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cyoe
I am working on a series of articles that would document the history of the Stones big four LPs. First among them is Beggars Banquet and I could use your help. Part of that history is the graffiti. I am trying to read and record all the graffiti on the toilet cover version. Below you will find a link to a number coded map to the front cover. Please correct me where I am wrong and help me where I was unable to decipher (1, 22, 28). If you know of anyone working on a similar project I'd love to have a name. Thanks.
1. Skull and cross bones; “Depth illegible Denizen USMC”
2. “Freaks”
3. “Downey”
4. Five point star
5. Kilroy was here cartoon
6. “Beef jerky-sectioned illegible”
7. “Wilmas love”-torso with breasts & pubic triangle
8. “Froskey”
9. “Randy ‘68” “Peter is a faggot”
10. Stylized cross with five rays of light
11. “-13-“
12. “Alan, tengo la madre colgarde solas” (Alan, I have the mother hanging alone)
13. “THE ROLLING STONES”
14. “God rolls his own!!”
15. “->FL<ATOE”
16. Peace sign
17. “illegible is a friend of mine”
18. Erasure
19. “illegible 1963”
20. An Ankh
21. “Taco thighs”
22. “Dear Carol I want you to know that I love you when I was sitting here” signed “Benny” illegible
23. “Snack time”
24. “Bob Dylans dream”-near a red blotch of paint, under it a handle and a squiggle to the toilet flush handle, this is a song title from the Free Wheelin’ Bob Dylan about being reunited with loved ones
25. “Keep out!”
26. “Here I sit broken hearted came to”-the rest is smudged but likely read “shit but only farted”
27. “Sid 68”
28. “Good illegible 442 S. 12th St J.F.Cunillegible”-
29. “Off so red”
30. A loopy squiggle as if aroma coming from an empty bottle on toilet top
31. X’s to right of bottle
32. A right hand with “LOVE” on the 4 fingers
33. Bar of soap
34. Champion spark plug sticker on underside of toilet lid
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cyoe
Fantastic and so obvious now that you say so. Thank you, Ash!
Several people said there is some Herb Alpert graffiti on the wall because his album kept the Stones out of No.1 spot that year. Anyone see any trace of that?
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cyoe
61. “Lester Pu-unintelligible must be joking”….
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cyoe
Front cover gaps: 8, 19, 28
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ash
I can't see the numbered pics any more.
Right in between "Brian" and "You can trust me", underneath Brian, faintly in grey...."is a paranoid GENIUS"
I'd appreciate someone else's opinion too but so...have Mick and Keith written Brian is a paranoid GENIUS" on the wall ? !