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Gary

Not Old, Just Older........

About Me

Rock fan of 30+ plus years since seeing Sweet on TOTP performing Blockbuster. Pretty much downhill since that day really, despite a brief daliance with other less exotic hobies (stamp collecting, trainspotting anyone? OK, I was VERY young) it's been music ever since. Favourite bands over the years have been (in more or less chronological order) Sweet, Madness, Quo, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Wildhearts, Robin Black / Wildhearts.Hold down a pretty sensible job by day, but experience problems keepig my hair in check.Been writing a best selling novel for the past 5 years. Life And Times Of A Record Collector... one of these days...

My Interests

Record / CD Collection, expensive Hi-Fi, Gigs, Creating Rock Art. Pretty much anything music related.

I'd like to meet:

Met many people over the past few years - most recently Dee Snider / JJ French, and just last month Jon Lord of Deep Purple, a very nice man indeed. Met many of the heroes listed below. Of those I've not yet met? I guess Axl. Brian Connolly is kinda out of range.

Music:

Wildhearts, Robin Black, Dogs D'Amour, Neil Leyton, Ky Anto, Hanoi Rocks, Ginger, Tommy Bolin, The Sweet, Pink Floyd, Motley Crue, The Mighty Quo, Poison, and any big hair metal! And AntiProduct

Movies:

Jason and the Argonauts, Planet of the Apes (original, naturally), Trick Or Treat, The Descent, Sixth Sense, Airheads, Fever Pitch.

Television:

Lost, Twin Peaks, Funland, Spooks, Men Behaving Badly, Coupling

Books:

Anything by Patrick Tilley or Harlen Coben. John Wyndham. Rock biogs.

Heroes:

Ginger, Axl, Robin Black, Ky Anto, Alex Kane, Brian Connolly, Tyla.

My Blog

The Life and Times Of A Record Collector - Chapter Two

The Quest and Its Rules From a collectors perspective, the object of my desire is almost secondary  it's the collecting bug that I really want to drill down into, and how it can drive your decisions,...
Posted by Gary on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:42:00 PST

The Life And Times Of A Record Collector - Chapter One

1. How It All Began It all really started for me in December 1972 or January 1973, one Friday afternoon. I was quietly watching Crackerjack - as you did in 1973, this was in the days of Michael Aspel ...
Posted by Gary on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:31:00 PST

Robin Black

Just read that Robin Black's on his way back to the UK next year. So excited I could..... well, you know. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"!!
Posted by Gary on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:08:00 PST

The year so far

Just thought I'd share my thoughts on best albums of the year so far.... New Cheap Trick CD, Rockford. A real return to form after the disappointing Special One. Muse, Black Holes is just an awesome p...
Posted by Gary on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:43:00 PST