Your best non-PJ music memorabilia?

ryph raph wrote:

Guitar picks from Page, Clapton, Townsend, Jagger, Richards, Wood, Young, Stills, Frampton, Neilson, Nelson, Cash, and several others I can't recall. I also have bits and pieces from Trent Reznors' Keyboard and a guitar pick also. And a 4 inch stack of various backstage passes.

DUUUUDE! Most immediate question is: what was the context in which you got most of them? During shows? After shows? Ebay?

Second question: If you had to pick one, which backstage pass in your 4" stack holds the most unbelievable, amazing memories for you?

And most important question: When, where and how did you meet Johnny Cash??? Details please!!

So if we're really gonna talk most precious memorabilia, for me it's all about The Clash... From one Bonds show I have: a full set of guitar picks (Mick's, Joe's and Paul's), plus a bashed up set of "Toppers Boppers" (actually says that on the drumsticks), and an autographed "Clash on Broadway" t-shirt with a Bonds backstage pass, a plastic silver bullet, and matches from Bonds. Almost 20 yrs later I would add a white cowboy hat with a black band that Joe Strummer wrote my name in before giving to me, just a couple years before he passed.

In the "Most random memorabilia" category: I just remembered seeing Tom Jones sometime in the 90s (sure, he had a toupee and hearing aid, and couldn't swing those hips like he used to, but he was still hella charming and great!). So Jones had the best merch scam going: at the merch booth they sold silky panties, no doubt to save us ladies the inconvenience of having to strip down in the audience to throw our own onstage! So throughout the entire show there were panties raining down on the stage, and I'm pretty sure the merch guy just waited until the show was over, collected them all from the stage, and then re-sold them the next night. So my most random music memorabilia are my pair of Tom Jones panties that some lady with poor aim tried to throw onstage but landed on my head. At least... I sure HOPE whoever threw them had just bought them at the merch stand!! :shock:

foodboy wrote:

bill graham poster of jefferson airplane and the grate ful dead from okeefe centre in toronto. very rare. police picnic posters from 1981 from the band the police. pictures i took of u2 at massey hall in toronto in 1984 autographed by the band. my bruce picture(killer shot) from 1984 c.n.e. granstand show first of 3 nights autographed by bruce. picture of robert plant autographed from 1983. all pictures taken by me . if i do say so myself are quite good. pictures of r.e.m. from 1985 masonic temple ,toronto when people made fun of me going to see them. just a few items.

Wow, we have quite a collective collection going here! Those are amazing!

ryph raph wrote:

JH6056 wrote:

ryph raph wrote:

Guitar picks from Page, Clapton, Townsend, Jagger, Richards, Wood, Young, Stills, Frampton, Neilson, Nelson, Cash, and several others I can't recall. I also have bits and pieces from Trent Reznors' Keyboard and a guitar pick also. And a 4 inch stack of various backstage passes.

DUUUUDE! Most immediate question is: what was the context in which you got most of them? During shows? After shows? Ebay?

Second question: If you had to pick one, which backstage pass in your 4" stack holds the most unbelievable, amazing memories for you?

And most important question: When, where and how did you meet Johnny Cash??? Details please!!

So if we're really gonna talk most precious memorabilia, for me it's all about The Clash... From one Bonds show I have: a full set of guitar picks (Mick's, Joe's and Paul's), plus a bashed up set of "Toppers Boppers" (actually says that on the drumsticks), and an autographed "Clash on Broadway" t-shirt with a Bonds backstage pass, a plastic silver bullet, and matches from Bonds. Almost 20 yrs later I would add a white cowboy hat with a black band that Joe Strummer wrote my name in before giving to me, just a couple years before he passed.

In the "Most random memorabilia" category: I just remembered seeing Tom Jones sometime in the 90s (sure, he had a toupee and hearing aid, and couldn't swing those hips like he used to, but he was still hella charming and great!). So Jones had the best merch scam going: at the merch booth they sold silky panties, no doubt to save us ladies the inconvenience of having to strip down in the audience to throw our own onstage! So throughout the entire show there were panties raining down on the stage, and I'm pretty sure the merch guy just waited until the show was over, collected them all from the stage, and then re-sold them the next night. So my most random music memorabilia are my pair of Tom Jones panties that some lady with poor aim tried to throw onstage but landed on my head. At least... I sure HOPE whoever threw them had just bought them at the merch stand!! :shock:

I have worked as a stagehand since 1991. None of the backstage passes hold any memories other than long 16 - 20 hour days at "work". I was on crew for Johnny Cash at the State Theater in Sandusky Ohio . It's a very small house [1,000] and was able to pretty much spend most of the day with the Man in Black. Even ate dinner with him in the green room. All of my swag came from working shows. I also have a closet full of crew shirts.

Re: Johnny Cash :shock: :shock: :shock: !!! That is simply amazing that you had dinner with him. What was he like at that point? Didn't he pass away just 2 yrs later?

Re: being a stagehand, I get it. Those are long days. In college all the women on the concert committee wanted to do hospitality (I.e. Feed the bands and set up the dressing rooms) but I always signed up for tech crew because that was so much more interesting. So even though I'm a short chick, I actually know what those days can be like.

The hardest I ever worked was an Echo & the Bunnymen show on the Killing Moon (?) tour - I think they had 3 billion lights we had to set up. Easiest was the Bangles, because I got pulled to guard their dressing room because they wanted a chick.