{"title":"BDG Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"5097-hollywood-disney-wood-wally-american-1927-1981-disneyland-memorial-orgy","title":"[Disney] Wood, Wally. (American, 1927-1981) \"Disneyland Memorial Orgy.\"","description":"The realist Magazine no. 74, irreverence is our only sacred cow. 32p., very good. Bears subscriber's mailing address on back wrap. Includes Wally Wood's infamous X-rated lampoon of all the famous Walt Disney Studio's animated characters. Krassner comments editorially that \"The first free-lance article I ever sold was to Mad magazine a dozen years ago. It was illustrated by Wally Wood. Now Wally has completed the cycle with his after-Disney orgy.\" In the lower left corner Minnie is doing it missionary style with Goofy, she's pillowed on a cash register and currency litters their mattress. Mickey is shooting up; that's about as conventional as this ensemble gets. Find about 60 characters, all Disney, all diddling or defecating. Coincidentally another exceedingly famous Realist parody appears this issue, \"The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book,\" which lampoons the Jackie\/Bobbie suit brought against official William Manchester, to force him to omit material he was at first assured was OK. In the Krassner reprise we learn why it was that the hole in JFK's neck was small in Dallas, large in DC, it has rather a lot to do with LBJ...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the original Mad Magazine illustrators, Wally Wood published this poster in The Realist, an underground newsletter, in 1967. An inside source at Disney told  Realist editor Paul Krassner that the company chose not to sue to avoid drawing attention to what could ultimately be a losing battle. However, Disney was not so reluctant when an entrepreneur pirated the drawing and sold it as a black light poster. The blatantly commercial nature of the bootleg--as well as its potential to reach an audience far larger than the Realist--prompted Disney to file a lawsuit, which was ultimately settled out of court. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present issue is sold together with a poster on thick paper of the famous illustration, one of a limited number issued by Wood himself, shortly after the original magazine publication. 23 x 14.25 inches. Central horizontal and vertical folds, else fine.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093246496927,"sku":"5097","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Disney_orgy_1.jpg?v=1722186832"},{"product_id":"9382-temperance-the-action-of-alcohol-is-to-depress-the-functions-of-the-brain","title":"[Temperance] The Action of Alcohol is to Depress the Functions of the Brain","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interesting temperance poster featuring a simple but powerful quote from the Ministry of Education in a graphically striking red and blue font. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e20 x 30 inches, nicely framed in gray frame under plexiglass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093387825311,"sku":"9382","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Temperance_ActionofAlcoholDepresstheFunctionsofBrain9382_4b137d91-b664-4631-8557-bd9fd09b81e6.jpg?v=1734729107"},{"product_id":"14245-strayhorn-billy-ellington-duke-lush-life-original-cover-art-from-duke-ellington-collection","title":"[Strayhorn, Billy. (1915-1967) \u0026 Ellington, Duke. (1899-1974)] \"Lush Life\" - ORIGINAL COVER ART FROM DUKE ELLINGTON COLLECTION","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003eI used to visit all the very gay places\u003cbr\u003eThose come what may places\u003cbr\u003eWhere one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life\u003cbr\u003eTo get the feel of life\u003cbr\u003eFrom jazz and cocktails.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOriginal concept cover artwork for an apparently unrealized sheet music edition of Billy Strayhorn's iconic song \"Lush Life.\" By an unidentified artist, the striking image shows a dark cocktail being poured out of a glass, while a tearful woman's face looks on, echoing the song's melancholy subject matter. At the lower right corner, the label of Duke Ellington's publishing company, Tempo Music Inc., has been affixed. Mixed media on paper. Light toning and some slight creases; overall in fine condition. 9 x 12 inches, framed to 15 x 18.5 inches. Provenance: Duke Ellington Estate.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe young composer and pianist Billy Strayhorn \u003c\/span\u003ewas only 16 when he wrote the majority of \"Lush Life\", which shows a surprising maturity in its complex chord changes and dreamlike character.  He offered his composition  to Duke Ellington in 1938; less than a year later, Strayhorn had become an arranger and pianist with the Ellington band, a collaboration that was to last until Strayhorn's death in 1967. Ellington once described Strayhorn as \"my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine\" and their collaboration produced some of the most remarkable and enduring American music of the twentieth century.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Lush Life\" did not have its first public performance until November 13, 1948, with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and the work was published shortly thereafter by Tempo Music, the music publishing firm founded by Ellington in the early 1940s. The cover of that eventual publication consisted of a very simple design featuring only the song title and five star shapes, the present original concept having evidently been considered too graphic and controversial an image.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093544620191,"sku":"14245","price":30000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Strayhorn_Ellington_Lush_Life_Art_14245_001.jpg?v=1722188738"},{"product_id":"15304-cannabis-dope-marijuana-powell-w-c-polla-william-conrad-dope-a-rag-novelette-two-step","title":"[Cannabis\/Dope\/Marijuana] Powell, W.C. [Polla, William Conrad. (1876 - 1939) DOPE. 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Powell.  A player piano roll recording of \"Dope\" may be heard at: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Io5uR9yo9cI.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093580664991,"sku":"15304","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Dope15304a.jpg?v=1773938780"},{"product_id":"18763-quarantine-habits-hand-holding-bottle-end-of-day-black-glass-whimsy-ca-1910","title":"[Quarantine Habits] Hand holding Bottle - 'End of Day' Black Glass Whimsy, ca. 1910","description":"Black glass sculpture of a hand holding a bottle ca. 1910–1920, mounted on a custom base.  Grains of sand are embedded in the surface, remnants of the casting process.  Very fine, 11.5 inches tall (29.2 cm.).\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eA really striking so-called \"End of Day\" piece, a designation referring to when artisan glass manufacturers used extra glass or pieces left over from more industrial pursuits to create their own, more personal, sometimes odd or whimsical pieces, sometimes also referred to as \"Whimsies.\"  The present bottle shape is most likely meant to evoke that of a beer bottle, but is interestingly also \u003cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003ereminiscent of the classic Coca Cola bottle, introduced in 1915.  \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093693681823,"sku":"18763","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Hand_Holding_Bottle_Sculpture_18763a.jpg?v=1722189734"},{"product_id":"20325-marijuana-film-theatre-reefer-madness-reproduction-poster","title":"[Marijuana] [Film \u0026 Theatre] \"Reefer Madness\" - Reproduction Poster","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eAmusing vintage movie poster produced in 1972, likely to advertise a special screening of the campy 1936 exploitation film about the dangers of smoking marijuana.  Printed primarily in a bold red, the poster features the tagline \"Women cry for it – Men die for it!\" above an oversized joint bearing the title of the film.  The smoke rising from the lit end of the cigarette promises that the film is for \"Adults Only!,\" and about \"The Sweet 'Pill' that Makes Life Bitter!\"  Two illustrated figures with vampirically red eyes can be seen smoking in opposite corners of the print, one a looming man and the other a woman indulging in \"drug-crazed abandon.\"  Suffice it to say that to the contemporary eye, the text here is overwrought and reflective of a moral panic, but it is all the more entertaining for that.  In fine condition.  Sheet 16.5 x 21.5 inches (41.9 x 54.6 cm.); nicely matted and framed to an overall size of 22 x 27 inches (55.9 x 68.6 cm.).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\"This 1936 movie reflected a real drug panic sweeping America. The year after its release, the federal government enacted the first-ever tax on marijuana, representing the first of many subsequent laws cracking down on the drug and anyone associated with it.  \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eReefer Madness\u003c\/em\u003e, with its lurid story of impressionable white teenagers driven to death and destruction, was very much of the moment.  As the years wore on, its relevance waned, and the copyright expired, releasing the film into the public domain. Its meaning shifted dramatically in 1972, when Kenneth Stroup, the leader of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), stumbled upon the movie in the Library of Congress.  Stroup\u003cspan style=\"background-color: white; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b;\" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=\"\"\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"EN\" style=\"\"\u003epurchased a print for a generous sum, and shortly after\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e began screening it on college campuses throughout the United States. The watch parties functioned as fundraisers for his campaign to legalize marijuana, and they were a hit. \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eReefer Madness\u003c\/em\u003e was not only reclaimed by the legalization movement, but recast as a beloved cult comedy.\" (\u003ci\u003eMarijuana Panic Won't Die, but Reefer Madness Will Live Forever,\u003c\/i\u003e jstor.org)\u003cdiv class=\"daily_email_signup weekly-digest \" style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093745225887,"sku":"20325","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Screen_Shot_2021-08-30_at_4.49.59_PM.png?v=1722190068"},{"product_id":"21402-gris-juan-original-illustration-for-le-tabac","title":"Gris, Juan. (1887–1927) Original Illustration for \"Le Tabac,\" (L'Assiette au Beurre,1909)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eTempera and pen and India ink on paper, signed lower left with artist's monogram. 8.75 x 12 inches. Framed behind glass, in fine condition. Provenance: Christie's, 16 May, 1985. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis work was executed in 1909 as a study for the illustration on p. 984 of \u003ci\u003eL'Assiette au Beurre\u003c\/i\u003e, Paris, 29 May 1909, titled \"Le Tabac\" and concerning smoking and with illustrations of its many manifestations. A slightly different version of the illustration appears in print with the text (translated from the French), \"D\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eoesn't it seem to you that the little baroness lights up this gentleman? \/\/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eIt's a waste of time, my dear, he's a tobacco manufacturer...he won't catch fire!\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSold with an original copy of this issue. The final version of the work is illustrated in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRaymond Bachollet AB39 with a note indicating there is separate \"apocryphal\" version. As the present work differs in obvious key elements from the final published version and seems not to be an attempt to \u003cem\u003ecopy\u003c\/em\u003e it, we believe this to be a preparatory drawing rather than a later copy (likewise as asserted by Christie's in its original offering of our work). The work, however, is sold with this disclosure \u003cem\u003eas is\u003c\/em\u003e, and not subject to return. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe magazine \u003ci\u003eL'Assiette \u003c\/i\u003ewas published from 1901-1912 and featured drawings, mainly caricatures, by many well known artists such as Juan \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eGris\u003c\/span\u003e, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and Frank Kupka.  Through caricature, these artists poked fun at the wealthy, police, politicians, the military, the church, and other established or bourgeois groups as well as addressing social and political issues of the Belle Epoque era. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAfter completing his artistic studies in Madrid, Gris moved to Paris in 1906, where his friends included Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and \u003c\/span\u003ePablo Picasso\u003cspan\u003e and the writers Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and Maurice Raynal. Although he continued to submit humorous illustrations to journals such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eL'Assiette au beurre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Charivari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Cri de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Gris began to paint seriously in 1910 and by 1912 he had developed the personal Cubist style, for which he is now best remembered. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093780779167,"sku":"21402","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Gris_Juan_Scene_Mondaine_21402a.jpg?v=1722190311"},{"product_id":"23901-the-deviants-custom-tuxedo-jacket-worn-by-russell-hunter","title":"[The Deviants] Custom Tuxedo Jacket Worn by Russell Hunter","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eCustom Aquascutum tuxedo jacket with notch lapel, two covered buttons at front closure, straight pockets, size\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e 40S\u003c\/span\u003e. The jacket features their notorious nun and popsicle artwork from their third and final album, \u003cem\u003eThe Deviants 3 \u003c\/em\u003e(1969), generously applied. Includes dry cleaning tag reading \"R. 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Farren has stated that The Deviants were originally a community band which \"did things every now and then—it was a total assault thing with a great deal of inter-relation and interdependence\". Musically, Mick Farren described that they were influenced by The Who, Charles Mingus, Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55251330007199,"sku":"23901","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Deviants_TuxedoJacketRussellHunter23901h.jpg?v=1738004435"},{"product_id":"24114-drugs-lsd-a-psychedelic-happening-construction-kit","title":"[Drugs] LSD: A Psychedelic Happening Construction Kit","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal and complete set of this cult '60s \"game\" kit: a psychedelic puzzle without objectives, time limits or instructions, where \"players\" were meant simply to explore the possibilities of construction with these psychedelically illustrated cards. A happening disguised as a board game: twenty game pieces printed with bright swirling illustrations and cut with interlocking grooves, housed in a box illustrated with a representative three-dimensional construction a player might build.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rare complete example in very good condition, with 20 interlocking cardboard cards, each 6x4 inches with a pattern, letters, or a surprising scene printed on recto and verso, without instructions or other printed matter, as issued (some sets issued with 21 cards, some with cards printed differently). 159x286x38 mm; 6¼x11¼x1½ inches. Some separations along box corners including 4 in lid reinforced with cello tape, moderate scattered soiling and abrasions to lid, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued in 1966, when both LSD and party games were in the height of fashion (Tim Leary was arguably at the height of his fame at this time) and the casual mind-expanding drug user was in great need of aimless but absorbing activity kits to purchase. Cards included were not identical set to set, with several patterns, themes, and motifs (some figurative, some entirely abstract) printed and inserted into games in various configurations; the present example is particularly psychedelic. Quickly discontinued (LSD was officially outlawed in the US in late 1968), only helping to cement its desirability in the decades to follow and now rare. OCLC does not locate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62063196930207,"sku":"24114","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/LSDAPsychedelicHappeningConstructionKit24114a.jpg?v=1744645010"},{"product_id":"24402-dietrich-marlene-half-smoked-cigarette-and-pill-bottle-ex-marlene-dietrich","title":"[Dietrich, Marlene (1901-1992)] Half-Smoked Cigarette and Pill Bottle - EX-MARLENE DIETRICH","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn extraordinary pair of relics from the film and stage icon: a half-smoked cigarette from Dietrich herself, saved by her longtime assistant in one of her empty pill bottles.  Fairmont Hotel Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA. 12\/10\/73. From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort. Sold together with a letter of provenance from the husband of Paul McMahon, Ralph Hodgdon. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn extraordinary bit of association ephemera, from the collection of a true smoking icon.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottle was formerly used to hold Clindamycin (Cleocin), used to treat bacterial infections. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDietrich was still performing onstage in 1975 when the sad pantomime’s final act began: She fell into an orchestra pit in Sydney and broke her femur. She retired to her Paris apartment, and would leave it only a few times over the next seventeen years. She absolutely refused to be photographed, her old body a thing of shame to her. Younger stars such as Madonna—who idolized Dietrich and has followed much of her sad trajectory—tried to visit but were refused admittance. So were her friends: She would talk to them on the phone only. She was bed-ridden, addicted to drugs, drinking half a bottle of scotch a day,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62404032888991,"sku":"24402","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/DietrichHalf-SmokedCigaretteandPillBottle24402a.jpg?v=1759166425"},{"product_id":"24403-dietrich-marlene-seconal-pill-bottle-ex-marlene-dietrich","title":"[Dietrich, Marlene (1901-1992)] SECONAL Pill Bottle - EX-MARLENE DIETRICH","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn extraordinary relic from the film and stage icon: a pill bottle formerly holding the film icon's sleeping pills. 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