Neither of these counter top stands are genuine.
They are made by people who want to make money out of fans and disguise them as official promo product.
I have seen many others over the years, usually at record fairs, and usually use poor quality scans.
Unless you like these, then leave well alone.
Don't be put off Pittrek, all his other stuff is all legit, apart from the bootlegs of course...lol.
He probably doesn't even know that these two standees are fakes.
I had a real stand-up from 1984, if I recall correctly, of Freddie, holding all the album sleeves. Trashed it because I had to move, and this thing was big (around 4 or 5 feet ?).
Dumb.
GT wrote:
Neither of these counter top stands are genuine.
They are made by people who want to make money out of fans and disguise them as official promo product.
I have seen many others over the years, usually at record fairs, and usually use poor quality scans.
Unless you like these, then leave well alone.
Indeed. Saw lots of fakes at record fairs over the years.
GT wrote:
Don't be put off Pittrek, all his other stuff is all legit, apart from the bootlegs of course...lol.
He probably doesn't even know that these two standees are fakes.
True. He has many great items for sale. Saw him selling fake autographs too btw...
smilesmile wrote:
I had a real stand-up from 1984, if I recall correctly, of Freddie, holding all the album sleeves. Trashed it because I had to move, and this thing was big (around 4 or 5 feet ?).
Dumb.
Well... wrong move...
Mind you, I sometimes had some good ideas too, like going to my first concert ever when I was 13. December 1980, Queen in Brussels ;°)
I did, but with a very small crappy camera (a 110 pocket instamatic). I was like 20-30 feet in front of the stage, on the left side.
Freddie appeared very small on the pictures...and the low part of the picture was black (the stage was rather high). The next concerts I saw ('84 and '86), I had learned from my mistakes, and held the camera above my head. Surprisingly, all the pics were correct (no head cut, nothing out of focus, etc.).
Reminds me that I still have a few genuine record store cardboard stand up displays and promo posters and items from The Miracle and all its singles. There was (still is) a great record store near me and they would set aside any display for you free of charge if you went and asked; whoever got there first got their name written down and you could collect it after a few weeks when it came down from the window.
smilesmile wrote:
I did, but with a very small crappy camera (a 110 pocket instamatic). I was like 20-30 feet in front of the stage, on the left side.
Freddie appeared very small on the pictures...and the low part of the picture was black (the stage was rather high). The next concerts I saw ('84 and '86), I had learned from my mistakes, and held the camera above my head. Surprisingly, all the pics were correct (no head cut, nothing out of focus, etc.).
Great! Do you know the website queenlive.ca ?
Maybe you can send scans of the pictures to that site?
Would be nice to see those...!
cmsdrums wrote:
Reminds me that I still have a few genuine record store cardboard stand up displays and promo posters and items from The Miracle and all its singles. There was (still is) a great record store near me and they would set aside any display for you free of charge if you went and asked; whoever got there first got their name written down and you could collect it after a few weeks when it came down from the window.
That's how I remember it too with stands and poster. Back in the day :-)
These are some of my pics from another concert I went to, and that I sent to Queenlive;ca... not 1980 though.
I was quite close too, but used a zoom. And yes, held the camera high above my head ;°)
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