It’s a sure sign that you are now part of history when you hear your song on an oldies station, even worse when they try to sugar coat it and call it “classic” rock and even worse when they call it “timeless” rock but, you officially reach dinosaur status when they start selling the memorabilia associated with the music that scared your parents at the big time auction house. From AP….
“We understand that tastes change, tastes mature,” said Christie’s pop-culture chief Simeon Lipman. “Ten years ago, punk memorabilia probably wouldn’t be something we’d be auctioning here. But now, people of a certain age have a certain ability to splurge on this material.”
Well, I looked at my watch
I looked at my wrist
Punched myself in the face
With my fist
I took my potatoes
Down to be mashed
Then I made it over
To that million dollar bash“Million Dollar Bash” by Bob Dylan
A while back, I heard about this memorabilia auction that Christie’s was putting on. This is mind boggling; they got over a million bucks for a drum head. $1,067,346 to be exact. Christie’s says that it is “The world’s most famous drumskin”…
…and, I suppose it is. Still, a million bucks for a drum head! Well, they threw in a copy of the record too.
accompanied by a corresponding copy of the album; and a hand-written letter from Sir Peter Blake, signed, stating This is to confirm that…I have examined the painted drumskin that appears on the L.P. record ‘Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club’ by The Beatles, and that is the same drumskin, and is the genuine, original one painted by Joe Ephgrave
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