I really need to use this page more.... regardless if it is seen or not!

A funny thing happened on the way to Lost and Found Records.....

When I went to pick up a vinyl pressing of Alice Cooper's new album "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" in hopes of having Dick Wagner to sign it on a planned road trip to Michigan (a later blog post will follow) the store owner Maria asked if I want to talk to a reporter about some of my "Tales of the road" and I didn't think it would be a big deal so I said I'll talk to her. I passed on my phone number (or I called her....can't remember which) and a few days later I met Allison Rupp at Panera Bread in West Knoxville and basically shot the shit with her for about an hour I felt it went pretty good but I was also a bit nervous that I may have revealed too much about myself as I did go into some detail about my "Bootlegging" past/present and with my apprehension of being true to myself after Jason left Metallica in 2000 as I did feel like I was being pulled on both sides but it was for naught as Allison did an EXCELLENT job of telling "my story" without putting too much focus on just me.

Below is a link for the article....
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/nov/26/knoxvillians-passionately-follow-their-favorite/

Ticket Stub Collection.....

By no means is this a complete album of my ticket stubs as I am not very organized but it gives you a very good ideal of the many shows I have attended (and in the case of many of the shows after Halloween 1985 also was taped by me too!)...... there will be more to be added as time passes by. At the moment I only have the free account so I do not know what my limitations are as to what is visible to the general public as I can only see the last 200 images. I have no problem with sharing them as long as credit is given when due. I hope to have a companion set in chronological order in the future. As it goes with some shows where I was on "The Guest List" there is no stub to scan as it was sometimes nothing more as a stamp on the back of my hand so the complete list will never be known.

Explore at your own leisure!

Jerry aka "The Govner" 

The Govner's Flickr Account

December 8th.....

How I found out John Lennon was shot.... I was in basement of Doug E's parents house sitting in a circle "gettin' baked" with some other friends and was watching Monday Night Football when this came on....


Howard Cosell announcing John Lennon's death

Fast forward to 2004...... I wake up to find my e-mail box full of messages from my friends wondering if I was OK as if I was living in Ohio more than likely I would have been at this show.....
Dimebag shooting report



I never got to see John Lennon but I have seen Pantera 16 times and taped all of them...... they are posted at DIME

With all the vintage Bon Scott era AC/DC released over the last few years.....

Why haven't there been an "Deluxe" issue of  Powerage released with the original UK raw mix found on the first pressing of the UK version included as bonus tracks (along with the classic September 2nd show from 1977 from the Old Waldorf in San Francisco that was broadcasted over the airwaves) for us old school fans?

09/03/1977 Old Waldorf San Francisco CA setlist

Just sayin'....

33 years ago today.......

Also on the bill..... UFO & The Motors for a mere $4!

My latest obsession......

I have been driven to digitize my old analog bootleg recordings to digital to share over the Internet via bit torrent. Part of it has been from the positive reception that was given to The Dan Lampinski Collection that was recently uploaded over at dimeadozen from a chance meeting of a couple of Boston Yes fans. Not only was the recordings some of the best of the day but it introduced a lot of vintage Rock and Roll to a fan base that was not even born at the time they was made!
 But a bonus for me is to listen to recordings I have not listened to for years (and in some cases decades!) and being able to distribute them as I see fit! I used to be big into the tape trading but after a while it got to be a hassle with dealing with unreliable traders (plus it was very costly & time consuming too!)...... and I was getting pissed off when some of my recordings would be misrepresented or even worst the quality would drop considerably from generation to generation. I also felt like I was letting people down sometimes if I couldn't made a trade because they had nothing I wanted or they wanted too much from me than I was willing to give.
 But with torrent sites like dimeadozen or The Trader's Den it is now a no-brainer as I am in total control of ever step of the process! I can remove glitches, split the tracks perfectly, adjust the balance and increase the levels without unwanted distortion or clipping.

It also gives me something to do while I surf the web.....