early garage collectors questions

[sylvain]

2 questions:

- would anyone here be in touch with Jim Bosanko, from the Detroit area ? I'd like to get in touch with him, but can't find his email contact.

- was anybody here once a friend of Dave Gibson ? or know who should I contact to get some details ? any stories / infos about the Moxie maximo would be welcome

thanks

 

[bosshoss]

Try contacting Jules Normington (budus on eBay). He visited Dave Gibson at his home many times during the Moxie years, and bought a lot of the garage 45s that were used for the Boulders series after Dave had compiled them.

 

[MopTopMike]

Also contact our member, Rich Strauss. He posted stories about hanging out with Dave Gibson and his wife, Phibes on the old G45 forum

 

[sylvain]

Thanks guys. Jules Normington was in the pipeline of mine, as I as aware he's been "transferring" tons of garage 7''s from the US to Australia back in the 80s. But I didn't know he used to be in touch with D.Gibson, which is great news. And I just got news from Rich, which is fab.

 

[Heitkotter77]

Jim dropped out of collecting some time ago. I haven't been in touch with him for at least 20 years.
If you know Carl P in Michigan, he can put you in touch. If not, I'll talk to Carl.

 

[sylvain]

Carl is actually the one thanks to who I'm now tracking Jim down. He even phoned him, but told me that Bosanko wasn't willing to talk. Which just sucks, as it's once again a whole part of the garage history that gonna soon sink into oblivion. Which is why I'm trying to contact him directly, in the hope to convince him to talk to me.

 

[Heitkotter77]

I have his number my old phone book.
If you want to try phoning him, I'll dig it out.

 

[sylvain]

that's great from you, thanks. But I think it would be just like impossible to have a relaxed conversion over the phone, from switzerland and my pidgin spoken english, the bad sound quality, and the fact that he's first to be convinced to talk. I actually just contacted Carl again, to ask him if he'd be OK to give him another (and last) call. I dont expect much unfortunately, as there's so much paranoia around since the 80s...

 

[Heitkotter77]

I don't know if it's paranoia in Jim's case. As far as I know, he just totally lost interest in collecting.
Good luck with that.

 

[buckeyebeat]

Paranoia? No. I can't speak for JB but there are people who do stuff in their life, leave it behind, and have no interest in going back there. Apparently in the age of narcissistic social media, that is a major sin.

 

[sylvain]

Paranoia? No. I can't speak for JB but there are people who do stuff in their life, leave it behind, and have no interest in going back there. Apparently in the age of narcissistic social media, that is a major sin.

that's indeed a phenomenon I now figure out, as I've been "encountering" quite a few past garage collectors, very active in the 80s, but who've since then dropped or gone to some other fields of interest. Most have gone into soul, country or R&B, and dont wanna spend a minute upon their past moptop days. That's too bad for the "stories collectors" of my kind, but that's it !