Ha - do you still have that paper plate? I assume if you did, there might be a photo of it included here. Knowing the lifespan/disintegration factors of even the heartiest paper products, I would assume it's become memory particles by now, but thought I'd ask.
Never saw Genesis either before or after Gabriel, but had an opportunity to see PG perform on the So tour and declined because I was a bit of a snob regarding price and venue. It was a long time ago so don't recall my reasons, but it's in my top 5 concert regrets, as I have never seen him perform live in person.
Alas, no...around the turn of the century, I liquidated my entire 2,000-unit LP collection (on eBay), and with it, all my attendant memorabilia, including press kits, 8x10 glossies, autographed items, promo posters, promo buttons and t-shirts, and reams of torn-from-magazines reviews, articles, and interviews (stuffed carefully into the appropriate artist's record jacket)!
They're all scattered around the planet, now (presumably, this one), and SOMEBODY'S got the plate!
"Why not keep some of it/them?" you might ask? If I couldn't keep all of it, can you see me going through everything picking and choosing? I'd have spent several weeks perusing, and STILL have had the same number of everything afterward!
Why sell? Needed the money, coupled with the weariness of lugging it all around, after as many moves as I had already made! Plus, I had exhausted all the "cool quotient" points out of it all (fewer friends at the time were at all interested or impressed!), with advancing age and lifestyle making the keeping of such piffle as Martin Mull promotional socks increasingly pointless, and far less practical to be hauling around!
This in itself is worthy of a FR&B post. (If there isn't one about it already.) Or at least it sounds like the ideal subject matter for a Earworm & Song Loop essay. I've somehow lugged my 1300 or so LP collection (and 500 or so CDs) around the past few moves, but the CDs are in tidy file folders now (stupid me did not save the back cover artwork, only the removable booklets so cannot sell them). The only memorabilia I ever collected was ticket stubs which thankfully do not take up room...and to show my OCD tendencies, I have them all stored chronologically in special ticket stub albums.
You may have noticed I loathe talking about ME in my articles, so no, nothing yet exists on me and my former record collection. I did get my radio and retail record biz articles out of the way post haste (last August), but that was only to get it out of the way, but also to set the foundation for what followed.
I even hesitate assuming that anyone even comes close to caring about my personal opinion about an artist or song (or anything, for that matter). I'd rather lay out facts and anyone else's opinions, and let the reader form THEIR opinions. Hey, decades of conditioning, what can I say?
As for you and your CDs...don't lament not keeping the jewel cases. As you know, CDs are rarely used now, by anybody, so unless I miss my guess, resale value would be worth far below the "worry-rate"!
You collected your ticket stubs chronologically in special ticket stub albums?!? I think my OCD trumps yours: I kept my stubs in a re-purposed photo album, equally as chronological! My 1-inch-square Led Zep 1970 U of Houston/Hofheinz Pavilion floor seat ticket sold for $100 during my turn-of-the-century eBay sell-off!
Ha - do you still have that paper plate? I assume if you did, there might be a photo of it included here. Knowing the lifespan/disintegration factors of even the heartiest paper products, I would assume it's become memory particles by now, but thought I'd ask.
Never saw Genesis either before or after Gabriel, but had an opportunity to see PG perform on the So tour and declined because I was a bit of a snob regarding price and venue. It was a long time ago so don't recall my reasons, but it's in my top 5 concert regrets, as I have never seen him perform live in person.
Alas, no...around the turn of the century, I liquidated my entire 2,000-unit LP collection (on eBay), and with it, all my attendant memorabilia, including press kits, 8x10 glossies, autographed items, promo posters, promo buttons and t-shirts, and reams of torn-from-magazines reviews, articles, and interviews (stuffed carefully into the appropriate artist's record jacket)!
They're all scattered around the planet, now (presumably, this one), and SOMEBODY'S got the plate!
"Why not keep some of it/them?" you might ask? If I couldn't keep all of it, can you see me going through everything picking and choosing? I'd have spent several weeks perusing, and STILL have had the same number of everything afterward!
Why sell? Needed the money, coupled with the weariness of lugging it all around, after as many moves as I had already made! Plus, I had exhausted all the "cool quotient" points out of it all (fewer friends at the time were at all interested or impressed!), with advancing age and lifestyle making the keeping of such piffle as Martin Mull promotional socks increasingly pointless, and far less practical to be hauling around!
And yes, I miss it all terribly.
This in itself is worthy of a FR&B post. (If there isn't one about it already.) Or at least it sounds like the ideal subject matter for a Earworm & Song Loop essay. I've somehow lugged my 1300 or so LP collection (and 500 or so CDs) around the past few moves, but the CDs are in tidy file folders now (stupid me did not save the back cover artwork, only the removable booklets so cannot sell them). The only memorabilia I ever collected was ticket stubs which thankfully do not take up room...and to show my OCD tendencies, I have them all stored chronologically in special ticket stub albums.
You may have noticed I loathe talking about ME in my articles, so no, nothing yet exists on me and my former record collection. I did get my radio and retail record biz articles out of the way post haste (last August), but that was only to get it out of the way, but also to set the foundation for what followed.
I even hesitate assuming that anyone even comes close to caring about my personal opinion about an artist or song (or anything, for that matter). I'd rather lay out facts and anyone else's opinions, and let the reader form THEIR opinions. Hey, decades of conditioning, what can I say?
As for you and your CDs...don't lament not keeping the jewel cases. As you know, CDs are rarely used now, by anybody, so unless I miss my guess, resale value would be worth far below the "worry-rate"!
You collected your ticket stubs chronologically in special ticket stub albums?!? I think my OCD trumps yours: I kept my stubs in a re-purposed photo album, equally as chronological! My 1-inch-square Led Zep 1970 U of Houston/Hofheinz Pavilion floor seat ticket sold for $100 during my turn-of-the-century eBay sell-off!