Of all the Hip things I own, my most prized are:
-Pictures with each member of the band taken after shows in NYC, Cleveland, and Syracuse!
-3 Autographed tour posters
-Gord's guitar pick
-Johnny's Drum Stick (a bit "all tore up")
-In Violet Light Lithograph
-A video of a show I taped from the front row
and a bunch more "stuff"
Yeah, stupid Pat.
Setlist from Lee's Palace on 6-7-03
DFN and UTH on vinyl too
Cheers
Pat
-signed Vynyl TATH and DFN poster
-Signed CMG by Gord in Atlatna
-copy of a show at Rockafellas where my friends can be heard yelling stupid stuff
Johnny Fay DrumStick from Lee's Palace Secret Show right before IVL came out...
autographed carnival-type sign, advertising the grape jam
-I've got my only auto from Bobby Baker on a ticket Stub from the Hummingbird
-My TTH jersey, complete with DOWNIE on the back, with the C on the front
My boot collection is the most precious hip item(s) with the ones I taped being at the top.
My flatmate a couple years back painted me an original picture using the covers of all the hip albums up to Phantom Power. It is a really interesting piece of art and although it isn't autographed it is still my favourite piece of Hipnalia. Also my vinyl collection: S/T, UTH, FC, D4N, LBU, and Small Town Bringdown, Little Bones.
Autographs: Barilko jersey (band), TTH jersey (band), Kelowna promo poster (band), ticket stub from CMG tour (Gord), CMG book from BOTN tour (Gord & TCOM)
Pictures: Gord 2001, Band 2002
Setlists: Gord-Calgary 2001, TTH-Prince George 2000, Victoria 2002 (both shows), Kelowna 2003
Records: S/T (CDN & USA), Smalltown Bringdown (CDN & USA), UTH (CDN), Blow At High Dough (USA), RA (UK), Little Bones (UK), FC (UK), Courage (UK), Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (UK), D4N (CDN), TATH (CDN), LBU (CDN).
Miscellaneous: IVL lithograph, Johnny's drumsticks from Prince George 2000, D4N promo coffee mug, and my very own, tattered-to-shit, seven year old Fifty Mission Cap (with the Barilko card tucked up under).
Damn.
I have the D4N coffee mug also.
Never used it, but it is pretty cool.
I would have to say my top four are:
4. IVL litho w/ Bobby Baker's signature (hangs in my living room)
3. Auto'ed Jersey (purchased at the NYE '99 show, signed at the M@W video shoot by the band - with Gord signing 'Aaron's Leaf' in the top point of the maple leaf), I wore this to all 10 shows I went to in 2000 and promptly retired it after the Dec 23, 2000 show in TO.
2. Setlists from the Albany, NY Evening With Tour which we drove from Hamilton for. Front row, middle - my only time in the front row - for the whole show w/ my gf and two good buddies and at midnight it was my b-day! Whole band, including Chris and Kate signed the setlists with Paul signing 'Happy B-day and Gord 'Aaron's Band' - which nicely matches the jersey.
1. This isn't really from the band but it's the best by far, my gf put together a memory book for me for another b-day of mine and each page has a photo or memento on the right hand page with carefully chosen Hip lyrics on the facing page, there are maybe 25 pages in all. This is my most precious.
Sorry for being wordy I haven't posted in awhile,
All for now,
Aaron
A pair of Johnny's drumsticks that he handed to my wife as he left the stage and a ticket stub signed by all five guys, both from the Dewey Beach, Delaware show a few years back. Also one of the setlists that gets taped down on the stage from a Lancaster, PA show. All are framed and hanging on my office wall.
I have 2 but I think the one that means the most to me is the T-shirt I made that has a picture of the hip on the front and on the bottom it says "what's the deal with your dad" and on the back there's another picture of the hip and underneath it says "he don't even know my name"
i also have the following vinyl
fully completely, day for night, live between us, up to here, road apples, ep, courage single........dam still looking for TATH....please help me locate this.
Autographed framed poster from the IVL tour (the one with the tour dates/elephants on it).
Two pictures of me and Gord Downie. I have them scanned if anyone wants to see
i have met, and hounded for autographs. i have gotten my picture taken with them, but my most prized piece of mem. is still my locked in the trunk single. with the pull up image, and 2 pics in 1! sorry, just think it looks good.