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The dawn of a new decade is almost upon us, and with 2010 around the corner I look forward to the new films, anime, games and other wonderful things that hold my interest. So with that, I hope everyone has a brilliant new year’s celebration and a prosperous 2010 
If you are a regular on my blog, you will notice that I have changed the theme as well as the header, this will be the first of many tweaks, alterations and general formatting of I’ll be the Judge of That. As we head towards the beginning of a new decade I thought some changes would be appropriate, so expect more posts, some categories falling away as well as a few posts migrating to my sister blog, Instant Pudding Princess, which include any posts on comic-books, Japanese Weirdness & My Collectibles.
If you find that there are broken links (due to the theme change) in any of the posts feel free to report it in the form of a comment to the relevant post. With that been said I’d like to thank all the people who have visited my blog over the last 10 months or so, even though 57, 735 (at the time this article was posted) hits may be a paltry amount in internet terms, I’m very pleased with the number and hope that this blog will continue to rise to greater heights in the unforeseeable future.
Judge Pow3rs.
When I say rage, I’m not referring to Rage, but rather the emotion; ie – intense anger, so yes it’s that time again, a special time where I allow a tiny amount of my bottled rage to seep through and present itself in the form of an article on this blog, and my target is Eskom.
Eskom generates about 95% of the electricity used in South Africa, unfortunately due to the company’s short-sightedness, a lot of South Africans spent a great deal of time in 2007 & 2008 in darkness due to a wonderful thing called load-shedding.
“When there is not enough electricity available to meet the demand from all Eskom’s customers, it could be necessary to interrupt supply to certain areas. This is called load shedding.” – Eskom.
Even though Eskom scheduled their load-shedding for specific times, the power would never go out when they said it would, making it impossible to predict when a blackout would strike. Now the problem that I have with that, is that if one were to be using their PC for whatever reason, a sudden loss of power causes the machine to suddenly switch off and since it’s a PC the hard drive/s do not have sufficient time to spin down like they’re supposed to when you switch them off. As a result, the needles on the drives will damage the platters totally wrecking your hardware and of course all your precious data, and if that’s not enough, when the power is unexpectedly turned back on, a sudden spike of power can pretty much trash the rest of your PC, like the CPU or motherboard.
So who the fuck pays for your damaged hardware and loss of data? Sure if your hardware is still under warranty you could return it, but if you’ve had your PC for a couple of years you are fucked. Eskom aren’t liable (or so they say) and I’m sure there are plenty of people in South Africa (myself included) who had to return a piece of hardware because Eskom’s fucking load-shedding bullshit trashed it. A couple days ago I experienced a brief power spike, it managed to knock out my PS3, causing the screen to go black while the console proceeded to beep at me twice (I tested the console afterward and it worked fine thankfully), sadly my brother wasn’t so fortunate as the power spike killed his 19″ LCD monitor. My PC has a UPS, but my brother doesn’t and so now what? I feel that Eskom being the main provider of power in this country, has a responsibility to ensure that paying customers be given uninterrupted power. If the ANC (the current ruling party in SA and also destroying the country like a cancer) hadn’t fucked around for a decade we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess, so what happens now? Eskom has taken a 1.86 billion euro loan to build a new power plant, so expect taxes to rise as well as the cost of power, which Eskom wants to increase annually by 45%, that is what happens when you place short-sighted, fucking morons in control of a power plant, with upper management earning salaries of 500k and beyond, and people wonder why South Africa is the way it is…
Purchasing a second-hand vehicle can be a risky business and if you don’t know what to look out for, odds are you will get screwed over and conned out of your hard earned cash. Today I was in a similar such situation, I replied to an advertisement on a popular local online classified site in connection with a Eurojet scooter that a man was selling. The advert had sufficient information to warrant my attention including; the model and year of the vehicle, engine displacement, the mileage and of course the price. Judging from the photos that were present on the advert, the scooter seemed to be in perfect condition.
So I phoned the owner and asked him a few questions, inquiring as to the condition of the vehicle and whether or not it was licensed. He responded by telling me that the chassis had some minor scratches (understandable) and that it was indeed fully licensed. So feeling satisfied I agreed to meet him.
For starters, the scooter had 6,500 km on the clock, after a period of three years. However, he remarked that the engine had been replaced a year ago but judging from how it sounded, I’d say otherwise. The exhaust was completely rusted and both sides of the chassis were completely cracked through due to several ‘small accidents’ where the scooter was parked and then ‘knocked’ by other cars. The chassis was held together with box ties to boot. According to him though, all the damaged parts could be easily replaced. Sure but If I’m going to have to replace one part after the next, I may as well just purchase a brand new scooter all together. My next concern was the availability of spares as I had never seen a Eurojet scooter in Cape Town (usually you see a lot of Vuka’s buzzing around). There is only one store in Cape Town that carries spares for Eurojet and it is miles away from where I live, that in itself is a deal-breaker right there.
There are plenty of Vuka and Gomoto retailers strewn throughout Cape Town, making those brands far more attractive as opposed to their European counterpart. Sensing my apprehension, the owner of the scooter then tried several bullshitting tactics after I told him that I’d be able to pick up a brand new Vuka for R4,000 (R300 more than what he was asking for) which included; “I have never heard of Vuka before” – I’m sorry, what? I lost count at the amount of Vukas that were zooming around during my journey to and from the owner’s house. “I wouldn’t ever buy a Vespa as they rust given that I live near the coast” – ANY vehicle that is exposed to sea breezes or any moisture will rust over time, including Eurojet scooters. And finally, and this is a classic tactic, “I spoke to a guy earlier today who made me an offer” – Nice try asshole. Another thing that made me weary, I asked him how long he had but the scooter up for sale, he said four days. That was a lie as after clicking on; View poster’s other Ads, I was able to easily see that he had in fact, another advert, offering the same scooter since the 2nd of September. In fact the owner seemed so desperate that he would’ve sold it for a grand cheaper than the asking price, that in itself is worrying.
So if you are planning on purchasing a second-hand vehicle, make sure you ask some the following questions and keep a look out for the following:
I hope this article will be of some use to anybody who has thought about or intends on buying a second-hand vehicle be it a car, bike or scooter. Look out for the above-mentioned and you should be quite fine, although after that experience I think I’d rather just buy a new scooter, or if I do consider going the second-hand route, that I purchase one from a trustworthy source like a friend or relative.
The sardonically named ‘reSTART’ is an internet addiction clinic that opened in the States, the first of its kind, in July. I’m guessing ‘reSTART’ refers to ‘giving life a restart or second chance’. The concept isn’t a new one, South Korea and China have had these sort of clinics for sometime already, the latter employing extreme methods, including ‘shock therapy’.
reSTART also covers texting addiction and gaming. Now, in my opinion I find the concept of an internet addiction clinic to be ludicrous, and their mission statement absurd. Here’s the problem that I have, their 45 day program costs $14, 500 (and there are other non-inclusive fees too). Let’s look at this logically, a drug addict, for example will end up selling all of his possessions in order to get his next fix, in the end he has nothing. It’s for this reason that a lot of drug rehab clinics are relatively affordable, because they understand you have nothing, the techniques they employ include saunas (to help you sweat out the toxins), exercise and so on, and they’re all relatively inexpensive. However, reSTART’s fees are extortion, here’s how they justify it;
“Many people are amazed by the high cost of attending the reStart program ($14,500, plus other fees, potentially). It is a lot of money. When you are thinking about this, however, we would ask you to consider a number of things:
– Many inpatient and wilderness awareness programs cost this much (and many times more) for 30 days. Our program is 45 days.
– A program like this costs a great deal to run.
There is a trained licensed therapist present at almost all times,
There is a vocational/recreational coach present at almost all times,
The primary therapist (Cosette) maintains a severely restricted private practice in order to be present and provide 1×1 sessions daily for program participants.
The coach (Gary), likewise, earns his living from this, now, not his earlier career.
The program hires individuals from the community to provide specialized services needed by the clients (e.g. a yoga instructor, recreational instructor, and someone to cover on Sunday, so the family can have a break from program work, etc.).
In addition, the setting which houses the reSTART program is expensive to own and operate.”
There are plenty on non-profit organizations strewn throughout America who deal with drug addiction, they too have large grounds in which they operate, and it’s all relatively affordable. reSTART claims they use the ‘cold-turkey’ method. Okay, so If I understand this, they will cut you off completely from internet, cellphones and games, all of which ARE costly. So if there’s none of that technology floating around the ‘patient’ will be doing things like going for walks, Yoga (which is pretty inexpensive), arts and crafts and so on. Where the fuck do they get $14, 500 from, who can afford that? Unless they’re employing China’s tactics, 45 days won’t cut it. Sure when your at the clinic there’s nothing to tempt you, but in the real world human beings are surrounded by technology, it’s inescapable. This so called ‘addiction clinic’ is just a scam that preys on the gullibility of parents. If the child still lives with the parents then it’s their duty to monitor the child’s internet usage, or game-play time. Hell that’s what my parents used to do, I had allocated times for which I could do certain things.
The reason why so-called ‘institutes’ like reSTART are able to flourish is because lazy-as-fuck parents, too busy with their ‘careers’ or not being attentive enough, leave the kids to fend for themselves and so as a result, the kids seek alternative methods to entertain themselves and do so in unmonitored excess. So for parents, get off your fat lazy asses and take some interest in your child’s life and for the people at reSTART, stop ripping people off with your bullshit and get real jobs!
This advertisement goes on and on, listing all sorts of things you shouldn't steal but makes no effort whatsoever to educate the viewer as to why piracy is harmful.
I refer to the anti-piracy advertisement that can be found on a myriad of DVD films, it’s usually un-skippable and I hate it. You know why? Because it’s fucking stupid. Let’s look at it logically here, a pirated movie will not have this advert, or any FBI warnings present like an original DVD. The reason being that the ‘pirate’ will more than likely rip the main movie only and burn it onto a blank DVD. So, the only people that actually see these adverts are the honest ones that buy the original DVD. The honest man is then subjected to 45 seconds of un-skippable bullshit. This advert is preaching to the converted, what the fuck is the point of placing something like this onto a DVD when nine times out of ten, it will be seen by people who actually purchase their goods legally? All it does is serve to irritate the honest consumer, and at the same time it’s treating them like they are the criminals.
Not only that, but the advert shows a whole bunch of scenes where ‘criminals’ are stealing handbags, cellphones and breaking into cars but makes no effort to explain how piracy hurts the industry. The most logical medium to place these adverts, is on television. Not only would it reach a larger audience, but it would also be seen by anyone who owns a television set, including, THE FUCKING PIRATES!! Doesn’t that make more sense, you fucking retards?! I mean at least then a person will see the advert and perhaps think twice before attempting to rip a DVD?
Okay, so here we see a guy sticking a DVD in his jacket, they're trying to say that DVD movie piracy is the same as stealing, but why not explain WHY it is the same?
While I’m on the subject of piracy, another thing that I find to be rather curious is the growing trend of placing this ‘copy protected’ logo (pictured below) at the back of the DVD’s.
Oh, really?
DVD Audio discs employ a DRM mechanism, called Content Protection for Prerecorded Media (CPPM), developed by the 4C group (IBM, Intel, Matsushita, and Toshiba). To date, CPPM has not been “broken”, in the sense that DVD Video’s CSS has been broken, but ways to circumvent it have been developed. By modifying commercial DVD (Audio) playback software to write the decrypted and decoded audio streams to the hard disk, users can essentially extract content from DVD Audio discs much in the same way they can from DVD Video discs.
The DVD uses such a simple encryption implementation that there are many applications that exist enabling one to copy, shrink or modify a film. So is the ‘This DVD is copy protected’ logo referring to the content being copyrighted or impervious to duplication, because a) copyrights don’t mean jack-shit to a counterfeiter and b) the DVD’s pitiful encryption method has been cracked years ago including Sony’s ARccOS and Puppetlock, technologies that I first encountered on Final Fantasy VII – Advent Children.
Sure the above statement may have applied to a crappy VCD rip, but with today's software and technology, pirated DVD's, audio CD's and Blu-Ray discs are indistinguishable from their original counterparts.
The only thing that seems to be obscured here, in regards to the above image, are the anti-piracy campaigner’s sense of reality. Stop fucking deluding yourselves, Im not advocating piracy, but your feeble attempts at ‘getting people onto the right track’ are redundant, if people want to pirate they will, best you can hope for is to market your product in a unique way that would appeal to a consumer or perhaps lower your prices, as it stands in South Africa, the average price for a PlayStation 3 game ranges between R600 – R800, that’s fucking extortion.
Strange how this makes sense, huh?
I conclude with these wise words from Master Yoda, I direct this to the anti-piracy marketers and their insanely absurd advertisements…
Indeed.
Back when I was a kid, I remember when games like Rockman and Sonic the Hedgehog were the pinnacle of what the gaming industry had to offer, with graphics and game-play that blew the player’s mind. However, as this article is focusing on graphics I will rule game-play out of the equation
I no longer own any consoles, having long sold my Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo. My PlayStation disappeared one day (I believe my brother gave it to his, now ex, girlfriend) and my PlayStation 2 suffered a horrible death at the hands of a faulty mod-chip (that’ll teach me, eh?). Since then I’ve been a PC gamer and haven’t looked back since. As much as I’d like to have kept all those consoles (for historic value), when you’re a kid often-times you need to sell the old in order to afford the new, such was the case with me. One of the greatest things about PCs (in regards to gaming) is emulation. Emulators allow you to replay those classic gaming gems, many of which I never got to play. The thing I notice now while playing these games is that they still look pretty good, and the reason for this I believe is because they aren’t trying to imitate life like modern games. Perhaps the reason for this is because the technology simply didn’t exist and for that reason, many things that needed to be represented looked ‘cartoony’. Let’s take Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island on the Super Nintendo as an example, the game looks like it’s been torn out of a colouring book, the visual effect is amazing, still to this day and the game was released in 1995.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island on the SNES.
A few other great examples of the 16-bit era include Comix Zone, which looked like you were playing in a comic-book as the player navigated from panel to panel and the Donkey Kong series on SNES, a series of games that, I believe, represented the apex of 16-bit graphical capabilities.
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest on the SNES. You really need to see it running to fully appreciate the visuals.
Rare’s Silicon Graphics engine (pre-framed 3D graphics) made the Donkey Kong series stand out from being just another platformer. Rare also made use of their Silicon Graphics engine for their Killer Instinct series of beat-’em-ups, a brutal fighting game series that looked absolutely amazing and was the first arcade game to use an internal hard disk drive in addition to the game’s ROMs. This allowed it to store massive amounts of data thereby giving it the ability to have more detailed graphics than other games of this genre. Backgrounds were pre-rendered as a ‘movie’, which simply adjusted frames based on the current location of the players. All this data was stored on the hard drive. Killer Instinct’s RISC R4600 processor was clocked at 100 MHz.
In 1995, Rare entered an exclusive publishing agreement for Nintendo gaming consoles. In 2002, Rare was acquired by Microsoft.
The problem begins with 3D graphics. The advent of the 3D graphics engine promised greater levels of immersion and realism as players were thrust from 2D environments into new ‘realistic’ 3D ones, and I believe that the developers have indeed succeeded in this. But as the technology increased at an exponential rate more and more 3D engines emerged each one looking superior to the last. This is where the trouble lies, 3D engines date far too quickly. I’m currently playing the first Metal Gear Solid game that was ported to PC in 2000, while I remember it looking absolutely amazing on the PlayStation back in 1998, the 3D polygons now look awfully dated and simplistic. Likewise with Final Fantasy VII, a game that had amazing cut-scenes in 1997 but compared to modern CGI, they look painfully outdated. I’m not saying that this is a bad thing, progression is a constant factor in anything we do, it’s just ironic to see how modern and (arguably) superior graphical engines out-date faster than their 2D predecessors. Going back to what I said earlier, the reasons for this is because modern 3D engines try to emulate life, a dubious task as human beings are constantly surrounded by the environment, especially other people and so when someone tries to emulate that, we are able to pick up on inaccuracies very quickly. Recreating animals and human beings in 3D still remains a tough task to this day. I’m convinced we’ve mastered water, lighting, artificial landscapes, vehicles and to some extent, naturalistic landscapes but when it comes to people and more specifically the human face, there is much room for improvement.
The transition from 2D to 3D isn't always a good thing...
In 2004 the much anticipated sequels Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 were released, Doom 3′s id Tech 4 engine was a force to be reckoned with, as was Half Life’s Source engine. In my opinion though, the Source engine is superior and in regards to the aforementioned games, Source was implemented better than id Tech and made for a more realistic environment and experience. At the time, Half Life 2 was the most amazing game I had ever seen and as a result it was utterly engrossing, Doom 3 however, was just too damn dark.
I remember playing F.E.A.R in 2005, back then my machine struggled to meet the heavy system requirements that the game demanded, it was an amazing looking game. Since I really enjoyed F.E.A.R, I installed F.E.A.R – Perseus Mandate recently, with great expectations, unfortunately, the graphics engine looked so dated I was quite shocked and the overall experience wasn’t as enjoyable as the previous outing. The current 3D engines available are quite impressive at the moment having given birth to such visual wonders as BioShock, Gears of War, Killzone 2, Devil May Cry 4, FarCry 2 and Crysis and as great as they look now, in a year or two, you’ll be scratching your head while wondering to yourself how on earth you thought these games looked so great.
The 2D era may be over, but while those games will retain a cartoon-like immortality, the 3D era will continue to change and games of yesteryear will be continually compared to newer, more sophisticated engines, which in a way is a bit of a shame as the more visually pleasing these games become, the more we expect things to look better and in doing so we forget how great the older stuff really was.
A few examples of the modern 3D engine:
2004 – Doom 3
Engine - id Tech 4
2004 – Half-Life 2
Engine - Source Engine, Havok physics
2005 – F.E.A.R.
Engine - Lithtech: Jupiter EX
2007 – Crysis
Engine - CryEngine 2
2009 – Killzone 2
Engine - Deferred Rendering engine, Havok (game physics)
Vectorman...
On October 24, 1995 a company called BlueSky Software, released a game called Vectorman. Vectorman was pretty much the final word in Sega Genesis 16-bit graphics, employing the use of pre-rendered 3D models much like the Donkey Kong Country series.
A sequel, Vectorman 2, was released in 1996 and although both games look brilliant, they also look much the same with the sequel bearing no real improvement graphically. Were it a 3D engine, a sequel may well have looked very different, as such is the case with modern gaming. Perhaps there simply was no need for further improvement in the 2D arena although the more likely scenario is that developers couldn’t squeeze anything more from the hardware and had to create something new to take its place. The jump from cartridges to compact disc played a huge role in what developers would be capable of achieving in the future. Some companies however were rather stubborn much like Nintendo who used cartridges up until September 2001 when they released their first console to use the optical disc format, the GameCube.
...and the similar-looking sequel, Vectorman 2.
Nintendo’s failure to switch to compact discs resulted in them losing one of their key developers, Squaresoft, who released Final Fantasy VII in 1997 on Sony’s PlayStation console as the Nintendo 64 simply did not have the hardware capable of running the game efficiently which is why the Final Fantasy series on the PlayStation looked vastly superior to the Legend on Zelda series on the Nintendo 64. Likewise with the aforementioned Killer Instinct, due to memory limitations on the Nintendo 64 hardware and cartridges, the pre-rendered FMV-flipbook backgrounds of the arcade version were replaced with realtime-rendered low poly backgrounds for the N64. The 3D era also signaled the slow death of the 2D beat-’em-up after a myriad of 3D fighters like Virtua fighter, Tekken, Fighting Vipers, Dead or Alive and many others arrived on the scene, classic games like the Street Fighter series began to fade into obscurity. Although a fairly recent series of 2D fighting games have been quite popular, like Guilty Gear (though some of the later versions incorporated 3D background elements) but companies like Capcom have realized that in today’s market 3D is the way to go, having recently released the awesome Street Fighter IV, fully 3D and gorgeous to look at. As wonderful as Street Fighter IV looks, it uses an anime-style 3D techique as opposed to a realistic one, this is an aspect that I like as rather than trying to create photo realistic models, the developers created a human model that looks more like a stylized cartoon than a family photo.
A series I think that has failed in recent years due to ’3D’ is the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games. In the ’90s Sonic was all the rage but when Sega started to release 3D versions of their popular franchise, things went to hell. I feel it’s too difficult to control Sonic in a 3D environment as the camera angles are always terrible and it’s pretty damn difficult to control something that’s moving at mach 1 and happens to go off screen getting you killed. Sonic looked great in 2D and did not benefit from a 3D makeover, not even Sonic could save the Dreamcast (which was a great system) so perhaps rather than releasing all these half-baked sequels Sega should create Sonic 2.5, 2D sprites, side-scrolling with 3D elements incorporated into the backgrounds, sure to appeal to die-hard Sonic fans.
Capcom’s Street Fighter evolution:
Street Fighter (1987)
Street Fighter 2 series (1991 - 1995)
Street Fighter Alpha Series (1995 - 1998)
Street Fighter EX series (1996 - 2001) I can remember playing this on PlayStation, it had great visuals at the time, but now it's rather primitive-looking.
Street Fighter 3 series (1997 - 1999) SF3 contained vastly improved 2D sprites and backdrops.
Street Fighter IV (2008) Awesome game and graphics, while not overly realistic, Capcom has created a vibrant and detailed anime-style 3D brawler.
Eventually, video-games will cease to exist and in their place will be 3D simulations indistinguishable from reality, a virtual reality will exist for willing persons to partake in, the only refuge for nostalgic gamers will be their PCs and emulating software that will enable them to relive the ‘glory days’ of gaming while the rest of humanity are slaves to the Matrix, or at the very least, ludicrous system requirements.
Firstly, this is what it’s marketed as:
“Answering needs for improved cost efficiency and prevention of tampering, the One-Time™ CD cases feature a totally new internal locking mechanism, along with double overlapping walls that seal the entire case. The One-Time™ CD cases allow for quick and effortless unlocking procedure at checkout and they protect assets and EAS/RFID tags as neither consumers nor internal staff can open it. The cases open with low-profile, small-footprint intelligent key for a large variety of retail products. Red and green color coding clearly signals whether case is open or locked. Optional snap-in disc tray for holding an additional CD disc is available.”
While the above statement sounds great, like most things in life that sound too good to be true, nine times out of ten they are and the ‘One-Time’ Security Case is no exception. Mr Video, the largest movie rental franchise in South Africa has decided (in all their wisdom) to start using these cases instead of the vastly superior older generation security cases that the business has been using for years. My question is why?
The idiots at Mr Video HQ don’t seem to have a clue about how ineffective and shoddy these new cases really are. As a customer (and I’m not alone in this) I can’t recall how many times these devices have lead to rage and frustration. I’m going to break down the marketing bullshit into a neat bullet-ed list that debunks all their lies.
These cases are also meant to be structurally superior in order to curb the frequency of damage. This is not true, the cases use a brittle, sub-standard plastic that shatter and break with little effort and the centre release mechanism that holds the discs in place now has four prongs instead of eight and if even one of them breaks the disc ceases to be held in place and moves and shakes around inside the cases, scratching the discs. Customers (myself included) generally struggle to open the cases once they’ve been opened as the locking mechanism sticks and you really have to use force to open them.
The latest security case to be used by Mr Video.
The 'decoupler' unit, cases are swiped through the gap in order to open or seal them.
Security seal currently set to 'open'.
A closer look at the flimsy security seal.
Here's an example of the older, sturdier generation of security cases now being fazed out.
A security tag slides through that opening locking the case, it's simple and efficient.
You just push the strip through...
...and voilà!
With the older generation security strip, a magnetic tag was stuck onto the inside and would react to an anti-theft 'Sensormatic' by making a high-pitched sound (pretty basic), with the new cases, the magnetic strips are kept loose in the case and need to be removed anyway, so why the need for change?
On the whole, I don’t even think there should be a need for any of these cases. The best method to employ would be a behind-the-counter system, whereby the films are stored behind the counter and not on the shelves like Mr Video’s. The covers remain on the shelves for the customers to see and and if they want to pick something they could bring perhaps some sort of token to the counter. A system like that would reduce shrinkage to zero, Mr Video stores are quite susceptible to theft, a sad reality and one that happens often. Perhaps Peter Scott (founder of Mr Video) should take some time from his ‘life of leisure’ and pay heed to these problems that persist.
ELP – Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup. In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (guitar, bass guitar, vocals) and Carl Palmer (drums, percussion). In late 1973, Brain Salad Surgery, with an eye-catching sleeve designed by H. R. Giger, was released and became the band’s best-known studio album.
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