karnsculpture wrote:My favourite items are a signed Quiet Life album with all the signatures including Rob Dean. I'm thinking of splitting the sleeve and having it framed.
I guess my other prized posessions are the tour programmes, which were really well put together and are companions for the albums, particularly the last three "Art of Parties", "Visions Of China" and "Sons Of Pioneers" which have the lovely lettering by Ken Ansell which are on several of the Virgin era singles. I don't want to say how much I have paid for the Japanese tour programmes only to see them more recently much cheaper on Ebay!
My MOST prized Sylvian item is a photo I took of him, black & white, that I sent him a copy of. David returned it signed and on the other side wrote me a letter which is really nice. I have that framed on the photo side and every now and then look at the letter. It's the only communication I've had with Sylvian that was not through one of his team so it is pretty special.
Wow...what a priceless item you have there, Paul...how great of David to sign the photo and then write you a letter on the other side...what an amazing thing to have!
I don't blame you for thinking of splitting and framing your signed Quiet Life sleeve as well. I have Rob's signature on a photo in one of my Japanese magazines from the first time I met him in '83, and then the others on the Blackwater 12" I recently acquired, but to have all 5 together on the same item would be fabulous!
Thanks to old friends in the UK too, I still have programmes from the "Art of Parties" and "Visions of China" tours, plus one from David's "In Praise of Shamans " tour...after all these years and all the moves I have made in the interim, I am grateful I didn't manage to lose those the way I somehow managed to lose all but one of my old copies of Bamboo.