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IHSH-68
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This is my fourth Tour and I asked myself … why am I doing this to myself again? There is a simple answer: I still enjoy the forum, the people and the friendly atmosphere!

What drew me in here?
-Two Patagonia shirts I bought in the early 90‘ and then disappeared ten years later.
-Two selvedge Edwin jeans made in Japan, received as a gift from my cousin in the mid 90‘. One of them still existing.
-When I found out about Lightning and an addicted Japanese scene with passion for handmade things.
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Hopefully I can find the time to tell some of this storylines.

Tour jacket paired today my first IH shirt, the IHSH-13.
Bought, because this lost Patagonia shirts where always in my mind and this 10oz selvedge chambray was the first matching a decade later.

Locker room

IHSH-308
634 19L

Slubby 375
634 19L

After all this months of waiting to contribute, thought I’ve the right words to start and the best first picture to show …. but I’ve not!

First leg in here started glorious with @denim-dawg and @Stitch . Their contribution set standards and ended up in the Arctic Adventure Series.

Without @neph93 , no Heritage Tour!

And after all this conversations with @Heavy_blue , I can say he is a great member of this forum. Hope he stays!

Came home from a trip and had exactly a few minutes to get warm with the Heritage Tour Jacket, before I left to see a football match.
Bundesliga BVB:Bayern

Moving Pictures
IMG_3456.mov

And the obligatory WAYWT picture:

Tour Jacket
Vintage Barbour Moorland
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Meindl Boot Island
Schmidt Bandana
There was a Schmidt Shirt Tour deep in the forum sometimes back.

IHJ-120-IND-12oz Wabash Chore
Vintage IH T
888 XHS

My son is wearing the Tour Jacket and doing the action today.

Wheelie in Motion IMG_3090.mov

IHJ-24 17oz FirstZip

I love this thread!

Focus on the Triple Works Shirt Number Two today…

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Tour Jacket first time out with the Wabbidashery Twin. Unworn and unwashed!

To keep the numbers in order, next is the beloved
IHSH-22.

IHSH-23 the lightweight version of the 299.

Is it just a passion? Looks like two lost shirts developed something .
To be continued….

They have a lovely version of Paint It Black @endo

Would love to give it another leg also.

Little Christmas present for family and friends this year … is a homemade Limoncello out of homegrown lemons.
For the home boys we used a picture taken for the IH-Wabbi Word Tour a year ago.

@freepickin

Could you solve the issue @TeflonDon ?

I avoid to pierce the cinch back totally, like shown on the product page.
This causes tremendous problems.

It is possible to set the distance of the two pins in that way, they only punch through the first layer of denim.

Beatiful @GraemeE, hard to find a favorite song.

5 a.m.
There's nobody there
In the misty dawn that surrounds the town
The world is speechless in the morning …

Edit
Love “Karmic Dream Sequence #1”, because I have a sweet spot for the instrument ‘koto’.

Hi @TeflonDon

I know this issue. Had the same problem with my 728.
But it is an easy fix.
Use a flat nose spliers and bring the parts back together.

Neil Diamond - Gold 1970

@Daniel-San said in Recent Purchases:

grabbed a unique japanese skull mug , every mug is different. rare piece from Attraction

First I was not attracted, but then I read the original description.
Double structure @Daniel-San ?

Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei

This here is the remastered reissue from 2009.
Beautiful pressing and great art reproduction.

There is a lot of text on the inner sleeves included. Here are a few excerpts:
ETERNAL UNDERGROUND
Amon Düül - God, what a legendary name, what an incredible group! If there was ever such a thing as a living legend in rock music's relatively brief history, then clearly Amon Düül is a fine example. Amon Düül is the band which is regarded - to the present day and for all generations to come - as the epitome of the curious yet pioneering phenomenon known as "Krautrock". Founded in 1967, this chaotic and inspired collective who regarded themselves as a "commune including eleven adults and two children who did everything together, including among other things, music".
They also became the first band to make the bizarre "Krautrock" movement become known outside of their native Germany.
It was at the beginning of the 70s, when the more creatively inclined Amon Düül Il had risen out of the prehistoric sludge of Amon Düül, like a phoenix from the ashes. All of a sudden, the musicians from Munich's traditional artist quarter Schwabing found themselves on the covers of English music papers such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. Prior to Düül, nobody from the UK seriously took notice of events happening over in that musical desert called Germany. Up until then, most Teutonic rock 'n' rollers tried to emulate their Anglo/ American idols in a well-behaved but clumsy manner. However Melody Maker wrote in 1970, "Amon Düül Il is the first German group whose music can be regarded as a contribution on its own to international pop culture." In the same euphoric way renowned DJ John Peel, who became a big Krautrock enthusiast across the channel, played those "Teutonic sounds" on his radio show all day long. No wonder, Peel was always looking for exciting new music - and Amon Dütil gave him just that. In the band's early works such as "Phallus Dei" and "Yeti", orgiastic and psychedelic sounds were combined with fanatic surrealism. Pompous and bombastic Wagnerian arrangements would often duel with the lyrical and more delicate folk similar to Incredible String Band, all taking place against a backdrop of improvisation - something that turned many Düül songs into epic tracks clocking in at over 20 minutes. "Improvisation was everything", mastermind Chris Karrer recalls with a mischievous smile almost forty years later. "We had no time for lots of rehearsals. We acted on the principle: whoever has to rehearse probably needs to. Life was much too exciting at the time to retreat to ones' silent little chamber and solely focus on the music."…