Leather Nunn - Take the Night
Leather Nunn's ultra-rare Take the Night LP has sold for a teeth-rattling $914.04 on eBay. Details are skimpy on this Jacksonville, FL band, whose only release was this album, limited to 500 copies, on Key in 1986; Greek imprint Metal Reunion reissued it with four bonus tracks on CD, limited to 1000 copies, in 2003 or 2004. Encyclopaedia Metallum's entry ends with the mysterious sentence, "After the end of a tour they got in a automobile accident, which meant the end of the band."Stylistically, this is straightforward, melodic traditional heavy metal (think a poor man's Judas Priest). Each song has its own identity, and the first half of the record is stick-in-your-head catchy (my favorite couplet: "In my world, rock 'n' roll is what I trust / Now you're here, you're ready for a night of lust"). The album is well-done, though whether it's $914.04 of well-done is debatable.
The band's website has clips of each song in the wretched .ram format (which you should hear with Real Alternative, the benign alternative to RealPlayer). Amusingly, the bottom of the page has a call for copies of the LP. If you (understandably) don't have the intestinal fortitude for eBay, the CD is marginally less tough to find. An outfit called Harder Edged Music carries it here.
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4 Comments:
You should be careful with these 'a poor man's Priest' comments :P A lot of people (mainly collectors, but also generally lovers of obscure metal) value the cult bands much higher than the high-visibility ones. Even I personally think Slauter Xstroyes are a more important band than say, Savatage.
Leather Nunn aren't even the best example of overrated vinyl around. Check out the band Paradoxx.
Oh yeah, for sure bigger isn't necessarily better. Probably the best power metal release I've heard this year is by these dudes (and dudette) called Ignitor. In Leather Nunn's case, though, I heard many moments that so tried to be Priest, but didn't quite get there...but settling instead for enjoyable cock rock works for me.
Paradoxx, huh. Does adding an extra letter at the end add more cult value? Sunnn O))))? Morbidd Angell? Puddle of Muddd?
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=16633
Paradoxx's mini-album is one of the rarest and most valuable metal items (sold for more than $1800 on eBay in January '06). It has never been available for retail sales; only a few copies were handed out to press and friends.
I don't know. I don't know how this happens. They also SUCK REALLY HARD. That is one of the wonders of pirate distribution of music on the internet. You get to judge it only by how good it is, not how rare it is to find.
Here's one for sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=310040461638&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=021
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