Michael Yonkers Fun Pack- 1st Editions of 50 Grimwood Lee Goodby Sunball Folk
$
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Up for auction is an incredibly rare pack of first edition Michael Yonkers LPs- limited to about 50. Essentially, the TRUE first pressings of these 4 classic private press LPs, since the copies previously known as the first press were repressed after these first pressings. Please read below about this incredibly rare find:
"After recording the album Micro-Miniature Love at Dove Studios in the fall of 1967, Michael Yonkers retreated to his tiny basement studio. Utilizing only a couple of tube-type reel-to-reel recorders, Yonkers used methods he describes as primitive forms of "sound on sound" or "sound with sound" to get multi-channel effects. In 1974, after taking out a loan and having his basement tapes mastered at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Yonkers made the bold move of simultaneously releasing four separate LPs of music from four previous years of recording: Grimwood, Michael Lee Yonkers, Goodby Sunball and Borders Of My Mind (with Jim Woehrle). These records are now legendary. Reissues have appeared on Sub Pop, Drag City, Nero's Neptune, and S-S Records. The very first batch of these four LPs came back from the manufacturer with covers that had paste-on slicks which were cut in a slightly uneven fashion. Almost all of the shrink was ripped from the jackets. This provided enough irritation to cause Michael to demand the pressing plant re-do them all. He had a second pressing done, with shrink-wrapped new jackets containing new records. These records are long gone. But here's where it gets interesting. Michael kept around 100 or so of the least-off center jackets (with records, sans torn shrink) of all four titles and placed one of each in manilla envelopes. The intention was that they be sold as a set, sent out as promotional packages or simply given to friends. Michael even created a special paper bookmark (each individually initialed by hand and decorated with five Xeroxed photos of Michael) plus a separate 7" x 4" blowup insert of the Michael Yonkers logo to go with the sets. But with an additional 2000 new LP's to sell - and no distribution - a little less than half of these "fun packs" were dispensed with. The majority of these original sets ended up forgotten in Michael's various storage spaces for over 40 years. They were recently found... and here they are. In essence, these are the true original pressings. When they're gone, they're gone. (Note: many of the original manilla envelopes are a little ragged from being shuffled around over the many years, but the original contents and extras are as good as new.)."
Please see the pictures. As you can see the covers for these records aren't exactly "good as new" as was described, but still in great shape. Just corner dings and some light creasing around where the records resided in their covers for 40 years. Will include the original manilla envelope and extras. This is sold out from the source. I washed and rinsed these records on my VPI machine, placed in Diskeeper Ultimate Audiophile Inner Sleeves (although the original yellowed paper sleeves are included), and put the records and covers in Resealable 3 mil Outer LP Sleeves. I will ship with records outside of the jackets to prevent seam splits.
Shipping will be $5 media mail or $15 priority within the USA. No returns. Good luck!!
