The Odd Couple
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By the way, that is a scan from my original Cheap Thrills LP which is still in very good condition. I saw Janis Joplin perform in a little club in San Francisco when she was just becoming known locally … for some reason that evening is a bit hazy to me.
The Wheelies design was an idea I came up with back in 1982 for a Honda ATC catalog cover. When the Wheelies catalog was released, it received many accolades from the industry press. Since ATCs are no longer made, I recently revised it using an illustration of a GP machine. This popular Wheelies design (along with the original Honda ATC version) is available on many different styles and colors of apparel, as well as other gift items, at one of my stores.
LEGAL: The Frisco Chapter of the Hell’s Angels (San Francisco) approved the album design for Janis Joplin — the only album cover, I believe, they ever approved. Just to clarify, the Hell’s Angels did not approve my Wheelies cover design (though it would be cool if they did).
May 6th, 2007 at 10:04:30 (10:04 am)
Thanks a lot for putting these up!
June 13th, 2007 at 00:08:16 (12:08 am)
These are excellent, and I especially love the BB/JJ album cover. I was in Haight-Ashbury in ’67 and got to say hi to Janis on the street a couple of times. Very fond memories of a wasted youth.
June 13th, 2007 at 09:59:13 (9:59 am)
I was only beginning high school in ’67, but lived just down the peninsula. On Thursday nights, we’d drive up to attend concerts at the Fillmore, since on Thursdays, it only cost $3 to get in.
While in line on the sidewalk, we’d make it past both groups of Harri Krishnas (the first giving away incense, and the second collecting 25¢ for it) to sit shoulder-to-shoulder on the floor and watch bands on their way to stardom.
Very fond memories, for sure, due to one of the most unique, albeit dark times in this country’s history.
Thank you for sharing, and for the kind words, Catrancher. (I’d love to hear the story behind your nickname)
PS: My old friends and Thursday-night car-poolers — Mike Byler and his sister Julie (the one with the driver’s license) — where are you?
June 14th, 2007 at 20:29:11 (8:29 pm)
How the Catrancher came to be: While living in the middle of Central Oregon’s Cascade Range in 1998 I took in a stray cat that wandered out of the woods. I already had four, then she had kittens. Before I could get everyone spayed or neutered I wound up with eleven cats. Feeding time reminded me of the old TV show “Rawhide,” so my Internet alias became Catrancher (I can just hear Frankie Laine singing “Keep them kitties movin’, Fur-hiiiiide…Hya!”). It became my mission to rescue stray and abandoned cats – in the intervening years I’ve rescued and adopted out about 30 of them, but I still have seven here at home. Crazy?
June 15th, 2007 at 06:54:26 (6:54 am)
Not a bit. I rescue dogs. I currently have three, but they are large.
I think it was Budweiser that produced a Superbowl spot some years ago, herding cats instead of cattle.