I'm sure a form of this also exists as a full-page advertisement in the Los Angeles Free Press (May 1969 if I remember correctly? - I dont have my copy of it to hand right now to check). It would be too big for me to scan anyway.
Is there a "small" version?
[quote="alfredovu"]I will try to bring it here next week[/quote]
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Yes. It is reprinted in so-so quality but good enough on Scrapbook
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Is this the ad everyones interested in? Sorry quite big file otherwise you can't read the small copy..
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Damn, for some reason its reduced the file size, if you want a larger file version PM me with your email address..
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I know, i know got the wrong ad! here you go..
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that's the one I was thinking of. I wonder how much a full page ad in the LA Free Press cost back in 1969? MGM certainly seems to have made an effort to promote the 3rd LP. (Although I remember a comment from Moe about how their records never seemed to be available in the shops....) When did MGM start dumping their "unwholesome" artists? It couldn't have been too long after the 3rd album came out.
[quote="bleach"]I know, i know got the wrong ad! here you go..
[quote="bleach"]I know, i know got the wrong ad! here you go..
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davidh_aus
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I'm away from my VU books and magazines, but I'm sure I remember seeing an ad for a competition, where the prizes were something like '100 singles' from the third album. Does anyone else remember seeing this, and how likely is it that anybody actually ever won one of them.
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Thanks bleach. The pic sleeve offeredon here does not match wih the Album Cover neither with the VU-1. As it is just over a mention to their new single What Goes On", I always wondered if it was an attempt for an 45 stock release w/ps that never happened...bleach wrote:I know, i know got the wrong ad! here you go..
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Yeah!!davidh_aus wrote:I'm away from my VU books and magazines, but I'm sure I remember seeing an ad for a competition, where the prizes were something like '100 singles' from the third album. Does anyone else remember seeing this, and how likely is it that anybody actually ever won one of them.
"You Have Never Seen a Contest liek This! The VU-Verve Records Design your own psychedelic Subway Token Contest"
1st Prize 5 MGM Tape Machines (ok well)
2nd Prize Next 200 Winners get VU LPs (Great)
3nd Price Next 300 Winners get VU 45s (Much better the 3rd price unless they give you a promo mono Banana!)
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The ad with the four band members(the right one) was also in Rolling Stone, I have an original in good condition from
Rolling Stone June 28 1969. Of course there are the variations to the same photo sessions, with members
looking here and there and Moe facing the camera etc.
As for the 3rd Lp I bought my copy sometime between April 1-4 1969 at Holman's Department store
in Pacific Grove California. It was there in abundance with all the other new releases. I also
got my copy of Marble Index there in late 1968 and the first VU lp in June 1967, also stocked in abundance.
That was the full blown Eric Emerson copy, that by 1970 whose vinyl was worn out, scratchy skipping
and the cover was falling apart, my copy of WLWH was worse. So I cheerfully bought new copies, and wondered why
the density of tracks like Run Run Run seemed thin on my new copy.
The point being that all VU release on the Monterey Peninsula were available in abundance. The east and west coasts
seemed to have the better distribution.
Rolling Stone June 28 1969. Of course there are the variations to the same photo sessions, with members
looking here and there and Moe facing the camera etc.
As for the 3rd Lp I bought my copy sometime between April 1-4 1969 at Holman's Department store
in Pacific Grove California. It was there in abundance with all the other new releases. I also
got my copy of Marble Index there in late 1968 and the first VU lp in June 1967, also stocked in abundance.
That was the full blown Eric Emerson copy, that by 1970 whose vinyl was worn out, scratchy skipping
and the cover was falling apart, my copy of WLWH was worse. So I cheerfully bought new copies, and wondered why
the density of tracks like Run Run Run seemed thin on my new copy.
The point being that all VU release on the Monterey Peninsula were available in abundance. The east and west coasts
seemed to have the better distribution.