There are countless acts to collect posters of, it’s never-ending. So, deciding to collect Sly and the Family Stone posters is an entirely new challenge. There has been a handful of funk…
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Concert Posters
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Thematically pleasing collectibles are where niche fans thrive. That’s true in comics, trading cards, sports memorabilia, and concert posters. There has been a slew of concerts during the anniversary of the United…
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Determining which version of the Isley Brothers to collect
by Daniel Paizby Daniel PaizRock 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…
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Concert Posters
Miranda Bergman, the Haight-Ashbury, and Her Very Valuable Poster
by Sean Hillby Sean HillI 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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Soundgarden might not be the first act you think of in Grunge music. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and others might’ve grabbed more headlines, but not for me. Perhaps it’s being a fan…
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When a musical career spans three decades, it’s unlikely you will find all of their artwork. Sure, you can try. However, it might be best to define your style for Pearl Jam,…
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In 1869, a year before he died, the Uruguayan-born French poet, Comte de Lautréamont, published a phrase in a book of poems that would become famous when discovered by André Breton: “as…
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A few weeks back, I ordered a poster from Cargo Collective for a Spoon show I went to more than 10 years ago. The artist was Jeff Kleinsmith, who has designed logos…
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…
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…
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…
A catbird sits perched atop the neck of a guitar. With warm bright colors and bubble writing, this poster might not be out of place showcasing a garden fete in middle England…
Painter, illustrator, muralist, husband, father: Jeff Soto is all these things. The two things that inspired him, as he reports: classic painting and street graffiti, two aspects of art that help, according…