Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Rags Paper and Pins The Merchandising of Memphis Wrestling by Jim Cornette Rags Paper and Pins: The Merchandising of Memphis Wrestling by Jim Cornette. 8 July 2013 Rags, Paper And Pins To Debut! The new book will debut on Aug 02, 2013 at Fanfest at Charlotte, NC. Monday Aug 05, 2013 the book will be available for purchase thru the publisher as well as Amazon.com. Use the link below to purchase the book from Amazon.com! Or check the book out at the publisher. Use the link below to purchase the book from Amazon.com! ' Rags, Paper And Pins ' To Debut At Fanfest Aug 2, On Amazon Aug 5. Rags, Paper And Pins: The Merchandising Of Memphis Wrestling , by Jim Cornette & Mark James. MWH's latest book is a collaboration with Jim Cornette. Most wrestling fans remember buying pictures of their favorite wrestlers in the old days. This book covers the gimmick table items from the 1960s, 1970s & 1980s for the entire Jarrett and Gulas promotions. These were the days before the WWF turned merchandising into a moneymaking machine. Take a unique look back at the glory days of Memphis Wrestling. Included are some amazing stories told by Jim Cornette along with many of his personally taken photos along with many items from records to flags to Frisbees. Also included in this book is the entire 6 issue run of Jim Cornette's early 1980s Championship Wrestling Magazine. These came out from 1980 thru 1982 and were only available at the merchandise table at Jarrett Promotion's Wrestling Cards. This is the first time these magazines have been reprinted or collected since they came out 30+ years ago. Jim Cornette. - Das erste Treffen zwischen dem Midnight Express und Vince McMahon - Die Great American Bash Tourneen 1986 bis 1989 - Starrcade 1985 bis 1988 - Der Einstieg der NWA ins Pay Per View-Gesch�ft - Der Promotionkrieg zwischen NWA und WWF in den 1980er Jahren - Der Verkauf der Crockett Promotions - Das WCW Booking Kommittee - Cornette und Lane verlassen die WCW - Komplette Titelhistorie des Midnight Express - Preise und Ehrungen - Der 6-Millionen-Dollar-Prozess in West Virginia - Die Trademark Moves und Routinen und wie sie entstanden - "On the road" Geschichten" - Die Wiedervereinigungen - Cornettes beste Witze und Zitate - Was die Express-Mitglieder heute tun und vieles mehr. Das Buch kann - auf Wunsch handsigniert - auf der Homepage von Jim Cornette bestellt werden. Die gr��ten Geheimnisse und gro�artigsten Momente des Pro Wrestlings sind in dieser Graphic Novel von der legend�ren Wrestlinggr��e Jim Cornette verewigt! Als Sammlung von wahren Geschichten werden diese Insider-Sagen aufzeigen, wie weit Wrestler gehen, um das Kayfabe - den alten Karnevals- Begriff daf�r, die Illusionen eines manipulierten Spiels, Kampfes oder einer Situation geheim zu halten - aufrecht zu erhalten sowie die nennenswerten kulturellen, ethnischen und �konomischen Effekte, welche diese Ereignisse und Charaktere auf die Gesellschaft hatten. Dies ist die Graphic Novel, auf welche Oldschool-Wrestlingfans gewartet haben: eine kompromisslose Darstellung von Momenten, �ber welche Wrestling- Insider jahrelang nicht sprechen konnten! "Behind the Curtain - Real Pro Wrestling Stories" pr�sentiert drei Kapitel voller Sagen, pers�nlich kuratiert von Jim Cornette und angepasst von Brandon Easton und Denis Medri, dem Team hinter dem gefeierten "Andre the Giant: Closer To Heaven". Mit Geschichten �ber Ric Flair, Jerry Lawler, Andy Kaufman, Sputnik Monroe, The Sheik, Junkyard Dog, The Fabulous Freebirds, The Midnight Express, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels und vielen anderen. Au�erdem enthalten ist Jims schillerndes W�rterverzeichnis von Begriffen aus dem Pro Wrestling sowie Fotos und Zeitungsausschnitte aus seinem pers�nlichen Archiv! The Wrestling Insomniac. A couple of years ago, I purchased a copy of Jim Cornette and Mark James’ Rags, Paper, and Pins: The Merchandising of Memphis Wrestling. The book fascinated me, because it was unlike any wrestling book that I had seen. Instead of focusing on feuds and behind the scene stories, this book was 350 pages of pictures and brief stories regarding how the merchandising of Memphis Wrestling was created and how it evolved over the years. Author Jim Cornette was in the middle of the merchandising explosion in the 80’s and had a front row seat to all the changes that came with that. This included printing glossy color photos to sell at tables instead of cheap stock black and white cards and finding ways to sell pictures and stories to wrestling magazines here in the United States and in Japan. Like always, Jim Cornette is upfront and honest about the business and discusses the finances in great details which fascinating to read. He talks about how as a teenager he was able to convince Christine Jarrett to sell his photos at the merchandise tables, and how he found a printer who’d print the pictures for X amount of money, in order for both he and the company to both profit. It’s basic business, but it’s interesting to see how it all worked out on the pro wrestling side, especially during the territory days. The book discusses everything from programs, magazines, pictures, pins, and even records. The majority of the book is made up of photos of all of these interesting pieces of merchandising, but sadly it’s all in black and white. The cost to print a book this size and in full color on a limited run would be astronomical, so I understand why they went the route that they did, but damn I wish they would have uploaded the full color photos somewhere as a companion website. Also inside, are full scans of programs that Jim Cornette made, complete with the stories he wrote along with the outlines he made for the design of the programs. This is just the type of thing you won’t find in other books. Rags, Paper and Pins: The Merchandising of Memphis Wrestling is definitely made for a niche audience, but I think any fan of wrestling history will enjoy it. There are way more pictures than text, but I found the book to be well balanced. I got enough background and history behind everything shown in the book and it almost felt like I was on a virtual tour in a museum curated by Jim Cornette. I recommend checking out Rags, Paper and Pins: The Merchandising of Memphis Wrestling if you have any interest in Memphis wrestling history or wrestling merchandise history. It truly is a unique book and I doubt we’ll ever see anything like it again. Book Review: ‘Rags, Paper and Pins: The Merchandising of Memphis Wrestling’ by Jim Cornette & Mark James. This is a sort of sequel to Jim Cornette and Mark James’ other book about Memphis Wrestling. However, this one covers the merchandising and marketing side of that legendary wrestling promotion. Rags, Paper and Pins covers a lot of ground and it’s chock full of images on nearly every page, showing you all the great things Memphis did to market their events and wrestlers. For fans of the old school Memphis territory, this is a solid read and it’s a hell of a lot of fun just to flip through. It’s a literary time machine and for me, it channeled strong feelings of nostalgia for an era in the wrestling business that I truly miss. Cornette and James have already covered a lot of territory in their multiple books about Memphis but it was such a cool promotion with such a rich history that I’d pick up just about anything that they’d put out on the subject. Rating: 7/10 Pairs well with: other books on the history of territory wrestling. Primarily those by either Mark James or Scott Teal. PWInsider - WWE News, Wrestling News, WWE. TUESDAY NIGHTS AT THE GARDENS: LOOKING AT JIM CORNETTE'S LATEST BOOK, CHRONICLING THE LOUISVILLE WRESTLING TERRITORY. With all of the additions of classic wrestling content of late on the WWE Network, a new generation of fans have been exposed to the "good old days" of professional wrestling that some fans and talents often openly reminisce about. It's been interesting getting emails and social media feedback from obviously younger fans who have never truly seen the likes of Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-South Wrestling and Smoky Mountain Wrestling, especially fans who previously, might dismiss the comments of performers from that era of being out-dated and having let the business pass them by. The reality is this: professional wrestling will always morph into something that fits the current culture of the time period it exists in but that doesn't mean the way it was presented in the past was wrong, or that elements of it cannot work today. Smoky Mountain Wrestling in particular shows that. The look is dark and gritty, the characters are obviously built to appeal to the Southern wrestling fan weaned on generations of Hatfield/McCoy style conflicts in their pro wrestling and there's nothing wrong with that, because at the time, it worked and even now, looking at it with a fresh lens of cleaned up material via VOD, why it works is obvious - because it was good. One of the events I've seen the most emails about, possibly because the lure of Chris Jericho's infamous blade job and the ridiculously gruesome amounts of blood that resulted from it, is the SMW Night of Legends-related episodes from 1994. In many ways, that was the best night of SMW, because it celebrated the past and showcased the talents that had fought to build SMW at the time. It was Jim Cornette's love letter to Knoxville Wrestling and it's one of a handful of shows that at the time, I regretted not going to and today, two decades later, it's probably the ONLY one I still regret not traveling to. That show will always, to me, be the epitome of what made Knoxville Wrestling great and something that you can show to anyone who needs to understand why the territory, before and during SMW, was so important. Say what you will about Cornette, but passion is what makes him so, for me, infectious to listen to and enjoy speaking with. That passion has spilled over into a number of writing projects and his latest team-up with Memphis wrestling historian Mark James, looking at the old Louisville wrestling territory in their new book Tuesday Night at the Gardens: Pro Wrestling in Louisville. To be honest, I've had the book for weeks and I've been very hesitant to write about it, partially because I've been completely overwhelmed by the information overload. In many ways, for me, the book is as close to a wormhole of wrestling overload as possible. Ever have one of those nights where you look for something on Youtube and then five hours are gone as you get sucked into watching video after video? That's what happens when you read this book, because there is such a ridiculous amount of old clippings, advertisements, newspaper accountings, promotional photos, program reprints that I keep getting caught up not just looking at what happened over time, but then end up online trying to follow up where certain talents went pre and post-Louisville or seeking match footage on the likes of Bobby Mayne and Sir Clement, to see if there is anything out there on these valiant warriors. Similar to Cornette and James' previous book on Memphis Wrestling, Tuesday Nights provides an incredible education on the formation and early days of the territory, covering everything from the way the business was promoted locally in the early era, the buildings and their importance to the area, the different promoters and more. Just some of the interesting material covered in the book - how the city ended up being the first place to have a star who was African-American, how promotional shenanigans resulted in the creation of the ring name Ed "The Stranger" Lewis, the beginnings of the Jarrett wrestling family's involvement in the wrestling business, how the territory became part of what was later considered the Memphis territory, how six weeks of TV brought the city back to life after being dormant for years and the big money made by promoters in that era and more. The information is so detailed that I've gone back to re-read chapters to reference where things stood when I got into the results and historical information presented later on, just to have a sharper insight into how the landscape stood at the time. Most amusingly (and reprinted in the book) is the reveal that Jim Cornette wasn't the first member of his family to cover pro wrestling. His FATHER, Doug Cornette, actually reviewed a show as part of his job writing for The Louisville Courier and in true pro wrestling shenanigan fashion, there's a twist to this story as well. Of course, there's also the story of what happened to the son of a wrestling promoter when a Judge decided to let him out of jail for a weekend. One of the best parts of the book boils down the weekly formula of wrestling in Louisville and how the promoters often built the cards so that by the time the main events hit the ring, fans were ravenous and ready to riot, so that they weren't just getting the most excitement out of the headline talents but also enticed them enough to want to return the following Tuesday, creating the type of ritualistic following that most national wrestling promotions would kill for today. Going to the matches was part of the DNA of the city and that, unfortunately, is a loyalty that has been lost in today's professional wrestling in all but the most niche independent promotions, none of which are running weekly or in venues the size of the Louisville Gardens. If you are a fan of photos, the type that used to bring us those vivid imagery that we all raced to see in the latest issues of Pro Wrestling Illustrated when we were kids, there are tons of photos from Cornette's archives, showcasing not just the gritty, bloody battles but in the case of one with Roughhouse Fargo, some of the silliness that was funny in pro wrestling without exposing or mocking it. In reality, the only things that could have made this book better is that every photo came in vibrant color or that the book was released in hardcover, because selfishly, I want even more of the richness that the book writes about and even more selfishly, I know how dog-eared my own softcover copy is going to get every time I take it back off the shelf. It's that much fun if you have even a passing interest in wrestling history. Just as Night of Legends was a love letter to Knoxville, Tuesday Nights is as much that letter to Louisville. It's an important book, both from a historical and sociological standpoint, not just for pro wrestling but on an element of the city that might be overlooked if it wasn't for the passion of Cornette and James. Now, the best part, for some may be the thing I haven't even mentioned yet. Like a great film that comes packed with extras when it's released on DVD, what makes Tuesday Nights even better is the companion DVD that comes with it, featuring some of the only existing Louisville territory films from the 1970s, featuring Jerry Jarrett, Tojo Yamamoto, a young Jerry Lawler and more in some of the rarest Southern wrestling material you can imagine, giving you a true taste of what Cornette and James recount in the book. Given that pro wrestling is such a visual medium, this gives you not just an education but a chance to experience a small taste of what captivated fans in another era - because it was good.