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Posted by GEOFF.B (86.150.134.12) on 06:09:44 02/January/12
In Reply to: Rave Flyer Flyers Collector History Page *Help Needed* posted by Blayboy
Q1: What is the most extreme thing you have done to get a flyer?
NOT SPEAKING FOR MYSELF BUT A FRIEND OF MINE ONCE OFFERED TO DECORATE A MUTUAL FRIEND OF OURS BEDROOM IN ABOUT LATE 91'. IT TURNED OUT HE HAD ACTUALLY BAUGHT ALL THE GEAR, STEP LADDERS, PAINTS, BRUSHES, ILL FITTING NAFF NAFF T-SHIRT!! AND OFFERED OUR PAL THE SETTE AT HIS WHILE HE 'DECORATED', HIS INTENTIONS BECAME CLEAR AFTER MY MATE FOUND HE'D STRIPPED THE WALLS OF IT'S FLYERS AND DISSAPEARED! I KID YOU NOT LAST THING I HEARD HE WAS LIVING IN CANADA! A LONG WAY TO GO FOR STOLEN FLYERS :)"....
Q2: What s the most you would pay for a flyer???
"IM A SUCKER FOR COLLECTING EARLY FLYERS SO lIKEWISE I'D PROBABLY GO TO THREE FIGURES. I'VE LIVED AROUND EAST LONDON ALL MY LIFE [HACKNEY] SO ANY EARLY FLYERS FROM FREQUENTED OLD HAUNTS SUCH AS WALLIS ROAD [JERICHO], BUT I'D LOVE TO GET HOLD OF THE FULL SERIES OF 1990 [TELEPATHY] MARSHGATE LANE ONES I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR YEARS. MY HOLY GRAILS SO IF ANYBODY HAS ANY LOL !!!!!!!....
Q3: What is your favourite Flyer / Set of Flyers / Type of Flyer???
"I'VE ALWAYS LIKED FLYERS WHERE THE ARTWORK IS HAND DRAWN, EVEN CRUDELY. FOR ME THERES SO MUCH MORE PERSONAL CHARACTER TO IT KNOWING SOMEBODY HAS SAT AND HAND DRAWN AN IMAGE AND THIS SEEMED MORE PREVELANT IN THE EARLY ACID HOUSE EPOCH LYERS. I GUESS MY FAVORITE FLYER WOULD HAVE TO BE THIS ONE IN MY COLLECTION:-
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: Q4: When did you first start collecting Flyers?
I'VE BEEN RAVING SINCE ABOUT LATE '89 WHEN I STARTED GOING TO WALLIS ROAD, SO ABOUT THEN. IT WAS MY FRIEND DEAN WHO GOT ME INTO THE WHOLE SCENE AND IT'S MUSIC. I WAS A HIP HOP FANATIC UP TILL THEN AND THEN I WAS CONVERTED. FLYERS CAME HAND IN HAND WITH THE SCENE, PRETTY MUCH LIKE THE DRUGS
Q5: Many of us had our rooms covered in Rave Flyers but at what point would you consider you actually became a Collector ?
IRONICALLY ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO. I'D ALWAYS SAW FLYERS AS ROACH MATERIAL [I KNOW SACRILAGE!!!!] IVE DESTROYED PROB SOME VERY RARE FLYERS THROUGH THIS!!!! AS IVE GOT OLDER IVE RE-DISCOVERED EARLY DANCE MUSIC AND THE WHOLE SEMINAL RAVE SCENE. I GUESS IT WAS REALLY THE LAST TRUE MUSICAL REVOLUTION SOCIALLY FOR ME....
: Q6: What was it about rave flyers that made you want to collect them? (i.e. Artwork, Souvenirs, Memories, ECT)
DEFFINATELY ARTWORK AND MEMORIES. BUT I ALSO HAVE A VINYL ADDICTION WHICH ARE BOTH SIMILAR CAUSE FOR ME I THINK WE ARE INHERANTLY COLLECTORS AND COVET THINGS, THERES SOMETHING AESTHETICALLY PLEASING TO THE TOUCH AND SMELL OF 'OLD' THINGS, ESPECIALLY AS IT WAS SUCH AN EXCITING TIME FOR MY GENERATION, A REAL SHIFT IN CONCIOUSNESS OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT UP TILL THE RAVE SCENE WERE STRANGERS IF NOT EMEMIES!
I HOPE THAT HAS BEEN OF SOME HELP AND APOLOGIES FOR THE SPELLING I'M STILLL HALF ASLEEP!!! RGARDS
GEOFF
