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After years and years of collecting I'm almost "complete" (and satisfied :-) )

Wich means:

[b]Vinyl LP's[/b]
All Queen lp's (including Made In Heaven; rest is crap IMHO) & Solo lp's in NM condition.
(I only need: Happiness? numbered vinyl, got it once but it wasn't Mint enough:-) )

[b]Queen single releases.
[/b]Every song wich was released as a single with a picture sleeve. Not all formats but for each song just one single(the one I liked most / was most affordable) All in Near Mint condition.
For example:
These Are The Days Of Our Lives US 1991 cassette single. 
Seven Seas Of Rhye (3" cd single > it's much cheaper than it's 7" picture sleeve variant AND it contains two nice lossless tracks.
We Will Rock You (live) (7" issued only in Japan with a picture sleeve)
Love Of My Life (dutch picture sleeve; I can't afford the spanish version :-) )
Only item I miss is Staying Power (wich was released in Japan with a picture sleeve)

[b]Freddie Mercury solo box set.[/b]
After buying this 10 cd / 2 dvd set I quit collecting Freddie Mercury stuff (who needs all those 12" single mixes / edits when it's all in here?). I only kept the original vinyl LP's. Mint of course.

[b]Promo posters
[/b]some nice ones: Who Wants To Live Forever, Headlong etc.
Don't really collect them, but they are nice anyway.

[b]Official Videos / DVD's
[/b]All concerts, and the promo videos.

[b]Concerts
[/b]After years of trading, I decided to downsize my collection. I kept the best, about 70, concerts (sound wise (masters, or low gens) / performance wise / or personal memories) and all the videos (at least the ones with Freddie).
Threw away (yes... I know) all my Poor+ / VG- / VG rated audio shows because I never listen to them anyway. I did keep my own masters / concert tickets / photos of course.

Not really a Queen item but nice anyway:
Vintage deadstock 1978 unworn (not anymore :-) ) pair of Asics wrestling shoes.
Excact same shoes Freddie Mercury was wearing at some concerts in 1978 (the white asics with black stripes; not a pair of "retro shoes")
Always loved those shoes.

That's about it I think.

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[b]Rick wrote: [/b]

Well, what I'm most proud of are the following:

- Killer Queen book
- 40+ photographs of Queen live in Liverpool 1978/1979
- 100+ tapes of live material (Queen, Brian/Roger solo, The Cross, interviews, soundchecks etc.)
- One rare video. The concert isn't rare, but this version IS! :) Unfortunately, I can't trade it, but hey, you asked for personal collections, right? :P
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Only 1 rare video ? :-)

Since I'm in the mood to make a list...

[b]Queen albums -

[/b]Queen - CD
Queen II - CD
Shear Heart Attack - CD
A Night At The Opera - LP, CD
A Day At The Races - CD
News of the World - LP, CD
Jazz - LP, CD
Live Killers - CD
The Game - LP, cassette, CD
Flash Gordon - cassette, CD
Hot Space - CD
The Works - CD
A Kind of Magic - CD
The Miracle - CD
Innuendo - CD
Made In Heaven - CD
Live At Wembley - CD
The Platinum Collection - CD

[b]Solo  albums -

[/b]Freddie Mercury -

Mr. Bad Guy - CD
The Great Pretender - cassette, CD
Barcelona - cassette, CD

Brian May -

Back To The Light - cassette, CD
Another World - CD

Roger Taylor -

Fun In Space - cassette, CD
Strange Frontier - CD
Electric Fire - CD
Happiness? - CD

[b]Other Albums & bootlegs -

[/b]Queen At The Beeb
London 1975 (Italian CD of Hammersmith Odeon Christmas Eve concert)
Rock In Japan
The Royal Philharmonic Plays Queens Rhapsody
numerous downloaded concerts from QZ

[b]Video -
[/b]
A Night At The Opera - DVD
On Fire - Live At The Bowl - DVD
Greatest Video Hits 1 - DVD
Greatest Video Hits 2 - DVD
Live At Wembley - VHS, DVD
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert - VHS
Queen Rock Monteral - Blu-Ray
We Will Rock You - VHS
Queen The Magic Years - Vols. 1, 2, 3 - VHS
Live in Budapest - VHS
Greatest Video Hits 1 - VHS (red cover)
Greatest Video Hits 2 - VHS (blue cover)
Rare Live: A Concert Through Time & Space - VHS
numerous downloaded video concerts from QZ, etc
Biggles: Adventures In Time (movie) - VHS

[b]Books -
[/b]
Queen - The New Visual Documentary
Queen comic book - The Unauthorized Biography - Celebrity Comics

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[b]Ducksoup wrote: [/b]

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[b]Rick wrote: [/b]



Well, what I'm most proud of are the following:

- Killer Queen book
- 40+ photographs of Queen live in Liverpool 1978/1979
- 100+ tapes of live material (Queen, Brian/Roger solo, The Cross, interviews, soundchecks etc.)
- One rare video. The concert isn't rare, but this version IS! :) Unfortunately, I can't trade it, but hey, you asked for personal collections, right? :P

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Only 1 rare video ? :-)





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Yep. The rest is quite common. I did have some rare things in the past, but they were shared here quite soon after that.

Still, I'm very proud of this video. Never saw this version before and the quality is excellent! It';s either a master clone or 1st gen video.

Okay, and I have one uncirculating audio recording. Maybe I'll trade that one in the future. :)

My collection is not impressive by Internet-Queen-Fan-Community standards but nobody I know has one like it for any artist. My friends are not collectors.

I was lucky enough to get a Made In Heaven CD that has the original version of Let Me Live (which I shared with everyone years ago) and a Back Chat/Calling All Girls 12" single. Both from my country, Mexico.

Apart from that, I suppose everything is standard. I have a Starfleet Project mini LP that has a golden stamp on the sleeve (can't remember what it is) and a couple of East German Greatest Hits albums with white Queen II'ish covers I got from a friend.

Well, it took me a while to put it all on line:


freewebs.com/dvd2000