Everyone has regrets in their lifetime, some are pretty
major ones I’m sure but for now I want to mention one of my more annoying
regrets. As a big music fan I am also a collector of certain stuff (or in a posh sense some memorabilia
if you will).
I used to have a collection of concert tickets going way
back to my first proper gig in the mid-seventies, ‘Johnny Winter And – Live At
The New Victoria Theatre, London’, I don’t think the place exists today but I
know I was there and can still prove it. So I always kept my tickets, torn stubs,
wrist bands etc from gigs and festivals but about a year before I moved away from London I stuck them
all on a bedroom wall alongside my collection of gig posters and at the time I
wasn’t too bothered but now about 15 years later I would like to have them in
my possession again but alas I know they were painted over by the tenants who
moved in after I left the premises so that's a no go on that one…
BUT… I did manage to
keep the Johnny Winter ticket stub and as you can see it’s now on display on
the internet alongside a creased ticket of one of my favourite R&B bands from
the eighties ‘The
Inmates’ and also alongside these is the napkin I have kept when many years ago
my parents spotted Paul Jones eating in the same Indian Restaurant as we all were in Paddington, London and asked
him to autograph said napkin and it’s still here today!.
Plus I can’t believe it only cost £1.50 to see Johnny Winter, how
times have changed.
RIP T-Model Ford
RIP T-Model Ford
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