"The Last Times" Plymell, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" from "Open City" (1967).
Hello,
My 1st post here, hello all.
I'm hoping someone can help me find out a bit of info.
I'm trying to figure out which issue of "Open City", the L.A. Underground/counter culture newspaper, this Bukowski "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appeared in. I know it's one of the earlier ones since it's from 1967 and he started in issue #2 in May of 1967. I've tried a search of the forums but "The Last Times" gives up a lot of threads...
Seems Mr. Charles Plymell (the beat poet/author of "Last of the Moccasins") published 2 issues of a Underground/counter culture tabloid newspaper in 1967 (around September). Issue #1 (Fall 1967) had one of Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" "lifted" from an "Open City". Can anyone help on letting me know which issue of "Open City" it's from?
It starts out:
"the other night I found myself at a gathering -..."
and ends:
"...while I roll a bit of Bull Durham. wanta drag?"
Here's some info regarding "The Last Times" vol. 1 #1 (Fall 1967)
by Vortex Printers / Charles Plymell and contains the R. Crumb "Head Comix" Hey Boparee Bop! page "lifted" from Yarrowstalks #2 (this is the first R. Crumb work printed by Charles Plymell, before Zap Comix #1).
Measures approx. 17.5" x 11". This is the original underground/counter culture tabloid newspaper printed by Charles Plymell himself in approx. September of 1967 (about 6 months before he printed the 1st printing of Zap Comix #1 on 25 February 1968 with approx. 3,500 copies printed) with a .25 cent cover price. Plymell stated to me that he printed approx. 200 to 300 copies of each issue (he later also stated about 500 copies, more or less of both issues combined). How many of these copies could have been kept and possibly survived? It contains the "lifted" Head Comix page from Yarrowstalks #2, the first R. Crumb work printed by Plymell (bootlegged), before he met R. Crumb and Don Donahue in San Francisco at the end of 1967. It's so rare that Dez Skinn's book lists the "Head Comix" page coming from Yarrowstalks #1 and Patrick Rosenkranz's book has pictures of Yarrowstalks #3, so they may have never even seen it. It also includes articles/poems by William Burroughs "Day The Records Went Up", Claude Pelieu "Do It Yourself & Dig It", Allen Ginsberg (that's a picture of him on the cover) edited version of "Television Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber" and an early "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" editorial essay by Charles Bukowski "lifted" from a Open City issue from that same year (1967) (these essays where collected and release in 1969 to become Charles Bukowski's first big selling book). Plymell told me it also has a picture of beat poet and City Lights bookstore co-founder Lawrence "Sailor" Ferlinghetti as well as some things by J.J. Lebel, Artaud (not sure if these last 2 items are in the 1st or 2nd issue).
Hello,
My 1st post here, hello all.
I'm hoping someone can help me find out a bit of info.
I'm trying to figure out which issue of "Open City", the L.A. Underground/counter culture newspaper, this Bukowski "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appeared in. I know it's one of the earlier ones since it's from 1967 and he started in issue #2 in May of 1967. I've tried a search of the forums but "The Last Times" gives up a lot of threads...
Seems Mr. Charles Plymell (the beat poet/author of "Last of the Moccasins") published 2 issues of a Underground/counter culture tabloid newspaper in 1967 (around September). Issue #1 (Fall 1967) had one of Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" "lifted" from an "Open City". Can anyone help on letting me know which issue of "Open City" it's from?
It starts out:
"the other night I found myself at a gathering -..."
and ends:
"...while I roll a bit of Bull Durham. wanta drag?"
Here's some info regarding "The Last Times" vol. 1 #1 (Fall 1967)
by Vortex Printers / Charles Plymell and contains the R. Crumb "Head Comix" Hey Boparee Bop! page "lifted" from Yarrowstalks #2 (this is the first R. Crumb work printed by Charles Plymell, before Zap Comix #1).
Measures approx. 17.5" x 11". This is the original underground/counter culture tabloid newspaper printed by Charles Plymell himself in approx. September of 1967 (about 6 months before he printed the 1st printing of Zap Comix #1 on 25 February 1968 with approx. 3,500 copies printed) with a .25 cent cover price. Plymell stated to me that he printed approx. 200 to 300 copies of each issue (he later also stated about 500 copies, more or less of both issues combined). How many of these copies could have been kept and possibly survived? It contains the "lifted" Head Comix page from Yarrowstalks #2, the first R. Crumb work printed by Plymell (bootlegged), before he met R. Crumb and Don Donahue in San Francisco at the end of 1967. It's so rare that Dez Skinn's book lists the "Head Comix" page coming from Yarrowstalks #1 and Patrick Rosenkranz's book has pictures of Yarrowstalks #3, so they may have never even seen it. It also includes articles/poems by William Burroughs "Day The Records Went Up", Claude Pelieu "Do It Yourself & Dig It", Allen Ginsberg (that's a picture of him on the cover) edited version of "Television Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber" and an early "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" editorial essay by Charles Bukowski "lifted" from a Open City issue from that same year (1967) (these essays where collected and release in 1969 to become Charles Bukowski's first big selling book). Plymell told me it also has a picture of beat poet and City Lights bookstore co-founder Lawrence "Sailor" Ferlinghetti as well as some things by J.J. Lebel, Artaud (not sure if these last 2 items are in the 1st or 2nd issue).
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