The Terry Allen's Collector's Platter [Gonna California / Color Book / Terry Allen / Joe Ely at ROXY / The Terry Allen Year Book / Two Black-and-White Photographs]
  • loose leaves
  • printed envelope
  • black-and-white
  • 6 vol. : 1 vol. : 20 x 19.7 cm. (envelope) ; 1 vol. : 18.2 x 17.6 cm. (45 RMP vinyl record) ; 2 vol. : 14 x 8.8 cm. (black-and-white photographs, each) ; 1 vol. 16.5 x 16.5 cm. (text card) ; 1 vol. : 3.8 x 8.8 cm. (ticket)
  • 6 vol. : 1 vol. : [2] pp. (envelope) ; 1 vol. : [2] pp. (45 RMP vinyl record) ; 2 vol. : [2] pp. (black-and-white photographs, each) ; 1 vol. [1] pp. (text card) ; 1 vol. : [2] pp. (ticket)
  • edition size unknown
  • signed and unnumbered

The Terry Allen's Collector's Platter [Gonna California / Color Book / Terry Allen / Joe Ely at ROXY / The Terry Allen Year Book / Two Black-and-White Photographs]

Terry Allen

The Terry Allen's Collector's Platter [Gonna California / Color Book / Terry Allen / Joe Ely at ROXY / The Terry Allen Year Book / Two Black-and-White Photographs]

description

Set consisting of a 45 RPM vinyl record with two Terry Allen songs, "Gonna California" backed "Color Book," issued by Bale Creek in 1969; two silver gelatin black-and-white photographs, one inscribed on recto in black ink "TERRY / JO HAVEY / BUKKA CAIN / BALE CREEK / — THE ALLEN''S —"; a single side text page with an autobiographical text by Allen dated 1969; and a ticket for the Roxy in Los Angeles with rubber stamp on verso reading "TERRY ALLEN / JOE ELY / MON. OCT 22, 1979 / 11:30 P.M. $6.50." Items housed in manila envelop inscribed on recto "$2.50 / THE TERRY ALLEN''S COLLECTOR''S PLATTER" and rubber stamp on recto reading "PHONOGRAPH RECROD / FRAGILE." Verso of envelope with rubber stamp reading "PHONOGRAPH RECORDS / FRAGILE / DO NO / DROP."

"I had done a 45, the first record I ever did, which was called ''Going to California.'' And the flip side of this 45 was called ''Color Book,'' which was kind of a zany idiot song that I had written, and this friend of mine paid for one thousand copies of my record to be made. But there was a guy floating around LA at that time called the Hollywood arsonist and he was lighting different fires all over Sunset Boulevard, and he literally lit one of his fires on my stack of freshly pressed records. ... And only about three hundred of them were left, so I instantly said, ''Well, it''s a collector''s item now,'' and I put them in a little package and we sold them at Al''s Café as kind of a side dish. Then Al [Ruppersberg] got busted because he never got a liquor license, and that was a pretty hilarious day when Al, whose hair was at least to the back of his knees, had to go to court and explain his café to this woman judge and present his whole deal to her. She never said one word. He just stood there spouting all of his stuff about how the café came about and about all these artists and all this stuff, and finally the judge just stopped him and said, ''Get out of here, just get out of here.''" -- Terry Allen, "On Everything: An interview with Terry Allen by Paul Karlstrom," East of Borneo, November 29, 2011.

n.p. / Hollywood, n.p. / CA: Terry Allen / Bale Creek,
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$1,500.00
Condition:  Fine. Record, photographs, text card and ticket all clean and unmarked. Envelope has dusting to recto and staining from adhesive where flap, now lacking, was attached to verso of envelope.
[Object # 37988]