COSMIC LIGHTNING by JOHN HENRY TIMMIS IV. Rare 1980s psychedelic punk LP
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Description
Cosmic Lightning by John Henry Timmis IV. Original promotional copy #2 of the signed, limited edition. “Copyright 1987 Destruction Productions. Catalog #R-005.” This is the ultra-rare original version of the material re-released in 2008 on the Drag City label.
Full title from cover: Cosmic Lightning Featuring J.T. 4. Music For The Fans Volume One!
Vinyl is in like-new, near-mint condition. Cover is in near-mint condition (see photo).
From a 2008 Chicago Reader article on the reissue: But of all the acts Drag City is trying to rescue from the edge of oblivion, the most fascinating and obscure has to be John Henry Timmis IV, aka J.T. IV, a glam-punk savant who died in 2002, almost 15 years after his last single. On November 18 the label will release a ten-track collection of Timmis's music called Cosmic Lightning through the Galactic Zoo Disk imprint run by Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave-who last winter featured J.T. IV in the Secret History of Chicago Music strip he does for the Reader.
Before word of this project got out, it's safe to say Timmis's fans numbered in the low hundreds, and most of them had probably heard him only on an obscure 2004 punk comp called Staring Down the Barrel. Timmis self-released four singles and one LP while living in and around Chicago in the 80s, all in small pressings, and very few have survived-Cosmic Lightning curator Robert Cole Manis says there are only two known copies of the first seven-inch. A fifth, recorded in '83, was never even pressed, but Timmis included the tracks that would've been on it when he put together his 1987 compilation LP, also called Cosmic Lightning.
Track listing:
· Waiting for the CTA
· Death Trip
· The Monitors
· Song for Suzanne
· In the Can
· Out of the Can
· Destructo Rock
· I Really Love You / You Know That I Love You, Don't You?
· One Fine Day with the Karma Man
· Go Wild
