post yer raer music memorabilia.....
troubleman
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...and the story behind them.
My Dad grew up in New Jersey and during the 70's had some friend that had a job at some New York laundry service. Well, one day my Dad tags along with his friend on a routine pick up of the laundry bags from the Dakota building. SO as they were throwing the bags in the back of the truck and driving off they noticed "Lennon" written on one of the bags. My Dad asks his friend open it and grab the first thing he sees. So he pulls out the shirt and they both freak out, my Dad ends up keeping it, somehow thinking Lennon won't notice it missing. But his friend gets fired soon after. My Dad ends up getting him another job and when he moved to Cali, he left him the bulk of his record collection (about 2 crates worth of prime stuff.)......The End. My Dad wore the hell out of that shirt up until the mid 80's when he retired it. It resides in a crappy frame until I can get something better.
My Dad grew up in New Jersey and during the 70's had some friend that had a job at some New York laundry service. Well, one day my Dad tags along with his friend on a routine pick up of the laundry bags from the Dakota building. SO as they were throwing the bags in the back of the truck and driving off they noticed "Lennon" written on one of the bags. My Dad asks his friend open it and grab the first thing he sees. So he pulls out the shirt and they both freak out, my Dad ends up keeping it, somehow thinking Lennon won't notice it missing. But his friend gets fired soon after. My Dad ends up getting him another job and when he moved to Cali, he left him the bulk of his record collection (about 2 crates worth of prime stuff.)......The End. My Dad wore the hell out of that shirt up until the mid 80's when he retired it. It resides in a crappy frame until I can get something better.
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..but here's my favorite item:
this was in a dressing room bathroom at a club that shall remain unnamed. i was working on a tour and we noticed this. its a metal air vent that Strummer signed to no one and everyone. Joe was still around at the time (2000) but i'd never had a chance to meet him, and a tour co-worker dared me to unscrew it off the wall and take it with us. Im glad I did, as i never did have a chance to thank the guy in person for being so damn cool.
AWESOME. lol
For a kid from Southwest ohio who grew up in the 90s, that's big.
This was my first electric guitar that also belonged to someone in The Young Rascals (not sure if it was Gene Cornish or not though) which is about as deep as my memorabilia goes. I bought it off a guy who opened for them for years for $150, only to find out a year later it belonged to one of The Rascals. Dude in the guitar shop I "worked" in had a pair of Noel Redding's platform boots, he built a shadow box for them and charged people 50 cents to see them.
That Lennon shirt is really a thread over, internet over situation.
(do i have to post a pic???? they look like regular old sticks)
I've got a bunch of 12"s adorning the walls of my grey prison-like office cube and just happened to have "One Love".. so my boy got the shit signed for me (I wasn't about to stand in line). I'm usually not into autographs but I thought it was pretty dope seeing as how I didn't have to go out of the way and it was on the clock.
Another friend of mine owns a Mickey & the Soul Generation concert poster. It's the only I've ever seen of theirs.
old photo of promo jackets:
tommy boy records
rawkus records
k cloud & the crew tour jacket
patchwerk records
My friend has a pair as well. Got to meet him earlier this year (I think) or late last year for a documentary he's working on. Got some some drum sticks.
Yes I own an original stage banner, but I have never posted it on this board.
If I had a digital camera I could get busy posting shit, but I don't.
Everybody loses.
...but no pic sleeve, I see.
Hmmm... I gotta see what I have lying around.
I'll post up some thangs later. Cool entries so far! That Lennon t-shirt is most definitely
Dante, stop frontin... you got a digi camera... take some pictures for chrissakes!
fur elise:
hoodie from when I worked at Zomba:
there's a lot more but I don't want to clog the thread
How much ya want for it?
thank you! Ill pm you my address...you can just send it my way
sorry I didn't have any EPMD stuff