Looking for a place to post some of my music Ephemera. Surely with all the amazing experience people have with music there would be an interest and lots of cool stuff to show. I am currently starting a project putting a lot of my stuff into presentation form.
I have been collecting things from shows and festivals for years. I have been holding on to some of this stuff to upwards of 30+ years. Lots to go through.
Did you catch that pick thrown by a cool guitar player, do have a cool announcment about your old favorite band in your old CD holder or in one of your old Vinyl records?
Anyone have venue art from shows that they have attended? Thats my favorite because it’s unique to locations.
I am hopeful that members will post some photos of their memororable items that have saved. The cool art from events you put away and forgot about years ago.
My current project is venue and show posters and Ticket stubs my wife and I have been to, over the years.
This first one was an amazing show. My wife was pregnant and washington DC was pretty tense at the time. The wife was a big Kyuss fan, us desert people all have the same mindstate I guess.
So many are odd sizes also. I have a mat cutter I need to order some new matting for the odd shaped ones. Also more frames. I will add a few at a time. Just another project. I have another 4 venue posters read to go.
Yes this is true, usually hand bills or announcements, ticket stubs, area or evet passes and even car parking passes.
So yes strictly speaking, It’s a nitch type of thing but a lot of people keep that stuff. But since we have niether in the forum and I have both, I lumped it all in togeather.
The Queens Of The Stone Age show announcment poster and World Creole both actually qualify as ephemera. The QOTSA poster was out of a small bar in Arlington, Virginia that had them promoting the show.
The Islands were amazing. Cant even describe here.
I am very thankfull for the ones we still have.
We lost a lot over the years and some of the stuff never even survived the drive home from the event.
Aah, would love to collect stuff, but my cramped space is already cramped with amps, pedals, books and guitars… There’s no more room for anything else.
But please, anybody, feel free to put your memorabellia here. So all of us can enjoy that…
@Ontime, are you using something like the definition from this Ephemera Society page, which calls ephemera “vintage printed or written items which originally served some specific purpose and were not expected to be retained or preserved, but which are now cherished”?
If so, I do have quite a collection of ephemera, but most of it isn’t music-related unless it’s also school-related, and no one needs to see the program from my eighth-grade winter band concert. Happy to ogle other people’s collections if they feel like sharing, though!
I dont know that sound sort of cool tbh. As long as you or someone has that page it can be said
“The written achievement of Crystal’s flutist skills are embedded in the noble pages of history.”
Scan it and send the scan to your Middle School and maybe they will archive it for life. You might be suprise, and find that they don’t have it and the school achivist or librarian, would love to get a good resolution copy of it.
That’s a generous perspective! And if we were talking about a stranger I’d be right there with you. It’s hard to feel part of the noble pages of history when I remember being in them, apparently.
Actually, that’s a great idea. Somehow I forget that my hoarded tidbits might have value to someone else, which is kinda dumb of me considering that for a while I thought I might end up an archaeologist. My high school even put out a call just last year for old school-related items to go in their museum. Duh, me.
Your Learning Log might be the best place to ‘curate’
Anyone wanting to know more about you will find it there. The nature of these threads is that they will get a couple of responses before plummeting into oblivion (I used to love going there! )
I’ve probably shared most of my music-related ‘stuff’ already but am happy to play ball and regurgitate…
Pride of place is my David Byrne bootleg tape of Johnny Dowd’s debut album, which Jim White sold me so he could replace his floorboards. The tape now lives in a hole in my guitar. (some correspondence included)
Then there’s Johnny Dowd’s mobile he made with his sister, hanging over the spot I played with him and his band in our living room (with a bit of art from Martin Stevenson (Daintees) tagged on at the botttom)
The hat Jim White wore at a gig in The Deaf Institute, Manchester. I bought it at the end of the gig when he sells clothes in his ‘Shirt off my Back’ campaign, raising money for Doctors without Borders
Don’t have much true “ephemera” but I’ve picked up a fair bit of memorabilia in recent years at various shows. Didn’t really get into live music much until I moved to the town where I live now where it’s a pretty significant part of local culture.
Most recent was from Eric Gales at a local blues fest last weekend. Eric and his wife themselves set up and were running the merch table after the show. That particular show was like the actual day his new album was released I think (tribute album to his older brother). He signed the cd for me. I actually didn’t ask for the photo, since that’s not really my thing. He’s the one that asked if I wanted one and I told him I wouldn’t say no.
I’ll have to go take photos of some of the stuff, but I’ve picked up quite a few concert posters. Some were purchased already signed, but my favorite ones are the ones that I got the musicians to sign. I have a serious backlog of getting these things framed and hung on the walls.
Its really cool when the bands are running their own merch tables.
This is how my wife got us on the busses after the dropkick Murphys pennywise and The Scratch show.
We met the guys from The Scratch and my wife got some of thwir stuff signed. She told them of a fancy donut place near by and offered to bring some donuts after the show and they said if you bring donuts after come on back. So we did. Partied up with the bands. Unfortunatly pennywise was splitting for a differet gig and was leaving so we did not hang with them.
Happy to ogle other people’s collections if they feel like sharing, though!
My high school even put out a call just last year for old school-related items to go in their museum. Duh, me.
)
