New stuff on sale! Many items made for Hallelujah The Hills releases and posters as well as stand alone collage pieces. Both prints & originals! And of course, I’m still available for commission work.
What if _______ had made a one-off psychedelic album in the 60's or 70's? Our Psychedelic Elders takes the time to imagine the cover art for some of these far-out-epics the world never got to enjoy.
Click on each image to read more about these hypothetical records.
Ryan Walsh is the singer/guitarist for the band Hallelujah The Hills. Click below on the "Commission Work" link to see his designs for albums that are quite real.
Blondie
Graceful Entrances
Private Stock Records 1975
Unreleased debut album full of audio collages, backward tape loops, and a surprising amount of tuneless wailing from Debbie Harry. Shelved & redone a year later, this morphed into their eponymous debut.
![Bob Dylan
“I Told You Before That I’m Already There”
1967, Columbia Records [UNRELEASED]
Long rumored to exist but never heard by anyone besides “my friend’s friend” and so on. This, supposedly, is the culmination of a 5 day studio session taking place shortly after Dylan was introduced to the concept of electric guitar feedback. The album, according to the half dozen people who claim to have heard it, is comprised of massive swirls of feedback with Dylan intermittently reciting poetry while Allen Ginsberg sings aimless melodies or blows into a penny whistle. Against Dylan’s wishes Columbia threatened to release the “album” during his “motorcycle accident”-hiatus in order to cash in on the psychedelic flower power movement. It was only upon this threat, under great duress, that Dylan recorded the John Wesley Harding album. This album cover is purported to have been obtained by a Columbia Records intern who turned out to be an AJ Weberman plant.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lloolhooks1qgi10lo1_r1_250.jpg)
Bob Dylan
“I Told You Before That I’m Already There”
1967, Columbia Records [UNRELEASED]
Long rumored to exist but never heard by anyone besides “my friend’s friend” and so on. This, supposedly, is the culmination of a 5 day studio session taking place shortly after Dylan was introduced to the concept of electric guitar feedback. The album, according to the half dozen people who claim to have heard it, is comprised of massive swirls of feedback with Dylan intermittently reciting poetry while Allen Ginsberg sings aimless melodies or blows into a penny whistle. Against Dylan’s wishes Columbia threatened to release the “album” during his “motorcycle accident”-hiatus in order to cash in on the psychedelic flower power movement. It was only upon this threat, under great duress, that Dylan recorded the John Wesley Harding album. This album cover is purported to have been obtained by a Columbia Records intern who turned out to be an AJ Weberman plant.
Crystal Gayle
“One Night In The Haight”
Extremely rare 1975 live bootleg documenting what the record’s source purported to be Gayle’s first acid experience in which she crashed the set of a psych-band’s final show in Haight-Ashbury, San Fransisco. Most of the set’s songs are pleas for help and ecstatic announcements of “forever” set to long, moans of amplifier feedback. 50 copies pressed. Gayle’s litigation efforts likely prevents this from ever seeing the light of day ever again. A true collector’s item.
