Some more Buffalo Tom Goodies:
Birdbrain two sided skinny promo poster
I saw them only a couple times live. The best show was an acoustic one they played at McCabes guitar store.
I have one more album i forgot about, a live show bootleg CD, and advence cassette of Big red Letter, and a huge pile of stickers from Sleepy Eyed
I think I nabbed the stickers at a distributor's trade show thing one year. I went for a few years as the stores "General Merchandise Buyer" with the intent of "checking out new product lines on display." My real intent was to absolutely loot the place every year. I used to come back with the car stuffed full of free promo stuff and lots of other stuff I really wasn't supposed to take. It actually ended up turning into a game for us.
One of the highlights of the convention was seeing who the labels would make go and sign stuff. I used to actually ask/tell the autographers what to write to me. All the up and coming stars would sign whatever was asked, and even some of the bigger stars would too. I was really surprised when I met members of Anthrax and they played along with my requests:
I asked the first guy to write "Longhairs rule!" and he hesitated for a moment and signed it the way I asked
Emboldened, I asked the second guy to write "Jazz Sucks!" He did and embellished my request a bit:
"Jazz sucks big fuckin penal tissue." I think he meant "penile" tissue, but penal makes it even funnier.
Good times indeed!
A few more posters for today from solo dudes who were in bands before they went solo
first up from the Rolling Stones:
Not this album again! looks like it had two promo posters. One of my friends really liked this album. He drew a huge picture on his bedroom wall of the ring when he was feeling impulsive one night. I remember thinking at the time that this friend of mine had no taste.
If this album was good I would have remembered its existence.
A lot of Beatle fans thought of him as a genius. Something about an album called Smiley's Smile. Supposed to have been the Beach Boys Sgt Pepper's. The only people I remember buying this album were weirdo Beatles collector guys. They were the same guys lined up at the door the morning the Traveling Wilbury's album was released.
From Echo and the Bunnymen...I like Echo a lot. Ocean Rain was one of the first CDs I ever bought and one of my all time favorite albums. I remember having an aftershow backstage meet and greet pass to an Echo, New Order, and Gene Loves Jezebel show. When Ian came out, everyone flocked to him. New Order was just walking around with no one coming up to them at all. I got a free can of budweiser and an Echo set list I grabbed off the stage as I walked by while I was there. I didn't get the set list autographed because too many people were around him. I did get a vinyl copy of Brotherhood autographed by New Order.
And finally, from the Bongos:
I used to take any free albums the store got in that had Beatle covers on them. This was one I got because it had a cover of Cry Baby Cry and a Bowie song, Man Who Sold the World on it. It turned out to be a real good live acoustic album.
Buzzy Out!
