Skybone Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Obviously have copies of the recorded music, though there are a couple of missing items (early band demo's & gig tapes), got a few magazines with interviews & promotion stuff and pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 1 hour ago, MacDaddy said: We're going to have to start a thread where we can post some of this stuff 😆 Go on then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 2 hours ago, BigRedX said: Go on then... Modesty forbids... 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Got all the old demo tapes and CDs, press kits, and a bunch of flyers. Also got most of the magazines we got reviewed in, the programme from when we played Bloodstock 2003, and a bunch of backstage passes. I was thinking of making a display case with stuff from each band, but never quite got around to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted September 22, 2023 Author Share Posted September 22, 2023 Something I did with all my old photos was put together a photobook with a section for each band. Bonusprint has a great program that you can download and let's you import your photos and has lots of superb effects and editing tools. Once you have created it, you then ping the order off and they will print it up. You can choose book size, hardback/softback, glossy how many pages and all manner of effects. It's up to you on how creative you want to be but it's super easy to use and a book of about 140 pages was about £120. As I've played for 37 years, I cant get all the bands in one book, so book 1 is from 1987 to 2012, book 2 which I am working on now is 2017 - 2020 and book 3 is from 2020 onwards. Maybe they'll be a book 4 depending on how much longer I keep playing for. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thump Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 You spelled "coincide" wrong in the book Sounds like quite a few people here have lots of stories to share The only book i've been in was the phone book 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted September 23, 2023 Author Share Posted September 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Thump said: You spelled "coincide" wrong in the book Sounds like quite a few people here have lots of stories to share The only book i've been in was the phone book. I know, I think there's about 3 spelling mistakes in the book, and to think I had it proof read by two other people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len_derby Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 I used to be a bit of a squirrel and keep things from my hobbies and jobs. What changed my mind was doing house clearances for deceased family members. It’s a gruelling burden that I decided I didn’t want to subject my children to. So, I’ve had a big clear-out and I’m now very strict about what I keep. It’s a sobering thought that stuff we felt was important to keep will one day be recycled or thrown away with barely a second glance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted September 23, 2023 Author Share Posted September 23, 2023 16 minutes ago, Len_derby said: I used to be a bit of a squirrel and keep things from my hobbies and jobs. What changed my mind was doing house clearances for deceased family members. It’s a gruelling burden that I decided I didn’t want to subject my children to. So, I’ve had a big clear-out and I’m now very strict about what I keep. It’s a sobering thought that stuff we felt was important to keep will one day be recycled or thrown away with barely a second glance. That reminds me of this that I read the other day, 'Have you ever thought about this? In 100 years like in 2123 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance.' Anon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 I used to keep a gig list of the last 7 years, but I had moved it onto the cloud only and I accidently deleted it during lockdown and didn't notice it for over 3 months (which is how long it stays in the bin). Since then I haven't bothered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franticsmurf Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 11 hours ago, Linus27 said: Something I did with all my old photos was put together a photobook with a section for each band. Bonusprint has a great program that you can download and let's you import your photos and has lots of superb effects and editing tools. Once you have created it, you then ping the order off and they will print it up. You can choose book size, hardback/softback, glossy how many pages and all manner of effects. It's up to you on how creative you want to be but it's super easy to use and a book of about 140 pages was about £120. I did this too. I had so many bits of paper and printed photos floating around that I decided to digitise them in 2019 - the 30th anniversary of my first gig. I do a lot of trekking and keep diaries, turning them and the photos into journals that I get into photobooks. So I decided to do this with the band memorabilia too. I used 'Blurb' as I like their design options and the quality is good. During lockdown it became a project to write a narrative to link all the photos and posters etc and I ended up with this: I'm actually part way through the updated version now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franticsmurf Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Linus27 said: That reminds me of this that I read the other day, 'Have you ever thought about this? In 100 years like in 2123 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance.' Anon I have a lot of photos from travel and trekking and during a reflective moment I was thinking along the same lines. But I understand that the British Library are occasionally interested in collections of diaries and journals from us normal folk and I have plans to contact them to see if this is indeed the case. After all, the quote above can also be taken as a call to preserve some of those possessions, memories and histories. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowB_FTW Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 7 hours ago, Woodinblack said: I used to keep a gig list of the last 7 years, but I had moved it onto the cloud only and I accidently deleted it during lockdown and didn't notice it for over 3 months (which is how long it stays in the bin). Since then I haven't bothered Always have a backup. And back that up too. I only ever use online services as backup, I always have two offline backups. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 1 hour ago, LowB_FTW said: Always have a backup. And back that up too. I only ever use online services as backup, I always have two offline backups. I thought I did, but turned out I didn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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