Before + After

Quite a while ago I convinced my daughter to give me this empty Elvis Presely 45 display case (she removed the fake "Jail House Rock" 45 long ago... :P). I've been planning to take it apart, revamp it, and use it to display a 45 by my dad's old band Dahcotah, and I finally got around to doing it today!



Here it is after I took it apart. The original cardstock insert made a perfect template for my new and improved one, naturally.



Here it is all finished. I used some cardstock from a Martha Stewart set I got cheap at Wal-mart. There are a lot of really attractive prints in there for only around 7$, and they carry them at Michael's too, if you're opposed to Wal-mart. For the title I used self-stick letters in a circus/carnival-esque font. I love things that look like they should be at a carnival or circus! ♥ (Except for clowns...I really hate those. O_o)
Anyway, a little more info...
The band was called Dahcotah, and they were from Iowa. They were active during the early to late seventies. My dad played bass, lead, and rhythm guitar at various different times. He also wrote a lot of awesome songs, sang backing vocals, and once or twice sang lead vocals. He had a great voice, and was such a talented musician and songwriter. This 45 is signed by all of the band members except for my dad, unfortunately. I purchased it through an Iowa record dealer sometime after my dad passed away in 2004. I have a record player, but can't play this record because I don't have an adapter for the larger centre hole. I know the songs, though, and I do have a remastered CD containing many of their recordings, as well as old tour posters, live & promo photos, and various other memoribilia (including some of my dad's old "rocker" clothes ^^). The A-side of this 45 is "Too Easy to Love", and was a minor hit for Dahcotah in the 70's. The B-side is "She's a Bore". :) It's kind of hard to describe what they sounded like, but if you could cross early Cheap Trick with maybe Mott the Hoople, that would be a fairly decent description.
Anyway, I have a lot more things I'd like to finish today and I don't want to get all sad and nostalgic to the point where I'm depressed, so I think I will end this here....

Labels: mementos, records, repurposed, revamp

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