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..what would it be & why?

Assuming he's kept every bit of Sisters history in there & assuming he has a basement that is.

'ave at it ;D
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Master tapes of the next three records... which surely must exist since they record all the time. Right?
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I want the snake-skin print shirt from the RAH gig in 1985.

Alternatively, you don't have to go as far as the basement. Sneak into his living room on a sunny afternoon, purloin the sleeping cat from the sofa, and leave a note intimating that if he ever wants to see Fluffy again he needs to make with the album-releasing.
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I would go for the zippo :) there must be a few scattered around the house.
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No, not the lamps. Or the skull... :roll: :kiss:
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Those groovy heart-shaped glasses he wore in the '90s. Or maybe the FALAA-era hat.

...Alternatively, I'd snag a copy of The Damage Done and sell that sucker for as much cash as I could get out of it. Always got to think of making a profit, you know... :innocent:
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No, not the lamps. Or the skull... :roll: :kiss:
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Well, err ... his (hopefully complete) list of bootlegs and recordings of all his and The Sisters appearances ... ;D :lol: ...
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I would go for the box of memorabilia (flyers, posters, reviews, contracts etc) from the gigs of 1981-1985.
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I would take Stanley the stick.. alternatively the famous ragged jeans. ;D
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I would snatch the box with filmed material from 93 and onwards and make a DVD :innocent:
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I'd leave a packet of cigarettes :twisted:
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:I would go for the box of memorabilia (flyers, posters, reviews, contracts etc) from the gigs of 1981-1985.
I might ask you for a lot of scans later ... ;D :lol: ...
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The white suit from Dominion with the stick ;D
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Every item of neon-colored clothing (can that count as "one item"?)

He'd thank me for it someday.
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EmmaPeelWannaBe wrote:Every item of neon-colored clothing (can that count as "one item"?)

He'd thank me for it someday.
But you're NOT talking about his lovely yellow shirt now :?: :!: ... :eek::eek::eek: ... I'll buy him a new one, if you do that! ... :evil: :twisted: :lol: ...
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His tape collection.
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Hmmmm....first I'll have to distory the source of neon (take that Being645 ;))

And after I finish accepting the thanks of a grateful nation, I'm breaking back in and taking the parallax.
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Hasn't this been done before - I mean, literally? I've heard his was house burgled for memorabilia?
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Don't know why, but I would not want to invade his house/home to steal his belongings. I didn't even thounght about that. But maybe because I would not want to have my house burgled? Maybe.
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Bartek wrote:Don't know why, but I would not want to invade his house/home to steal his belongings. I didn't even thounght about that. But maybe because I would not want to have my house burgled? Maybe.
I didn't even thought about the possibility that someone would take this thread seriously :wink:

I'd go after any boxes marked "unimportant", "cannot be arsed", "boring" etc. in hope to find the the unreleased stuff quick before sultan2075 gets there!
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Norman Hunter wrote:Hasn't this been done before - I mean, literally? I've heard his was house burgled for memorabilia?
Really? ... :eek: ... Pah! ... :urff: ... Though, I can easily imagine that such things might have happened back in the days ... disgusting ... :urff: :urff: :urff: ...

I know how it feels. I've lived in places, where the same people you'll meet in the corridor next day broke into my room x times,
stealing almost everything that could be made into cash or that they could just make use of in any other way. Like the electric
coffee grinder, which had been the only memory of my late Grandmother. They could have asked. I surely had lend it to them. Lovely.
Finally, I got home one day to find some intoxinated couple in my bed telling me that someone upstairs had told them they could sleep
there. Thanks. OK, they left, but they also left scabbies. Very cool. Those were the days ! And only one short excerpt of it ... but hell,
half of them idiots are dead, and it still makes me sad, because they were my friends, people of whom I knew where they came from,
how they felt, and who I saw going down like flies on a trap ... :( ...


But back to joking ...
@EmmaPeelWannaBe :D
OK. That does not include the pretty yellow shirt, then ... ;D ...
Sorry for you, though - there is no way to take away the parallax ... :wink: ... you/we can only reduce it ... I'm with you on that ... :D ...
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euphoria wrote:
Bartek wrote:Don't know why, but I would not want to invade his house/home to steal his belongings. I didn't even thounght about that. But maybe because I would not want to have my house burgled? Maybe.
I didn't even thought about the possibility that someone would take this thread seriously :wink:
I just don't like idea/thread title. If it was something like: if you can get just one thing from AE basemennt/storage ... But stealing? Only riff can be steal. :wink:
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I agree, being burgled is a horrible experience and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Being645 wrote:
Norman Hunter wrote:Hasn't this been done before - I mean, literally? I've heard his was house burgled for memorabilia?
Really? ... :eek: ... Pah! ... :urff: ...
Yeah, can't remember who told me, or even when.
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