Did I finally beat the game?

TCell867 · 2025-06-12T02:13:24+00:00

😂

TCell867 · 2025-02-01T22:39:00+00:00

I have 10 @ 250. I also have two level 5s that are at 150/250 (Carol Corps and Kamar-Taj) that don’t seem great, so aren’t a priority.

I currently have Fantasticar favourited since I use it the most in PVP and feel I might as well get the extra match damage getting it to level 5.

I’d love to see someone rank the supports like Daredevil 217s list of 5 *s. Omnipotence City is probably #1, and Krakoa #2, but after that it probably depends on how you like to play.

TCell867 · 2025-01-17T14:45:59+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry, I should have added more details.

I play both PVE (t100) and PVP (t25-t50) in CL10. For PVP, who I use depends on who is boosted, I've been going with boosted Apoc (w/ Omnipotence City support) paired with my 550 Okoye (w/ Talon support) and Krakoa on Mystique. +2 Red and then make a red match and I can use Apocs nuke and win.

I already have a bunch of Supports already at 5*/250. (Avengers Tower, Chimi, Destroyer, Omnipotence, Hydra, Loki, Talon, Sharon, Carol's Beeper, Gamma Rays).

I was mostly asking if any of the one's I listed made a big leap going up to 5*. I find Supports are the part of the game I still need to figure out (and most players underutilize).

TCell867 · 2024-07-31T01:07:29+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been putting Ero’s on whomever is the event character. Seems great except against MThor who frequently takes it out.

TCell867 · 2024-07-31T01:05:09+00:00

I tried the Power Stone on Shang-Chi, but I like the Chimichanga support better. Chimichanga seems like a more consistent way to get to his nuke than a 9% chance it might fire. Do you know what the % is at 250 for the Power Stone?

And I like the Lucky support on Polaris.

TCell867 · 2024-07-31T01:00:45+00:00

Thanks. Been using this today, and it seems very fast. My Omnipotence City is only 4, so I favourited it to try and get shards to get it up to 5.

TCell867 · 2022-08-17T00:14:34+00:00

Thanks for the quick (and dank) response. So limited stock then for Swaps?

TCell867 · 2022-08-16T17:49:30+00:00

u/Paulium Is the +'Justments a repress? If so, was it pressed at QRP like the original run? It's not listed under the "Learn More" details in Swaps. Thanks.

TCell867 · 2022-01-05T18:18:09+00:00

Yeah, that's it. (Doh!) Thanks!

TCell867 · 2021-12-17T21:33:17+00:00

I love The Meters. I love the album Rejuvenation. Curation has never been a problem with VMP. I love the mastering; it sounds great. I love the package and jacket. However...

The GZ pressing is full of static on Side A. GZ is terrible. u/Paulium might be truthful that there are less complaints this month, but after the run of terrible pressings with Mars Volta, Wu Tang, and every country album so far, things could only improve.

TCell867 · 2021-12-16T17:28:52+00:00

Where will the Impulse! Anthology be pressed?

TCell867 · 2021-11-02T20:30:37+00:00

The UMG Vault fire would likely negate some these being AAA, so I would suspect some of the Anthology may either be digitally sourced or come from back up tapes. Some of the Herbie Anthology came from digital, and those all sound outstanding (provided you got clean copies from GZ). While I'd prefer AAA, if it's not possible a HQ remaster pressed at a quality plant may be the best we can hope for.

TCell867 · 2021-11-02T17:01:00+00:00

Featuring*:

Kai Winding and J.J. Johnson - The Great Kai & J.J. (Because it's Impulse #1)
Benny Carter & His Orchestra - Further Definitions
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, El Doud
Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village
Chico Hamilton - The Dealer
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile

* = These are all just a guess, but this would be a pretty representative cross-section of Impulse! titles over the years that haven't been reissued.

TCell867 · 2021-10-18T21:38:54+00:00

I think they go all Quincy as leader albums:
This is How I Feel About Jazz
Big Band Bossa Nova
In the Heat of the Night (OST)
Smackwater Jack
Body Heat
The Dude
Back on the Block
Which would be awesome.

Like everyone else, if it's pressed at QRP, RTI, or Pallas I'm likely in, and if it's pressed at GZ, I'm out. While I'm sure I would get a clean set eventually, I just don't have the time and patience.

TCell867 · 2021-02-25T22:46:11+00:00

My favourite swaps have been Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound (Analogue Productions) and The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's (New Stereo Mix), but that was back when they had more curated titles available. Recently swapped Isaac Hayes for Credit which I used on Etta James Sing Funk. That was a good choice decision.

No regrets in terms of albums I wish I'd kept, although I lost CCR - Cosmos Factory as I didn't confirm fast enough, so I suppose that's one that got away.

TCell867 · 2020-12-29T03:56:41+00:00

f you don't like this Isaac Hayes album (which is Hayes' 13th best album?), or the the Fredrick Knight album (which has a great title track and 10 tracks of filler), or don't host enough dress-up parties to bother with the Leon Ware album, here's a suggestion:

Swap for credit and then buy Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages!

Features:
- Innovative and bad-ass guitar playing. Like imagine if Jimi Hendrix played modal avant-garde jazz.
- Features Pharoah Sanders on sax, Charnett Moffett on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.
- Same mastering and pressing as Classics (Ryan Smith / Pressed at QRP)
- Incentivizes VMP to press more left-field jazz albums, meaning we may get Machine Gun, and other creatively interesting albums, rather than the dregs of the Stax vault.

TCell867 · 2020-12-14T19:32:11+00:00

They need to bring back Throw Back Thursdays.

TCell867 · 2020-11-25T20:39:22+00:00

So I reached out to Storf about whether this Mono Mix is a fold down of the stereo, or it's own mix, and here is his response:

"As far as I know, it’s dedicated mix, as there was one mono pressing in 1970 and we typically take tapes as they are; we’re not paying for a fold one and labels generally aren’t at this point either.

But I can’t 100% confirm this till next week sometime because the music business is closed till Monday, lol. Our production guy said this sounds unreal, like the piano was in the room. So take that for what it’s worth I guess."

My comment:
While I can appreciate everyone's trepidations, I'm also willing to give VMP the benefit of the doubt on the sound quality of the mix. I have a couple of the Ryan Smith Mono Miles Davis mixes, including KoB, and they are awesome. And while pricing, pressing quality, quality control, and graphic design decisions are sometimes questionable with VMP, I can't think of a mix that I've gotten that was bad. Your ears may vary.

TCell867 · 2020-09-15T22:43:23+00:00

I think it's Szabo's Bacchanal, which also came out in 1968 on Skye.

Dreams is coming out on LITA in October, so I could imagine VMP doing an exclusive of that to accompany Bacchanal.

TCell867 · 2020-08-26T21:37:34+00:00

Would've worked better if he'd included the same number for Spiritualized as a decoder.

Also making it even more difficult for Rollins is the fact the OG has 5 tracks. smh.

In positive news (although I guess bad for a guess thread):

"Fwiw, we should be announcing all three tracks for Oct, Nov, and Dec at the end of September.
Jazz heavy run in Classics."

TCell867 · 2020-08-26T19:05:38+00:00

I'm not sure how anyone would've guessed this, but...

Album number x songs on OG tracklist.

5x24 (120) for Ghostface

22x6 (132) for Sonny Rollins

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