RARE ACCEPT MEMORABILIA 

The following are pics of some of the items from my personal collection. It is my opinion that they are rare, but I have no way of really knowing. I base my opinions on how often I have seen the items advertised in collectors' ads.

"Accept" pin - I have several pins, but this has to be one of my favorites. Accept pins are definitely out there by the hundreds of thousands probably, but for some reason are a little hard to come by if you are a collector. Strangely, one of my pins (not this one), was purchased from the lead singer/bassist for Hilljack..... a Columbus, Oh based metal band. 

"This One's For You!"- This is a bootleg cd that i decided to include in this list. It may not have been rare for European fans to get...but if you are a U.S. fan and have a copy, congratulate yourself! I purchased the cd around 1994-95...which was at the peak of my Accept purchasing. Around 80% of my collection was obtained in a 2-3 year span. And if I was at my buying peak, and I stumbled upon this cd in a freak accident way...then it is RARE as far as I'm concerned! I saw it at a record show and someone else bought it. I had to call up the company and order it, I don't think they ever advertised it (or if they did, just once in a catalog)..... but I never saw it anywhere else, and if I wouldn't have seen it at that show, I would have never found out about it.

"The Guys Do What You Like" - This is a bootleg LP of a concert, I'm guessing in 1983. This has to be the strangest album cover for anything that has Accept's name on it. You just have to get lucky on bootlegs! 

Interview Disc - This disc is somewhat of an oddity in my opinion. As you can see from the cover, it is supposed to be one of only 2500 copies made, so naturally I was thrilled when I got a copy. But in the future, I would see it advertised at least 2-3 more times and talk to a couple people that also had it. But it is still a great collector's item for a fan to have! One interesting note was that, I believe the whole band was present, but Wolf did most of the talking. The reason being, that at that time, he spoke the best English! If you think his German accent is strong now.... get a hold of this disc! 

"Deamon's Night" Box Set - As far as records/tapes/CDs go (bootlegs excluded), this box set, in my opinion, has to be the rarest of them all! Now, it contains the first three albums..... so you don't get any extra tracks or anything else. I somehow stumbled upon this item and to this day, I can't remember where I got it? So needless to say, it was only seen once by my watchful eye! 

Radio Show - Accept radio shows are not too terribly difficult to come by. The one problem is that usually they are only found in auctions. Now since, at the time, I bought every Accept item I saw, I would go all balls in an auction. For a radio show I would just say "phuck it" and bid $30 or so right off the bat. That would guarantee me getting it, because basically what you have in auctions, are people just bidding $5-10 or so trying to pick up a good deal. But if you have never purchased a radio show, basically what you get is a one to two LP set of the whole show (even the commercials). Also, you get sheets listing the program details (one of which I have pictured). The sound quality on these is soundboard usually, but probably not as good as say "Staying A Life" 

"Midnight Highway" Tour Shirt - Displayed here are the front and back of this shirt. You would think tour shirts might not be hard to come across..... but guess again! My '93 tour shirts were obtained from shows I went to. As hard as I looked for shirts, I was only able to find two people that sold me shirts. One shirt from one of the guys, and all the others that you see in my list came from the other dude. So it was just a matter of sheer luck. To any fans out there looking for Accept shirts, I wish you all the luck in the world! 

The Watch - Not only one of the rarest Accept items out there, but the item that I lost the most hairs in my head over. I never saw this item advertised. The company (or person in all likelyhood) who had it, contacted me. So I ordered the watch for somewhere in the neighborhood of $60. I waited a good six weeks or so before hearing something saying that the "warehouse" was moving and "sorry for the delay." So I wait another month, and finally I send in a request for my money back. Another month or so goes by and I get, not my money which I kindly asked for, but Russian Roulette and Eat the Heat LPs which I already had and did not want, and another explanation letter. Here another month or six weeks later, the watch miraculously shows up. I sent them another letter saying I did not want the watch, I wanted my money back, and that they were displaying very bad business practices. But, obviously I am pleased to have it now. I think it's an item that every die-hard Accept fan would want. It's funny that it was called a tour watch, but the face of the watch does not link it to any tour. I guess that really doesn't matter. 

Autographed ACCEPT liscense plate - This is the grand-daddy of my collection. The only one-of-a-kind piece of Accept memorabilia that I have. The plates themselves were easy to get. You just have to pray that nobody else in the same state you live in gets the idea! I only had them on a car for one year, basically because the car wasn't even mine, and that made things confusing. And the $100 or so a year for personalized plates didn't help matters. I always wanted to get it autographed, and got my chance at the '96 Columbus show. After the show, I hung around the front of the stage and as Wolf walked up to the front to greet the fans, he noticed the plate right off and was surprised! But I gave it to him and he took it back stage for the other guys to sign. There were four members, but five autographs? But I have several autographs in my collection, yet this is the only item I personally had them sign. 

 
People often ask me, "How did you obtain all the items in your collection?" The answer is simple:

                                 GOLDMINE

This is a music collector's publication. Before I started subscribing, I didn't have any live shows and not many posters or magazine articles. Then I placed ads and responded to many others and my collectioned just snowballed.

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