Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Tribute Thread!

[weldonmc]

I believe that company's name was spelled IMPKO but I know nothing more. I have a few "big Daddy" Roth decals made by IMPKO though.

I always loved those hillbilly hats sold by "Big Daddy" Roth! they were zan!  I never had one though. I wonder how much an authentic Roth hat goes for these days?

I'll tell you what HEPCAT ...my spelling has really suffered the last few years! I've made quite a few of the R.F. hats and sold a few the last several years to help keep afloat in this world. I sold one to a fellow about 6 years ago for $45.00. Another buddy emailed me a couple of years later and said he saw one of my hats on eBay as it had one of my "patented" (HA!) wiggle flies attached to it. The seller said he got it from his late father's FINK collection and did not know anything about it. I still had the picture I had sent for approval on my computer and the the seller was using it on eBay. It auctioned for $249 and some change.

[Hepcat]

Here's a "Big Daddy" Roth decal sheet I lifted off the web:

[weldonmc]

NICE lift HEPCAT! Here they are a little bigger (gave me somethin' to do):

[Hepcat]

Well then here I've lifted six more for your perusal:

[weldonmc]

HEPCAT ...I found my colored ones to match your originals.






 

[MDG]

This'll keep you busy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coop666/sets/72157605594959854/

[Hepcat]

You're right! That it will.

[dlhenderson]

I grabbed these and will be making replacement "album art" for my ipod touch.

[weldonmc]

Another fellow that had a great deal to do with the times was Stanley Miller ...aka MOUSE! He is probably most known for his concert poster work for the Gratefull Dead. His MONSTER art is not as easily found as Big Daddy's these days. Miller also had a line of models with Monogram during the mid 60's ...Fred Flypogger.

All I have to offer here are some colored drawings. I know allot of you will recognize them:











If you like these ...I have quite a few more.

[CreepysFan]

     

  Then by all means weldonmc........POST EM.   

[MDG]

It's hard to imagine how transgressive these probably seemed to parents at the time (as opposed to today, when you can go to Target and it's hard to find a kid's t-shirt that doesn't incorporate skulls)

[weldonmc]

MDG ...my parents didn't seem to mind much ...but the teachers certainly did. I had the Shifter Arm and flies drawn all over a book cover that I had and one of my teachers brought me another cover and told me to get it changed before I came back into her class again.

CREEPYSFAN ...HEPCAT showed me the way to another thread with FRED FLYPOGGER and MOUSE stuff and I'll be posting my other Stanley Miller art pics there ...Thanks Hepcat ...Weldon

[Hepcat]

It's hard to imagine how transgressive these probably seemed to parents at the time....

That is so true.

No sooner had my father spotted the T-shirt upon which I'd pressed a Revell T-Shirt Iron-On Transfer of Brother Rat Fink than he seized it and used it as a rag for the garage.

I also remember the time my buddy Joe's father saw the skull 'n crossbones flag that my buddy had affixed onto the rear of his bike. His father went on and on for what seemed like half an hour with questions on whether that was nice and what people were supposed to think. Huh?! Nice? Since when do eleven year old boys want to be "nice"?

Why is it that parents forget what it was like to be kids?

[CreepysFan]

Why is it that parents forget what it was like to be kids?

     

Parents during that time were hung up on how we reflected on them.  What others thought was more important than letting us kids BE kids. 

[Hepcat]

     

Parents during that time were hung up on how we reflected on them. 

Yes, yes, that is so true!