Category: Concert Posters

Determining which version of the Isley Brothers to collect

Rock and Roll, Grunge, and Punk have all had a huge impact on the music world. However, today's music is influenced by a different kind of sound. The Isley Brothers are one of those groups that still influence rappers, singers, and producers to this day. For...

The Art of Art Chantry

[caption id="attachment_25650" align="alignleft" width="201"] © Art Chantry[/caption] The biography of Art Chantry follows what we've seen in other artists. He studied painting and earned a degree in 1978 from what is now Western Washington University. He settled in Seattle at just the right time: art galleries and...

Miranda Bergman, the Haight-Ashbury, and Her Very Valuable Poster

I recently found, on the website of L'Imagerie Gallery, a poster for a Grateful Dead show in March of 1970. I immediately paused for two reasons: the image itself, familiar to anyone who knows the Tarot, and the price: $1,500. I set out to discover why it...

The Wild and the Weird: The Art of Frank Kozik

[caption id="attachment_25408" align="alignleft" width="194"] © Frank Kozik[/caption] By 1992, Seattle grunge was long past its early years and well into the public eye, thanks to MTV and everything else. I, for one, was wearing flannel shirts and torn jeans. And for all the shows I went to...

The Gig Posters of Arno Kiss

[caption id="attachment_25073" align="alignleft" width="225"] © Arno Kiss[/caption] Some gig poster artists really relish color. Arno Kiss is one of those artists. He started "scribbling band logos in my notebooks in school" in 2001, he says, and in less than 10 years he began making posters. I just...

Concert Poster Collecting Guide Now Available

Concert poster collecting has remained a niche market for quite some time. GoCollect is looking to shed some light on this elusive market. GoCollect recently launched its Concert Poster Collecting Guide, full of the history of the posters as well as the art of...

The Legendary Stanley Mouse

This poster is surely one of the most iconic pop culture images of all time. The skeleton, the roses: we all know this Grateful Dead image, but may not know that it belongs to Stanley Mouse, one of the pioneers of rock poster art. This incredibly...

Jack White and the Art of Animal Rummy

[caption id="attachment_25047" align="alignleft" width="199"] © Rob Jones[/caption] If the biography of Rob Jones posted on the website of Animal Rummy offers any clues, the artist, Rob Jones, is as imaginative in the retelling of his life story—a story any fan of Lenny Bruce will admire—as he is in...

The Gig Poster Art of Derek Hess

[caption id="attachment_24942" align="alignleft" width="182"] © Derek Hess[/caption] In a comment left on a recent post, I was asked to consider doing a blog on the poster art of Derek Hess. So I looked into him. They're not at all what one might expect. "Dark and intense themes,"...

Mike King Nirvana Poster Gets Top Bid

The May CGC concert poster auction ended on June 4th at 9pm EST. The Nirvana poster received top bid above the other Ultrasounds posters that were on auction. The 23 posters in the auction were all designed by the legendary concert poster artist Mike King. The 1991...