19.75 x 30.25
Edition of 150
4 color silkscreen on eco-friendly archival cream paper
Signed / Numbered
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Postering on Haight Street, San Francisco
The first thing about rock posters, that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle on the internet, is that the real purpose of a poster is street advertising. Yes, it’s cool to share these poster as art pieces on Expressobeans.com or on Gigposters.com or here on my blog; but their primary reason for being is to be seen on the street and get people to go to the show.
When The Firehouse was commissioned by Goldenvoice to make a silkscreen series of posters for the Warfield and Regency theaters in September of 2008, my first thought was, “Let’s get all of these posters ON THE STREET!”
There are a lot of ways to grab a person’s attention through design. I’m not going to get into that too deeply right now. I’ll save that for another blog. There’s a bright attention grabber like the last poster for Clutch at the Regency; that’s a poster with a sparkly metallic motorcycle to shoot a strobe flash into your eyes. The attention-grabbing effect of using bold legible yellow and red type giving you the info in a blast.
My Glasvegas poster has a different strategy to get you to look. I consider the visual environment of the street, and design a poster which is different than the dominant colors you’ll find there. And you can see, this one pops out like a breath of fresh air.
Anyway, enjoy these pictures taken by my lovely girlfriend Nancy. Have a tour of my neighborhood, follow me while I take along some scotch tape and we put some posters up on Haight Street. I’ll take you to my favorite stores along the way…
Here’s my girlfriend Nancy with my newest creation for Glasvegas (in front of the Haight Ashbury Post Office)
First store – Pipedreams – always greeted with applause for the newest poster-treat!
Next – Anubis Warpus – You can see Anubis supplies the graffiti community and gives me a cool street gallery in their window!
Distractions – the owner is a big collector of psychedelic art and has a fantastic collection of rock posters from The Firehouse going back for years on the ceiling of the store!
Escape From New York Pizza – free pizza for life! Now how’s that for incentive to make posters? You can see they have a gallery of Firehouse posters too.
Murios – with a poster-run complete, time to get a poster hung behind the bar in the best blacklight in town – and sit back, enjoy and have a beer. Hope you had a nice tour of my hood!
Clutch Baroness Lionize Poster
Number 49 in the Firehouse Goldenvoice series, shows us a reckless, hellbound outlaw tearing up the everything in his way as he blazes down to Clutch, Baroness and Lionize at The Regency. The show ripped! Baroness was wicked cool playing their “Red Album” bathed in red stage-lights. Had to pick up John Baizley’s silkscreen print of the album cover art from “Red.” Clutch was massive, tight and better than ever. A great ol’ rock’n’roll show deserving of a great monster motorcycle poster.
Edition of 150
printed on 14 point cover
27″ x 23″
Signed / Numbered
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Kepi Ghoulie Electric, Chixdiggit, Head rock poster
Kepi – Chixdiggit – Head Poster
by Chuck Sperry
Kepi Ghoulie came by the house today for a quick coffee on the way to the airport to pick up Chixdiggit. He loved my poster!
Kepi said it’s just the sort of monster-y stuff he absolutely loves. Here’s my portrait of Lon Chaney – Man of a Thousand Faces – from one of his greatest films, “London After Midnight.” Kepi had a great story; he told me he once went to the house of “Famous Monsters” editor, the late great Forest Ackerman, who actually had the teeth Lon Chaney wore in this very film – in a jar by his bed.
These shows are a special treat – so make sure you get to one or all of the three very special concerts with Kepi Ghoulie Electric – Chixdiggit and Head!
7/16
7:00p.m.
Chixdiggit! and Kepi Ghoulie Electric
9:00p.m.
Chixdiggit! and Head
Thursday, July 16, 2009 – each show $10 – all ages
Java Lounge – Sacramento – CA
7/17
Head – Chixdiggit – Kepi Ghoulie Electric
Public Display of Aggression – Stunt Monkey
Friday, July 17, 2009 – 7pm – all ages
Nickel City Arcade – San Jose – CA
7/18
Head – Chixdiggit – Kepi Ghoulie Electric
Pleasure Kills
Saturday, July 18, 2009 – 8pm – $10 – age 21+
Thee Parkside – San Francisco – CA
Kepi Chixdiggit Head Poster is 18.5″ x 28.5″
4 color silkscreen – tinted silver – with three blends
Signed / Numbered
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The Zeros, Fleshies, The Hooks rock poster
The Zeros Poster by Chuck Sperry
The Zeros played the Elbow Room for a very special reunion show, and what a reunion it was! The show was packed, so there wasn’t even any elbow room in the Elbow Room.
Good to see Mario Escovedo (x-Dragons) who was road managing for his brother in The Zeros, and hadasked me to do this poster a few weeks ago. Rapped out with Courtney from the Demonics. Christian from Triclops who was cheering on bandmate Johnny, playing with the Fleshies.Spoke to Penelope Houston from The Avengers for a couple of minutes about the Rock Poster Documentary, “American Artifact.”
The show was kind of a reunion of the Incredibly Strange Wrestling crowd, mashed up withthe SF Punk 77 crew. So it was a treat to see Bret Kibele, the original ISW organizer, who along with Audra Morse gave me my first poster jobs for Incredibly Strange Wrestling back in 1995.
Printed in gold and Silver on heavy Bronze metallic paper
Edition of 75
18 x 25
Signed / Numbered
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