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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)