Museum Monday: Auction Highlights

The Condom-Covered Pigface set list from 2003 is spectacular and might need some explanation, too! I pour water all over my kit – which looks spectacular when I get to a snare fill! The water gets 8+ feet high into the air, visible especially when lit from underneath by an attentive light guy! The problems occur when the water inevitably returns to earth…and causes $3000 of damage to the microphones around the kit…. Jolly Roger, our legendary tour manager, came up with the brilliant idea to put non-lubricated condoms on the mics! They don’t sound exactly as good – but who cares? It looks amazing, and doesn’t cost me thousands of dollars! Now, Jolly Roger’s cautious stage protection (ha!) can be your wall mounted conversation piece! Signed by me of course!!

The Ministry Cage Piece – we just have a few pieces of the original cage form the 1990 tour left! It’s so special, but mind boggling-ly flimsy! I can’t believe 90 people a night clung on to that! Most definitely one of the wildest anarchic, groundbreaking, genre defining tours!

My Custom Drum Track is up again – I particularly like this item as a way to keep things running. For one, it feels great to bang on things with heavy duty sticks to fuel this place. How totally appropriate, and how lucky am I to be able to do that (still)! Two, it feels like a totally PPIM thing to be doing! If you like democratizing the access to these beats without going through a manager or some kind of negotiation process – you win the auction and I’ll make you a beat – recorded in the museum – and you get to do what you want with it! 

I think the One of a Kind Test Shirts might need some explanations?

Down in the print shop, I always try and pull a test print before destroying a brand new shirt through some oversight. These shirts get used multiple times, sometimes by accident, becoming a band-centric billboard of several overlapping designs. Sometimes totally random…Sometimes, my eye will catch something, and I’ll just print a few extra things on there because I feel like it. So, these might speak to you as they do to me, unique and bonkers.

The Bizarr Sex Trio releases remind me that I’ve been making inefficient art for 35 years or more. The BST release boasts a logo from Paul Bennett Hirsch, and each of the 700-or-so sleeves were completely different. From 1988/89 when the label was in New Brunswick, NJ

EVENTS AT PPIM

Valentine’s will be here before we know it – but Martin has you covered! Saturday, February 15, Martin will be hosting a pre-date-night screen printing workshop! Print a museum shirt, print f*!K on a shirt you bring – or both!

Take a look at all the upcoming events below!!