my collection of rolling stones stuff is very small but this is what i have

my cds
40 licks
still life
voodoo lounge
bridges to babylon
emotional rescue
flashpoint
goats head soup
rocknroll circus
hotrocks big hits and fazed cookies
stripped
jump back
beggers banquet
no security
tattoo you
undercover
exile on mainstreet
get ya yas out
its only rocknroll
and the 8 collectable cds that virgin put out
now look
talk is cheap
mick jagger (the one with sweet thing )
i have also included the best of the faces because of ron wood
and toots and the matals because of keith

record
30 rolling stones albums from gimmie shelter - sucking in the seventies - tattoo you

about 10 rolling stones tapes

news paper clippings

dvds
live at the max
stones in the park
bridges to babylon
toronto sars
keith richards live at the hollywood palladium 1988
faces dvd the best of
four flicks
just for the record
bent
the man from elesian feilds
free jack

1 green tongue t-shirt from the hongkong show and ticket (ha ha ha)
40 licks tour shirt and one of those fake back stage pass which i got at the last honkong show,mick jagger tour t-shirt,voodoo loung t-shirt and one of the 3dkey rings.

a poster of the 40 licks tounge

well my collection pretty small but its a start

I have a big collection: albums, books, posters, a lot of bootlegs.
But sorry, I'm not gonna write down all my stuff.

'In the sweet old country...'

It's not important how big your collection is, as long as you enjoy what you have! I remember going to big Stones-events in Holland. A Band would play, and there were traders / sellers of Stones stuff. Always the same 50 / 75 people wouls show up. The only thing they did was talking to eachother about what great stuff they had, and 'no I'm not going to share this with you'. Especially when you were a young kid like I was back then (about 17). They just wouldn't take you serious because you were 30 years younger then them. How can you really like the Stones when you haven't seen them live in 1973...............? I can still remember I bought my first bootleg on one of these fairs (100% odd lots). It had The Sun is Shinging on it from Altamont. I told the guy who sold it that I wanted the record because of this song and that I didn't had the Altamont concert yet. He looked at me with such petty....Told me I was not a real Stones fan (good selling point!). After a year or two I stopped going to these ego-meetings. Found a very good trader, so didnt need to go anymore. My point: You can be a fan even if you own only 1 tape of the Stones. (needless to say that Sway must be on this tape, otherwise it doesn't count....).

Ok, this will save me my next visit to my shrink.........

i did not mean this post in a bad way

i just thought it would be fun

anyway sorry

i did not mean this post in a bad way

i just thought it would be fun

anyway sorry

I know! But your topic brought back some memories!

Potted Shrimp, you are right:
you can be fan with one tape - even without Sway on it.


'In the sweet old country...'

One could even be the biggest fan of all without owning a single tape or cd, by strictly having learned their whole catalogue by heart.

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"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"

All official CDs from RS Records
News clippings
Stickers
Posters
12 Remastered Decca
3 LPs
Four Flicks pick
bootlegs
DVDs

Quite a lot now that I think about it.

JumpingKentFlash

Hang Fire Wrote:
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> Potted Shrimp, you are right:
> you can be fan with one tape - even without Sway
> on it.
>
>
> 'In the sweet old country...'


No Hang Fire, Sway has to be on it (seriously)

Potted Shrimp Wrote:
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>
> No Hang Fire, Sway has to be on it (seriously)
>


Explain!


'In the sweet old country...'

It's the Stones trademark song IMHO. But if the tape didn't have the song, you could still be a fan (I was just trying to squeeze in my personal favorite in the thread)!

I understand.
But I think more stones-songs (and not only the warhorses) are trademark-compositions. Sway is very good indeed!

'In the sweet old country...'

The official albums (vinyl and CD + some official tapes)
Some singles
Some maxi-singles
Some CD-singles
7 books
a couple of tounge-shaped earrings
A bunch of boots from the 65-tour to Licks (CD)
10 LP-bootlegs
4 Bootleg tapes

That's about it...

all the officials on vinyl and cd
a lot of boots (200-300 vinyl+cd)
about 30 books
12 signed pics
handwritten letter from brian
2 handwritten letters from mick
signed guitar
1 signed album with brian
2 signed albums with ronnie
copy of a painting of mick from andy warhole signed by andy warhol
1 acetate album let it bleed
promotional album
songs of the rolling stones
about 10 promo's of regular albums
a lot of demos 7"
18 backstage passes
about 30 dvds
t shirts, and other gadgets

Potted, your story made me laugh. I've come across sad old tossers like that. Did you see 'High Fidelity'? The guys in the record shop have the same superior sneering, attitude to everyone who comes in.

Tseverin Wrote:
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> Potted, your story made me laugh. I've come across
> sad old tossers like that. Did you see 'High
> Fidelity'? The guys in the record shop have the
> same superior sneering, attitude to everyone who
> comes in.


Hahaha, yes I saw it! I actually work in a record-store, so it was very funny to see the movie! Only one difference: the scences you are revering to were funny. Yhe guys who had all the stuff when I was 17 were not! (Mr. Black played briljant in that one, check out Tenecious D. graet parody on Dio ect...)

Every official US and UK vinyl record you can possibly image. Promos, Juke box, Stock copies, all in multiple variations....its a sickness of mine.
Recently completed a complete set of Decca 7" demos.

JR

I have all the studio albums they did for Decca in the 60's(in mono!) and all the Atlantic stuff going forward. I have no idea how many boots I have but it's lots, that much is certain. Other than the odd poster and signed photo that's it.

So huge it has it's own address.

The UN sent weapons inspectors in there and they never came out. All I see are some CDs on the outside of it, god knows whats going on in there.

a Keith pic from Bercy...

Not Big Enough.....but I'm working on it.....ROCKMAN

the main part of my collection is in my head: MEMORIES

and you can't buy them anywhere...

Very well said, saintmick!

Unfortunatly I have not been able to put a collection together. I have put bids in on Ronnie and Keith on EBAY but have been out bid every time. Some day I hope to collect them all.

Saintmick said it all.

Excellent post. I collect and have things that make me laugh from each one of em.

I can remember that around the days of the steel wheels tour I actually started to collect boots and stuff. Then I met this guy, the brother of a friend of mine who actually used to be one of the most popular Italian bootleggers (and probably still is, I don't know) and I realized what a "true" collection was about. I swear: he had a whole room full (and I mean FULL) of all possible official releases from all around the world, boots, LPs, cassets, etc. etc.
The place looked like Virgin megastore!
That very day I gave up all my ambitions to be a collector.

C

The vinyl pretty much long ago wore out
and I replaced the whole set on cd and
remasters and now I'm archiving it,
especially the boots, on MP3. I've
bought and swapped to copy a couple
of hundred of these and am now doing
the same for the dvds. But nothing
ever recaptures the thrill of your
first Stones record/ disc/ tape
whatever, so enjoy!

My Rolling Stones Collection?

My bathroom is in the process of becoming Stones-all-over!

The walls are already done. They have the Brian pooltiles I bought of ebay.

At the moment Ronnie Wood is in there doing a nice painting of Mick and Keith on the ceiling -- I just brought him a nice cuppa and a cucumber sandwich.

Next to me toothbrush (converted from Charlie's drumsticks) I'll put a glass for rinsing, and a glass with Keith' rotten teeth from the seventies. For decoration purposes. I got them through the Royal Dental Society.

Nellcote's sink is a souvenir I collected in France last year.

The shower curtain will be provided by using Mick's cape of Stars and Stripes and Union Jack he wore back in '81. Some holes need mending.

To keep my feet warm while taking a shit, I cut a nice little carpet out of Keith' panther coat of the Bridges tour.

Last but not least I convinced Chuck to sell me his rubber bath-duck wich will proudly rule my bathtub.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-01-15 20:33 by Limbostone.

Potted Shrimp Wrote:
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> It's not important how big your collection is, as
> long as you enjoy what you have! I remember going
> to big Stones-events in Holland. A Band would
> play, and there were traders / sellers of Stones
> stuff. Always the same 50 / 75 people wouls show
> up. The only thing they did was talking to
> eachother about what great stuff they had, and 'no
> I'm not going to share this with you'. Especially
> when you were a young kid like I was back then
> (about 17). They just wouldn't take you serious
> because you were 30 years younger then them. How
> can you really like the Stones when you haven't
> seen them live in 1973...............? I can still
> remember I bought my first bootleg on one of these
> fairs (100% odd lots). It had The Sun is Shinging
> on it from Altamont. I told the guy who sold it
> that I wanted the record because of this song and
> that I didn't had the Altamont concert yet. He
> looked at me with such petty....Told me I was not
> a real Stones fan (good selling point!). After a
> year or two I stopped going to these ego-meetings.
> Found a very good trader, so didnt need to go
> anymore. My point: You can be a fan even if you
> own only 1 tape of the Stones. (needless to say
> that Sway must be on this tape, otherwise it
> doesn't count....).
>
> Ok, this will save me my next visit to my
> shrink.........
>
> So Keith, what was your inspiration naming the
> album Let it Bleed? 'I'll tell you what it would
> have been now: It would have been your face!'


You're right about that. It's not important how big your collection is. It's about the feeling/emotions you have with their music. It's got nothing to do with the size of your bootleg collection. Of course it's great when you have a big collection of rare memorabilia and cd's/lp's. Especially when you're a collector. It's like Keith said: Music is the language of your soul. I used to buy a lot of bootlegs. But everytime to boughta new cd, you just listen once or twice and it dissapears for years with the rest of your collection. So I sold a lot of shows I didn't listen to or shows wich I tought it was not interesting enough anymore. I just have the from wich I think it was a good show or the sound quality of the bootleg is great. And of course all the show's I've been to. If can collect as much Stones stuff as you want to but you must know where the border is. It's not cheap. But that's personally