What else do you collect?

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by Michael B

I got through twenty pages of your list. A lot of music I listen/listened to over the years. I thought I was one of the few who liked "Mandinka". My favorite song by Sinead. For the Cure my favorite early songs are "Jumping Someone Elses Train" and "Killing an Arab" though my all time favorite is "Inbetween Days"

I worked at a new wave dance club behind Fenway Park so I heard a lot of this music (Killing Joke, Smiths and others). They did have some surpise guests on ocassion. I got to see The Modettes, Chelsea and the Skatt Brothers and The Vapors in the club next door. After I stopped working there I photographed and interviewed The Fall (Mark E. Smith) and The Waitresses (Chris Butler).

Do you like The Plasics from Japan? I photographed and interviewed them at The Paradise. Saw/photographed the Boomtown Rats and Secret Affair there.

I am also a fan of Juliana Hatfield. First time I saw her I thought she was hot. Fortunate enough to see her in 2 record store shows (MA and DC). Tour with Evan Dando in Arlington, VA about 2006 and one year ago for a free show at the Kennedy Center in D.C. just after the release of her ELO cover album.

Also saw/met/photographed a few of the others - Jam, Siouxsie, English Beat, Specials, Damned, SLF, Suicide, Neighborhoods, Thrills, Unnatural Axe (w/Cheetah Chrome), X, James White and the Blacks (Contortions), Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Fleshtones.

Lastly, nice to see the Mission of Burma 'Academy Fight Song' 45. I still have mine from over 40 years ago. I think it is much better than "...Revolver" which most people preferred. I saw them open up for Gang of Four 1979/1980 in Boston

Really awesome experiences! I grew up a mid-90s indie kid who also loved punk, newwave, darkwave....all that good stuff. With that said, I still have so much love for late 70s/early 80s material. My collection has recently been focusing on late 70s/early 80s UK girl punk/new wave groups (Mo-Dettes, Raincoats, Dolly Mixture, X-Ray-Spex, Marine Girls, etc). Cool to see baseball card collectors also digging great music.

[nebboy]

Alysa - That wine cellar is magnificent!!!

[alywa]

Originally Posted by nebboy

Alysa - That wine cellar is magnificent!!!

Thank you!

[ruth-gehrig]

Wrinkles and gray hairs

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

Really awesome experiences! I grew up a mid-90s indie kid who also loved punk, newwave, darkwave....all that good stuff. With that said, I still have so much love for late 70s/early 80s material. My collection has recently been focusing on late 70s/early 80s UK girl punk/new wave groups (Mo-Dettes, Raincoats, Dolly Mixture, X-Ray-Spex, Marine Girls, etc). Cool to see baseball card collectors also digging great music.

I do not collect cards. I collect Olympic photography and items related to Olympic photographers along with some tickets, programs and autographs. This is the only site where I can enjoy looking at others collecting interests and ocassionally contribute to the conversation.

If you are looking at girl groups from that period you may want to check out The Slits ("Typical Girls" & "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"). The lead singer Ari Up (Arianne Forster) was Johnny "Rotten" Lydons' stepdaughter. She died in 2010 in LA. The original drummer Palmolive (Paloma Romero) left before their first album and formed the Raincoats. She now lives about 2 miles from my wifes stepmother on Cape Cod in Mass. I just found her address and may have to send her the CD booklet from the John Peel sessions to sign if I can find a copy.

There is a good documentary on Poly Styrene called "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché" narrated by her daughter Celeste Bell. I saw it sometime last year on tv. Lora Logic, the sax player on the singles "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" and "Oh Bondage, Up Yours" left before their only album though they used her sax arrangements. She formed her own band Essential Logic. She also played on the Raincoats album. She is now a film maker.

For a non female band check out The Ruts ('Babylon's Burning', 'Jah Wars', 'Staring at the Rude Boys')

I believe I saw Kula Shaker 'Taatva' on your list. The lead singer/guitarist, Crispian Mills is the son of actress Hayley Mills. They are touring in the U.K. this year.

It is interesting to see 'youngsters' wearing t-shirts of the early punk/new wave bands. Plenty of Ramones shirts (Saw them 5-6 times and met them almost as many). The funniest one for me was seeing a teenager wearing a Dead Kennedys tee. I said casually "I saw them in 1980". The kid started bowing. In 2008 my wife and I were in Cabo San Lucas walking back from dinner. A guy was walking towards us wearing some punk/new wave band t-shirt, maybe Iggy/The Jam. I mentioned that I liked the shirt and saw/met/photographed the group. He asked if we wanted tickets to his bands show at Sammy Hagar's club The Cabo Wabo Cantina. Free tickets, sure. It was the band Slightly Stoopid who play a lot of festivals.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by Michael B

Plenty of Ramones shirts (Saw them 5-6 times and met them almost as many).

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, seeing Johnny Ramone walking the aisles of every card show I attended was pretty much a standard thing. He was always looking to buy to add to his collection.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, seeing Johnny Ramone walking the aisles of every card show I attended was pretty much a standard thing. He was always looking to buy to add to his collection.

I would love to add a Johnny Ramone owned card to my PC.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

I would love to add a Johnny Ramone owned card to my PC.

I’ve never seen anything noted as being one of his cards, but here’s a related story - http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.co...ohnny.html?m=1

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, seeing Johnny Ramone walking the aisles of every card show I attended was pretty much a standard thing. He was always looking to buy to add to his collection.

I bumped into him at an old UACC autograph show in NYC in the early 1990's. One of my college acquaintenances went to high school with him.

[Southpaw85]

It's not a 'collecting issue' in this home, rather a 'wall space issue'...

[jfkheat]

Fast cars. I have been into muscle cars since the mid 1970s. I have owned several over the years. I currently have three muscle cars. The first is a 1968 Beaumont SD396 that I have owned for almost 22 years. It originally had a 396 engine with 325 horsepower. It now has a 427 with 543 hp. A year ago this month I bought a 2023 Camaro ZL1 with 650 hp. Last month I bought a 2023 Challenger Hellcat with 717 hp. My daily driver is a 2024 Silverado High Country with 425 hp.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jfkheat

Fast cars. I have been into muscle cars since the mid 1970s. I have owned several over the years. I currently have three muscle cars. The first is a 1968 Beaumont SD396 that I have owned for almost 22 years. It originally had a 396 engine with 325 horsepower. It now has a 427 with 543 hp. A year ago this month I bought a 2023 Camaro ZL1 with 650 hp. Last month I bought a 2023 Challenger Hellcat with 717 hp. My daily driver is a 2024 Silverado High Country with 425 hp.

That's what I like to hear! If you absolutely, positively have to drive somewhere, well you want to get to the next stoplight fast.

Do you favour one piece mag wheels? What's your choice in tires? I'm still a fan of 60 series B.F. Goodrich Radial T/A's.

Which do you prefer? Turbo mufflers or glass packs, e.g. Cherry Bombs?