08-25-2015, 12:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2022, 07:54 AM by zeprock.)
OT: The Set I've Always Wanted
OT: The Set I've Always Wanted
In 1970 I bought my first pack of Topps baseball cards.
It cost me a dime and I got a little comic book of Bob Gibson (who was a Harlem Globetrotter) along with a small stack of baseball cards and a stick of gum (I liked gum). One of the cards in my pack was an all-star card of Carl Yastrzemski, my favorite player from my favorite team. I was hooked big time.
That same year I bought my first record, a K-Tel album featuring Tommy James "Draggin' the Line", Tony Orlando & Dawn "Knock Three Times", Sugarloaf's "Green-Eyed Lady" and songs from the Partridge Family and Melanie among others. That was the first of over 6000 albums now in my collection. I was hooked big time.
Long time members of this forum know that I am a disc-jockey at a rock and roll radio station in Bangor, Maine and host my own request show each Sunday and out of my 34 years of doing this, I have done this particular show for 23 of those years. They named me Fred Zeppelin when I started and that's where my user name comes from because Zep rocks. I start every show with a song from Led Zeppelin.
Now I've always wanted a set of cards featuring rock and roll stars but there weren't any sets like I wanted issued. I assume that it would be a licensing issue whereas the major sports are each covered under a blanket license allowing most all players to be featured in a set, in rock and roll, there is no blanket licensing and permission would have to be obtained from each individual artist in order to have their likeness used in a set. Woah! Now the Beatles had their own set and I think Elvis, the Monkees and the Rolling Stones may have had their own sets too. I did find some packs of Brokum cards back in the 90s that mostly featured obscure band members from the heavy metal bands of the day and those were cool but rather limited and then Hero Decks put out a 52 card set a few years ago that featured caricatures. Even Topps has begun to include a smattering of rock stars in their sets.
Still it wasn't what I wanted. The set I wanted had to be more comprehensive than just 52 cards and it had to feature all styles and genres of rock and not just Metal. It had to include folk rock, hard rock, prog rock, punk rock, pop rock, new wave, grunge, heavy metal, classic rock and the blues. It had to feature the innovators, the roots of rock, the trailblazers right up to the most popular and well-known artists of today. It had to encompass all the decades that rock has been around. So . . .
With the help of Google images and Wikipedia and with a designing nod to the 2013 Topps Allen and Ginter set, I researched each artist and using my PhotoShop skills created my own extensive set of Rock & Roll Legends. I have designed 600 different cards, backs and fronts.
Some images are sharper than others and unlike ballplayers, rock stars often play under colored lights which gives a lot of the images a surreal look. Now I've got to find someone who can print the set for me.
To show you what they look like, here's who I got in my first "pack".
I have taken the entire 600 card checklist and put it into a randomizer and would proudly present them to you one "virtual" 10 card pack at a time in a "virtual box break". I could probably reveal these one pack per day until I have randomly shown you the entire 600 card set. If you want to see a virtual box break of "the set I've always wanted" then please vote above in the poll.
It cost me a dime and I got a little comic book of Bob Gibson (who was a Harlem Globetrotter) along with a small stack of baseball cards and a stick of gum (I liked gum). One of the cards in my pack was an all-star card of Carl Yastrzemski, my favorite player from my favorite team. I was hooked big time.
That same year I bought my first record, a K-Tel album featuring Tommy James "Draggin' the Line", Tony Orlando & Dawn "Knock Three Times", Sugarloaf's "Green-Eyed Lady" and songs from the Partridge Family and Melanie among others. That was the first of over 6000 albums now in my collection. I was hooked big time.
Long time members of this forum know that I am a disc-jockey at a rock and roll radio station in Bangor, Maine and host my own request show each Sunday and out of my 34 years of doing this, I have done this particular show for 23 of those years. They named me Fred Zeppelin when I started and that's where my user name comes from because Zep rocks. I start every show with a song from Led Zeppelin.
Now I've always wanted a set of cards featuring rock and roll stars but there weren't any sets like I wanted issued. I assume that it would be a licensing issue whereas the major sports are each covered under a blanket license allowing most all players to be featured in a set, in rock and roll, there is no blanket licensing and permission would have to be obtained from each individual artist in order to have their likeness used in a set. Woah! Now the Beatles had their own set and I think Elvis, the Monkees and the Rolling Stones may have had their own sets too. I did find some packs of Brokum cards back in the 90s that mostly featured obscure band members from the heavy metal bands of the day and those were cool but rather limited and then Hero Decks put out a 52 card set a few years ago that featured caricatures. Even Topps has begun to include a smattering of rock stars in their sets.
Still it wasn't what I wanted. The set I wanted had to be more comprehensive than just 52 cards and it had to feature all styles and genres of rock and not just Metal. It had to include folk rock, hard rock, prog rock, punk rock, pop rock, new wave, grunge, heavy metal, classic rock and the blues. It had to feature the innovators, the roots of rock, the trailblazers right up to the most popular and well-known artists of today. It had to encompass all the decades that rock has been around. So . . .
With the help of Google images and Wikipedia and with a designing nod to the 2013 Topps Allen and Ginter set, I researched each artist and using my PhotoShop skills created my own extensive set of Rock & Roll Legends. I have designed 600 different cards, backs and fronts.
Some images are sharper than others and unlike ballplayers, rock stars often play under colored lights which gives a lot of the images a surreal look. Now I've got to find someone who can print the set for me.
To show you what they look like, here's who I got in my first "pack".
I have taken the entire 600 card checklist and put it into a randomizer and would proudly present them to you one "virtual" 10 card pack at a time in a "virtual box break". I could probably reveal these one pack per day until I have randomly shown you the entire 600 card set. If you want to see a virtual box break of "the set I've always wanted" then please vote above in the poll.
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