I still have the "Maximum Rhythm and Blues" poster, but sold the vinyl with the other goodies at atime of extreme financial hardship...saw an episode of "Pawn Stars" which featured exactly what you're talking about, somebody thought the copy of the contract to appear at Woodstock was original... :roll: ...but my favorite was the copy of the bill from the music store for the destroyed equipment. :lol:
Brad Little said:
I also have the first edition of Her Satanic Majesties, with the original inner sleeve and the maze intact.
That would have the plastic overlay on the cover intended to imitate a 3d effect, then, too, yes? :wink:
That was another cool thing about vinyl, the packaging allowed for so much more than CD's do. CD's're just too small for anything truly impressive even if they do at least have a booklet insert.
Jefferson Airplane put out a couple of cult classics of packaging with "Bark" being released in a brown paper bag. That contains one of my favorite cuts of theirs, "Pretty as You Feel", another one of those "masterpieces of presence" featuring an often forgotten guest appearance by Carlos Santana on the lead... then came "Long John Silver" in which the inner sleeve was a picture of larger than life size cigars with "JA" logo paper rings, and for which the album cover itself folds up into a cigar box with a photo of a large dried quantity of well-known medicinal herb printed on the bottom to stare you in the face on opening... :lol: