The Firehouse Goldenvoice Series of posters has reached number 100, with the promise of the next 100 posters and a bright future for the series ahead.

Many Thanks to David Lefkowitz for commissioning 100 posters for Goldenvoice, and making all this possible.

That’s why this pivotal poster includes numbers 100 and 101 in one piece designed and printed by Chuck Sperry and Dave Hunter.

The band on the poster is the Dark Star Orchestra, who recreate the music of the Grateful Dead. Dark Star Orchestra gathers the tribe – really most of the same people, their children and friends -  who inspired The Original psychedelic rock promoter Chet Helms to commission the very first modern rock posters by Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley and Victor Moscoso.

The venue is the Regency which occupies the very same room -  then called the Avalon Ballroom -  where Mr. Helms promoted the first Grateful Dead shows for his production company, the Family Dog. It seemed appropriate to end the first 100 and begin the next 100 right where it all started.

In fact, when Dave and I delivered the posters on Friday to The Regency, there was Stanley Mouse with easel and canvas – painting a Skull and Roses – right in the lobby.

The inspiration for the poster is the Grateful Dead song “Sugar Magnolia” with it’s follow through to “Sunshine Daydream.”

With much respect and appreciation to the roots of the modern rock art poster, and with “next-level” design and printing techniques, Dave Hunter and Chuck Sperry present 100-101 – a psychedelic thank you, a friendly rock and roll IOU to the masters of the past, and a cheerful iridescent / metallic good morning to the future.

Dark Star Orchestra at The Regency

April 23 and 24, 2010

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 100

Edition of 150

6 colors on archival cream paper

35″ x 23″

Signed and Numbered

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Regular Edition of 150

on archival cream paper

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Speckled Egg Edition of 20

on white with reflective white flecks paper

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Blue Wave Edition of 10

on blue with opalescent wave pattern paper

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White Marble Edition of 10

on white marble paper

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Dark Star Orchestra Photo Gallery

I’ve moved the additional photos of Dark Star Orchestra, here below, so it’s easier to reference each poster when they are released.

Below are two full sized photos with differing light effects (click to see larger):

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Below are detail photos of the three variants showing the corner of the image and paper style (click to see larger):

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Speckled Egg Variant (click to see larger):

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Blue Wave Variant (click to see larger):

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White Marble Variant (click to see larger):

Sometimes you get an idea and just have to go for it. So it was with Cypress Hill at the Warfield on April 20, 2010.

I printed 125 burlap sacks – of varying “quality.” I’ll put it this way, burlap is an unforgiving print substrate. It’s not exactly smooth. A lot of the fine detail was lost. All the crucial information on the poster is legible, yes, and it does look like a kilo bag of weed, and it’s pretty much funny as hell.

Feel free to fill it up with whatever you like and put it on the kitchen spice rack. Guaranteed conversation piece.

Comes with a silkscreen printed handbill sized tag (see tag below)

Cypress Hill 4/20, 2010 at The Warfield

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number “420″

Edition of 125

1 Color (Metallic Green) on Burlap Sack

18″ x 24″

Signed and Numbered tag on each bag

Burlap Sack and print quality vary

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Dolores O’Riordan can take the listener to a place no male vocalist can. That’s why I portray her here as a Siren.

You could just tell the band was way into it. Packed house and everyone was singing all the way to the back wall.

Show was just amazing!

The Cranberries

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 85

Editon of 180

4 colors on 14 point cover stock (cut full-bleed)

20″ x 26.75″

$30 + $7 Shipping

Looking forward to tonight’s show! DEVO performed “Are We Not Men?” on Friday, and will perform “Freedom of Choice” tonight at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco. You can check out the playlist in my poster – all the song titles from “Freedom of Choice are in there.

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Just got back from the show. I love it when the floor at The Regency bounces like a trampoline. Crowd went mad for DEVO tonight. Great crowd, won’t suss anyone out – you know who you are – and we had fun! Good conversation, lovely crowd and a great show.

DEVO “Freedom of Choice” at The Regency 11/7/09

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series number 81

17.5 x 23

Edition of 150

2 color silkscreen on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

$30 + $7 Shipping

Here’s the first Firehouse Goldenvoice Series poster for both venues, The Warfield and The Regency, in San Francisco, number 70 in the series.

Somehow I managed to draw and design and hand-letter this poster on the Monday after The TRPS Hall of Flowers Show. After having breakfast in The Haight-Ashbury with Urlo, Poia and Lu of Malleus, Jeff Wood, Johnny Thief and George Gamboa at The Pork Store. And after Jeff came over to the house to pack his posters to send home (Cool, Jeff stoked me a Stanley Mouse / Jeff Wood – Sheppard Fairey parody – colab print called “DOSE”). And after a gallery meeting with Phil Cushway at Artrock. And after dropping The Malleus kids off at Union Square; I got to work on this drawing of Anu – Irish Goddess of The Waters. The first real winter rain was just starting to blow into San Francisco, tearing through the trees in front of my apartment in the Panhandle. Thought the Pogues would dig this drawing, a reference to the primordial Celtic goddess of fertility.

Urlo arrived and suggested I put “The Pogues” into the reflection right under Anu’s face. I handed him the drawing and a piece of paper and pencil and asked him if he would like to letter that. So he did. The result is a bit of a cool colab action – all relaxed – just a slice of life. Nice to have the Malleus folks staying at the house.

The Pogues at the Warfield

October 13, 2009

With Devotchka

Sean Wheeler

Zander Schloss

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The Pogues at the Warfield

October 14, 2009

with Chris Schiflett

& The Cheaters

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 70

Editon of 150

Heavy metallic green and dark green on archival cream paper

26″ x 20″

Signed and Numbered

$30 + $7 Shipping

Marilyn Manson played in San Francisco, California at The Warfield on Friday, August 28, 2009.

I designed and printed this undead 5 color silkscreen gig poster, using metallic tints and translucent layers.

Marilyn Manson

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 58

Editon of 200

5 colors on archival cream paper

10.5″ x 32″

Signed and Numbered

$30 + $7 Shipping