I knew KTD was a Zappa fan...You in Da Club too, Squid?
On 2009-07-02 22:56, kingstiedye wrote:
i saw ice-t and body count back in the day. there were about 500 cops there and about 300 fans!
Hey Bullet! Thanks for joining in...
Here's one of my favorite themed promo items of all time, from the Body Count "Born Dead" album:
The Body Count baby rattle!
Labels used to make all kinds of themed promo items for their bands. At one time I had a Warner Brothers car emergency kit. It had jumper cables, a gas syphon, flares, tire presure guage, a foam mat for car repair comfort, and a custom WEA logo on everything!
When I saw Body Count first time with GnR and metallica, it was in the Murph with about 60,000 fans. When they played Cop Killer, all the fans were flipping off the cops and yelling and screaming at them. No violence ensued, however. The most exciting thing that happend was during Metallica, when one of the banners on stage caught on fire. There were 30 foot high flames running up it and most people thought it was part of the stage show. The fire pretty much burned itself out before it was a big issue and the stage hands quickly extinguished the burning embers. More importantly, the show went on!
i like that zappa poster but not as much as frank on the toilet.
That Frank on the crapper photo is a classic! I have two or three more Zappa posters in the rolls that I haven't got to yet. In the meantime, here's a RYKO in store sampler CD I have:
Also, a Zappa and Dead CD bin card:
these were from back in the day when CDs came in "longboxes." Then a few years later, the "Ban the Box" grassroots campaign and shoplifters around the world rejoiced as cd were shipped sans the longbox! And those long boxes with printed graphics used to make such neat cassette covers, too.
Hey Bullet! Does this venue look familar to you?(Speaking of the Dead...)
Here I am, fixing breakfast at the Cal Expo shows in 1989:
Wonder if I saw you there?
the next year, 1990 we camped in the grass:
Looks like I was sportin' a free Marlboro hat in that picture. I worked one day a week at a liquor store/deli back then too. I was underage still and kept the liquor store job after I got hired at the record store so I could sell myself booze, and get it at an employee discount. I milked that scenario for about six years. My job at the deli for several years consisted soley of the saturday morning shift, 9-2. We (all my best friends, surf buddies, and bandmates worked there too) used to help ourselves to all the free cigarette promo stuff that was there. I was probably wearing camel shorts and had a Newprt wristwatch on in that picture too. we actually had whole outfits of cigarette promoclothes, and none of us smoked. We looked like big smoking fans.
Back to the DEAD: I remember cleaning out the entire record store's stock of Dead merchandise and selling it in the parking lot in 1990. I had a bunch of "Dead in A Decks" that did real well for me. I sold out of stuff after only walking down one and a half rows of campers. It's how I paid for my whole trip, and a few days after in Berkely as well.
i'm a big neil young fan, about 25 shows over the years. i'll take crazy horse, shocking pinks, bluenotes, stray gators, pearl jam, or solo (seen them all with neil) over csny (seen them too).
Bluenotes tour was the first time I saw Neil, at the California Theatre, or maybe Golden hall in downtown SD. I think he played an acoustic set and then the Bluenotes set. I probably saw him 10 times after that. I think the best tour I saw was when he played with Social D. I saw that tour in SD at the sports arena and I think at the Greek theatre? can't remember the exact LA venue, but it has grass in the upper level. Is there a place in Costa Mesa like that, if it wasn't the Greek that they played at?
Some more promo posters to end this post with:
Prince Lovesexy: I never was much into Prince. I got this one strictly for resale value later on. I remember at the time a lot of people really went crazy for this album cover. Right about the time this album came out, bootleggers were making the Blackalbum on vinyl like crazy. I used to be the bootleg buyer at the store for many years. the bootleg seller guys would show up on their regular day, usually about once every two weeks. They'd use the wink wink signal with me and a few minutes later I'd be in the back alley digging through a car trunk, or sitting in a motorhome, pulling out bootleg vinyl we'd want. The Blackalbums went like crazy. I probably sold 20 a month for close to a year.
Meat Puppets Mirage on SST: this poster is thrashed because it hung in one of our "jam rooms." I think this one hung in this basement we rented from some hippies in Vista. We paid $100 a month for a underground room in an old house in the sticks of Vista. They hippy guys used to give us a good deal because we'd always bring females and booze to practice. We fixed up the basement into three rooms. One was where we played, one was a lounge with couches and a tv, and the third room we made was an indoor hockey rink. We used to spend a lot of time there. definitely got our money's worth. We even had parties and shows there too. One of the parties was a crossdressing party with us and another band, and it made a couple segments on a Blockhead skate video that came out in the early 90's.
Let's Active? The only explanation for why I have this is that I got it for my friend Jeff and never gave it to him. He liked Let's Active because he was a REM freak and Mitch easter of Let's active produced some early REM stuff. They had one semi hit, Every word means no.
This Lloyd Cole poster must have been for Jeff too. Jeff was a good friend of mine, indy record collector, and fellow musician. He met a girl at JC one day and dropped his whole former life for her in an instant and became a married with kids, had to get a real job dude. I wore a Minutemen Roar of the Masses could be Farts tshirt when I was the best man at his wedding. His wedding was probably the last time i saw him. He's in a band called 17th pygmy now, which used to be 17 pygmys , but if they use that name then the 17 pygmy guys not in 17th pygmy will sue them.
I don;t remember ever selling a Lloyd cole album. He must have had a big following in England. Or maybe somewhere...
I think this poster does a good job of illustrating the randomness of all the poster that I have. I really do have some more interesting stuff than this.
Feel free to ad any recollections that any of these bands, posters,or comments inspire.
Buzzy Out!
