The castle was a 'for a few years, hopefully' gift.
I've got her de luxe editions of Beatrix Potter and AA Milne in the past which I'm hoping she'll keep all her life and maybe pass them on if she has children of her own.

I have some wonderful old books passed down from my parents that I treasure - hopefully everything won't be so space-age when she's older that she thinks they're shit and bins them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 20:52, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

When I was 12, I got into the Sweet Valley High books
Over the next however many years, I collected the whole series - close to 100 books. I still have them in a box, as I can't bear to give them away. However, I plan never to have children, and I don't think DJ and Roota are ever going to have them either.

Which makes the whole point of handing something down a little bit stupid, really.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 14 Jul 2011, 20:59, Reply)

I've got my father's Compleat Molesworth,
a load of beautiful 1930s folk tale anthologies, some stuff my grandfather edited like The Oxford Book of Ballads, and a few other lovely tomes. I'm most fortunate.

Sorely lacking in the Sweet Valley High department, though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:03, Reply)

I'm holding out for all my Dad's old 45s.
He used to have loads - he rana mobile disco in teh 70s. I used to help him at soundchecks.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:05, Reply)

To my shame I purloined and sold a lot of my father's 45s in the 80s.
It backfired on me when he emigrated as he gave me his entire (rather depleted) collection. I still got some superb 50s and 60s 45s, including some valuable Elvis records. I'd love a rifle through your old boy's collection - I bet there's some gold in there.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:13, Reply)

there's probably a load of chart shit too
but he had some good albums. Fat Mattress is the most unusual one I remember.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:16, Reply)

All I'll get from my old fella
Is lots of brass band albums. And possibly three cornets.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:19, Reply)

what flavour cornet?
vanilla?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:20, Reply)

THREE cornets
I'll be like Alberto Frog.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:21, Reply)

hahahahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:21, Reply)

I simply cannot be bothered to make a shit ice cream joke here.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:20, Reply)

Oh, I beat you too it.
There's very little beneath me.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:21, Reply)

Noel Redding's band. He played bass for Jimi Hendrix.
Hendrix hired him because he liked his hair - Redding thought he was auditioning for guitarist in The Animals and had never picked up a bass before in his life.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:19, Reply)

*the whole internet yawns and casts its eyes skyward*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:21, Reply)

Not quite
I'm a bit astonished by this nugget.

He was a quick learner then.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:22, Reply)

Lemmy's tale is a similar one.
He'd been a guitarist for some years (he's on the psych oddity 'Elevator' LP by Sam Gopal's Dream, who had no proper drummer) and asked if Hawkwind wanted a guitarist. No, but how about bass? I'll give it a go etc.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:29, Reply)

Seem to think that Jean-Jaques Burnell also followed that route
He was a keyboard player by inclination but Greenwood was a better keyboard player.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:35, Reply)

My best pal Mat plays bass for Death in Vegas,
he's not a bass player either, having fronted shoegazing indie bed-wetters Revolver at the turn of the 90s. He got the job because our mate was managing them or something. It must go on a lot.

Moral: bass is easy
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:41, Reply)

Shake his hand
I like Death in Vegas.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:45, Reply)

Your best mate is Mat Flint?
Blimey. I loved DiV back in the day. I got Dead Elvis back when it came out, and actually thought that The Contino Sessions was a mite overrated, except of course for Dirge which is tremendous.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:46, Reply)

Fascinating band.
And probably the only stone cold legendary band that are all dead.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:24, Reply)

The Ramones are 75% there

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:25, Reply)

He had a top barnet, Noel Redding.
I had a great recording of a R4 documentary about The Experience back when I was doing my A Levels. I think I still have it somewhere.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:22, Reply)

And I just saw that he used Sunn amps.
Fantastic things. No wonder Sunn O))) say that their instruments are their amps rather than their guitars.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 21:26, Reply)