The Rockmine Garage Sale

For more than thirty years, I’ve collected anything and everything related to rock music I could lay my hands on. I mean everything. Promo items, concert tickets, flyers and posters, books, records, pieces of clothing; even instruments.

A lot of what I’ve collected came and went, in trades or to pay bills - and of course, to buy other items. The trouble with that is I’m still bound to it. Tethered to a past I lived through but may not even remember. I pull bits of paper out of filing cabinets and can’t remember anything other than the piece of paper. How sad is that?

How many gigs do I really remember? If truth be told, very few. Pink Floyd at Knebworth, Rory Gallagher at Glasgow Apollo, several Wakeman gigs. There was a Jack Bruce tour and a Roy Harper tour and a gig I put on at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall with Jack and Charlie Watts and Rory and Rick Wakeman and…..

The filing cabinets are full, the cupboards have no space at all and the garage is where anything I REALLY don’t need gets put. I could just burn it all but that’s a huge waste of time and money so I’ve simply decided to sell everything I don’t need for the Rockmine Archive in a garage sale.

I do still have a lot of highly desirable, collectable memorabilia but I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about a Spring Clean. Anything I’ve accumulated over the past few decades but can live without is now up for grabs. No, we’re not talking Jimi Hendrix’s trousers or Sheryl Crow’s Doc Marten boots - but everything else. If I don’t need it to sustain the archive, then I’m happy to sell it and hope that someone else will take pleasure from it in the way I have.

My plan had been to get everything on-line in my eBay shop but now I’ve dumped that. It will go up on Rockmine’s main site. It may take months but here’s some of the contents of a crate I pulled in from the garage. As I get items on-line, I’ll put a link directly from here so you can browse what goes up.