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Clapton's 'The Fool' Gibson SG
Chris P.:
Okay, I believe Leslie has a nice collection.
Well, let's find out!
Basvarken:
With my friends it is customary to buy silly things for each other's birthday. You go to one of them shops where they have all sorts of nick nackeries. You buy an ugly reproduction of "the boy with the tear" or the "gypsy girl". Or you buy old vinyl records of "Henk Wijngaard" or "Racey".
When you really want to get "even with your friends you give these things back at their own birthday and you act surprised.
That is our kind of fun. This year I got Heino, Demis Roussos and Nana Mouskouri...
About ten years ago I got a very silly LP with a very silly cover with four people wearing colourful clothes that seemed to be inspired by fairytales.
It was a record by the band called The Fool. I had never heard of that bunch of hippies and the music was really awful. Lots of fun at the party!
I kept the record for a few years and at a certain point I needed and old vinyl record for another birthday. So I took that ugly record by the silly band The Fool and sprayed the vinyl gold and made a personalised cover and glued it on top of the cover.
A few years later I found out this record is a collectors item. People pay top dollar for that record...
:o
exiledarchangel:
--- Quote from: Basvarken on October 03, 2008, 09:08:28 AM ---This year I got Heino, Demis Roussos and Nana Mouskouri...
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Oh my! What did you do to deserve that? Their "music" is really awful, even for Greeks!
Blazer:
--- Quote from: Basvarken on October 03, 2008, 09:08:28 AM ---Or you buy old vinyl records of "Henk Wijngaard".
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Funny that you mention Henk Wijngaard, when my boss Jan Knooren used to work for Telstar records, one of the albums he played bass on was Wijngaard's breakthrough album. Eversince then we refer his seventies Fender Jazzbass that he used on that one as the "Vlam in de pijp" bass.
But it could be worse, because he also used that bass on the recording of THIS track...
Oh well, just working for a living here, he told me that he was given a sheet a played whatever was on it, it was recorded and released, that's the way it workd with studio musicians.
Chris P.:
Real nice stories only Dutch people understand:D I guess mr. Wijngaard didn't had any hit records in the US of A? ;)
@ Basvarken: We do the same things:)
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