as a gig by these people, and here by Underworld, I don’t speak only about R&K, but also about Danielle, Mike, Mal, Yannick and some other I probably don’t know, official or unofficial (including the “nearly-2000-posts-ones” in this board and a few others here…), and to these people I can’t imagine saying anything else than : a million thanks to make all this easy and possible, and for being so kind (and sometimes patient, I guess...). Nothing else, really.

So, reading this thread (and a few other occasionally…) I’m balancing between being very disappointed to utterly mad, and I can even feel a bit ashamed about what the people I named above could think when reading some of the posts here… maybe probably that they should do the only thing they didn’t do yet, like : putting the cds in a bag with few beers, taking a car, a train or a plane, and deliver the cds personally and only in each superfan hands and, of course, having a nice chat with him/her for an hour or so in front of a pint. Probably…

I hope this post was not too long… but even if I like Moaner a lot, moaners, sometimes, drive me mad… maybe I’m too old, or coming from a period where the words “easy”, “now”, “quick” or “click” were not very familiar in matters like gathering infos and acquiring music… Don’t know…

Thanks to everybody happy to read and write posts here, not complaining or moaning too much and re-reading their posts before saving them, imagining what these nice people at uwlive could feel when reading here.

VoilÃ*.


Ps : hope my English is not too poor… boring with a post that length…

[BrotherLovesDub]

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well said MG.

LOCK THREAD!

[spacefish]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

please people read the thread already! Yannick specifically said that there will be TWO batches of 50 to go around this time. The second one will come after the easter break (so that's next week). Sorry but all the info is there if you just look for it.

That's not in the first post. I'm not going through a bunch of bullshit replies to find pertinent information. If there were meant to be two batches, ALL the information should have been in the first post. C'mon. This thread is huge!

Stop being so elitist. And thanks for the answer.

[dubman]

listen, if you don't read, that's what you get.
now shaddup and get your bid war face on.

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by spacefish

That's not in the first post. I'm not going through a bunch of bullshit replies to find pertinent information. If there were meant to be two batches, ALL the information should have been in the first post. C'mon. This thread is huge!

Stop being so elitist. And thanks for the answer.

another one too lazy to get his info straight. It's not in the first post no. But it is in Yannick's second post (first post on page two!) that contains all the actual details of the ebay auction. I guess if you missed that, you missed the whole thing anyway

[Stephen]

WOOOO MINE TURNED UP TODAY SHAZIT LISTENING NOW OMGWTF1111ONEONEONEETC

Nice as it is to have the CDs, anyone who doesn't have them isn't missing out on 'artwork' etc. It's three discs with a single card insert, tracklisting available from underworldlive.com. Grab the mp3s if you can, best of luck with the next batch if you still want one!

Big thanks to Yann, Mal and anyone else who made this happen though.

Originally Posted by m.g.

I’ve been reading this thread and… suddenly I feel in a writing mood…

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thank you M.G., you wrote what i thought..[/COLOR]

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by spacefish

That's not in the first post. I'm not going through a bunch of bullshit replies to find pertinent information. If there were meant to be two batches, ALL the information should have been in the first post. C'mon. This thread is huge!

Well maybe the reams of info this thread now contains will serve well to keep any future 'secret' ebay listings this way. Anyone who can be bothered to keep abreast of developments and actually read what's been posted here had as much chance as anyone of getting this release and hopefully anyone simply wanting to resell at huge profit will have been kept at bay.

Plus, I'VE GOT MINE. Feel free to drop by mine and perform oral sex on me (to the wumpty bassline of Yard Beat if you like).

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Sooooooo

Now, not only do I have 1/2 off Easter candy to look forward to after this weekend, but a chance to get my copy.

Cough up the info. Yannick.