Welcome to PFF, Injury Update. Of course, we're joined by Dr. Pomeranz of MRI Online. And Dr. Pomeranz, thanks for joining us. Let's get started with LA Rams linebacker, Micah Kaiser. We understand that he has a torn pectoral muscle. What does that all entail? Sure, well, the pectoralis muscle is your chest muscle. And these are particularly well-developed in men because, you know, men go into the gym, boys go to the gym, they do a lot of bench pressing and push-ups their favorite exercise. And they really overdevelop this muscle. Unfortunately, this muscle has a very tiny tendon. It's actually given the name falciform ligament and it attaches to humerus bones. So it goes across your chest.  Now, when you have a pectoralis injury, you could have something as inconsequential as, say, a muscle strain, which is just a little swelling of the muscle. And in those cases, you're pretty functional. But if you can't pick your arm up as this player was unable to do, the odds are that you have more than a muscle strain.  And even though it's tiny, when you do that, that is a season-ending injury for almost all players. Now, usually that tendon will retract into a little groove between your shoulder and your chest. That's more of a medical thing. But what's relevant to those that are playing fantasy and other interested parties is that a pectoralis injury of this type where the player isn't picking up his arm on the field, you saw him grab it, he is unlikely to be playing any time this year unless he's a kicker or a punter or perhaps maybe a quarterback, the non-dopinant arm. But short of that, any contact player, especially on defense, is likely to be out for the season sawing. Dr. Pomerance explained for our viewers how Micah Kaiser, he was able to stay on the field. I think he even stayed in and played another snap. But you could see he tried to play, tried to go at it and he went to lift that arm and didn't get the response he was looking for. What allows a player to maybe have this kind of injury? But for a moment, they seem to think that they're okay where he could stay in the game and play for another play. Well, it does take a few moments for the blood and the hemorrhage and the manifestations of the injury to sort of get in the way to produce pain for the neuro receptors in the body to perceive what has happened. So a lot of times, very acutely in the first minute to 30 seconds after an injury, you do have some residual function, your adrenaline is going until you realize what's happened and then you actually feel discomfort then your function declines within a matter of a minute or two. And that's probably what happened here. When I watched the initial play, it was very subtle but I could see where he wrapped his left arm around the player and squeezed. Just that motion is what caused him to injure and perhaps rupture the pectoralis tendon. And this resulted in the very next play in his inability to pick his arm up at all. You could see him grab right in the spot where you would expect a pectoralis injury to be. So I'm not optimistic that he will take the field again this season. Wow, our fantasy players, they can use that information because Michael Kaiser was penciled in as a starter for that LA Rams defense but according to Dr. Pomerance, we don't expect him to return for the 2019 season. Let's move on to the Los Angeles Chargers because they're second year all pro safety. Derwin James, he sustained a foot injury in practice. We're told it's a fifth metatarsal fracture. Dr. Pomerance, what does that even mean? Well, you know, you've got a foot and you've got five long bones that are attached to your toes and those long bones are called metatarsals. Your big toe is one and then it goes all the way out to the fifth. Now the reason that's relevant to our fantasy players and other interested parties out there is if you actually fracture or have a stress fracture of say the third or the fourth, the other toes support those toes. In other words, they buttress them, they protect them kind of like a fork. So the fifth and the first protect the inside ones. And what that means is you usually or don't always have to have a rod or a screw placed into that long metatarsal, that long toe bone. Whereas the fifth one is very vulnerable because it's on the outside and has no one protecting its flank. And so when you fracture that it usually requires a screw or some type of fixation device. And that means you are gone for 12 weeks. Now I've seen people come back from that as early as eight weeks, but that's uncommon to rare. In a solidus injury, I particularly see in defensive backs because of their backwards running activity and how they rotate on turf. I've seen this a number of times in the fifth metatarsal in this particular type of player at this position. So this is not uncommon. I would say that at week 12, if they're still in the hunt, if all goes according to plan, they'll play again. If they're not in the hunt, my guess is to protect a player of this caliber and ilk, they may not put them on the field for the rest of the season if they're not in the playoff picture. Yeah, right now they're saying they're expecting him back right around week 11, November 18th in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs. And so they're probably are gonna need him. Just kind of talk to us about this type of injury based on maybe the position, the weight of the individual, this type of injury, it seems to be just this broad perspective in terms of when we could expect the player to return based on his height, weight, and maybe even his size. Well, you know, the prognosis, I think they've, they've guesstimated this, you know, right in the middle. They've gone for the sweet spot, which is 11 to 12 weeks, which is what most established, respected positions would say is a timeframe for solid recovery, for solid bony bridging, for stability to be able to twist and turn and run backwards flat out. The, on the short side, advanced healing or accelerated healing is much less common. You know, seeing somebody come back at six, seven or eight weeks, much less common, but delayed healing. In other words, somebody that can't come back in 11 or 12 weeks, but needs 17, 18, 19 weeks or more, that's more common. So while we've given you the middle range of 11 or 12 weeks, it's more likely that that could be longer than shorter. And that's probably important for our audience to know. And he is certainly a player that they don't want to risk having some kind of setback once you get to the tail end of that recovery period. Dr. Pomeranz, we want to thank you for joining us. I always feel much smarter after talking with you. It's a pleasure. And I'll, I'll be with you again next week. All right. That's going to do it for our weekly PFF injury update with Dr. Pomeranz of MRI online. Thanks for watching the PFF YouTube channel. And if you want to subscribe, all you have to do is push the button. Don't forget everything you get. Little fantasy, push the button. A little green line for the gambling aspects of the game. Push the button. College football, push the button. The YouTube channel from PFF.


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Hello everybody. Lee Lowell here from smartoptionseller.com. Today is Saturday, July 10, 2021. Welcome to another edition of our Saturday YouTube option educational videos. Today we are going to talk about how to execute an option trade. One of the simplest and easiest lessons we're going to show you. I get lots of questions from people. They tell me, okay, Lee, I understand I want to get long the market so I buy a call or I want to get short the market, I buy a put, but how do I actually execute the trade? You know, there's different brokers, there's different platforms. I need to understand how to use the, you know, the software. So can you give me a lesson on how to actually just enter an option trade mechanically and physically enter an option trade? So that's what we're going to talk about today. Very simple, a little bit shorter educational video today. So get ready, sit back, relax, let's go right to it. So when you want to execute an option trade, you obviously have to go into your brokers trading platform and set up the trade and execute it. So obviously there's different platforms. There's lots of different brokers and a little later on the video I'll show you on our website. We have a list of brokers that we feel are some of the, you know, the ones that are available for most mainstream investors and we'll show you our list. But when you're going to execute an option trade, you're either going to buy it or you're going to sell that option. Okay. And so there's a few different ways that you can actually engage or initiate the actual trade. So the first thing you need to know is, is this an opening or closing transaction? Now, I guess since most people need to understand how to do it, it's going to be an opening transaction. What do I mean by that? Well, when you first execute your option trade, it's called an opening transaction, you're opening the position. And some brokers want to know if it's an opening or closing position. Now, obviously, if you don't have a position yet, it's going to be an opening position. And here are the four abbreviations for what you can do. A BTO is a buy to open order, and an STO is a sell to open order. So some people will actually buy an option as their opening transaction. Whereas here at the smart option seller, we always sell an option to open the position. So we're always doing an STO, we're selling put options here, that's what we do with the smart option seller. So we do an STO sell to open position. But for those of you that are just, you know, buying an individual call option or buying an individual put option, you're going to initiate a buy to open order. Now, some brokers, and I'm only going to show you, and I'm going to show examples using interactive brokers, interactive brokers, one of the more popular brokers out there. And I'll also show a quick one on Charles Schwab, because some people use Charles Schwab as well. Now, interactive brokers doesn't require you to tell them whether it's a buy to open or a buy to close. They just know that it's a buy order or a sell order. Whereas Charles Schwab makes you put in, is it a buy to open or a buy to close order? Now, most people will put in a buy to open order. Okay. And then when you close that order, you're going to do a sell to close. So this is an STO sell to close. So if you already have a position open and you're ready to get rid of that position, you're going to sell that position to close out the trade. That's what it means sell to close, meaning you're closing out the position. So I'll show you that in a second. And the other thing is now, once you have your buy or sell order set up, what you can do is you have to engage the order, actually get the order ready to go. You can click on the option bitter ask price right here, number two in the screen here. And I'll run through an example and I'll show you what that means. And once you have the order engaged, then you can tweak the parameters, you can tweak the number of contracts that you want to buy or sell, you can tweak the price, you can tweak the time and force, meaning is it a good till canceled order, or is it a day only order? And then if it doesn't get filled for whatever reason, because maybe your price isn't right, then you can adjust the order right on the fly. And I'll show you how to do that. And lastly, to close the position, let's say you bought a call option, the stock moved in your favor, everything's looking good, you want to lock in your profits. That's now you want to close the position and lock in the game. Now you just reverse the tree. So let's take a quick look at interactive brokers, we're going to open up our interactive brokers platform here. And I'll show you how to actually physically go through the process of initiating. Now we're only going to talk about individual trades here, we're not doing spread trades. I have another video I'll put in the links in the description in this YouTube video. You can watch my other video on how to execute credit spreads at interactive brokers. But anyway, so when you open up your interactive brokers platform, it defaults to the TDS you can see down here in my mouse, this is called the classic TWS that stands for trader workstation. I always use the classic because that's the original version that interactive brokers had way back 20 some odd years ago. That's what I use. You can also use the mosaic or the options trading type of setup. This is a little bit more advanced options trading or mosaic, I just stick to the classic, that's just easy for me. So when you have your setup, you can put in a number of different quotes, you can put in a quote for a stock or you can put in a quote for an option itself. So here I have, you can see we have Apple stock here yesterday, Friday, July 9th, Apple went out in the aftermarket around $145 a share. You can see the bid nests. Here's my comms, the bid nests. Those are the only comms that you really need to know when you're ready to do a trade. And here I pulled up, I want to get a quote on an Apple October 2021 $150 call option. And here's where it went out yesterday, $5.70 bid at $5.85 ask. Now when you're going to do a trade using interactive brokers in their classic version here, you have to decide, am I a buyer or a seller? Most people are buyers. If you're going to buy a call option, that means you're bullish. And I never, never, recommend selling naked call options. Extremely risky. You don't want to do that. Okay, it's unlimited risk. So we're going to engage a buy order for this $150 call option. Now, how do we actually do that? You decide, okay, I'm bullish on Apple. I want to buy a call option. What's the method? Well, the first thing you do is you click on the ask price because you're going to buy it. So people are offering it at $5.85 per contract. So we're going to click on the ask price. I'm just clicking it. And it's going to invoke a new trade ticket here. Now this is where you can set up all the parameters. Now that we clicked on the offer, it automatically defaults to a buy ticket. So that means they know we want to buy it. When you click the offer, that means you're looking to buy something. So it defaults to the buy here. And it tells you here's the here's the contract you want to buy the Apple 150 call, it's called the order ticket. So we're going to buy one contract. Now you can change the number of contracts, you can use the up and down arrows, or you can just click on it, and it'll bring up this ladder here. You can put in five, you can change it to four, whatever you want to do with three. And you're going to use a limit price. Okay, you're going to a limit price tells you you're specifying the exact price that you want to buy this option. You don't want to do a market order, because market order will buy whatever the current price is at that time. And sometimes the prices can be very wide, especially on the open at 9 30 am Eastern time. So you don't want to use a market order, you want to use a limit order. And so you have to put in your price. When you click in the price box, it will also bring up a ladder here. And you can choose whatever the price you want now, we had clicked on the $5.85 offer price, you can change it, you can scroll through the ladder, or you can actually type in a price. We're going to put in a price of $5.50 per contract. That's our limit price. Okay. And this should go away. Alright, let's just scroll down here and put in click on 550. Okay, so now the ladder goes away. Keep everything else default. Here's destination is smart. That means it's just routing to the best option exchange that has the best price at that time. There's a number of different option exchanges. I think there's 12 different options exchanges that have most of the prices should be the same, but the order will be routed to the best exchange at that moment in time. Time and force. Is it a day order or good till cancel? You have to decide good till cancel order will will stay in the queue. It'll it'll be there for you until your order is filled no matter how many days it takes. Now, if you just want to have a day order meaning it's only good for today only, you put in day order. And then if it doesn't get filled, if you're not, if you're not, if it's not executed by the end of the day, the order will disappear from your account. It will expire.  If you put in a good till cancel order, it will stay in effect until it's actually filled for you. Okay, so we're just going to keep this as a day order. Now the this down here, it has compact or comprehensive. If you hit comprehensive, it'll bring up another little area where you can put in some other instructions. I don't even use that. I just leave it as the default compact. So now we have our order to buy three contracts at $5.50 a contract. You want to hit the preview button always hit the preview button to see what the order is going to look like before you actually send it. Okay, hit preview, and it'll bring up another box. It tells you what you're actually about ready to do. Okay, you're looking to buy three contracts right here, buy three of this Apple 150 call for October, and it tells you how much it's going to cost you. Now if your limit price is $5.50, that's $550 per contract. So every contract you buy will be $550 cost to you. So three of them will be $1,650. And here's the estimated commission total for the three contracts anywhere from $0.83 to $3.62. It's a wide range because it all depends on what price you put in and where the market is, where the bid ask market is at that time. And here's on this side, it'll tell you if you're filled how your account value is going to change. Now here's where you start with before the trade. And now this is a fake trading account. It's not a real account, fake money. So you're starting with $1,000,000 and $32,000. If you're filled, it's going to subtract $1,654 from your account because when you buy an option you have to pay for it right up front. So your account value will decrease by $1,650. And it shows you see it says post-trade, how much your account value will be worth. Now, the broker is going to take out $1,654 from your account to pay for it. But if this Apple moves up in price and your call option contract goes up in value, you're gaining money as well. You've got a a paper profit built up. So your account value will start to go up over time if that call option value goes up. So you don't really have to worry about this right now. Let's just tell you what's going to happen immediately when you execute the trade. Your available cash balance or your account value will go down by whatever the option costs you. So we're not going to transmit, we're just going to close this. So we're going to dismiss this. Actually, let's put in the order. So let's hit transmit and I'll show you what will happen. So it's telling you're going to transmit the order. Let's hit transmit and what it'll show you is that. Okay, so it's telling me it's going to buy these call options and it won't be executed until this coming money market is closed today, Saturday. So we hit OK. So now what you'll see is you'll see the order here sitting. Sorry about that. We'll see the order sitting here. And tell me I have a buy order of the three contracts of this Apple 150 call option. Obviously it won't try to get executed until Monday. And here's the price that I'm trying to execute it at $5.50 a contract. And you can always do this during the active trading. Hit cancel. You can hit click cancel here or you right click on the line and you can do cancel as well. But it's just easier to click here. So the order gets canceled. So that's how you invoke a buy order for this option contract. Now let's just say we wanted to sell this contract. Let's just say we're currently long. Let's just say it's a few months from now. We bought this call option. Now we want to sell it. We want to sell it for a profit or loss, whatever it is at that time. And so in order to invoke a sell order we're going to click on the bid now because we want to sell it. So we click on the bid price and you can see it defaulted to a sell ticket. Now we want to sell once again if we had bought three contracts before we can move it up to three contracts. And now we're going to sell it at let's say we're going to try to sell it for $6 a contract. So we move the ladder, click on six. It's there. Day order. And now if we hit preview it's going to tell us what's going to happen. If we sell it for $6 a contract that's $1,800 we'll get. And here's what will happen to our account due to some commissions. The change is not a full $1,800 for some reason. Since this is going to be a naked, seeing it as a naked sell order you're going to have a margin requirement. Now if this was a position you already had on and you're just trying to sell it to close the position you wouldn't have any margin requirements. But since Interactive Brokers is seeing this as a potentially naked sell order you're going to have a margin requirement meaning you're going to have to keep over $13,000 of your cash balance held aside while the trade is active. So we're not going to transmit this we're just going to close this and dismiss it. So depending on what you're going to do whether buy or sell you invoke the trade ticket by clicking on either the bid or ask. And just once again if we click on a buy and you're like oh wait I didn't want to buy I want to sell it. So all you have to do is click in the box here and turn it into a sell order. So you can toggle back and forth. You can obviously switch any of the numbers here.  So we're going to dismiss this. So let's go back to our document here. So what's going to happen is that you always have to know okay obviously are you buying or selling. And in Interactive Brokers case they don't need to know if it's a buy to open or a buy to close. They just know you're buying or selling. And if you're closing a position you already have Interactive Brokers knows it's a buy to close order. It means you're closing your position. But let me show you quickly Charles Schwab's platform and I'll show you how you can see the buy to close buy to open whatever different instructions. Okay so here I've opened up a Charles Schwab order screen. This is just their basic basic order entry screen. And I pulled up that same Apple call option. We have Apple in here and here's let's see where it says. Yeah the 150 call. So you go through the option symbol you can change the the drop downs here. You can change the strike prices obviously. But here's what I want her to show you. The action is what they call it in Charles Schwab. You got the drop down. You can choose buy to open buy to close sell to open or sell to close. So depending on if you have a position or not. Now this in this case we don't have a position yet. So we're buying this call option to open initiate the position. If we were if we had previously sold this call option let's just say we sold a covered call. We were short or we had sold this call option prior. Now we're going to buy to close this option contract to completely close out the position. Okay so depending on who your broker is you'll have to either choose one of these. If you're using interactive brokers like I just showed you before you can they don't ask you to choose a buy to open or buy to close. It's just either just a buy or sell order. Now within interactive brokers you can also initiate trades from the the option trader window. This is what I use a lot. This is their option trader window. And you can choose as many tabs. You can open up as many tabs as you want and click on many different stocks that you want to see. Now I've defaulted to the Apple. These are the Apple options and this is the October same October expiration. And here's the strike prices down the middle. Here's the 150 calls. Same thing. Let me move myself over here. Here's the 150 calls. Same bid ask price $570, $585. Now if we want to invoke the order let's click on the the ask price again. It'll bring up the the order ticket and let's see it's refreshed. Let's cancel the close this out so we can do the same thing. Okay let's just say we want to buy for $570 and we will hit once we hit transmit it's going to pull up. It's telling me it won't execute till Monday again. It's going to pull up the order and let it sit up here in the in the trading tab. Here's your orders. Okay so this thing is sitting open till next till Monday. All right and it won't it won't execute until at least Monday and it'll only execute if the price comes down to $5.70. So let's just cancel this get rid of it and it will disappear once you cancel it. And the red means that it's being canceled taken away. Let's just make sure it goes away. See they're disappeared so that order is not active anymore. All right so there's your different methods on how to execute just a simple option trade individual call option with an interactive brokers. It's pretty easy just click on the bidder ask to invoke the trade and then then tweak your parameters if necessary. So let's bring up the document one more time. Okay so if your broker requires you to specify here's the the the abbreviations depending on your broker. After you engage by clicking on the bidder ask then you just you can tweak your tweak your parameters and then you know once you're filled and you want to close the position down the road sometime you just reverse it. You just reverse the position now you're going to close it and you know if you use interactive brokers you don't have to specify it's a sell to close order. You're just selling it at Charles Schwab they want you know they want to know if it's a sell to close you know whatever it depends on who your broker is and I'll so let's let me let me quickly go to our our website the smart options seller website and show you some of the brokers that you can choose. We have in our frequently asked questions section so if you go over to the more tab here and click on FAQs for frequently asked questions scroll down to the bottom move myself over here the bottom of our FAQs has a number of brokers that we have in here all the links just click on the links and I'll bring you to their website and you can you can choose which broker you want okay so that's a good way if you don't have a broker yet go through this list these are very popular brand name brokers that are that are out there today all right so that's it for the simple little lesson today on how to execute a single option order at interactive brokers mostly and also at Charles Schwab here at our site smart options seller obviously you know we sell put options that's our that's our bread and butter so if you haven't downloaded our puts our put selling basics guide please do click on it right up here it's free you know all it is is that you have to put in your name and email address and scroll down to the bottom fill out the contents here and we'll send you a free copy also a few things that we have on our website our services tab we have our newsletters that you can read about and our one-on-one coaching that we help new students get a leg up in the options market okay so I think that's it for me today I hope this video has been helpful so you give me a thumbs up if it's been helpful for you don't forget to subscribe to my channel hit that red subscribe button and then like I said in the in the description below the video I will add in a link for the video on how to do option spreads at interactive brokers and I think I'll also put a I'll get a video going up here at the end and you can just click on that as well all right that's it for me today hope everyone has a great weekend and a great week ahead this is Lee Lowell signing off


Georgia at Bama feels like the biggest SEC game we will see all year long and it definitely is the biggest football game thus far of the college football season. So I went to Twitter and talked to some of my people to see what they thought about this game. So Evil Rizzo says based on what I've seen this year from Bama, UGA's running backs should eat in the passing game. That's a good take. I mean look, Bama's defense definitely has some holes and I can see those Georgia backs taking advantage of that. 1-800 Gambler says Sabin was smiling after that Ole Miss game. Like he was happy it was over and now they can finally move on to Georgia. Definitely a nice catch on Sabin smiling because that's a rarity but I think I'm with you. I think that that Ole Miss game was a look-ahead game. I think they've been ready for Georgia. I think that we're definitely going to see a more focused Bama team come this Saturday. Mario Sanchez says Bama, Nick Sabin unbeaten against former coaches. Completely undefeated. I think it stays that way but we'll see. This next one is from Roll Tide Roll. As a Bama fan I hate to say it but Georgia plus any points is a winner. Props to you for being so self-aware Bama fan, Roll Tide Roll but also I don't know if this is genuine or a reverse jinx. And this last one is from Adam Hall who says go dogs. Sick of them. I only added you because I really liked the way you spelled go. So for my official pick I'm gonna go ahead and have to take Bama and lay in the points. I just do not think we have seen this team turn it up 100%. I don't think we have seen Sabin turn it up 100% but I think that they have been waiting for this game on Saturday and they're ready to just explode. I think that this Bama defense will be able to hold this Georgia offense down enough for Bama's offense to get the cover. As much as it pains me to say it, Roll Tide. That's all I have for this week. I am definitely looking forward to this SEC game of the year and making some money.


Hey everyone, Drew with GeoArm, and I am back to talk to you about the Qolsys IQ4 panel and the programming of the PowerG PG9914 wireless motion detector into the panel. Very easy to do here. We're gonna go ahead and get started by making sure that you have your materials ready here. Your motion and the battery are specifically what's gonna be needed. Go ahead and pull down from the top on the drop-down here, hit settings, then you're gonna go into advanced settings. It's gonna prompt you for your code. Mine is still factory, so I'm gonna use 2222.  Once you've hit security sensors, go ahead and hit auto learn sensor. At this point, it is looking for the actual device itself, even though we don't have the battery in it yet. That's okay. So what you're gonna do, these are kind of complicated to open up for some reason. I was having a little bit of a hard time earlier with it, but you just press down here, and then you just separate it. So it's a little tricky. It kind of feels like it might, you know, break at it, but it won't. So just press it down, and then just separate it like so. Okay, once you've done that, go ahead and get that cover over to the side. We're gonna get our battery inserted here, okay? Also, you'll see that there is a switch here. This switch is the switch that we're gonna use to enroll this device. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna pop the battery in. Okay, polarity does matter. Once that's in there, what we're gonna do is we're gonna press and hold down that little learn button in there, and then release it, and it should learn it in here, and there it goes. It learned in. So once we've got it learned in, you're gonna hit okay. At this point, it's gonna ask you for all the settings that you want to put in there. So the serial number, go ahead and confirm that that serial number is correct by locating the serial number on the device itself. Once you've confirmed that the serial number is correct, which I have, you're gonna go ahead and move on. It says sensor type motion. Yes, this is a motion. Then you're gonna set how you want the motion. An instant motion. If you want it to have a delay, you can do that as well. There's also several other settings that you can set in here. High traffic shutdown, the activation LED, if you want that thing to illuminate when you walk in front of it. The name you can adjust, it's called motion detector right now, but you can put in a custom description if you choose to.  So we're just gonna leave it as motion detector. Chime type. I don't want this thing to chime.  So I recommend leaving that off for motions. Voice prompts, I'm not gonna turn that on, and the source is power G. So once I've done this, this sensor is ready to rock. I'm gonna go ahead and hit add new, and it'll enroll the sensor into the actual panel itself. Once that's done, you'll hear it say sensor added successfully. It also says it down at the bottom here, and that's how you learn in the PG9914 power G motion detector into the brand new Qolsys IQ4 panel. If you guys have any questions or any comments, please leave them below. Other than that, you guys take care and have a great day. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube page and click the show more tab underneath the video where you can view valuable links pertaining to this product, similar how-to videos, and our low-cost no-contract alarm monitoring services.


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's Case Breaks dot com, 2022 Gold Rush, Dynamite, Basketball, Dual Case Break, Ranty's number two just sold out, and again this is six total boxes guys, there's your potential sell sheet hits there, you have one card per box, one card per pack, one card per box, three boxes per case, so it's a high risk high reward, only six hits, but it's been some nice stuff that we've seen out of here of course, and again these are the only last two cases we had, so this will be our last one here, but here we go dice roller there, there's a customer name, so from Joe down to Dusty or in there, Hawks down to the Wizards, let's roll the dice, and it's a four and a three, seven times, good luck, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh the final time, Bennett down to Steven Flat, seven times, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, seven times, seven times, Hornets down to the Brooklyn Nets, there you go, so Bennett you have the Hornets, Steven Flat with the Raptors, Josh Cruz with the Tee Dusty with the Buck Celtics, Joe with the Knicks, Bennett with the Rockers, Roger with the Lakers, Spurs, Brian Hayes with the Bulls, Julian with the Grizzlies, Steven with the Magic, Dusty with the Pacers, Jimmy with the Nuggets, Dusty with the Jazz, Joe with the Wizards, Steven Kendrick with the 76ers, Chad Coleman with the Pelicans, Brian Hayes with the Mavs, Kion with the Pistons, Steve with the Thunder, Dusty with the Clippers, Bennett with the Blazers, Steve with the Hawks, Jimmy with the Suns, Kion with the Heat, Young with the Warriors, Dusty with the Kings, Ben with the Cavs and Steven with the Brooklyn Nets. All right, anybody want to try? And it looks like Han just sold out the last team in Crown Royal, Court Kings, sorry, not Crown Royal, Court Kings. So let's actually add that to the schedule. And technically, since we haven't sold out that Allure Hockey, let's actually move this down here. And it'll put 7 PT, put that right there. I'll probably take a dinner break here. Actually, Mike just sold out the pack filler, so perfectly where it's supposed to be. Perfect. All right, well, I'm assuming no trades, guys. I don't see any chitter chatter, so let's just close it. All right, again, guys, two cases here. There were scandals yesterday. Here we go. Oh, look at that, Trey Young, silhouette patch autographs from NT Collegiate, 15 out of 45. And this is a 2021, so 30 or now? Yeah, 30 or third, fourth year, actually. So of course, Trey Young, college rules, a lot of Hawks still, Steve Burch, there you go, very nice. And a James Wiseman rookie signature from Prism, Golden State Warriors, that's a young with that one. Kareem Abdul, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And that is a Fleer Lakers on-card autograph. So they graded the autograph and it was a 10 authentic. And this is from back in 1987 Fleer. Lakers. What a Roger. There you go. And that was the first case right there. Nice. Let's go with the next case. DeAndre Aitin, six-way rally, two out of 25 for the Suns. And that looks like a rookie as well. Yeah, 18-19. Phoenix Suns, that is going to Jimmy. Two more hits. The answer, Allen Iverson signature series from Optic Basketball 2021, 76ers that's going to Stephen Kendrick. All right, last one here. Haven't seen much graded cards yet. Minus obviously the Kareem, but I feel like a majority of them are raw. That was a Luca there for a second, but it's Dirk. Dirk Nowitzki, 67 out of 99 for the Dallas Mavericks. A little bit of a teaser, but great player here as well. Brian with the Mavericks. A little Dirk. So AI, Dirk, Aitin, Kareem, James Wiseman, and Trey Young. Very nice. Not a bad list of names right there. Pretty solid. Again, number two in the books. This is our last one, guys, so we don't have any more at least for the time being, but hopefully we can get more. JaspysCaseBricks.com


It's gonna go Yes, okay We are alive on the metal voice with the metal blade records CEO founder president You know me and Alan we know we've always talked about the East Coast with Johnny's Azula over the years But you know, we I think we always needed to have you Brian on the show It's that missing link, you know a metal that we needed to and I'm really happy that we're speaking to you today, right Alan We have to say yeah, and say congratulations to a the 40th anniversary of metal massacre Coming out April 22 or limited edition vinyl now Is this the is this the original metal massacre with with the Lloyd Grant playing on hits a ladder Is this the the later version? Well, it's a it's a it's a different version It's kind of the two versions combined into one basically I've always wanted to do this and I thought I was gonna be a nightmare to try to put together because obviously We back in those days. We just did five-year licenses for the songs and we you know lost the rights for 35 years I thought you know, I don't know if anybody's gonna want to do it again And it took me two hours and I reached out to every band and they immediately said yes no problem We're in and then you know, obviously we talked about talak and they're they were of course in and they said hey Can we do an additional 2,000 copies just for the Met Club? Only so like of course and we had to go back to the bands again and they all said yes So it's fun. So it's it's actually It's got every song that was ever on the original metal mask So it's a both stealer and rack a stealer left after the first two pressings I guess and then rat and then Metallica they use the the second Pressing as well, which was the one with the without Lloyd Grant on it But that's what they wanted to use. So I said whatever you guys want to want to use It's all fine with me obviously and black and blue, right? Black and blue. Yep. Yep. So yeah, everybody everybody's all Is this gonna be released? This is the first question I got is this gonna be released on CD or strictly on vinyl? So we're only doing it on vinyl. I wanted to kind of keep it to its roots basically, which was just a All we did was vinyl obviously in 40 years ago and just sets and and those things came a little bit later And we're only doing well, I guess there's only 7,000 of them I wanted to make it really special and super limited So I think they're I think the mail order is all gone. I know the Metallica version sold out in two hours So but what is available is there are some in stores in both Europe, Canada and the US So go to your local record store and hopefully they still have some copies left How many versions were there the original metal massacre? I got up to volume five But there may be six even I was there anymore after that or how many were there in total? Yeah, we've we've done over the years. We've done 13 of them We kind of stopped at metal master 10 because at that point Basically, there were a million labels and bands were getting signed and the whole idea in the first place was to get give bands some sort of You know ability to be heard so we stopped it then and then a few years later a couple of guys who worked for us Said hey, why don't we bring that back because there's a whole bunch of new bands that might not be able to get signed So we've done a few since then You know, it's interesting we're from munchie all the Quebec region and you know Def dealer was on metal massacre later on Voie vaude, of course, you know, and we know the stories and we know the guys so to us It's kind of like we've come full circle here But I don't want to talk about those bands today Maybe we'll talk about it another time, but just let's talk about the bands It's sort of propelled into the stratosphere versus the ones that never really quite took off on metal massacre Malice, let's throw a malice right off the bat. Here's a great American power metal band Queens, right ish, right? Tell us about that signing and and these are all demos. Everybody should know these were the demos. They are so cool Yeah, so basically there was just the scene going on in LA that nobody knew existed because this is obviously Years before the internet or cell phones or anything So, you know, I was a big fan of metal obviously I was working at a record store in LA and finding out that there were all These really cool metal bands around LA. So I decided to put together a compilation based on Kind of the independent mode that the new wave of British M&M metal had going on So these are just mostly my friends. I was friends with balance.  So I'd seen all these bands around around LA And when I of course went to them, I said, hey, you know, we can get give me a song We can put it on the record And so with malice, we actually we needed an extra song because there weren't enough songs to really make a full record at That point. So they were nice enough to give me two songs So, yeah, so it was pretty fun really good guys. It I've talked about this a lot, but you know, it's kind of a bomber. I people always ask like why didn't this band become bigger, right? And you know, a lot of times it's just the wrong place at the wrong time the wrong label You know, a lot of bands that happened in the 80s, especially the heavier bands Went to these major labels who didn't really know what to do with them They just thought well metal is a big thing now and Motley Cruz sells a lot of records So we should find some metal bands and that unfortunately didn't go too well for a lot of bands that were not named Metallica or Slayer or exits So how many how many pressings were the original copies, how many pressings to do a total well So here's the way it went. So of course, I've had no Qualms about opening a record label. I think I would see that guy kid with a Fanzine and then we're gonna record store. So I didn't intend to be a record label. So I was able to scrape together Enough money to make 2,500 copies which immediately sold out and the next week all of the distributors are saying we need more I go, I don't have any money. So you guys pay me. I can't make any more. I don't have any money So one of the distributors and company named Gem, which was based in Cal in Los Angeles came to me and said Hey, we'll license it from you and we'll put it out. We'll put it out on on our thing. All right, so sure big mistake So I gave them the rights. They changed the cover That's why you see the silver cover with just the metal mask on and that's that the gem version of it I have absolutely no idea how many they sold because they never gave me an accounting and then they went bankrupt So I have no idea It could be 5,000 it could be 10,000 it could be 15. I have no idea So so we got the reds back from that and then put out the the classic metal masquer cover and Put you know put all the bands on it that that was the one where black and blue came in instead of Steeler and Put that out and I think we did. I don't know between CDs cassettes and vinyl. We had it over the years We probably did about 30,000 copies of it Maybe so there's there might have been at the most maybe 50,000 between all the different formats You know, I love these like, you know young guys with the dream and putting it together have no idea what a record label is I'm sure even publishing right you didn't understand back then or licensing or well. I didn't even have a lawyer For that the very first metal masquer. There were no contracts or anything So we had a guy who was working above the record store who was just starting out as a lawyer And he came down and said hey bring out this record. Do you have any of these bands under contract?  So so he has had a huge amount of success as well You know you like you said you're starting trading heavy metal cassettes and the parking lot of capital records Then you had the fancy new heavy metal Review then you started your own record company like looking back like I mean Is there anything you say, how did I ever have the truth but I go and do all this like you know 100% I But it was you know, we were just all so big fans of the music I had zero talent to plant instruments So I figured well the only way I'm gonna be able to help is do something behind the scenes So I actually thought because I went to I did really well in English in school and and I did a lot of Those sort of journalism classes and whatnot So I thought I was gonna be a journalist because I was writing doing the fans and I was also writing for Karang in the UK And I did some stuff with sounds in the UK so I just thought it was gonna be be a journalist and then this all of a sudden this record thing comes out and One of the distributors came to me and said well We know you don't have any money, but you seem like you might know what what you're doing We'll give you a pressing a distribution deal Which means that they would manufacture the records which I could do then I had to go to the bands And say if there's any way you can record something I can put it out, but I don't have any money to give you so you're kind of on your own and that's where it all started So yeah, I Back then we were just all such huge fans of the scene and just so we do it We wanted to everybody wanted to do whatever they could to make to make it bigger So with zero Thought that what we'd be talking about it 40 years later It was truly bliss, I guess You know what and things haven't really changed because me and Alan been doing this for 11 years Just promoting the bands and you know promoting the gigs promoting the records. So it's always been medals always been a Driven by the fans right the guys who are running the show the infrastructure will call it Has always been the fans and it still is and it still is right Everybody that's why I love the the metal world so much because everybody's fans the bands are fans The people working the labels are fans the people that do all the stuff that you guys do are fans like everybody in the scene Are fans so it kind of makes it you know a whole lot of metal family We're we're all in it because we love the music and you don't really see Really, there was a time in the 90s where There were some people involved that didn't really know what they were doing But that's thankfully all pretty much gone now and everybody that's involved Loves the music. So it's great Okay, I need you to connect. Okay. I'm sure you've answered this question Thousands of times in your book the metallica thing When I hear these stories And I didn't read your book. Just just I haven't I would like to read your book, but I haven't read it yet. Okay Um, and by the way, everybody pick up brian's book Thank you It's it's what is it called metal blade or it's called for the sake of heaviness I stole an armored st. Sloan title because I thought it was cool And it's it's a long time for the sake of heaviness the history of metal weight records history Okay, pick it up Now metallica. Here's this young guys you go. I have a oh toddler torii says hi brian.  I just How's the tour? Um, tell us about the metallica thing here. It just it just blows my mind. I've heard about this and I read about this How do you promise like a band a piece of space a real estate on an album and you haven't even heard the album They didn't even have a song song song. Yeah, so so it's it's still to this day every time I tell it's still such a crazy story So the michael shaker group played a venue called the country club in receipt of california The summer of los angeles in december of 1980 which we found out later like everybody from metallica Armored saying like all the bands were all that show even though nobody can reach So I was there in my good friend john cornerance who was basically, you know The other guy helping me with the fanzine and also with the compilation album So he after the show he's in the parking lot. He sees a kid wearing a saxon european t-shirt now in 1980 Nobody in la knew who saxon was let alone would be wearing a european t-shirt. So john runs up to the kid Said where'd you get that shirt? He goes. Oh my god. You know who saxon is and I go Yeah, I said I just moved here from denmark like two weeks ago I didn't think anybody knew who saxon was like, no, no it totally into it My friend brian and I are really into it. So you got to meet him So a couple days later. I don't remember if it was his house or my house But lars and I and john all got together and started Just going crazy over the new wave of rich heavy metal because lars You know moving here from denmark didn't think he'd know anybody Didn't he find any friends that knew what was going on with seeing his big music fans So so we all became obviously fast friends because of that So fast forward to a year and a half later or almost two years later, I guess Well, yeah, you're so I'm putting together this compilation album and lars Called me up and said, hey, if I put together a band, can I be on the record? So make sure we need back the record. So we need Why not? So So I guess the story was he and james had jammed a couple of times, but nothing really was happening So when lars came back to him and said, hey, we can get a record in 1981 82 being on a record was a pretty big thing. So they got together and the three of them Uh, well the two of them Recorded everything and then Lloyd Grant we mentioned earlier played the lead and that was the original hit the lights And so they brought me Literally typical lars brought me that a cassette tape Uh, the very last minute he they almost didn't make it on the record because he was Probably about an hour away from from it not getting there in time because we had everything all set up to go So they brought a cassette and then we didn't it was $50 to bump the cassette to bought to a Quarterage tape And none of it had the money. Luckily John Cronarans had 50 bucks. Thank you. So he paid the 50 bucks Metallica ended up on the record and that I didn't hear it until you know later That that's what blows my mind. Right. It just blows my mind And I was like, wow, this is actually it's actually I mean the recording is that great, but the song actually is pretty decent. Yeah Did you and they went on they went on to do okay, I think Well, I just want actually this is the connection I want now so they're They're on metal massacre. They're getting they're picking up steam, right? At what point did you say, you know what? I want to work with these guys or I'm going to hand them off to Zuzula I know then they created that tape, right Yeah, so so yeah, so they they created the no life to leather demo, which I'd seen them live a couple of times I thought they were actually pretty good. I was like, well, this is a lot better I thought it was going to be and actually my aforementioned friend John Cronarans came into the record store one night Said hey, I got a cassette of a new band. I want to play but I'm not going to tell you who it is Trying to guess, right? So he plays me this cassette. I'm like, this is really good. I had no idea who it was I said, this is that's it. That's Metallica. Oh my gosh. These guys are really good So obviously, you know, I wanted to work with them and they wanted to work with me But none of us had any money and this is still in the early days when I had no money or no chance to get money So they came they came at one point said, hey, we've got an offer We can go record a record in a studio here for $10,000. I said, well, that's nice I don't even have $1,000. So $10,000. So So that never happened and then, you know, they did a new bass player So that then trauma was on metal massacre two, which was Cliff Burton's band And I'd seen them play in LA once and the band wasn't great, but he was incredible, obviously And so Lars again said, hey, we we want to get another bass player because we love Ron McGovney But you know, we need a god better, you know, they're getting better as musicians So I guess they felt they needed to upgrade it. So I mentioned that I mentioned Cliff to them and they came and saw Cliff And of course, you know what happened there and then they moved to San Francisco And that's when Johnny Z got ahold of the tape and was like, hey, if you guys can get to New York I can record the record and they asked me, I said, look, I I still can't record it So if you got a chance to record a record, go go do it You know, it's a whole grassroots movement like you had the west coast Johnny Z was working the east coast We had bonsai records right here in Montreal There was neat records overseas music for nations, you know, metal blade records have been around for many, many years now What was the sequence of metal blade compared to some of these other labels that just kind of fell by the wayside? Well, I think a couple of things First of all, we never I never sold it to anybody else And that, you know, some of those other labels like, you know, Roadrunner is another example You know, they sent sold the Warners and, you know, once you sell the company becomes a whole different animal So so I've never done that nor do I want to ever do that And I think we've also we've also embraced change And it's one thing I learned really early on because I I made the colossal mistake of when vinyl was going away And every time he stopped making vinyl, I was like, no, no, vinyl is never going to go away.  So I actually owed our distributor a hundred thousand dollars Which of course I didn't have So, you know, we worked out a deal where we would pay it back over sales and stuff But I had to I had to basically run the company for about six months on credit cards So I got every credit card I could possibly get because they couldn't get a loan or anything back then So I did that. So that was a huge mistake. So I said, I'm not ever going to do that again So whenever there's something new or different or something happening, even even the tape trading thing, you know We we learn to embrace that and use it for For good or for positive for for us and the same thing with streaming and everything else So I think we've tried to stay ahead of the curve in terms of that sort of stuff the technological stuff and then obviously I'm just really lucky that the bands that I like and our staff likes other people like so You know, because it's just it's just stuff that we like So we've just been lucky to be able to to still be relevant, you know, 40 years later, which is pretty insane Which are the bands that you said that you had the opportunity and I guess money We played a big factor back then that you said, you know what? I would have loved to work with these guys, of course Metallica Or maybe there was a band that you did have the opportunity, but you go, maybe I just maybe they won't work Yeah, so that was there's a couple of them. Um But the the main one was Pantera Yeah So I used to do a radio show Z rock used to be this big radio station in in Dallas, Texas They became national for a while and And uh, you know, they were they were pretty big for a little while So I I knew the guy and still do know the guy that runs it. He now runs hard radio calm But anyway, so he would let me go down to Dallas and just basically sit on the air for as long as I want and play Whatever I wanted to which was super fun for me So this was in Dallas. So the Pantera guys would always call it And this is when they had the different singer and they were more of a kind of pop metal band Which wasn't really my style super nice guys So they got so they obviously got fill in the band and then they were managed by concrete management Who were very good friends of mine? Our our new york office was in their office for years and years and years and we did a lot of stuff They did the foundations forums and all this sort of stuff. So they were managing Pantera So they came to me and said Hey, uh, we have this Pantera record. Would you like to put it out? I said, uh, Yeah, after I heard it said well, yeah, but they needed a lot of money Um, a lot, you know, like like not huge amounts, but for the 90s, you know, close to like a hundred grand I think it was and I have even we were at Warner Brothers at the time and we even then I was like, oh I like this record. I like the I like you guys, but that's a lot of money to risk So I decided not to do that Which was probably a pretty big mistake But they went out again, they went on to be okay. So I don't could only do what you could only do that I hurt them in any way Yeah, yeah, yeah Was there any bands that you thought would be the next greatest thing and and for some reason it just didn't pan through that you signed? Yeah, I mean, look, there's a lot of You know, there's a lot of bands that we've had on the label for a long time that I always thought would be a lot bigger Uh, you know the armored saint fates morning, uh, lizzie borden, you know So many bands, but when I look back on that sort of stuff Uh, you know, I like to look at things more like a Like marathon than a sprint. So well, none of those bands became, you know, have gold records or anything like that They've all still been making music and making music for a long period of time It's still making really relevant good music now So and they're, you know, making good money off of music and able to survive And so I think that while it would have been great for one of those bands have a big Gold or platinum record might have completely changed the course of of how they became a band later on so So I I learned to to embrace that now back at the time you get there.  It's like, why didn't that happen? It's just you just you just don't know so and then the 90s hit And all the the other stuff happened and you know, we kind of knew that writing was on the wall for some of these Records that came out and in the early 90s Yeah, all right. Let's go through some the some some of the songs on metal massacre one And just quick little stories rat tell the world You know, so yeah, so let me just preface this when I put on this album when I heard it a long long time ago That was always the track that stood out for me because of steven pierces Tone, you know that unique tone, but go ahead Well, rat was an interesting band because they started off really heavy Like they when I first time I saw them I saw the first la show I ever saw was motley crown rat at the troubadour on a wednesday night for a dollar And rat was really heavy. They were like judas priests. They're all wearing black leather and they had the twin guitars And I think jakey lee was even in the band at that point So they were pretty heavy and then You know when I was putting the record together, you know motley because motley was originally going to be on that record I was doing a ton of stuff with motley at the time But their managers came to my mom's house and sat on her couch and said, hey, we have 900 motley crew records What do we do with them? So I go hey take him to this distributor green world who was our distributor and they'll they'll help you out So again, if I would have known now what I knew then So rat was just in they were in our world.  You're gonna be okay. So so they obviously went on to to do a dude amazing thing. So And it's fun to still be friends, you know Stephen piercey was has been really phenomenal in this whole process really helpful and and Really happy to be a part of it. So it's been great It's obviously, you know, great seeing all their success Was their song on before they released their ep or was it during or after? I think it was right before Because the ep came out right after that again on green road because I didn't know what I was doing or how anybody It's always back to that, isn't it? Right? It's that's just life. That's just like it's all right. It's all good And I get I was surprised to see black and blue on here because for me That was something like mid 80s and instead of the early 80s for some reason in my head and I'm only in the same thing Yeah, you know, they were they were part of our scene in in that in that world. We all knew each other We all hung it we used the Betsy Betsy from bitches Mom's house was the epicenter of everything back then and all the bands after going to Hollywood and seeing shows We'd all end up back there and they were just, you know, super good guys and they again They were you know, the early stuff was pretty heavy for for for black and blue It was only kind of later when they got side of the major label to the major label saying, ah, you know It's now so they kind of switched it up and I mean that scene kind of went in two different directions Really, it was like there was you know in the beginning everybody was kind of pretty heavy and pretty metal And then motley kind of took that turn a little bit to the right to the more commercial end and then, you know rat and Black and blue and pandemonium and a bunch of other bands kind of followed that way and then you armored saint Bitch side kind of went the other way. So it's kind of interesting What about bitch Betsy Yeah, they were they were my Oh, sorry They you know, here's the first woman really back then before you know, like more of a metal right a metal Woman female fronted band will say right and who could forget that album cover All right So they were they were you know, probably my closest friends back back then her her boyfriend was the guy His name david caruth and he would come into the record store all the time and buy You know buy music. I just knew him as a customer. I didn't know he was a bad I didn't even know there were any bands playing in la And I think he was the one that first told me said, you know, there's bands playing in la metal bands playing in la So there are I had no idea So that's when I went to saw you know rat and my crew and start seeing bitch and these other bands And so they were my close close friends and still are And I was so frustrating because that's another band that we thought should have been a lot bigger than they were I mean they're they were doing something different. Their show is crazy. You have female fronted lead singer Very sexy all this sort of stuff But but we ran into all these these obstacles that you know, you think you think about today, but It's like, you know having a woman fronted heavy metal band back then was kind of not really what anybody wanted to see It was made it made it very difficult for them And then the name bitch Like we couldn't get them played on the radio back then because you at that point in the early 80s You couldn't say bitch on the radio So that's why eventually we put out a record called Betsy trying to work that into things But it didn't quite work out. But but great people and they're still bitches still out there kicking at playing shows today Yeah, I think she played with Thor and in california. Yep What would be some of the challenges, you know, like you said you started off small room in your mother's house You were the ar guy you were the covers designing the covers Looking back. I mean, would you be able to do that today? Oh, absolutely. Well, absolutely not Excuse me.  It was back then it was just fun. None of us thought of it as work Or chores or anything. It just was fun. The whole thing was super fun and the scene was fun And it was fun being able to work with my friends who, you know, put out records And it wasn't until kind of the late 80s when things got got a little bit more business-like that it became Still fun, but not quite as much fun Are you planning on doing the more of these metal, masker volume releases every year? You know, I don't know Like I said, I never thought that this one would be we'd be able to put this together And it was so easy that it is kind of interest It's kind of crossed my mind now that we might be able to do some more It's a little trickier though because on this the first one I still knew all the band So it was really easy for me to reach out to everybody and get be able to get the rights On some of the subsequent releases, there are some bands that have been gone for, you know, 30-some odd years I don't know how to get ever find them to to to get the rights back because we'd have to get the rights back to everything So it's crossed my mind. So maybe we'll do a best of metal masker. So I don't know. We'll we'll see We'll hook you up with deaf dealer. Don't worry. We'll hook you up I'll put you in touch Um, go ahead Alan. Sorry I don't know. I mean that again, look you lived the dream that we were hoping to have and because of you Because you did we were able to share a lot of music here and you know your influences worldwide because of these signs that these contacts you had And again, like you said, they're all your friends at the time and they grew into these these great popular bands So Yeah, well, thank you guys for supporting it because obviously it's not for guys like you then, you know, the nobody's gonna hear it So, uh, I appreciate all that and yeah, it's still it's still fun today And it's still the same way like all these bands are all really really good friends of mine I'm the reason I'm why I'm here in Dallas is that I went to see the 40th anniversary metal blade tour with cannibal corpse wide chapel Orification they played in new york when it was snowing. So I'm like, I'm not doing that And they played in la at a venue that I really can't stand because it's not a really great place to see it That's why I came down here and I've seen the cannibal guys once they played psycho fest In august of last summer. So I saw them briefly There but I haven't seen the wide chapel or vacation guys in two and a half years And I haven't been on a tour bus in two and a half years. So walking on a tour bus was so weird It's like, wow, this is because that's normally what I do I'm you know seeing the bands and hanging out on tour buses and it's like, wow, it was pretty crazy But it was good to see all those guys. They're all all All the bands in the labor are label are all friends and that's uh, kind of a fun thing about it What do you remember about bunzai? Working with michelle niece and uh in rock on stock remember more rock on stock. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah I was there I was there quite a few times Yeah, you know that was back in the early days when obviously we only had distribution really in the us And we didn't have anything in in other territories. So when bonsai came up and said, hey, we have distribution in canada Would you want want to license some of your records? I said, sure same thing with music for nations in In england and roadrunner records and in the rest of europe So and then we reciprocated where we did things like deaf dealer and some of the stuff that he put out We would license for the us. So so it was a it was a cool relationship for for quite a long time It got a little I think I got a little weird at the end Yeah, yeah, I mean look, I always I always like michelle. He was a good guy I went to I've been to montreal, you know first few times I went to montreal was with him there, obviously So um a lot of fun and you know, he he provided a great service back in the day Yeah, that's nice. We were there every friday night. That was uh, that was our Thing back then every friday night. We'd be at that record store with all the latest A lot of metal blade bands were there with the album covers and He just didn't have enough money to buy more than one at the time and You had to choose so like the carefully is I guess Same same here that was always a struggle was like I have 20 bucks. I can only buy one record Which one do I buy now for 10 bucks a month? Do you get this anything you want? Yeah, that's right Here's a great question from k-man. He goes, what are the hardest challenges running a label in 2022? I've been neglecting all these questions coming in here But because we're on, you know, what are the biggest challenges for running a label in 2022? Well, I mean, there's a lot of things obviously, um, you know navigating probably the biggest challenge now is navigating the The actual market of physical product because the you know the the stuff that goes through the screaming services Is easy to just put it up there and it streams and it does its thing But now as we kind of transition into more streaming and less of the physical product We have to be very careful how much physical product we make because we don't want to make too much of it And we also don't want to make too little of it So because it's same thing with the especially cds. It's a consignment thing So if we make 30 000 cds and we should amount to all the stores and the stores decide that they don't sell Or they don't like them or whatever they can ship them all back and we got to you know Eat all that money. So so we got to be careful doing that. I think we've gotten pretty good at that The vinyl thing is is fairly easy just because it's such a huge medium now And it's so difficult to get vinyl made because of all the pressing plan issues and everything else So so that really no matter what we do we sell out of all that so But the physical the other physical stuff is tough and also You know just making sure that that the bands have whatever they need and they're happy and all that sort of stuff So how about some uh, again, you know, you don't have to say anything Maybe some spoilers of stuff that are coming up with metal blade But again, we can leave that up to the bands. I don't know if there's anything that you'd like to promote or well Yeah, I mean the the two things that I get asked about all the time are king diamond and merciful fate with the earth So um, one of the reasons I have an apartment here in dallas is to work with king Of course, which I haven't been able to do in person for Two years now, but a really good conversation with him the other day And he's working on both king diamond and merciful fate I might have heard a demo or two that sounded really really good Uh, I don't know when either of these records are going to come out Uh, because king king likes to do do things at his own speed It's like, hey, whatever whatever works for you is totally fine with me But I was very happy with with what I've heard so far. It's so hopefully everybody's pretty happy and obviously You know merciful fate is doing A bunch of festivals this summer but knock on wood As long as they don't get canceled, uh, and then by also playing psycho fest in in las vegas, which I think Will definitely be the only u.s. Date. There's a possibility. There could be a canadian date somewhere along the line here, too But but we'll see so so those are the things that ask I guess asked about all the time But there will be a new king diamond record. I'm hoping in 2023 and there will also be a new merciful fate record sometime soon ish When you walk into king's home, is it like You know, is it just is it weird or is it candles and or is it just a regular home? No, I mean it's funny because I've known him for so long and he's Again another dear dear friend of mine that you kind of you kind of forget about that sort of stuff But there's definitely some he's got some stuff He recently moved into a really nice new house that that's more his More his more suits his personnel a little bit more kind of looks like a big castle almost But he's got a lot of really cool stuff in there And you know, I've been into his house so many times now I don't really even think about it. But if you bring other people to his house for the first time, you know He's interviewing managers and stuff and he's got so many crazy stories about things artifacts there I always kind of forget about that stuff But it's it's a little bit of what you would think it would be like but it's also a very normal House, so it's not it's not like the entire house is black with all sorts of crazy stuff But there's there's definitely some some trinkets around pretty cool. Yeah You know, I Andy LaRocque come friends with him and he gave me this shirt when I met to see him And I met King and I have to say this about King Diamond He didn't have to talk to me. He actually stood there had a conversation with me Just like that just a normal conversation And you know, he's such a really nice guy and he's very smart and just great person Yeah, I agree a hundred percent when we first started working with him You know people didn't know what to make but I had a couple people say like hey be careful He's he's he's tough to deal with I mean, I knew him but just knew him as a friend He seemed like a nice guy to me. I mean, he's rarely ever had any problems with him. He's he's great And and he does he does he does enjoy the art of conversation So I do I do know if I see him calling that I have to make sure I have plenty of time available Because he likes to talk he did he did my friends that metal show with the Eddie Trump Jim quarantine and Don Jameson And I was the one that kind of broke King Diamond being on there there and Eddie asked me or one of the guys asked me So you get is he gonna be okay to talk? He's gonna be able to talk. I said, oh, don't worry You have a nice you have a nice long segment to be good King is the best for myself I was just standing there. Just I want to I want to end with this sound I was like standing here King's talking to me all I could think of myself King diamonds talking to me King diamonds talking to me King diamonds talk Because you know, I love King Diamond Was he in makeup or or not and he was in makeup too. Yeah So that's the only time that's the only time he gets weird when because I know him as king Obviously, so it's kind of weird when you talk to him in makeup. It's a whole like, whoa, this is kind of different Yeah, it's cool. It's cool. I'm just wondering if there's any fates warning That's one of my favorite side things on your label if there's any news for fates warning or archmethias Yeah, so um, obviously fates warning put out put out their new record in the pandemic And they were not able to tour that record yet. So there will for sure be a world tour when those sort of things are Easily happening again Uh, there will eventually be another archmethias record which of course makes me very very happy because I mean, I'm a huge fan of john arched. I'll always have bends. He's Another wonderful human being but also just an incredibly talented guy And actually I have a second book coming out and I talk a lot about fates warning in that book It's kind of a deeper dive into a lot of the bands and there's an extensive talk with john arch about About, you know, his stage fright and why he got out of the business and stuff But but he still sounds amazing and there definitely will be another record I don't know when it's another one of those things where I'll let jim and john figure it out Whenever they're there whenever they're ready, but john But both john and jim did confirm at some point there will be another one But for fates warning probably going to be a little while before there's another record Just because that one came out again during the pandemic last year and they've got a tour it So I would imagine you're probably looking 2024 maybe something something like that So all right book. What are we talking about a new book? When's that coming out? Yeah, so, um, I was Really blown away and humbled by the reaction to the first book because you know, we're not write a book It's like, I don't know what you kind of put yourself out there It's like, you know, I don't know if we're gonna like it or hate it or whatever And the overwhelming response has been so positive. I was I've really absolutely blown away at no No idea. So then, you know, people kept asking me. Hey, what about a second book? I really thought about that one was hard enough But a lot of people wanted a deeper dive into Into some of the smaller bands like a band like death dealer or another great canada band sigh Um, so they wanted a deeper dive into a lot of that stuff And plus, you know, I wanted to to have more stories about you know, my friends Like i'm on a marth and cannibal corpse and fates warning and armoured saint and all that sort of stuff So I've written the book the book is done And this little thing they'll call the pandemic is kind of mess things up in a couple of ways. Number one We couldn't really put anything out for a while because the book market was not great during the pandemic And number two, there is a crazy paper shortage Oh So and so the books the book has been done for almost a year and it's still not going to come out until May of 2023 Because of the paper Come to Canada. We got trees, man. Right. Right. And we had to like secure the paper as a whole So, yeah, so 2023 2023 we'll definitely have to have you on when it comes out. Oh, please do. Yeah. Yeah any time I guess the last question would be armoured saint Any any sort of tidbits news spoilers Oh gosh, um, again, you know, some of my oldest and dearest friends Love all those guys. So there, you know, again, they put out a record during the pandemic that did really well And I think one of the best armoured saint records that they've ever done Win hands down and john bush who is definitely in my top 10. Maybe my top five all-time Metal singers just sound so great on that record Excuse me. Sorry scientists mayhem in march here. Um March madness for scientists for me, but um, yeah, so they've got to they've got to go out and tour But they're going to go out and tour if you if you don't know, they're doing a big tour with wasp That's the end of this year. Like I believe in october, which kind of recreates the original metallica wasp armoured saint tour that happened in 1983 I think it was so that'll be super fun It'll be really good to see those guys go out and do that and you know, there's There's definitely more armoured saint music coming. I mean, it's probably going to be a couple of years, but Definitely, I know that during the pandemic. I guess the one one of the silver linings Was that every band that is in existence was spending the pandemic writing music And a lot of the stuff I've heard From bands that wrote music during the pandemic is all very heavy and you know, a great example That's the new volbeat record, which I love. I always like volbeat this new records It's a really heavy record because people are angry. They're stuck at home and they're Not happy or whatever So, uh, so we're gonna get a lot of really good creative angry heavy metal in the next couple years. I think Symbol I can't pronounce the name symbol to stun a game asks. What about Eric Wagner? Is Eric Wagner on metal plate? I don't remember. Yeah, so yeah, so the first three trouble records were all on metal plate They they have the rights to two of the back. We still have the rights to one of them. So, yeah Again, those guys were all really good friends of mine and and Eric was such a really sweet nice guy I had a really great conversation with him in Europe at health fest Whenever the last time skull played there It's like I I can't remember time frames now because this whole two years this first for me I might have been five six years ago But I hadn't seen him for a while.  It's really was was shocking, you know to hear what happened to him so Rest in peace Eric Wagner one again up just a One of the you know early metal great singers of all time for sure All right, so on the last I go ahead Alan. Sorry. I'm just I was just We're almost out of time. We're just wrapping up I mean we've got tons of Metal blade artists coming up the east coast the next two months Make sure you check them all out. They're like you said they some of their strongest materials have been released for these tours And I just want to say congrats again on the 40th anniversary and everything you've done and uh Many many years to come Thanks. Yeah, let's hope so. Let's hope so April 22nd pick up your vinyl edition of metal massacre. Hopefully It won't be on backorder, right because of vinyl delays or anything like oh, no Well, we only we only make 7 000. That's it. Okay So I wanted to give it really special for everybody. So I'm afraid what the aftermarket's gonna look like but you know It is what it is. Okay. Well, brian a pleasure to have you on you're welcome back anytime to promote whatever you want to promote It's great speaking to I'd love to dig Into the past even more in the future and that's it. That's pretty much it many last words Yeah, well again, thanks to you guys for having me on I appreciate that literally any time you want Just let me know and obviously thanks to everybody that's out there Obviously none of this would have ever happened if we didn't have the support of everybody out there So I'm very appreciative for all that and very thankful for everybody Supporting the label for 40 years now, which is still kind of crazy. Amazing. Amazing. All right. Thank you so much everyone Thanks for tuning in. Thanks brian. Thanks guys. Appreciate


మానికారణరాసింది మానింది విల౿నింది మానికితింది మానికికింది. C now this is my C this is how the normal major scale sound among key c c major scale and this is how ghost notes sound you can hear the difference one is um muted and the other one is you can hear the sound of the notes so guys if you want to achieve the ghost notes remember whenever you're playing the C major scale your finger touches the string and the string hit the fretboard always rest on the fretboard when you're playing the normal major scale C major scale okay this you hear the string and the string touches the fretboard now this is your fretboard okay so that's it so but for ghost notes you don't allow the string to rest on the fretboard to touch the fretboard that's ghost note for you so you're just resting on the string and when you pluck you hear the difference you just know that this string is muted is not really coming out this sound is not really coming out okay so that's it that's the ghost note there we are talking about the ghost note sound we are talking about okay so when you do this when you practice this this is different from when you rest the string when you press the string or you play the string and the string touches the fretboard so this is different okay and when you take it up just rest on it you won't hear that's like you won't hear the sound so all you'll be hearing is muted sound okay so simple exercise to start achieving that or to start making the fingers to get used to the ghost notes way of playing it is just keep playing your C major scale resting on all the string just mute all the notes that's just the easy way to practice ghost notes so always have it in mind that the string should not touch the fretboard the string must not touch the fretboard okay once it touches the fretboard once the string touches the fretboard that's not a ghost note okay so there's big difference so just rest on it rest on the string and pluck you can hear the ghost note there if i want to play it simple this simple bass line i'm meant to do this you can hear the notes okay so that's not that's not a ghost note you're not bringing any groove you're not bringing any extra notes underneath you're just going straight you're just playing straight if you want to apply ghost note now on this same bass line groove you can do something like this now the notes there i'm not really hitting i'm not really pressing down to hear the fretboard is the five is the sore in terms of a notation is the five so i'm doing do me and muted the sore you see i'm just resting with the pinky finger on the five notes so so that's how you achieve ghost note simple way you can achieve that so on this praise song also if you notice i apply ghost notes on the praise song so i was doing this on the praise song i just walk up to the two play the ghost note you can go you can apply the ghost notes going to the next chord progression you want to touch you want to play okay so i'm going to my four i played so i started plucking muting i started applying the ghost note from the one one five two this is my two this is my one five two okay so that's it so i muted i applied the ghost note leading me to my two to my four very easy to achieve and that can go on any praise song at all okay so that's simple way to just start feeling in your groove or your bassline using ghost notes underneath so that it won't be that dry and everything whenever you're playing praise song so you're playing praise song you're not doing this it's just straight you see the difference now you you want to apply ghost note on still that same bassline and you can also give yourself little precautions here okay like you're playing this with the drama okay now you hear that with the ghost note together with the ghost note you can do this also so you can hear those percussion um so the ghost note comes first that's what i was doing ghost note so if you notice i was playing where my far and saw is that's what the string i'm also hitting to give me that ghost note sound down down this is my far i muted the far i muted the four first before landing on a six i muted the four muted four play the four again to hit the fretboard then you move to the six same ghost to the five mute the five first before hitting the five again then you go to your seven so watch the right fingering um i walk down to the four and do something green exercise on the ghost note and does it whichever scale you're running just try to mute the notes of the scale so guys this is how to start practicing ghost notes or start making use of ghost notes when you're playing to a prayer song or even worship you can stay apply this to hope you enjoy this if you're new to this channel please do not forget to hit the subscribe button before you leave and do not also forget to turn on the notification bell and if you need private lessons from me every information is right here on the screen and in the description below i look forward to seeing you it's going to be a live zoom section okay so chat me via 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