I have a bunch of free record label promo only posters from back when I worked at a record store from '87 to about '94. They have been in a box up in my garage since I moved to this house in '94. A few weeks back, inspired by the Punk Rock memorabilia thread in beyond tiki, I cracked open the box to see what was inside.
I decided to do a bilge thread of recollections that I have about the album, band, or time period for each poster that I find in the box.
I'm taking pictures of the posters as the came out of the box and they are in no order other than by order of discovery. I have maybe a couple hundred? It's hard to tell because they are all rolled up together.
Here are some of the first ones in a roll I pulled out of the box and photographed:
I have more Zappa Cds than any other artist. I think about 80, give or take. I also have all his original vinyl pressings of all his albums, as well as the Old Masters vinyl reissue boxes. The first album I heard that got me into him was One Size Fits All. I liked the funny album cover with the red couch and slapped a used copy of it on one night at work. By the time the guitar solo from Pajama People was over, I was hooked. After that, I took a long road of discovery of all of zappa's albums. Next one I listened to was Mother's at Fillmore. After that, Overnight sensation, Uncle Meat, Thing Fish, Mothers of Prevention, and Jazz from Hell. My 5 favorite zappa albums would probably be in order: One Size fits All, Bongo Fury, Mother's live at fillmore east,Hot rats, and Live in New York. Honorable mention goes to the not a catalog double live album You Can't do That on Stage any More volume 2.
I don't really remember this album.I saw the Violent Femmes a bunch of times live. I think I saw them this tour at the Sports Arena when they opened for the b-52's.
This was when the Jimi catalog went from WEA to MCA. I have an old import CD of the naked lady cover for Electric Ladyland. It has nasty analog hiss on it, but the cover makes it worth it. I never got any of these reissues because I already had the WB versions. I had to draw the line somewhere. For some reason, I have a few of this poster. I remember taking posters we got and trading them to people. I had a whole second job selling and trading free stuff I got at the store for several years.
There was a time when I really liked New Order, but by the time this album came out, it was past that time for me. I couldn't name one song one this album. I don't think I went and saw them on this tour. I think the Brotherhood tour was the last one that I saw them on. The Lowlife tour was one of my favorite shows of all time.
I think they played with Sugarcubes and Public enemy at the stadium on this album's tour. I'm not really a big U2 fan but I liked Joshua Tree and WAR when they came out. Now I think they're annoying. This was the last album they did that paid any attention to.
I really liked Body Count a lot. I played their first album constantly for a few months after it came out. I saw them when they opened up for Metallica and Gun's n Roses and when they headlined at Iguana's in TJ. For the TJ show, here was a huge El Nino rainstorm and the power went out in Iguana's. they got big cords and ran power in from the nightclub next door. there were barely any lights on and the crowd was standing in about two inches of water on the floor. It ended being a real good show, despite the fact I was constantly worried about being electrocuted the whole time.
there are a bunch of posters I'm finding that I have no idea why I have them. This would be one of them. The only Siouxsie songs I know are Dear Prudence and Cities in Dust. I was never into her. I don't think Siouxse fans even bought this album.
My good friend Kenny used to say: "Crosby, Stills, and Nash minus Young equals shit!" I think I might have seen this tour at the SDSU Open Air Amplitheatre. It's hard to remember all the details of the crappy shows. I might have seen just Crosby stills and nash on a later tour. I just remember being annoyed by Nash and Crosby at some show. The only reason Stills wasn't so annoying was because Nash and crosby were. I don;t even remember Young being there at all...
Cool album cover. i liked them as Dukes of Stratosphere better. I never owned or listened to this album. Took the poster because I liked the cover. Never saw them live.
Old Pink Floyd promo poster. it's tough to choose a favorite Pink Floyd album. They were my favorite band for a long time before I worked at the store. Maybe the Final Cut. Hard choice.
I cannot think of Bob Dylan without singing the Minutemen song "Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs." No idea why i have this poster. I think I have "Times they are a Changing" and "John Wesly Harding." I had` the greatest hits but got rid of them during one of my many collection downsizings. He's too whiny and mellow for me.
Grant Hart's post Husker Du band. I really liked Grant's first solo album he did on SST where he played all the instruments. Nova mob wasn't even close to being as good as that album or as good as the Huskers were, but they were better than nothing and I never could get into Bob's band Sugar.
Morrissey's one time favorite band. They had a few early singles, an ep, and an album on Rough Trade before this album on Polygram. Those early works were damn good. This album was lame. A total disappointment for me, and early James fan
Buffalo Tom started on an import label I can't recall, then SST, and then went to Beggars Banquet/RCA. They were one of my favorite bands back then. The first album on RCA was one of my all time favorite albums. I saw them live a few times. Grabbed a hand written set list when they played at SoundEFX(Baccanal) with Three Mile pilot. This poster is autographed by them. I can't remember when I got it autographed, but I have a bunch of signed junk from them.
Last one for this post:
No idea why I have this one either? Probably got it for my friend Jeff and never gave it to him. I think this album was produced by David Gilmore of Floyd. Life in a Northern Town is all that I recall of them. I liked that song when my buddy Jeff played it for me, but they were too mellow for me overall.
many more later
Buzzy Out!
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