"OTIS REDDING AT THE FACTORY" RARE CONCERT POSTER.
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Winning Bid:
$1,155.23
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, March 12, 2020 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, March 12, 2020 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
17x22-3/8" original printing poster for Dec. 10, 1967 concert that was to take place at The Factory in Madison, WI that would have featured Soul/R&B legend Otis Redding and The Bar-Kays as well as The Grim Reapers. A poster of some notoriety, as it was this concert that Redding was en route to when his just-purchased Beechcraft twin-engine plane crashed in a lake near Madison, killing all but one aboard. Just four days earlier, Redding had recorded the vocals to the song he and Stax guitarist Steer Cropper had just written, the soon to be number one classic "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay." After a Dec. 8th show in Nashville, TN and an appearance on the syndicated "Upbeat" TV show in Cleveland, OH the following day, Redding and his band, The Bar-Kays, boarded the fateful flight to Madison. The Grim Reapers (which included future Cheap Trick members Rick Nielsen, Tom Peterson and Bun E. Carlos) opened the show and announced the accident after their set and offered refunds to the shocked audience. Poster features University of Wisconsin student-designed art showing woman standing amongst foliage w/"Tenderness" text block at bottom center, a reference to Redding's hit cover of the song "Try A Little Tenderness." A heart pierced w/brambles appears at lower right. Poster has been mounted to board and has some aging along extreme margins at bottom and right. Top left has 5x6" area of faint moisture staining (w/two spots of minor surface paper lift to last two letters of "Otis") and some rippling to poster. VG overall. From an extremely limited print run of just 100, 50 of these posters were printed on yellow stock and 50 on purple. A reprint was done in 1981 and they are clearly marked w/small "R-81" at bottom. This example bears no such mark. Only a couple of the yellow stock posters have come to auction in the ensuing decades, this is just the second example of the extremely rare purple stock poster we have offered in our 53 years (the other was in higher grade and it sold for $2,678 in our July 2015 auction). A true concert poster rarity.
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