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Post by pinkie on Jun 16, 2015 7:52:34 GMT
Does anybody else keep bits from their past in a box? Old toy cars, letters from girlfriends, cub badges, picture of my first budgie, old football match programs, invoice for my first car from Orpington Car Sales "1967 Sunbeam Imp Reg JKO263E" for £325 And a few musical ones  Yes - I heard Genesis with Phil Collins and Chester Thompson play small venues like the Birmingham Odeon (I heard Steve Hackett play the same venue shortly after on his "Defector" tour - but the ticket didn't make the scrap book Pink Floyds original "The Wall" concert at Earls Court Any number of bands at Uni in Aston - but notably The Beat at the first gig after Freshers Week in 1979 (followed by a little local band supporting Chrissie Hind's Pretenders - UB40 - in a Brum nightclub) But the one I can't find to prove to my parents (who WERE THERE) was playing treble recorder aged 11 at the Gravesend Woodville Halls in a recorder choir - playing Handels music for the royal fireworks. I need to find Sarah Woodin for backup (alto recorder) And going back to Mikes "Musical Influences" any number of concerts with Simon Rattle conducting - but again, I haven't yet found the tickets What's in your scrapbook?  |
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Post by pinkie on Jun 16, 2015 10:25:48 GMT
Just chatting with AK about this and he reminded me that I first joined Pink Triangle whilst at Uni - in my early groupie days with PT - only for 4 months, and then went back to my accountancy studies instead (about 10 years before I eventually joined as Managing Director whilst Neil dealt with his thyroid cancer treatment). That was the Jones twins era too.
Fond memories of that time include
staff meeting on the floor of Arthurs mums kitchen
the litter of Devon Rex kittens which were born at the Sidcup factory and slept behind the boiler which singed their whiskers off each morning when it fired up (the kittens would "play" all over my desk)
The rat snake which lived in the listening room, and would often bask on the metal fire doors in the room
Ah - the days of our youth!
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Post by dvh on Jun 16, 2015 10:36:11 GMT
Does anybody else keep bits from their past in a box? Old toy cars, letters from girlfriends, cub badges, picture of my first budgie, old football match programs, invoice for my first car from Orpington Car Sales "1967 Sunbeam Imp Reg JKO263E" for £325 What's in your scrapbook? I used to have a lot of stuff like that, but it all went astray in a house move (I think it was in a metal trunk that got left in the cellar). Somewhat alarmingly, the missing stuff included my degree certificate! |
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Post by zippy on Jun 16, 2015 11:44:47 GMT
I have tried to keep memorabilia, but in every case it has got thrown out (accidentally or otherwise) when I wasn't looking.
Or in more than one case been sneaked off to boot sales including some rather valuable old books - someone got a bargain there.
I've still got my stamp collection which I was convinced would be worth a fortune by now (after 50 years) but alas not
Sold all my records 25 years ago..
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Post by pinkie on Jun 16, 2015 12:08:56 GMT
Yes - stamp collections - all nostalgia , no cash. I have my Mums album (to which I added nothing of value, and precious little of interest) . It has a penny red, and any number of commenwealth stamps from the beginning of the century - but nothing worth parting with the sentimenal value. I avoid looking at the value of items in my vinyl collection - it bothers me enough what I have to pay now. I suspect my original DSOM would have been worth more if I'd kept the posters  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 16, 2015 12:12:01 GMT
Might have some tickets somewhere. If I do just a small handful Got all sorts of other crap though  and should get rid of a lot of it |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 16, 2015 12:29:41 GMT
I've lost most of these things. Wish I still had my ticket to see Floyd at Knebworth.
However, I do still have my stamp collection including a Penny Black.
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 16, 2015 14:13:50 GMT
I have an envelope full of old ticket stubs and I wince when I see the prices on them as compared to the prices asked for now.
I have one from The Wall at Earls Court too. Rather weirdly, my most enduring memory of that gig is of the presence of a CND stall.
My stamps (also including a Penny Black collected by my grandfather) are still at my parents house!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 14:24:15 GMT
I lost all my Ticket stubs Genesis/Yes/ELP/Tangerine Dream/Hawkwind/Gong etc....As for hobbies anything there was collecting wise, i was doing it lol.
btw pinkies i bought one of the very early Mk.1 PT decks at the time...
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Post by pinkie on Jun 16, 2015 14:58:51 GMT
BTW F307 - so did I. I bought mine in my sandwich year. Was yours one of the covetted slide switch early decks? Mine was, but I traded it for the more reliable, ugly Thorens switch as part of getting my deck fixed. It hummed with an Ortofon VMS20 because the transformer for the power supply sat under the cartridge path! Fixing that was how I first met Arthur.
I am still trying to get him to make me a custom slide switch as part of our "Pimping" project for my turntable - they were SO sexy. But knowing AK as I do he isn't going to get the time. However, I am down for job 1 in a week or so - a bearing "upgrade" to his new non-inverted designs. I understand his reasoning, and he is confident, but I hay me doots. Still, after 20+ years mine is not in the first flush of youth.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2015 19:32:08 GMT
Im saying early be early ish 80's anyway.. Mine was Teak finish with little pink Acrylic Pink Triangle logo on front.. Power switch was Lorin type on PCB with black Long triangle shape switch knob..Sold it bought a Logic 'DM101'
If i had the know how to mod & rebuild like i do now id have probably kept the PT but the 'DM101' i fell in love with the momment i clamped eyes on it..However for some odd reason regardless of the reviews for both these TT's i opted for a nice new J.A Michell 'Focus One' i still use that to this day
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Post by Tim on Jun 16, 2015 19:39:24 GMT
I've got all sorts in my 'ditty box' - old love letters, Navy memorabilia and this was my first ever rock concert.  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2015 5:50:32 GMT
Nice, Tim. My first rock concert was Rick Wakeman.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2015 6:00:27 GMT
What I DO have and completely forgot about are ship's menus and the daily newsletter from my voyage to Australia on the Fairsky and return on the Ellinis. These were scheduled services and it took five weeks each way. I went to school in Oakleigh, Melbourne, during the intervening time. I remember those journeys so vividly, I have loved proper ships (not those ugly cruise liners) ever since. My mind is full of trivia like us having cabin 243 in the Fairsky. Standing aft, watching the wake, feeling the thunder of the engines and squinting at the albatrosses circling, nothing else visible from horizon to horizon, will always stay with me. I'll try and dig the papers out, meanwhile just look at the beauty of the Ellinis. Sadly, both ships have long departed this Earth, meeting their fate in the scrapyards.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 7:57:59 GMT
I never keep stuff but perhaps wish I had, it feels too late to start now. Who would've thought a Uni card would later double as a talisman to ward off trolls Still, nothing can beat the memories I have of my best times. I am sure I have many great memories yet to be made too. On that note: Off to make some now |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 9:27:03 GMT
I've got all sorts in my 'ditty box' - old love letters, Navy memorabilia and this was my first ever rock concert.  Did you get the dark blue programme Tim  |
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Post by pinkie on Jun 17, 2015 11:47:45 GMT
I never keep stuff but perhaps wish I had, it feels too late to start now. Who would've thought a Uni card would later double as a talisman to ward off trolls Still, nothing can beat the memories I have of my best times. I am sure I have many great memories yet to be made too. On that note: Off to make some now It's always reassuring to discover I know who I am after all Andrew. Tom Bert and William will have to gnaw their bones in their cave and be careful to avoid the light of the sun. That rummage in the old box has brought back a lot of happy memories - makes me wonder what I should be adding to it today. I've added some photos, but it is silly things like the id card, an old toy car, a table mat of coiled string I made at infant school, that mean the most. My HiFi souvenir in the box is the Linn Basic cartridge that came with the LV-V arm on my first Pink Triangle. It wasn't fit for anything else! |
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Post by Tim on Jun 17, 2015 17:39:39 GMT
Did you get the dark blue programme Tim I did buy it at the time, don't have it now though André - who knows what happened to it? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 18:59:03 GMT
Must get my arse in gear ihave a full set of ELP Brobhures. being a mega ELP fan boy. go some Pete Sinfield/PFM Programmmes to.
ELP/King Crimson is where my heart lies...odd i dont ha KC Brochure, why i dunnno!
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Did you get the dark blue programme Tim 