ITEM #7 - DOROTHY WALLACE - AMERICA/AUTOMO JOE
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I don't know the exact date of this one, but I'm assuming it's some time around 1991/1992. Local artist Dorothy Wallace put out a 45 single of the song "America" with a Jimi Hendrix Tribute song, "Automo Joe", as the B-side. I don't know exactly what the connection is between Dorothy Wallace and John Petrucci, or how this collaboration came about, but JP provides guitar for the Hendrix tribute. For a long time most people (including me) didn't even know this existed, then about 10 years ago, a mega collector (whose name escapes me) became terminally ill and a friend of his helped him sell off his entire collection. It was easily the largest DT collection I've ever seen, and as part of that collection, he had about 20 or 30 copies of this single. They all went pretty quickly, as every serious collector on the scene at the time immediately bought one up, and then they completely disappeared again. It's especially unique because it's a song that most people probably haven't heard, and features JP doing his best Hendrix impersonation. I don't have a turntable cable of converting vinyl to digital, but I can at least blast my stereo and record it with my phone, so here's a YouTube clip featuring the song in its entirety:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRGvzYulRo
I think I found out about this one in one of the fanzines stortly after it happened and found it at a record show (or maybe it was in Record Collector magazine?)
You're one up on me though, becuase I never played my copy -- never even heard it -- until I watched your clip. Sounds decent enough.
3 for 7.
As far as the demo tape goes. If was interested in something like this (at that price), I'd be asking tons of questions about it and maybe goes as far a getting some independent verification somewhere.
It's easy for me to sit here and say it looks real because...well...it does.
There have been cases of more popular and collectible bands that people have tried to fake (The Beatles being an obvious one). You really have to know what you're looking for.
For example, before the only known real Rush Caress of Steel boot surfaced, there was at least one attempt at a fake boot which used songs from Caress of Steel from other tours and used album versions of songs with a live crowd mixed in.
So there are certainly people that try and get away with stuff like that, you just have to weigh all of the various factors.
But as I said, it looks real to me for the reasons Zepp has already given.
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