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Apparently Some Things Are *NOT* Priceless After All...
02.21.05 (7:43 pm)   [edit]
I know some of you were a little distressed earlier in the week when you didn't have a chance to bid on the famed "Dogs Playing Poker" painting that [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6...]sold for a whopping $590,000 as part of Doyle’s annual [i]Dogs in Art[/i] auction[/url]. (I'm soooo there next year!) To that end, I saw recently where jazz legend [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/en...]Charlie Parker's sax sold [/url] at auction for a very respectable $260,000. Ok. I realize Parker's coveted alto sax didn't fetch (har!) quite as much as the "Dogs Playing Poker" painting, (c'mon! It's [i][u]dogs...[/u] playing poker![/i]) but its recent sale, coupled with that of the card playing puppies, got me thinking about what music related memorabilia I might bid on, if given the opportunity, and money was no object.

So... here's my question:

[b]If you had unlimited resources and the sky was the limit in terms of what you could spend, what music related item would make you rush to Sotheby's to *ahem* blow your wad? [/b]
 


posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (4:57 pm)

Reply to: Godsmack

Just for the record... I meant *wad* as in cash. Leave it to April to get all dirty on me! ;-) You're crazy, girl.



posted by: irishred (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:00 pm)

wow...590k???



posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:12 pm)

I don't know why I haven't come to your blog before? Or if I have, why I forgot it?
And why would I forget it?
Gosh, I'm all excited now!



posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:30 pm)

Oh and I would buy the violin Ginette Neveu would have played if she had made it to America.
And anything having anything at all to do with Muddy Waters' first guitar.



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:43 pm)

Reply to: irishred


There's no accounting for taste, eh?




posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:44 pm)

Reply to: billlyryan

Clearly, fate was keeping us apart. But no more! Thanks for stopping by! :)



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:46 pm)

Reply to: billlyryan

Whoa! Excellent choices!!

An aside: Once, a few years ago, I had the opportunity to stand in a box above the stage at The Kennedy Center and watch Itzhak Perlman practice alone on stage for a performance later that night. He had no idea that he was being watched by above. Needless to say, it was incredible. What I wouldn't give to have that violin.

Thanks for the comment!

j



posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:48 pm)

Reply to: juniperflux
Stupid fate!
Um...*scrapes toe on ground, hands behind back...* would you like to be my new friend?



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:49 pm)

Reply to: billlyryan

*blushes*

It's about time you asked. :)



posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:51 pm)

Reply to: juniperflux
I would give ANYTHING to have been there.
Even this short story makes me feel like special. I mean, to be able to see something like that in solitude...



posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:52 pm)

Reply to: juniperflux
YIPPEE!!!! WOOHOO!!!! YIPPEEEEEE!!!!
OOH! JUNI IS MY NEW FRIEND! JUNI IS MY NEW FRIEND!!!!!!!
*running through the streets*



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:53 pm)

Reply to: billlyryan

Oh, it is a treasured memory. One of the guides there snuck me in and we spent about 15-20 minutes listening. The ultimate fly on the wall experience. I didn't get to see the performance that night, but I still feel like I got the better show.

Thanks so much for your comments. :)




posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:56 pm)

Reply to: juniperflux
As a sound engineer I always felt the part before the main part was the most intriguing.
I could say so much on this subject though. So watch me shut up!



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (6:58 pm)

Reply to: billlyryan

Feel free to say as much as you want... intelligent, insightful comments are always the best.




posted by: almsthvn (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (8:32 pm)

I'd get something Beatles-ish for my pal Antal who adores them and I'd buy Nick Beggs. Not his guitar the man ;)



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.21.05 (8:36 pm)

Reply to: almsthvn

Well... the real thing is always better than the instrument, Alms. Hands down.

How nice of you to think of your buddy! :)



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 02.22.05 (11:34 am)

I miss that voice terribly.



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.22.05 (12:15 pm)

Reply to: newbie

and it misses you.



posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 02.22.05 (3:26 pm)

tony banks firstt mellotron
robert fripps first guitar
chris squire's first bass
brufords first snare
jon anderson's first vocal chords
bach's undies



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.22.05 (3:33 pm)

Reply to: surrogate

*giggles* at bach's undies. I bet he didn't even wear any.

j



posted by: JT (reply)
post date: 02.23.05 (5:31 pm)

Miles Davis' artwork, and something Zappa-ish for DH.

For me, anything Beatles.



posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 02.25.05 (5:42 pm)

-sigh-

I tried and tried to think of *something* I'd like to own that belonged to a musical god... alas, I have failed. I can not think of something that can be bought. I can not think of some *thing* I would want to own...

If money was not an issue and I could have ANYTHING I wanted...

I'd buy Scott Weiland.



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 02.25.05 (5:55 pm)

Reply to: lindy

I like a woman who knows what she wants. :) Personally, I'm not certain who I'd purchase as my own personal love slave... but your comment gives me something very pleasant to chew on for awhile. :)


j

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