ANDY WARHOL Cover Art WALTER STEDING Joke NO WAVE 1980

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Andy Warhol
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~ Walter Steding And The Dragon People ~
The Joke

released 1980 by Earhole Productions # WS-4000

Stereo US Original Pressing of this top No Wave Funky
Dance Post Punk EP with Cover Art by Andy Warhol who
is credited as "Executive Producer" and this is produced
by Chris Stein of Blondie (guitarist) by this obscure
Downtown New York No Wave Group

this record rarely comes up and is said to be the very
rarest of the Andy Warhol covers & was privately released
on Andy Warhol's own Earhole Records label

Walter Steding was Andy Warhol's Assistant at
the Factory in NYC where he did things like preparing
and cleaning the silk screens. Steding played electric violin
and performed mostly solo as a one man band

this record is Referenced in the book "Andy Warhol,
The Record Covers 1949-1987" by Paul Maréchal and
this record is known to sell for as much as $950
and up in art galleries


~ contents ~


"The Joke" (6:14)
"Chase The Dragon" (4:44)


~ credits ~


Karen Geneice (Guitar, Vocals)
Claudia Summers (Synthesizer Oberhiem)
Ruby St. Catherine ( Bass)
Lenny Ferrari (Drums)
Walter Steding (Strings, Vocals)

plus cover art & design by Andy Warhol
with photos by Michael Tighe

Recorded May 1980 at Blank Tapes in
NYC by Butch Jones and Bob Blank


~ condition ~


record is in Excellent Condition and has been
fully play tested and it sounds fantastic and plays
with no skips, repeats or bad noise & has shiny
clean vinyl with just very slight wear & shiny clean
wear-free labels with no writing or markings

cover is in Very Good Condition with fairly bold
and bright printing & has intact seams but this is a
radio station copy that has the station's call letters and
other info written on the cover, which has edge & corner
wear in addition to signs of ringwear, and the top and
bottom seams also have small neat archival repairs at
the opening edges that were done from the inside
and are only seen upon close inspection

displays well & plays nicely


~ matrix #'s ~


side a: WS4000A- OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF TIME  (PR)P
side b: WS4000B- OUT OF SPACE, OUT OF TIME  ??? (PR)P

the above is 'scrawled' into the dead wax and
we believe it to have been etched into the master
by Andy Warhol himself (the ??? on side B is actually
undecipherable but could be a copyright blurb?)


~ Walter Steding ~


Walter Steding started out in the late seventies as a
one-man band, generally appearing as a favorite opening
act at CBGBs for popular bands such as Blondie, Suicide
and The Ramones until 1980 when Walter formed a group
Walter Steding And The Dragon People (later featured in
the 2000 film Downtown 81) & through the 1980s Walter’s
day job was Painting Assistant to Andy Warhol who eventually
became his Steding's manager & even released his incredibly
hard-to-find 1980 debut. Steding also released several LPs
on Red Star and Animal Records, featuring such musicians
as Robert Fripp, Television’s Richard Lloyd & Chris Stein of
Blondie - and Steding still makes music, mostly for films
and is a noted painter whose work is collected today

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 Very Good +

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