Hi Tom,
I did volunteer at a film archive in London for a while, although my
main job was in the airline world. Your memory must be good, as I
think I only mentioned it once years ago! For the last thirteen years
or so I've been selling posters via my website movieposterstudio.com,
but I've had to step back a bit from that for the last couple of years
due to family bereavements etc. I'm most definitely a Brit and
currently living in Guildford just outside of London.
Greg's memory is pretty good too. Needless to say, as a guitar fanboy
I was keen to grill Greg on his fascinating rock n roll past, whereas
what he really wanted to talk about was posters! I started by mostly
collecting Hitchcock in the 1980s, and then moved onto other areas
like Bond, Powell/Pressburger, and other individual films that I loved
from the 1930s onwards. Although I'd previously picked up a few
handmade film posters from college almost accidentally just for wall
decoration, my interest was really kick-started big time when I lived
temporarily in Tulsa OK and chanced upon a memorabila dealer at a
local fleamarket.
Your comment about Garrard turntables made me realize the spelling of
my surname is being inserted incorrectly at the top of the message
reply - it should actually be 'GErrard' not 'GArrard'! That seems to
have changed since I last posted to the group, so thanks for bringing
it to my attention. You can call me Garrard though :)
All Best,
Paul Gerrard
-----Original Message-----
From: dreamfactory <[email protected]>
To: speedysumo <[email protected]>
CC: MoPo-L <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:48
Subject: Re: [MOPO] It's Our SILVER Anniversary! 25 Years of MoPo!
hello Paul- well help us all know you with a re-introduction...the
name
sound familiar are you a archivist in LOndon
OrintheUSA>>?? sorry i thought Adrian was you,, so maybeyou can tell
us
whatyou collect, whatyou and greg were talking about and it may solve
his memory..
why it hits me is the Garrard turntables for records..i remeber
byassociation ...typically to movie connections.. but your name would
have triggerd Turntable... LOL
all the best,, and ford focus made me think you were in the USA...
so please advise...
allthe best, Tom.....
Greg is a cool musical honest peace loving Rocker...
On 2020-02-28 06:12, Paul Garrard wrote:
This significant anniversary prompted me to look through some of my
old PC backups, and lo and behold I found my original MOPO
subscription request for my old email address, which was March 1998.
Longer ago than I thought, although I ducked out for a while
inbetween
due to the demands of my job at that time. For many years I was a
serial lurker, partly because I was overawed by the often "lively"
discussions between David K, Bruce, Freeman and Claude, and partly
because by the time I had downloaded all the emails on my painfully
slow dial-up connection (remember those?) when I got home at night,
the day was over. Interestingly, one of the first messages I
bothered
to keep (from '99) was from Philipp (Kainbacher) warning about a
poster scam in Italy, so thanks Philipp!!
Greg, I don't think the person you met in London was Adrian as Tom
was
suggesting, but far less impressively, me. I don't think you'd
forget
Adrian. A Viking like Tom says. I'm a mere 6 feet tall, but he
easily
towered over me with his distinctive flame red hair and beard. He
rode
a Harley, and I have a decrepit old Ford Focus. Feels strange that
Adrian is no longer with us, as I used to bump into him regularly,
and
I bought some of my first posters from him. Anyway, it was a real
pleasure to meet Greg with his merry band of musical vagabonds The
Former Members in London (Bull's Head, Barnes I think). Before I got
into film posters, my first love was my electric guitar, so it was
fantastic to see a fellow MOPOer and certified rock god wielding his
axe like it should be done.
You would've thought by now I'd have learned to reply to MOPO
messages
properly, but I think I messed up when I tried to send thanks to
Scott
a couple of days ago, so I'll try again! A big Thank You to Scott
for
keeping the MOPO list going in such a generous and unassuming way.
It
may be old technology, but it's outlasted many another forum.
Paul Gerrard
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Douglass <[email protected]>
To: MoPo-L <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:06
Subject: Re: [MOPO] It's Our SILVER Anniversary! 25 Years of MoPo!
I've been here since the mid-90s and noticed cycles; there were
times
when serious discussions about poster lore taught me much i didn't
know. I've met people I consider friends: Tom Martin, Rich Halegua,
Bruce Hershenson (i miss your presence and your wealth of
knowledge),
the cuddly curmudgeon, Claude Litton, a nice man with a razor-sharp
wit (Claude: still got that ROBOT MONSTER insert you'd hinted you
might sell back to me?), Kirby McDaniel,;....a wonderful fellow I
met
in London whose name, embarassingly, escapes me) who specialized in
Bond and Hitchcock material, the wonderful Nathalie Yafet...lawzy,
it
goes on & on. I've been here through the epic battles, the Eugene
Hughes debacle (I eventually got all my stuff back.) I've watched
people come and go, lost pals to the Reaper (bye, Susan
Olson)....but
let us raise a glass of fine Amontillado to Scott Burns whose
patience
and love for the hobby remain apparent after a quarter of a century
(almost coinciding with my wedding anniversary.)
All together:
"We accept you! One of us!
We accept you! One of us!
We accept you! One of us!"
Greg Douglass
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