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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
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Steve, (and Eric), I apologize - NOT RR but the Rock 'n Roll people - I am always confusing the two (RR=Rock'nRoll in my feeble mind).
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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I don't like either.
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Permalink Reply by meggs on
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Between outright forgeries and "authorized" forgeries (family members who signed TTM requests for him), there are a lot of non-authentic Johnny Cash sigs out there. And I've seen multiple JSA/PSA authenticated examples that look questionable to me as well.
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Here are some additional Perkins from RR. The OP is at the bottom:
The OP:
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Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on
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pass on both
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the bext possible tip is know your source, have a good music TPA approve it. It is easier to tell a real Perkins, less forgeries exist than with Cash. You can see the real examples of Perkins here differ from the one you posted especially the C in Carl which usually has a flair to it.
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OK, I've got a Johnny Cash story (a sad one for me) and a question for Findbooks.
First, the Cash story. It was the summer of 1994. I was with the family on vacation in Branson MO. When we get down there I check out the shows and see that Johnny Cash is going to be appearing at the Wayne Newton Theatre the following evening. I'm a big fan so I'm thinking I can't miss this show and I get tickets for myself and my two kids. Buying tickets only the day before the tickets are still in the second row. Bear in mind that this was after Rick Rubin and the American Recordings album revived his career which before that was at a very low point. But apparently the seniors who primarily populated the Branson show audience weren't too impressed as there couldn't have been more than 200 people there in the mostly empty theatre. I read later that Mr. Cash was none too happy and couldn't wait to finish his contracts and get the heck out of Branson.
But anyway, I'm fairly new at seriously autograph collecting at this point and in the pre-internet days there was very little disseminated knowledge of secretarial signatures. So I bring a couple Cash items hoping he'll sign during intermission or after the show as most performers there did. During intermission I go up to the older gentleman manning the Cash souvenir area to ask him if Johnny would be signing after the show, The gentleman (who I have reason to believe was one of Johnny's relatives) says no "Johnny likes to get back home to his family after the show, you can understand that, right?" I told him that I certainly could but I was just hopeful to get his autograph since I had been a huge fan of his since I was a kid. The guy gives me a long look and then says "Well, there's a few of his photos he signed his name on over here." Sure enough, under several of the exact same unsigned color photos are several signed ones. Somewhere between 6-8 of them. How much I ask. He tells me the same price as the unsigned ones: $3. I remember well that most of them were looked very sloppy and not as consistent as you might expect although still looking like they were signed by the same hand. I said to the guy this is great I should get some extras as gifts for my friends who like Johnny. But then, in one of the bigger financial misjudgments I've made in my life, I only bought one! Why? Because I had already gotten him through the mail and so I had two for my collection and I felt guilty to spend $20 of our vacation money on autographs when I now have two autographed items of his. The sig on the photo looks great and it's since been authenticated by JSA. Little did I know how valuable his genuine autograph would become. Or how all his TTM requests were signed by a family member so I really only had one genuine sig.
I try to remind myself what a great show I saw with my son, how I got a great autographed photo and an interesting story. I still can't help doing the what if thing now and then, but thankfully I've gotten much better. Even without therapy! LOL. My daughter kicks herself now too. She's now a big Johnny fan but as a little kid of nine years old she was bored to tears and left at intermission.
Now my question for Findbooks. You said the provenance on this item was solid. Can you elaborate?
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Permalink Reply by MikeEarmantraut on
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This was a good read,wonderful story and crazy that they were 3 bucks! Thanks for sharing! I thought it was pretty cool.
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Hi Mike! Yes, it was a good story! Sad about the empty theaters though. I hope you are well.
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$3? Ouch! I once passed up an original photograph taken on the stern of Titanic's sister Olympic (1911) C. 1922 for 25 cents! I was there very early the next morning groping through the huge cardboard box for that photo! I got it. It was then sold by me and immediately published by maritime author Mark Chirnside, who would later hire me to be the first to color correct unseen 35mm slides of the Cunard Aquitania. In terms of % return, I will never do as well as that little photo.
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