Well where do we start right? It's been a while. Long story short, it's been over a year and some of that year has been messy. For some of that time I was without a laptop and most of my records were boxed up. But everything is cool, and I always loved doing this blog so hopefully I'll be doing this a little more often. Instead of running out with a huge backlog of records (I didn't really slow down on buying at least!) I'll head straight in with something I bought recently.
Sleep - Holy Mountain - Easy Rider Records - 2nd Press - White Shell /200 (in screened mailer)
People seem to get really funny about people that aren't Straight Edge wearing shirts by Straight Edge bands etc.; or at least there's this assumption that everyone listening XrepentanceX is Vegan or something. So where does it stand when Straight Edge folks listen to records essentially written around Sabbath riffs and bong rips? I don't care much either way, I've been on a huge Sleep kick lately and adding this to my little tape collection felt great. There's something about how these songs sound with all those cassette related imperfections that I'm in to!
The cassette comes in this screened mailer. Pretty standard stuff but it looks great; apparently there was also a sticker with some orders. As this copy didn't come to me direct from the label, I guess I'll never know but I'm not too heartbroken about it.
Big Ol' label logo on the back.
Funny little tidbit: the folks who run this label had to change the name of Easy Rider Records shortly after this release to RidingEasy Records. Apparently some US Motorcycle Magazine delivered them a cease and desist. Who would've known! At this point they'd only been a label for somewhere around 6 months too.
Finally, here is the album in all it's stoner perfection. The art was done by a guy called Robert Klem who might be a tattooer too (I'm not sure). This art probably gets overshadowed by the Arik Roper masterpiece that graces the cover of Sleep's opus 'Dopesmoker'; but I'm a huge fan of the trippy font.
So there we have it. 15 months-ish later and a blog post is done. I'm already looking forward to the next one. Most of my purchases are posted on Instagram with the handle: kanexdoe so if there's anything you want to see a little bit more in depth on there, let me know. Failing that, I'll just keep on keeping on.
Cheers!
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