Music-Related Mementos

Great story!

Apart from tickets and t-shirts?

A McLemore Avenue key chain. And this, commemorating my visit to Muddy's house.

At Muddy's

 

I don’t have this, but a buddy does. When SIR 52nd St. was closing back in the mid-2000’s, Randy beat us all to cut out the piece of wall that Jeff Beck had signed back in the late 80’s when it was known as Club 52.


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I visited the new Staxx last year. I bought one of those three headed snakes that goes in the middle of a 45 record. It hangs on a chain on my rear view mirror.


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Great story, staxman, and love the brick!

 

Well, now it’s a luxury high rise, but it was a hole in the wall until they tore it down. Lol


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Skynrd ticket from the Scope or Hampton Roads.
Where they didnt show up and Marshall Tucker
played for 4 hours and Tommy Bolin and Deep Purple
another time.

 

I just always took photos.

 

That photo is from 1983 when no one had cameras at concerts.

 

The house where Marvin Gaye wrote/arranged the What’s Goin’ On album and where he lived for a long time and while he recorded it is a mile from my house.

It’s also the house with the backyard that Marvin’s posing in in the raincoat on the back of the LP jacket .

Trips me out because that record is holy to me. Easily in my top 5 of any music.

My bike ride takes me down all the streets he jogged through while getting in shape so he could “try out” for the Lions.

It’s like a living memento every day.

 

Just a kiss , a hug , and a broken heart .

 

I've kept a part from nearly every studio console I've mixed music on: the quad P&G master fader from a Neve 8024, multitrack monitor knob from Neve 8058, a bucket of P&G faders and a panel of eight analog meters from a Solid State Logic 4000 series, stereo analog and digital meter turret from a Neotek console, a whole Neve 10x1 mixer:



a cue knob from an Ampex ATR102:


Oh, yeah, and they are staring right at me: the UREI 811C monitors I mixed several national acts on are now my stereo fronts...


An old pic - see the old CD player?

Oh, and the guitar I played in my first big band back in the '70s and have used on many, many sessions since:


I'm nostalgic.

Bob

 

I saw Iron Maiden at the Garden a few years back. GA floor, standing. Was 10 feet and less from the stage at times.



At the end of the show, the band of course threw out picks, drumsticks, and...I caught Nicko’s wristband in a shower of sweat.




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Ticket stubs.
This is about 1/3rd of the ones I still have...

A few notables:

- Black Sabbath 1982. One of the first concerts I ever went to. I was 12!

- The film Let There Be Rock. The theater had big stacks of PA speakers on either side of the screen.

- Soundgarden opening for Voivod 1990. The Country Club was not a large venue. The place went completely insane for them. A year or two later they were filling arenas.

- Grateful Dead/Bob Dylan. Giants Stadium, Summer 1987. About 20 of us took a rented charter bus to this show. Whatever unhinged debauchery you’re most likely imagining probably happened.

- ZZ Top, Afterburner tour 1986. The entire stage was covered in a massive white sheet. The backdrop was this Sphinx head on a sexy woman's body. When the house lights went down the Sphinx head sucked the white sheet up it's left nostril with a huge "WOOOSH!" like it was a giant pile of Columbia's finest. The stage set looked like the dashboard of an old hot rod. Halfway through the show it transformed into a spaceship's control panel with fog and lasers and flashing lights. It was incredible. Nobody does it like that anymore.

 

I gave away a Molly Hatchet broken drumstick I caught.
Bummer.

 

That 45 RPM record "thingie" is called a Spider.....don't ask me why.

We believe your brick is authentic, staxman.....that's all that counts.