While scavenging a tube to transport a poster to Awesome Con yesterday (still hate that name), I unearthed this print that I purchased at Exoticon back in November 1995 in LA at the Park Plaza Hotel. I went because Combustible Edison was playing, and I was enormously fond of them (and still am). The print is by Shag (a full year before his first gallery show), which was in support of the super cool CD Secret Agent Sounds, performed by a slew of exotica/surf/bachelor pad group back in the swingin' 1990s. I vividly remember buying both the CD and the print because I thought it was so cool. We still listen to the music from the CD to this day. Given the date of Exoticon that year (Nov 4, 1995) and the fact that Shag did not have a gallery show until 1996, this might be his very first print! This one is number 5/88 so perhaps 4 other people bought it before I did that night. Who knows how many survive.
