The question

I have is...

What is the coolest item in your collection?
Not the one most valuable on eBay but the one most valuable to you?

I was playing my copy of Replacements - Shit Hit the Fans and realized I'm lucky it survived many moves and lost tape boxes.

The French double CD pressing of The Jazz Butcher's "Scandal in Bohemia/Sex and Travel".

It does hold the distinction of being the most I ever paid for a single CD ($198.00 on Ebay) and it took me literally years to acquire but if my house was on fire it would be the one CD I would grab (in addition to my IPod).

cause its the first album i ever had and its still my favorite.
darkness on the edge of town-springsteen.
first 45- miss you-stones

i pat myself on the back for being 11 and liking music that doesnt sound timed and is still vital.

cd- steve earle - just an american boy
this one i won in a contest from steve earles website that asked to write about what steve earles music meant to you and they would pick a winner.
he autographed it with a menion of something i wrote so it meant he personally read my ramblings or somebody who read it mentioned it to him.

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Vinyl - David Johansen Group Live picture disc.

CD - Blaggers I.T.A. Bad Karma (still searching for The United Colours of Blaggers I.T.A, enquiry about it would have been one of my first string-ending posts here).

Also pretty fond of NN's Beggars Can Be Choosers, it was a limited run (a few less than Garth Brooks) but has since been re-issued. My vinyl version died in the arse from getting played every weekend.

Paraphernalia - A poster from my first band's first single.

1. The very first thing I bought at the Record Exchange here in Salem, MA, a copy of the Rolling Stones' December's Children's (& Everybody's).

2. A CD copy of Barrence Whitfield & The Savages' 1st album on the French Fan Club label, which I had Barrence autograph for me, as well as a CD EP of outtakes of the said first album which he gave me.

3. A copy of Ray Davies' Storyteller which he autographed after a free gig in Boston in 1998, which was originally supposed to be held at the downtown Borders but which went across the street to the Old South Meeting House due to the numbers of people.

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eventhough i'm not much of a bangs fan, always thought my jook savages on the brazos lp was pretty cool, too.



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This is gonna sound silly, but I treasure a drumstick I got from a House of Freaks show in 1989. Not only as a keepsake of a great show by one of my favorite bands (Johnny Hott played so hard it bounced off the rim of his kit into the audience, landing at my feet - it was nearly shredded in the middle where he's been ponding it), but because it was at a time in my life where I was getting to finally see a lot of my then-favorites at a great venu (Fitzgerald's in Houston) with my sister, with whom I was just establishing an adult relationship, as we were both fresh out of home and no longer doing the sibling bickering thing. It's a little memento of a significant time period.

Does that even make sense?

Makes perfect sense and it sounds like a good memory, Michael. I went through a similar phase with my own sister. Nothing was better for us getting along than no longer living under the same roof.

After a concert on the floor of the theater, I found a Steve Earle pick that he dropped in the crowd, but I can't find the pick now and I have no idea what I did with it.

I have a drumstick of Denis Wilson from the beach boys when they played central park sometime in the late 70S

M. Johnson no more blank edited posts.

Frown.

my "autographed" copy of the Replacements Let it Be lp. It's a bunch of silly pictures Paul and Tommy drew on it outside of Pine Street Theatre in Portland in 1987. Then Paul apologized for scribbling up my album and asked me what I want on it. I said: Whatever Paul, it's your album...

He looked me in the eye for a second, then handed it back to me with the words "Treatment Bound?" on it.

Not a bad observation at all seeing as how I was a skinny little kid slugging a fat bottle of booze with beer chasers outside in this parking lot. I treasure that lp more than anything.

Estimated value: $967 trillion

Freedy Johnston signed my copy of This Perfect World, wrote, "Hi Michael," and drew a picture of a flying Frisbee when I observed in conversation that I had left an Ultimate tournament early to hear his concert.

But that's not particularly valuable.

Now, I have a copy of Game Theory's Lolita Nation on CD, signed by Scott Miller and Gil Ray, two of the members of the band which performed on that (impossible-to-find) classic CD, whose value to a collector would be pretty damned substantial.

i got a signed vinyl copy of the Modern Lovers that i lugged to different shows (I had to pick Ernie Brooks up at the airport and take him to a Jerry Harrison gig so that took care of 2) to get signed by each member. Jonathan was the last and I had to bribe him with a plate of onion rings after a show..................

Hmmm....

I'm liking the fact that I have a good portion of the SUN Records stuff on CD (wish I had it on original vinyl).

My favorite vinyl: "Eddie Angel's Guitar Party" imported from UK--with Boz Boorer laying sleazy sax over some of the dirtiest, rawest, 50s-style guitar instros on the planet.

Apart from all my Trouser Press flexi-discs, I'd say:

(1) My dad's old Ventures LPs, autographed by Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Mel Taylor and Nokie Edwards.
(2) My vinyl copy of Loaded on Cotillion, autographed by Lou Reed.
(3) My Wild Gift LP, autographed by all four members of X.
(4) My CD of Queen's A Day at the Races ... which, when I got it home, turned out to be a Tina Turner album. The packaging said Queen, right down to the printing on the CD itself, but nope. I kept it because it was an amusing artifact, and because the Tina album (Break Every Rule) isn't half-bad. (Ironically, it includes a song called "What You Get is What You See.")