Essex Recording Studios jumps the shark

JezWynd

lustycourtier said:

If its genuine, and other sections have sold well previously, is it that silly? 

 A friend of mine has 2 bricks (framed etc) from Eminems house. They were £350 each and 700 sold out instantly. Thats £250k. Old wooden seats from Anfield sold out at £225 a few years ago (6,000 of them so thats over 1.5m) so if you can work out how to chop it up, theres money to be made here.  

He's missed a trick here. Ideally he should have cut it up into 2" cubes and sold as 'containing Beatle DNA and sweat'.

Offset

This has inspired me to put some (genuine) memorabilia of my own up for sale.

• Crumpled Peter Stuyvesant fag packet thrown at me by Pat Travers in West Runton Pavilion, mid-70s.  Great chance to own a piece of rock 'n' roll history for a very reasonable £10,999.

• Broken piece of tambourine chucked into the audience by the vocalist of Sam Apple Pie in The Nashville Rooms, mid-70s.  SAP played at the first ever Glastonbury festival in 1970, so who knows?  This very piece of shattered wood could have featured at that historic event, so will appeal to the serious collector.  Priced to sell at £29,999.

Your treasured item will be lovingly packed into an old shoe box, padded out with arse-wipe and secured with some bailing twine.  Sent to you second-class.  Your purchase will support local businesses - namely the village madame and her girls, and my coke dealer.

Nightswan

If they sell he'll be heading up to the Abbey Road with a Jackhammer.

p90fool

Funkfingers said:

She Loves Yew
Baby It's Yew
Gotta Get Yew Into My Life
I'm Looking Through Yew
I Want To Sell Yew

I am the walnut. 

Keefy

Don’t worry, it’s just a stage he’s going through.

skunkwerx

Keefy said:

Don’t worry, it’s just a stage he’s going through.

Very good sir. Very good. 

thermionic

Typical! He made a lowball offer for my genuine Beatles stage planks last week and straight away he has them on sale for a lot more than I sold them for.

Hurling_Fruitmig

DefaultM said:

Wheres the proof? They've not even bothered to put together a letter from a Beatles stage flooring expert or anything.

I know a guy who could do some dendrochronological analysis to prove it's date and age of felling and provenance. He just needs to count the Ring(o)s.

steer

True story - I once bought a 2nd hand ikea bookcase from someone in a beetles tribute band, who had a Gretsch that Paul McCartney had signed the scratch plate and had been photo'd playing the guitar. 

With that in mind, I am willing to let the bookcase for for £ 12,999. Any money raised may or may not be used to support buskers who are so skint that they have to stand in the street to play. 

Stuckfast

thermionic said:

Typical! He made a lowball offer for my genuine Beatles stage planks last week and straight away he has them on sale for a lot more than I sold them for.

It's so sad to see perfectly functioning vintage floors split up for parts like this.

flying_pie

There's a blackbird that hangs around my garden. It's definitely a genuine relative of the one Paul McCartney wrote a song about. For only £5000 I'll give you a 5 minute permit to allow you the possibility of seeing said blackbird if it wants to turn up.

Optional reduced rate of £300 for any Alter Bridge fans out there

Philly_Q

TTony said:

HarrySeven said:

a. I will never understand the attraction of memorabilia. Seriously.

Says the man with 17 warehouses full of interesting historical artefacts

Memorabilia is exactly the same as any other old tat, except somebody famous once owned it.  Or touched it.  Or something.

octatonic

So this seems to be the auction.

https://www.julienslive.com/lot-details/index/catalog/340/lot/135633

I would argue that this floor is larger than the boards he is selling.
They also look... different.
And the boards he is selling don't appear to be missing from the original floor.
Where did they come from?
The entrance?
The loo?
The fevered imagination of a chancer?

We must have answers.

LastMantra

lustycourtier said:

If its genuine, and other sections have sold well previously, is it that silly? 

 A friend of mine has 2 bricks (framed etc) from Eminems house. They were £350 each and 700 sold out instantly. Thats £250k. Old wooden seats from Anfield sold out at £225 a few years ago (6,000 of them so thats over 1.5m) so if you can work out how to chop it up, theres money to be made here.  

I thought Eminem grew up in a trailer park? 

randella

Imagine (lol) that weird, shitty gunk you get on your shoes - the gloop that seems to infest every nightclub and gig venue in the land. Now reckon that there's decades of it on that wood.

I don't know what anyone would be planning to do with it, but surely stage (arf arf) one has to be "put on a good mask and bang it through the planer". At which point I suppose you've lost the USP of the whole thing, but anyone who's bought a few sheets of ply lately probably won't flinch too hard at the outlay  

Philly_Q

LastMantra said:

lustycourtier said:

If its genuine, and other sections have sold well previously, is it that silly? 

 A friend of mine has 2 bricks (framed etc) from Eminems house. They were £350 each and 700 sold out instantly. Thats £250k. Old wooden seats from Anfield sold out at £225 a few years ago (6,000 of them so thats over 1.5m) so if you can work out how to chop it up, theres money to be made here.  

I thought Eminem grew up in a trailer park? 

Maybe it was a stationary trailer.  And those were the bricks it was propped up on?

Lebarque

p90fool said:

Funkfingers said:

She Loves Yew
Baby It's Yew
Gotta Get Yew Into My Life
I'm Looking Through Yew
I Want To Sell Yew

I am the walnut. 

Winner

Seziertisch

octatonic said:

So this seems to be the auction.

https://www.julienslive.com/lot-details/index/catalog/340/lot/135633

I would argue that this floor is larger than the boards he is selling.
They also look... different.
And the boards he is selling don't appear to be missing from the original floor.
Where did they come from?
The entrance?
The loo?
The fevered imagination of a chancer?

We must have answers.

It looks like the whole stage was sold at that auction. Is it possible that Essex Recording Studios purchased the whole stage and are now selling it off in lots?

He seems to have no shortage of cash, and presuming there were multiple bidders on the original auction and considering it is Beatles-related, the pricing is not totally crazy. Though I would have thought that the appeal of the stage would be to have the whole thing and then set install it somewhere, as opposed to having bits of it stuck on your wall. 

HarrySeven

TTony said:

HarrySeven said:

a. I will never understand the attraction of memorabilia. Seriously.

Says the man with 17 warehouses full of interesting historical artefacts

That may be so, but it’s the ‘aura’ associated with celebrity that I don’t get.

Philtre

Name: Keith Gannon

Profession: Cunt

Status: Totally fucking deluded