This offlist note just in from a Townsperson who must not be named!
You may remember 2 years ago, at the first RTH gathering I attended, that I brought up a potential RTH topic that I thought was too tasteless to ever actually bring up on the board or start as a post: What would be the “Hitler’s Desk” of rock memorabilia? That is, the most gruesome/tasteless/bad karma infamous rock item that only a truly depraved collector would dare own.
My choice at the time, which I was sure no one could ever top if the topic ever came up—which it wouldn’t, and I would never own up to thinking of even if it did, of course—was the copy of Double Fantasy that Mark David Chapman had when he killed Lennon.
It turns out that the real world has caught up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/24/album-john-lennon-signed-auction. The auctioneer even agrees: this is so terrible a thing to own that the person selling it must do so in secret, for fear of his/her own life and/or standing on rock message boards around the world.
Yes, Unnamed Townsperson, I remember this discussion and contine to get a good laugh out of that topic. This reality, however, is sick!
I imagine the legendary fish that was supposedly inserted into the Seattle Led Zep groupie’s privates is pretty rotten by now.
Bob Dylan’s foreskin. Various churches claimed to own Jesus’ foreskin, the relic known as the Holy Prepuce, from the time of Charlemagne till the present day (one was stolen from a church in Rome in 1983). Elvis Presley and John Lennon were purportedly uncircumcised, but Dylan being Jewish….
Is that tasteless enough for you?
How about Charles Manson’s copy of “The White Album”… autographed in blood?
YES, that’s all wrong!