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Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins -Opinions Please

What are your thoughts on this LP cover allegedly signed by both when Carl Perkins was a member of the touring and recording band?

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on January 10, 2024 at 10:35am

It was allegedly obtained IP - an old geezer, unlikely scammer, in Sweden 1972 during the tour which included the prison gig in that country. I was more than satisfied at the time with the backstory.

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Permalink Reply by meggs on January 10, 2024 at 4:37pm

I still remember looking through the signed underneath the unsigned photos at the Cash souvenir table during intermission and thinking how sloppy and unattractive some were. They looked like they were done in the same hand as best I recall, but there was a wide variance in neatness. My point being Mr. Cash was not a consistent signer from one sig to the next. So if you are comfortable with the provenance, who knows?

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Permalink Reply by meggs on January 9, 2024 at 2:59pm

The $3 makes it extra hard, Mike. Had the pictures been $10 I wouldn't beat myself up so bad. Heck, I think tickets to the show were probably less than $10. Shows in Branson MO were pretty cheap back then. I'm sure you would have paid more for unknown outside of Branson Japanese fiddler Shoji Tabuchi than Johnny Cash. Hard as it seems to believe now, Shoji's cornpone Japanese stereotype mugging would put ten times more people in his theatre than Johnny Cash. Only one part of the Shoji experience was better than Johnny's. The crapper. Shoji's restrooms were ranked in the top ten most ornate in the world.

And that's a great story, Eric. I'm wondering when the little bell went off in your brain saying go back?