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Maybe a fluff topic, maybe not. What's your own most unusual piece of Journey-related stuff?

I have the original layered cells for the cover art for the Greatest Hits songbook, and several test runs of the "Frontiers" sticker (shown in Frontiers and Beyond being put on the window) in a few variations. Also a hand-drawn and colored album center-label idea board. (Don't remember which one, don't have it handy to check. I think it was Infinity or Evolution though.)

Oh yeah... and a copy of Steve Perry's 4th grade class photo. Don't even ask why I have it... told you I used to be diehard!

I don't have much, but my faves are an autographed copy of the Frontiers LP, a Neal autograph and pick, and the Dream After Dream import LP.

I have a throw pillow in the shape of a guitar pic, stuffed with Schon's afro when he gave it up.

How's that for unusual?

Jabberwocky wrote:Maybe a fluff topic, maybe not. What's your own most unusual piece of Journey-related stuff?

Wow! Steve Perry's grade school picture. Awww .. I bet that was cute.

I don't have anything cool. I have one thing that is very precious though. I have a 19.5 year old cat who is my baby. He's had a lot of health issues the past few years. When I met SA, it was on his 17th birthday and Steve gave me a guitar pick. I could never find it afterwards and I swear I searched my purse. Well about 5 months later, my cat was really really sick and we brought him to a vet school. They told me there was no hope and to put him to sleep. I was standing there trying to make a decision and I reached in my purse for something. Out came Steve's pick and it said "Arrival" of course. My favourite Journey album is "Departure" which came out the year my Dad departed the world. So, when I saw this, I took it as a "sign". And I brought my cat home. Well he got better, way better, despite what everyone expected. So, that's the most precious "memorabilia" I own. Maybe not rare, but valuable to me.

Jabberwocky wrote:Oh yeah... and a copy of Steve Perry's 4th grade class photo. Don't even ask why I have it... told you I used to be diehard!

Okay, man, that's scary!

siobhan222 wrote:Wow! Steve Perry's grade school picture. Awww .. I bet that was cute.

The overall pic or the honker?

heardonthestreet wrote:I have a throw pillow in the shape of a guitar pic, stuffed with Schon's afro when he gave it up.

How's that for unusual?

I would pay a lot for that.

I forgot about Dream After Dream! I have the import LP also. And the Alien Project demo... man, I wish I could hear that in studio quality. Talk about dreaming!

By the way, Perry was a homely child.

heardonthestreet wrote:I have a throw pillow in the shape of a guitar pic, stuffed with Schon's afro when he gave it up.

How's that for unusual?

Holy cow. That could be worth a lot of money. Really cool!

heardonthestreet wrote:I have a throw pillow in the shape of a guitar pic, stuffed with Schon's afro when he gave it up.

How's that for unusual?

You're joking, right? If not, this is a story I must hear...

Jabberwocky wrote:By the way, Perry was a homely child.

Really? Now I have to go looking for pics of him when he was a kid. Got any online?

Jabberwocky wrote:By the way, Perry was a homely child.

There once was an ugly duckling, huh? What an absolutely beautiful swan he became! Mmmm.

Steve Perry's chicken coop rubber gloves.

NealIsGod wrote:Steve Perry's chicken coop rubber gloves.

NealIsGod wrote:Steve Perry's chicken coop rubber gloves.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

siobhan222 wrote:

Jabberwocky wrote:By the way, Perry was a homely child.

Really? Now I have to go looking for pics of him when he was a kid. Got any online?

Unfortch, no. All my Journey stuff, except the music I have here, is at my vacation house since I didn't have room for it here. And by vacation house, I mean my mom's place.

I guess he wasn't really that homely... just... goofy is maybe the word I'm looking for. He was getting better by his senior year though. You could probably find those online someplace; I know I'm not the only one who copied a few yearbooks from the high school! (We went to the same one, years apart.)

Perry's nose hair clippers.

NealIsGod wrote:Steve Perry's chicken coop rubber gloves.

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Augeri's mop and broom. I traded his mop pail for Ross's gated estate key.

Jabberwocky wrote: I guess he wasn't really that homely... just... goofy is maybe the word I'm looking for. He was getting better by his senior year though. You could probably find those online someplace; I know I'm not the only one who copied a few yearbooks from the high school! (We went to the same one, years apart.)

Wow now that's cool too. Did you ever hear anyone ... teachers, students, whatever ... talk about what he was like in high school?

Z wrote:Wait. I forgot I won on ebay a copy of the 2001 DVD FOR 1 cent and a buck - fifty shipping. Hell of a deal - this way I got to hear the 2006 tour set in advance without leaving my home.

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Damn! Some people have all the luck.

Z wrote:On 2nd thought, Neal Schon's Lice Comb.

LMAO!

Z wrote:On 2nd thought, Neal Schon's Lice Comb.

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Nig got luckier. He got the lice.

siobhan222 wrote:

Jabberwocky wrote: I guess he wasn't really that homely... just... goofy is maybe the word I'm looking for. He was getting better by his senior year though. You could probably find those online someplace; I know I'm not the only one who copied a few yearbooks from the high school! (We went to the same one, years apart.)

Wow now that's cool too. Did you ever hear anyone ... teachers, students, whatever ... talk about what he was like in high school?

Not really. Keep in mind, I was there 20 years after he was. His graduation photo was still up in the hallway though, with a lot of others, and you had to lean over the stairwell banister to see it. Wonder if it's still there?

The locals that knew him always had good things to say. Except one person from a local inn, who said he was an a$$. But she swiped his underwear, so I was told, so she had it coming! (How's THAT for an odd souvenir?) *gag*

The locals that knew him always had good things to say. Except one person from a local inn, who said he was an a$$. But she swiped his underwear, so I was told, so she had it coming! (How's THAT for an odd souvenir?) *gag*

Wow ... I wonder what those undies would go for on eBay?

heardonthestreet wrote:

Z wrote:On 2nd thought, Neal Schon's Lice Comb.

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Nig got luckier. He got the lice.

Nah, your mother had some medicine.

siobhan222 wrote:

The locals that knew him always had good things to say. Except one person from a local inn, who said he was an a$$. But she swiped his underwear, so I was told, so she had it coming! (How's THAT for an odd souvenir?) *gag*

Wow ... I wonder what those undies would go for on eBay?

Not nearly as much as Neal's lice comb!

I mean really... if it was even true... why in the world would someone swipe his underwear? That's just eww.

Reminds me of the story Rikki Rachtman (or was it another guy?) related on Behind The Music in which two female (natch) groupies popped up backstage at a Red Hot Chili Peppers show, and the band had already left, but somebody pointed and went "Well, there's Flea's underwear."

The girls pounced on it like two cats on a rat and fought over it, and when one girl finally got ahold of it she held it up and wrung it like a rag and squeezed two drops of sweat into her mouth, after which she exclaimed "Now he's a part of me forever!!!"

Jabberwocky wrote: I mean really... if it was even true... why in the world would someone swipe his underwear? That's just eww.

I remember someone directing me to eBay selling a pair of Madonna's panties a few years back! I laughed.

Seeing as Steve wasn't famous back then, I'd imagine someone just wanted to make him go commando for a joke.