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I guess most people here don’t care much about band’s early stuff, but Freaky Styley was always my most favourite and made me a fan decades ago. Back in October 2016 I obtained a vinyl copy that previously belonged to the late Art Boerke - a club promoted. AK, Flea, Hillel & Cliff signed it for him in late November 1985. Was not too expensive btw.
Then I added in person George Clinton (producer) & Bennie Cowan (trumpet) in Amsterdam 2018 and Maceo Parker (saxophone) in Berlin 2018.
Fred Wesley who not only played trombone but was a key figure in arrangement writing all the horn parts, was the last missing active member with enormous contribution to the record. So having it close moneyed today is really interesting experience 10 years later (41 actually). Not sure if any other copies like this exist - the band played a show with George Clinton and Horny Horns once, but before the vinyl was released

Hope my future kids will be happy with this stuff.

That’s more than a photo for me. Back in 2001 I became a huge Blur/Gorillaz fan. In 2003 went to Blur show and wrote a concert review in a student magazine. Ten years later I posted scans of my review in a Blur fan club. That’s how I met my future wife who was impressed when she saw it. 6 years later we began dating & Damon helped me to make a wedding proposal for my then-girlfriend on the stage of Bol’ festival during The Good The Bad and The Queen show. So 7 years later we are together here ❤️ Thanks to Smoggy for being such an honest and great person. And I’m proud that me and my wife met because of such an incredibly talented and tolerant man as Damon.

That’s a long story how the sketch happened cause Jamie usually never does this stuff - just the autograph, no sketches. I am super happy to have this portrait!
I expected “Slow Country” but they played “Re-Hash” instead. I went nuts - 3 days before I told my wife that my biggest setlist wish is this song but this is literally impossible.