Category: Concert Posters
The largest and rarest concert poster collection has been unearthed and is making waves! The Ultrasounds Collection, 35 years in the making, is changing the niche market of concert poster collecting. With the help of CGC and Psychedelic Art Exchange, 23 of the rarest and finest...
What are the values of posters today? It may depend on a number of factors. Consider the classic Led Zeppelin concert poster for the 1969 Fillmore shows. It's an avocado. It's a funny avocado. It's also a near mint $890 avocado. According to Wolfgang's, where...
[caption id="attachment_23621" align="alignleft" width="211"] venue poster[/caption] Punk music has a flavor of characters to check out. There's The Clash, The Ramones, and of course the Sex Pistols. The latter is quite a handful. For starters, the Sex Pistols prime years didn't even last half a decade. Punk...
Imagine New Year's Eve, 1967. In San Francisco. At the Winterland. And now imagine a line-up: headliners Jefferson Airplane, then in their prime; Big Brother and the Holding Company (yes, that's Janis Joplin's band); Quicksilver Messenger Service and Freedom Highway. Talk about memorable. Well,...
[caption id="attachment_23682" align="alignleft" width="225"] © Mike King[/caption] One of the loveliest, simplest pieces of art I hung in my daughter's room: Mike King's 2005 gig poster for the Arcade Fire. Its depiction of childhood is itself childlike in its wonder, and there's far more to the image...
[caption id="attachment_23494" align="alignleft" width="210"] © Tara McPherson[/caption] Today I want to write about Tara McPherson. McPherson is, well, how else can I say it, an artist. She studied art, and earned a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a major in Illustration....
[caption id="attachment_23379" align="alignleft" width="207"] artwork by Craig Haskett, also known as Scrojo[/caption] Whenever I think of concert posters, I think of the funkiest band with the funkiest concert posters ever. There are plenty of bands out there that have trippy, psychedelic and funky posters. However, George Clinton and...
[caption id="attachment_23233" align="alignleft" width="225"] © Madpixel Art+Design[/caption] The summer of 2017, a virtual dream came true: Iron & Wine was not only coming to Louisville, Kentucky, Iron & Wine was doing the show for free. As part of Waterfront Wednesday, hosted by our local radio station WFPK,...
[caption id="attachment_23155" align="alignleft" width="212"] © Jeff Kleinsmith[/caption] I am more than ten years and two thousand miles from a moment in which, on the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga tour, I first saw the band, Spoon. Now, an older and wiser man, I went searching for the...
[caption id="attachment_23029" align="alignleft" width="224"] ©2020 guyburwell[/caption] The first time I saw My Morning Jacket was at an absolutely incredible show at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon. But it being in 2004, I couldn't tell you every song they played. I bought a t-shirt after the show...
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