I don't have any really rare expensive stuff, but my signed O.U. vinyl sleeve is probably my most cherished possession period, forget Pulp related. Plus it's a reminder of pretty much the greatest two days ever.
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It would have to be a picture of myself and Candida at the Sheffield sound city show circa '93. Oh and of course all the happy memories, past, present and future..
They are very nice, also i think my 'Maureen' & 'Simultaneous' Handwritten lyrics are pretty special. And the correspondence from 'Russell'.. I just did'nt want to come over as a smug cunt but now i suppose its too late.
Wow, how did Maureen and Simultaneous come about? Pick them up from the floor of a gig or something?
I've got Mark E. Smith's handwritten lyrics to 'Telephone Thing'. Despite being a Fall fan it took me a couple of years to work out quite which song they were from. Looked like a child forging a sick note from a parent.
stephen, those handwritten jarvis notes are really neat! i watched a busy stage-guy crumple up and toss to the side what i was sure were jarvis' notes following pulp's second coachella weekend set :( i was horrified.
The lyrics are from a long time ago, i just asked him for them. Mind you he could'nt quite remember all the words to 'simultaneous..Somethings never change do they? Hybrid car? No Fred, i dont drive. I know what you mean about Fall lyrics, There is an awful lot of them and every line finishes with an 'err'
I'm sure Paul Mills would have if he'd thought of doing so! Maureen was pretty much his favourite Pulp song, hence asking them if he could release it on his DIY cassette tape label.
Ive got a ticket signed, TIH album signed and a set list signed (Jarvis and other different band members) Ive also got the other half of a cig Jarvis gave be on stage, and two beer bottle's Jarvis has shared with me while on stage. (both now empty lol) Ive got a few rare vinyls and stuff too, but they have been in my mum and dads attic for so long :( I've kinda forgot what i have.
Where do I start? My "My Lighthouse" 7" (of which I have two), My "Everybody's Problem" 7" (of which I have two), My "Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)" 12"...and so forth until my "Bad Cover Version" CDs! Sorry!
Why do you have two of each, Ian? Didn't you sell an MOTU 12" once that was signed to you? Surely losing an unsigned early single would be less traumatic than flogging that...?
My Lighthouse - I bidded on two at the same time assuming I would lose one but in the end I won both. Everybody's Problem - I got the second dirt cheap.
Yes, I did. The things one will do in times of poverty :(. I've since re-bought it though, just without the signatures.
My one item would probably a photo I have with me and Russell that I sadly can't find at the moment (packed away in a frame somewhere). Or the postcard from Jarvis in which he writes: "...I have the utmost respect for you & that isn't a thing I say lightly I tell you." Still makes me feel a little wobbly when I look at it, to be honest...
Fred, most Pulp gigs have those these days. It's Jarvis' notes on the events that are to be commemorated on that day. I have this for Glastonbury - it also reminds him to throw out frisbees into the crowd.
Got the vinyl signed in San Francisco back in 1996 (posted this pic from the record store signing a while back).
I was never really sure what the story was behind the postcard. It just showed up one day in my mailbox. Remember these were the days of aptly-termed snail mail. It was either a response to our fanzine (I think the timing made that unlikely) or I might have written some weepy fanmail or something.
I have the inserts from the Different Class CDs framed on my wall. I bought it twice so I could display all 12 photos at once and I'm really hoping I can get at least one of them to sign their respective insert at the Sheffield show. I'd rather have the vinyl inserts but I'd probably end up spending hundred quid at the least to get my hands on them. Both CDs only came to a fiver.
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Can i just mention that those 'Maureen/Simultaneous' lyric sheets i aquired around '92/'93. Sorry if i mislead you into thinking they we're from a much earlier time.
If anybody wants a copy of the DC CD with 12 covers seek out your nearest That's Entertainment shop. They frequently have multiple copies at a low price. Not often in mint condition though.
I was going to keep a haribo I caught when Jarvis threw them into the crowd once, but got tempted and ending up eating it a few minutes later. So it would have to be my copy of the His 'N' Hers promo book, signed by all the band, that I won in a Pulp People competition. The question I answered correctly was something to do with Bond theme tunes.
Well it's not actually mine...it's my brother's...but it would be his cassette copy of Different Class bought October 1995. The first Pulp product brought into the house. Not just my most treasured Pulp item but my most treasured music item. I had shoved in a video cassette into the VCR a few weeks previously and caught their performance of Mis-Shapes on TOTP which inspired my bruv to buy DC. I think they were on before an exclusive of Mariah Carey performing 'Fantasy' via satellite. I remember a blond haired male presenter saying something like: 'I wandered lonely as a cloud/I saw a woman all beautiful and hairy/I said I know you, you're that Mariah Carey!' I expect it's on YouTube now. I remember it well. A couple of Milka bars from the pound shop that day too. It's almost a year ago now since that glorious resurrection of the past but with a new twist ('new age fun with a vintage feel'...anyone?) at EP festival September 2011. And what... 16 years since I saw them back in 1996. Time goes by so fast. Sometimes the 1990s seems like a completely different world never mind a different class. I wonder was I ever really there or am I ever really here! My heart is back there for sure. Britpop feels like a different world or dimension. If I could time travel I'd be right back there but a bit older - as I was still single digits when I first got into Pulp I never got to experience the debauchery to its full extent.
It was a portal to a different world that album. Which is strange cos part of Pulp's power was reflecting what you were already experiencing. I guess they amplified it all.
I once turned down the chance to buy the interchangable sleeve DC for £3.50. Why? Because I "had all the tracks already" and couldn't justify the price (!). I was a teenager then.
And nowadays I regularly bid £20 quid for the privilege of owning this...and always get outbid :(
I found the images online and assigned each image to a different track of the album on iTunes. Some images it was obvious which picture went with which song, others weren't so obvious.
I've only got four of the songs on my phone to check but I've got Mis-shapes: Jarvis behind coach, Bar Italia: three of them in cafe (no brainer), Common People (Donkeys - one of the ones where neither images made total sense, but this made a weird sort of logic), mis-shapes: wedding scene - ahh!)
I was in Bar Italia again on Saturday. They really do a most excellent cup of tea.
I'm not sure the pictures do have much inline with the songs, do they? I Spy and Underwear obviously, but the others are tenuous if they do have connections at all...
I went to Bar Italia after the albert hall, it was fun. I think my most treasured Pulp item would be the copy of Intro I found in a shop a few weeks back.
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Some do. Bar Italia, Disco 2000 (couple of school kids), I think Misshapes suits the coach scene well with the bratty kids pulling faces at him. It's just occurred to me: isn't there one of mark in a supearket carpark? That could be Common People.
I once turned down the chance to buy the interchangable sleeve DC for £3.50. Why? Because I "had all the tracks already" and couldn't justify the price (!). I was a teenager then.
And nowadays I regularly bid £20 quid for the privilege of owning this...and always get outbid :(
Where on earth are you finding the vinyl for 20 pounds? I've never seen it cheaper than $100 online
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While browsing through the new Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide 2013 in Waterstones this morning my eye was drawn to the DC interhangeable covers LP and it is valued at £50 if my memory serves me correctly. It's weel worth popping into your local bookstore and seeing what RC have to make of various Pulp values.
Such a waste : at camden market there is a t shirt stall with the i Spy interchangeable cover really low down on a the wall - practically on the floor below loads of tshirts! I fancied asking if he'd sell me the record which was probably knocking about somewhere (In the end I didn't because I thought people would think I was strange)
Oh 40 euros is a lot better than the ones I've seen though. I have the repressing (it was still kind of expensive because it's an 'import' here) but one day I'd like the one with the interchangeable covers.
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Well, I finally have something old worth adding to this list. Not as wonderful as Jarv's stage notes, but still pretty great. I was going to scan it in for the Pulpwiki, but the guy who sold it to me has already done so! Still, pretty wonderful to have.
Fairly sure I'm safe to say that this - the third Pulp gig - is the first Pulp concert that was advertised with a flyer/poster (or at least, the first to have an extant flyer) and, whilst it's neither a recording nor a photo of the gig, it's still pretty exciting.
Stephen, I'm glad it's you who ended up with that flyer. It is a nice bit of memorabilia. I was going to bid on it myself - but left it to the last minute and then forgot.
Cheers Will! I didn't actually have the winning bid, but as the original flyer was actually printed twice on an A4 sheet, so the seller split it intn two A5 sheets and gave me a 2nd chance offer. My copy is rather more faded than the one on the wiki tho!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pulp-Common-People-RARE-Jamie-Hewlett-comic-book-1995-Gorillaz-/110976527305?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&_trkparms=aid=111000&algo=REC.CURRENT&ao=1&asc=14&meid=3670755045093340764&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=1&sd=110976527305&&nma=true&si=62OBYDJz28OliciyXIk72yASluU%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc Literally just won this, it will be treasured!
Nice purchase! I found it online for £8 once (described as 'cd with booklet') but frustratingly it had sold in 'real life' before my payment got to them.
Rare and pretty pricey, aye. Especially with the Jamie Hewlett connection. On another rarity note, just found Blur-ti-go in a charity shop for £4. The assistant thought it overpriced and wanted only £2, but my vague morals prevailed!
Stephen : Yep...going to pop my flyer in a frame too. Will add it to my "wall of inspiration" in my little 'Studio' in the spare room. As for the Jamie Hewlett Pulp comic...there was a time when the Notting Hill MVE had what seemed like an inexhaustible supply of the things. That was some years ago though. May have a copy or two still knocking about 'under the counter' though if you were to ask?