A rare vintage 1982 handbill/flyer for the Velvet Underground’s Nico with Open Arms, playing July 29 at On Broadway in San Francisco. Measures 8 1/2 x 13 1/2′, with corner tape pulls on the back, and as a result, missing paper along the top edge as visible in scan; otherwise in near very good condition. […]
A unique and unpublished/undocumented tape of Elektra Records ‘house hippy’ Danny Fields interviewing his close friend Nico, in advance of the release of her 1968 Elektra album The Marble Index. We purchased this years ago from Fields, who later managed The Stooges and the Ramones. The 20 minute tape is a discussion between Fields and Nico, […]
A vintage photograph of Nico and Brian Jones taken at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. It’s dated 1968 on the back (the year after the festival) and measures 6 1/2″ x 4 1/2″. There is a 1968 copyright notice on the back crediting the late Stephen C. LaVere, a somewhat legendary record producer and music historian […]
A Mono 1968 copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico, with fully intact Andy Warhol banana sticker. This copy has a first pressing disc in the slightly later version of the cover, with Eric Emerson’s torso airbrushed off the back cover. The Andy Warhol designed album cover is in EX condition, and the fragile banana […]
A superb 1967 UK Mono first pressing of the The Velvet Underground and Nico on Verve Records, from the personal record collection of Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. Recordmecca’s Jeff Gold acquired this directly from Bill Wyman while doing consulting for him, and at his request Wyman hand signed the included letter of authenticity, […]
A very rare original concert poster advertising May, 1966 shows by Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable featuring the Velvet Underground and Nico, at the Sunset Strip club The Trip (the “New Shrine of Pop Culture”). Silkscreened onto thin cardboard, the artwork reproduces the April 25, 1966 cover of Newsweek featuring a Roy Lichtenstein painting, and […]