Muddy Waters Vulcan Gas Company Poster

Check out this sick Muddy Waters Vulcan Gas Company poster! And look who was the the warm up band - Johnny Winter! Supposedly, when Johnny was wailing out, Mud called Chicago and screamed into the phone at Willie Dixon *that* was a white boy wailing out! This poster has been folded but nothing some tender, loving, professional restoration couldn't fix.

Gilbert Shelton Piece - Rag Benefit 5/19/67

Here's an extremely rare Gilbert Shelton piece from Tut's Tomb Dallas. It promotes a Rag Benefit which was the "underground" newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin. To read more about the Rag go HERE. It looks like this piece could really use the services of Kiloh's expert poster restorer but what-the-hey it's rare-as-hen's-teeth!

Steppenwolf Hemisfair Arena 10/13/68 Poster

Check out this, rare-as-hen's-teeth, Steppenwolf Hemisfair Arena 10/13/68 poster by Gilbert Shelton. It's often mistaken as a Vulcan Gas Company poster because it's by Gilbert and this poster maintains the same dimensions as a Vulcan poster (BIG).

This poster is from Tut's Tomb Dallas where that big time collector is breaking it all out for the fans to see.

Austin Inner Sanctum Records Poster and More

Here’s a nod to your friendly Head Shop / Record Store. See, poster for Inner Sanctum Records by Jim Franklin; poster for some head shop by Jim Harter; Oat Willie’s by Gilbert Shelton. Go HERE to read the Wikipedia article on Inner Sanctum Records. Go HERE to read about Oat Willie’s. 

Bruce Springsteen Armadillo World Headquarters 6/15/74 Posters

Check out these two Bruce Springsteen Armadillo World Headquarters 6/15/74 posters. Springsteen played the Armadillo four times in 1974. These two posters are out of Tut's Tomb Dallas. Enjoy. 

Signed Golden Dawn Vulcan Gas Company Posters

We are still perusing Tut's Tomb Dallas and check out these two Golden Dawn Vulcan Gas Company posters! Signed by Gilbert Shelton too! This Collector is trotting it all out for the fans to see, no "website" with tiny thumbnail shots. As if, "Omigawd, I must prevent *them* from using MY images!" It's so small-minded and counter to the Quest for Pure Sanity. With the opening of Tut's Tomb in Austin, and Tut's Tomb in Dallas, the music is coming out and the images are coming out! Let those wishing to control things, or own part of the story by holding some "artifact", grab what they can while they scurry out of the way of the Wheels of Progress. The Quest for Pure Sanity continues.

No, Tut's Tomb Dallas has cracked open the doorway. You're not getting a little peek, in the form of some low-pixal thumbnail, but you are getting full-on digital photography glory. At the bottom of this post is a vid of the Blow Your Mind poster from the Tut's Tomb, Unit P, Auxiliary Site in Phoenix, Arizona.

13th Floor Elevators Signed Vulcan Gas Company Posters

We are back visiting that Uber Collector who lives in Tut's Tomb Dallas. Want something to feast your eyes on? How about both "Pooh" and "Brains and Guts" posters signed by Gilbert Shelton, Roky Erickson & Spencer Perskin?!! Yes, Virginia... There is a Santa Claus and he lives in all of the LSD damaged minds of the cognoscenti worldwide! It doesn't get any sicker than this! Unless it's those two "Pooh" handbills!

Feast your eyes... I got nothing more to say.

Bill Narum Piece - Johnny Winter, Allman Brothers - Manor Downs, 7/28/79

Look at this beauty! It's a Bill Naurm piece promoting a Johnny Winter, Allman Brothers show at Manor Downs, Texas 7/28/79. Jerry Jeff Walker opened; then Johnny came on. I heard that Johnny didn't know when to quit and almost got his plug pulled. The Allman Brothers put on an amazing show.

Music for the Spheres Being Produced

Music for the Spheres being produced.

The 13th Floor Elevators - Music of the Spheres (vinyl boxset being manufactured) from Charly Records on Vimeo.

13th Floor Elevators "Pooh" Handbill

Check out these two "Pooh" Vulcan Gas Company handbills! These handbills are even rarer than the posters! One is a "negative" version of the other (almost) and confirms that two versions of this 'bill were produced. One handbill is autographed by Spencer Perskin. Again, we are in the home of the serious collector of Texas Psych art. This site is known as Tut's Tomb Dallas. There's a Tut's Tomb Austin and a Tut's Tomb Unit P Auxiliary in Phoenix (my home). But Tut's Tomb Dallas has yielded many "wondrous things" for us to grok over the next months.

And that's what it's all about - sharing. See... this Collector is part of the human race and he GETS IT. He gets the Quest for Pure Sanity thing. Part of this Quest is that one doesn't "hold on" to anything and they share with others. Our Collector in Dallas understands this.

The other? What others? Paul Drummond? The guy obtains a single, never-seen-before, photograph of Roky and the Spades and falls all over himself to copyright it in his name. Really? Paul wasn't even born when that photo was taken so... why is he copyrighting it in his own name? And how did he get it? He talked it out of the person that took it with the ol' "I'm an Author and I am writing a book" scam. Read more about this picture here.

Patrick Lama? That guy wrote his own Wikipedia article! No loss of the ego there. And a big part of the Quest is reduction of the ego. This guy has a long history of shenanigans in the Texas Psych space. Like cribbing the 'Elevators' stuff out of the Jack Ortman Scrapbooks. He fell over himself to give all his friends props in his "13th Floor Elevators Reference File" but Jack got a single mention as a "source" when Lama ripped the entire piece of work out of the Ortman Scrapbooks.

When Walt Andrus died Lama had the enormous brass balls to get on Mr. Andrus' Obituary on the Houston Press blog and complain that they had used "his" photograph of Mr. Andrus without his permission. Then he threatened that "no more" would be forthcoming as if he even has anything worth looking at! Back in the day, Lama used to get on the Internet message boards and crow about "this" 'Elevators 45 rpm mix and "that" mono LP track. But God forbid he would share anything. It was all about that SELF IMPORTANCE of being able to say that he had something that other didn't. And really? All he had was some scratchy vinyl that he bought on Ebay. Lama has no "in" with people. To read more about Lama go here. Yuk.

This brings us to Billy Miller also known as Billy Alienate. Once, he had a minor part in one of Roky's bands. He has since turned that into a career of being somebody that "knows" Roky. He also is in possession of cassette tapes of Roky Erickson Aliens Session that he claims to "own". Billy used to to convert like... 10 seconds of some rare session to MP3 and post it for people to hear. The whole idea of this was to boost that SELF IMPORTANCE by showing that he "owned" something that nobody else had.

Well... Cracking open Tut's Tomb in Austin put the kibosh on that nonsense. What was in Tut's Tomb Austin but the entire Aliens sessions on reel to reel and cassette! Billy has nothing to crow about now but that doesn't stop him. To read more about Billy Alienate go here and here and here.

People like this don't get the Quest for Pure Sanity; it totally escapes them. And don't be fooled by their rap and they DO have a rap.

To read more about Jack Ortman go here and here and here.

Enjoy the images that will be published!