More ...Signed Photos, LPs, Picture Sleeves, Promos, Memorabilia, Ephemera, etc.*

Bob Dylan - "Tempest"
U.S. Columbia Records 2 x 12'' wlp Test Pressing LP's.
Numbered, and issued in special promo covers .. #63 of 75 copies.
c., 2012.

 

Julian Lennon - "Valotte"
U.S. Atlantic / Specialty Record Corp. 12'' wlp Test Pressing LP.
c., 1984.

 

Bob Dylan - "Farewell" .. Witmark & Sons Demo
U.S. Music Publishers Holding Corp. (MPHC) 8" one-sided acetate single.
w/ song lyric sheet .. these Witmark demo lacquers were shopped around to new
artists as possible cover material.
c., 1963.

 

Well I asked my dad about the record this weekend and showed him the pics and he has no memory of it at all. So I don't know how it came into our collection.

 

Bob Dylan - "Nashville Skyline"
U.S. RTI 2 x 12'' wlp Test Pressing LP's.
45 RPM discs .. w/ stamped info cover.
c., 2013.

 

Bob Dylan - "Nashville Skyline" / "New Morning"
U.S. Columbia 12" Promotional LP's.
w/ radio timing strip stickers ..
c., 1969 / 1970.

 

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - "I Advance Masked" / "Bewitched" Albums
U.S. A&M Records 12" wlp Promotional LP's.
Signed by Andy Summers.
c., 1982 / 1984.

 

I heard the beginning of a radio interview with James McCartney. I had to turn it off, it was so painful to listen to.

 

Seeing my first BEATLE ...
George Harrison - Capital Centre .. Landover, MD.
c., December 13, 1974.

 

Promo covers in which I have stock labels.

 

Nils Lofgren's E Street Band setlist, 2002. Written by Bruce. Nils added notes on which guitar he plays on each song. My brother worked this show.

 

Promotional items

 

My George Martin autographs, both signed at Martin's lecture, The Making of Sgt. Pepper, 1999.

 

Chuck Berry signed autobiography, from the November 1994 press conference for the release of The Beatles Live at the BBC.

He slipped and closed the 4 so it looks like a 9. "Oops! I slipped. I guess you have a collector's item."

"Not if you die in 1998," I replied.



Me and Chuck, moments later:

 

Same day/press conference as Chuck Berry, I also got to hang with Carl Perkins.

 

Great pic... keep 'em coming.

 

Dark Horse Records - Promotional Lithograph
This wonderful heavy gauge litho poster was made for George Harrison's
brand new record label.
c., 1974.

 

I'll add a Carl Perkins story related to the photos. This was a press conference, not a meet and greet. There was no line of people waiting to talk Carl or Chuck Berry when it was over, so I managed to spend a little time with them. They went to a booth and sat together, alone. I asked Carl if he was playing anywhere nearby soon (we were in New York City). He said no, but he had just recorded a new song he wrote for an upcoming Wynonna Judd album. "It's called 'I'm a Miracle," he said, and without hesitating he sang the entire song to me and my then-wife. Nobody else was around. An amazing moment.

Wynonna Judd has never put the song out.

 

Klaus Voormann and me, earlier this year.



Instead of asking him to sign Revolver (which nearly everyone was doing) or Anthology (the second most common choice), he signed my copy of "When We Was Fab."

"They got the colors all wrong," he told me.

 

John Berg's platinum record award for Switched on Bach. Berg designed the album cover, as well as Born to Run. I found this in my brother's apartment after he died. I do not know how he acquired it.

 

Here's a silly one. I met Sgt. Slaughter of the WWF at the Fort Belvoir PX circa 1987. He was there selling some zinc nose cream or something.

(He's the one on the right)

 

Program and penlights from a one-off Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band concert in Brooklyn, 2010. We went because we knew Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Jim Keltner (members of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band) were playing. Paul Simon was a nice bonus.



I did not take these shots:

 

I found one of those inside a used copy of Splinter’s first Dark Horse album, with Glossy photos and some press stuff. Has a note from George which - for a moment - I thought was hand-signed. Pretty sure it was a photo copy, tho...

 

Wife? You look about 16!!!

 

WINGS - Wings Over America
U.S. Capitol Records large round styrofoam Promotional Display.
Very seldom seen, elusive promo item .. much rarer than The Beatles
1974 10th Annv. styrofoam display. This example is a bit tattered, but
a chance to see one. Mine was the only one in the entire city of Pgh.
NM in box at the time .. traded decades ago.
c., 1976.