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Post by Skybird14 on Mar 17, 2012 22:50:58 GMT
Are there any items of merchandise that are particularly special to you?
Is there a story behind how you obtained it or why it means so much to you?
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Post by ollie241189 on Mar 18, 2012 12:04:53 GMT
From the Hang Cool Tour in Birmingham, UK (my first ever Meat Loaf show and first ever concert) I got the programme and a signed photocard. That was my first ever signed piece of merchandise. I've now got 3! The photocard, a signed copy of Hell In A Handbasket and another signed copy of Hell In A Handbasket from the Oxford Street signing!
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Post by meatfan4life on Mar 18, 2012 19:02:16 GMT
Hctb shirt (was a1 yr anniversary gift from my fiancé )
Signed hctb copy, signed hiahcopy, signed booh with current nle lineup + meat.
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Post by lorenzoduke on Mar 18, 2012 19:49:24 GMT
I've still got an embroidered cap from the first Meat Loaf show I attended on the 'Everything Louder' tour. Also have the programme from that and 'Born To Rock'.
My most treasured Meat Loaf possession though is definitely the copy of HCTB I had signed in person.
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Post by caryl on Mar 18, 2012 19:58:59 GMT
Yes, I think something Meat has personally signed for you means so much  I am lucky to have many things I treasure .. calendars and artwork he's signed, a copy of a tour programme in which he included a picture I'd done, water bottles he's handed me from the stage, and perhaps the biggest .. the suit he wore in Gettysberg as Colonel Divine. I got that signed on the last tour. Meat says the thing he would take from his house were it on fire would be his Childe Hassan painting. I think mine would be the suit But probably the most treasured are the memories of meetings and things he's said  Caryl |
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Post by shell120978 on Mar 18, 2012 20:08:46 GMT
My 'born to rock' tour programme. In fact mine is not the original, mine was lost when I moved to and from Africa  I was so very upset. I recently bought a new one off eBay - I won't be losing this one!!! |
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Post by rockfenris2005 on Mar 19, 2012 9:09:03 GMT
My signed copy of the 1978 reissue of "Stoney and Meatloaf" on vinyl. Meat signed it for me at HMV back in 2003 when he was over here promoting "Couldn't have said it better".
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Post by Skybird14 on Mar 22, 2012 17:48:29 GMT
I don't think there is a single piece of merchandise that I really treasure. Even the signed stuff I'm not overly bothered about as most of it I've bought that way. I was pretty excited when I bought a signed copy of Hang Cool Teddy Bear and it arrived but it doesn't seem as exciting any more. I don't know whether that's because I didn't witness it being signed and it wasn't personal to me. I don't know? |
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Post by Sue K on Mar 22, 2012 18:55:29 GMT
I don't think there is a single piece of merchandise that I really treasure. Even the signed stuff I'm not overly bothered about as most of it I've bought that way. I was pretty excited when I bought a signed copy of Hang Cool Teddy Bear and it arrived but it doesn't seem as exciting any more. I don't know whether that's because I didn't witness it being signed and it wasn't personal to me. I don't know? Always think of it this way, Sweetie... MEAT HELD IT IN HIS HANDS !!!! ... Everytime you touch the cd, you're sharing gerrrrrmssss ... lol ... ;D ... S ... xo |
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Post by Skybird14 on Mar 22, 2012 19:20:52 GMT
Always think of it this way, Sweetie... MEAT HELD IT IN HIS HANDS !!!! ... Everytime you touch the cd, you're sharing gerrrrrmssss ... lol ... ;D ... S ... xo That's true  It's funny, even the stuff I have had signed for me isn't what I'd call treasured or that special. Perhaps it's just me. I'm not really sure what it takes for something to become special? |
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Post by caryl on Mar 22, 2012 23:54:05 GMT
I'd have thought that for many of those who haven't had the opportunity to stand in front of Meat and have him sign something for them (as for eg we did in London recently) to know he had, as Sue says, held it in his hands and signed it, that would make it special in its way .. otherwise why buy a signed copy Signing pictures I've done makes them special to me .. something he's handed to me from the stage makes it special, and I think many who've caught guitar picks or Tshirts treasure those. (I hope they do, given the strenuous efforts some make to get them anyway .. lol). Some collect their ticket stubs, others try for the set-list taped to the stage .. I guess they are special because they remind them of a wonderful night. But if I take something, whether it be a tour book, a theatre programme, an album, a ROL calendar, or something I've created, and Meat smiles and signs it for me .. that makes it something I'll treasure. Perhaps I'm just easily satisfied .. but if he's held it, and kindly signed it, that means something to me |
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Post by Skybird14 on Mar 23, 2012 8:41:23 GMT
I have a BOOH 1st Edition vinyl that was signed just before the M&G in Birmingham in 2010, which sits on a shelf with my other vinyls, barely being looked at. This was the first thing I'd actually had signed for me rather than buying it that way although it doesn't have my name on it or anything. I think if it was on display then it might mean more but being stored where it is means that it gets forgotten.
The other thing I had signed is a copy of the Stand In The Storm artwork which was signed a few weeks ago in London. That is framed but not on display because there are a few negative emotions associated with it. Maybe it'll come to mean more in time but I'm still mad with myself over how the signing went.
I know I should be grateful to have anything signed, particularly as some other artists don't give fans the same opportunity to have some thing signed.
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I was so very upset. I recently bought a new one off eBay - I won't be losing this one!!!