Mingering Mike - an IMAGINARY record collection?!

[Fatback]

Just got back from that spot Chimp and only found 4 more Mingering Mike 45s to add to your collection. Hit me an email. There're yours.





It's a Boy's Life/Two Way Traffic


A Love Song for Minger/A Brand New Key


Be Yourself (and Nobody Else)/Just Not Made for One Another


and...





Everybody's Out of Town/Mingering Mike--performed by Big Dynamic "D"

 

[DCarfagna]

That's some real magical stuff there.





Mildly reminds me of the guy who did that Pavement LP cover and would sell his


wares at the WFMU swap, only Mingering Mike is much realer and much more


human. Geez, this is astounding stuff.





There was a blind couple in Kansas City who would remove all of the jackets from their LPs and replace them with new covers. The back cover would be all braille describing the songs, etc., while the front would have a certain type of tactile material (say sandpaper or felt) that would let the couple know what kind of music was inside the jacket. Country was felt, rock was sandpaper, jazz was this construction paper material...really interesting system of classification.

 

[Fatback]

Also, Chimp you should go back because there are 2-3 boxes full of tapes--some have "MM" on them and others are unlabled . Feel me? Could be the demos for "Brother of the Dragon."





FUCK!

 

[jinx74]

ummm maybe im reading the post wrong but what do those 45s sound like?





buy any paper stuff too like pictures, letters, anything that deals with this stuff. envelopes, or anything that is associated with this. as cool as this is i love paper stuff and that is sometimes cooler than the actual music itself.





tip: never leave anything. take it all. tapes, reels, photos, 1 sheets, stationary, music, everything.

 

[longtallsimon]

Unbelievable. I haven't looked at the board for awhile and was floored when I saw this stuff. You should seriously consider hooking up with the excellent Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, they will flip over this. I have an anthropologist friend in DC who happens to have a strong soul music/collecting background, and he is very interested in talking with you about the whole thing...if you're up for it please get in touch with me: hakenig@earthlink.net





Congratulations and thank you for sharing this with all.





-Haim K.

 

[pj4533]

Fatback said:Also, Chimp you should go back because there are 2-3 boxes full of tapes--some have "MM" on them and others are unlabled . Feel me? Could be the demos for "Brother of the Dragon."





FUCK!




Are you even joking? Dam.....ya'll must've not had known just what you were doing! Someone go get that shit!





I wanna be able to buy the Best of Mingering Mike in the two-double-oh-quattro!





-pj

 

[Terry_Clubbup]

Fatback said:Also, Chimp you should go back because there are 2-3 boxes full of tapes--some have "MM" on them and others are unlabled . Feel me? Could be the demos for "Brother of the Dragon."





FUCK!




Yeah get back on your bike dog and go ghet them tapes.





E.T. phone home!

 

[Fatback]

Chimp's taking care of it, Gentlemen. Calm down.

 

[deepstank]

vicariousimaginaryrecordscoregiddyupgochimpgoraer!

 

[Terry_Clubbup]

Fatback said:Chimp's taking care of it, Gentlemen. Calm down.




I can't calm down.





Unlabeled cassette collecting is the last refuge of the damned thing.





"Only one copy known to exist in all of mankind"

 

[Raystar]

Secret_Chimp said:

Wow... this ones still in its shrink!...

 

[TREW]

jumping the gun:





soulstrut field trip to wherever the damn things get displayed..yay!!

 

[DocBeezy]

TREW said:jumping the gun:





soulstrut field trip to wherever the damn things get displayed..yay!!




Jump that gun though! Everyone is mad giddy over this shit!





Mingering Mike Represent!





I got my dollars stacked up to by some copies of original recordings.





Although in a way I would be disappointed if there were recordings. I kinda like the mystery of there being only fake record covers.





This ish is BONKERS!





I am just floored by all of this.

 

[chris]

somehow he got that joseph war into the shrink of a b.j. thomas lp!









Attached files

 

[dollar_bin]

Secret_Chimp said:





That's right- about 35 or 40 hand-drawn and hand-painted album covers made between 1969 and 1976, some complete with fake cardboard records inside them. Apparently some guy who called himself "Mingering Mike" put together all of these albums as if he were the musician.. the covers are complete with hand-drawn barcodes, track listings, lyrics, drawings of the band(s), and in some cases, liner notes. He did soul and funk albums and blaxploitation soundtracks (for movies that never existed), and even a christmas album!







this isn't ment to be a nit picky thing, but just as a help to figure out who Mingering Mike is--Just when did Barcodes start appearing on records? Might help nail down when these things were actually made, I can't imagine bar-codes were being printed on records before 1976. Surely one of the record nerds here has the earliest known bar codes. Looking at the records I have lying around here at work, the earliest one with a barcode is dated 1979, an environmental sounds recording on the Syntonic Research Inc. label

 

[djdaze]

dollar_bin said:Secret_Chimp said:





That's right- about 35 or 40 hand-drawn and hand-painted album covers made between 1969 and 1976, some complete with fake cardboard records inside them. Apparently some guy who called himself "Mingering Mike" put together all of these albums as if he were the musician.. the covers are complete with hand-drawn barcodes, track listings, lyrics, drawings of the band(s), and in some cases, liner notes. He did soul and funk albums and blaxploitation soundtracks (for movies that never existed), and even a christmas album!







this isn't ment to be a nit picky thing, but just as a help to figure out who Mingering Mike is--Just when did Barcodes start appearing on records? Might help nail down when these things were actually made, I can't imagine bar-codes were being printed on records before 1976. Surely one of the record nerds here has the earliest known bar codes. Looking at the records I have lying around here at work, the earliest one with a barcode is dated 1979, an environmental sounds recording on the Syntonic Research Inc. label







I think 1979 was the year...I have the first Mad Magazine with a barcode and I'm pretty sure it's from that year, I'd have to get home and look though. The issue has a huge barcode for the cover and it says "we hope this issue clogs all the cash registers" or something like that.

 

[hcrink]

djdaze said:dollar_bin said:Secret_Chimp said:





That's right- about 35 or 40 hand-drawn and hand-painted album covers made between 1969 and 1976, some complete with fake cardboard records inside them. Apparently some guy who called himself "Mingering Mike" put together all of these albums as if he were the musician.. the covers are complete with hand-drawn barcodes, track listings, lyrics, drawings of the band(s), and in some cases, liner notes. He did soul and funk albums and blaxploitation soundtracks (for movies that never existed), and even a christmas album!







this isn't ment to be a nit picky thing, but just as a help to figure out who Mingering Mike is--Just when did Barcodes start appearing on records? Might help nail down when these things were actually made, I can't imagine bar-codes were being printed on records before 1976. Surely one of the record nerds here has the earliest known bar codes. Looking at the records I have lying around here at work, the earliest one with a barcode is dated 1979, an environmental sounds recording on the Syntonic Research Inc. label







I think 1979 was the year...I have the first Mad Magazine with a barcode and I'm pretty sure it's from that year, I'd have to get home and look though. The issue has a huge barcode for the cover and it says "we hope this issue clogs all the cash registers" or something like that.




Yeah, I don't know exactly, but I'm sure there were no barcodes before late 70's





This is starting to remind me of the golden ticket part in the beginning of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory

 

[Cosmo]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?





dude fucking for real





it took mingering make for me to say:





i might just have to supercede this whole "out at 500" thing i had planned. this deserves my utmost attention.





fatback, chimp - dudes for real STAY ON THIS!!!





im like hollering at all my peoples up here in NY because this is so fucking large...





dude whatever you guys need - $$$$, time et al. - you know theres mad resources up on this board. fucking holler at me for WHATEVER you need meng ("i really mean it"!!!)








yo man... this shit... my mind

fucking for real.





mingering mike = the only motherfucker in the world who can make the alien do an about-face on his convictions and promises to himself.





THE BIGGEST SPIDERHOLE I HAVE SEEN YET

 

[james]

hcrink said:





Yeah, I don't know exactly, but I'm sure there were no barcodes before late 70's





This is starting to remind me of the golden ticket part in the beginning of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory




The first commercial UPC code ever scanned was on a pack of gum in 1974. I saw something about it on Food Network this past weekend. Word to Wrigley.

 

[hcrink]

Cosmo said:WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?





dude fucking for real





it took mingering make for me to say:





i might just have to supercede this whole "out at 500" thing i had planned. this deserves my utmost attention.





fatback, chimp - dudes for real STAY ON THIS!!!





im like hollering at all my peoples up here in NY because this is so fucking large...





dude whatever you guys need - $$$$, time et al. - you know theres mad resources up on this board. fucking holler at me for WHATEVER you need meng ("i really mean it"!!!)








yo man... this shit... my mind

fucking for real.





mingering mike = the only motherfucker in the world who can make the alien do an about-face on his convictions and promises to himself.





THE BIGGEST SPIDERHOLE I HAVE SEEN YET




Mingering Mike is man! First the raers, now he's bringing the Alien back!





Hey, have reporters been calling anyone else about "the Soulstrut phenomenon"?





Oh yeah, Thanks but I got my houseboy runnin' to save-on to pick up a copies of the mag before it sells out. I hear Mingering Mike will be Time's man of the year if he ever comes outta his spiderhole.