Chuck Sperry

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Manu Chao, Rupa & The April Fishes, The Warfield, October 15, 2010

Amazing show tonight! Manu Chao’s manager accepted my posters with a dead-pan, “Thank you.” Then I mentioned that I squatted in Italy for a year (2006) and that Manu Chao was the ubiquitous soundtrack to the experience. At that, he cracked a big smile and said, “Thank you, bro!” I want to thank Marcello from Argentina, my print shop mate in Italy at Centro Sociale Leoncavallo in Milan, for turning me onto Manu Chao.

San Francisco’s own Rupa & The April Fishes took the stage and fired up the crowd. You may remember that Rupa opened for Spearhead on my Power to the Peaceful poster.

Manu Chao is more an experience and political touchstone than just a mere musical act. I don’t think I’m alone when I remember not only their songs, but where I was, and what I was committed to doing when I first heard them.

Manu Chao, Rupa & The April Fishes at The Warfield

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series Number 114

17.5 x 35

Edition of 150

4 Colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank you!

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TRPS Poster Wins Award

I’m really happy to report that my TRPS 2010 poster won Poster of the Week on Expressobeans! Thanks everyone!

Marty Hohn, President of The Rock Poster Society (TRPS), is offering some of the last of the edition of this poster through Expressobeans with a Rock Poster Society Membership. Click here and Private Message “Anners84.”

From Marty: “TRPS has a number of these posters left over from the show. With approval from both Chuck and the Expressobeans staff, we’ve decided to offer them to EB members. These copies are from the signed / numbered run of 125, same ones we sold at the door in San Francisco on Saturday. We held back a bunch of the lower numbers, and most of those will go out at random in this sale. Here’s the deal. You get Chuck’s awesome show poster. plus a one-year TRPS membership for $125. With the membership you get the TRPS t-shirt of your choice, discount at our shows, membership card, newsletter, stickers, and occasional cool poster deals. Plus your membership dues help us do what we do for the artist / fan community. You can go to http://www.trps.org and click on membership to see more.Of course, all proceeds from the sale of this poster go to the TRPS Artist Relief Trust.”

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Guided By Voices at The Warfield, October 5, 2010

Guided By Voices and Times New Viking at The Warfield

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series Number 112

20 x 28

Edition of 125

3 Colors (metallic blue/silver, orange-to-red blend and black) on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank you!

I made this poster for Guided By Voices at The Warfield before I left for Switzerland. Guided By Voices is near and dear to me because – like me – they are from Dayton, Ohio. I didn’t get a chance to release this until now. And with a few system crashes under my belt – let’s just surprise people. Here it is.

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TRPS Poster – The Rock Poster Society, Festival of Rock Posters, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, SF – October 9, 2010

TRPS “Festival of Rock Posters” October 9, 2010

20 x 28

Edition of 125

7 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank you!

TRPS “Festival of Rock Posters” October 9, 2010

GOLD EDITION

20 x 28

Edition of 20

6 colors on gold foil

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank you!

I’ve just finished my TRPS poster for the Festival of Rock Posters event on Octoiber 9, 2010 – 10 am to 6pm. TRPS graciously invited me to create a poster for this year’s Festival.

This poster drips with San Francisco-style psychedelia. My special blend of Eye Fry Blue – incorporates 100 percent hand-mixed florescent blue powder in a brilliant blue that has been discontinued. This is the very last can of this particularly pure blue that works in concert with the heavy monster brew of Eye Fry Red. The red was mixed double strong with florescent and punched up with Fire Red. Then I printed each one twice to give it extra Eye Frying Kapow. After preparing the Eye Fry Red, I printed the exact intensity of Eye Fry Blue with a very open screen usually reserved for metallic inks to give it that lasting after image on the eye and in the mind.

The gold metallic wall paper design in the background of the poster image, looks like the type of Victorian wallpaper you might find in The Haight Ashbury, with a little difference. The original damask design has been altered devilishly to mirror the effect such wallpaper has when one stares at it stoned – I know you’ve been there – the patterns become other things. See how many times you can find the word “TRiPS” in my design.

This poster will be released starting at 10 am, October 9, 2010, at the TRPS Festival of Rock Posters.

All proceeds from the sale of this poster to benefit the TRPS Artist Relief Fund.

I will be making a very limited online release of Artist Proofs and Gold Foil Variant of this poster on October 10, at 12 noon PST.

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Swiss Firehouse Tour with Lindsey Kuhn – October 2 to 8, 2010

Firehouse will be heading to Switzerland for a week long tour from October 2 until October 8, 2010. Ron Donovan and I will arrive for the Rockaholics show in Wadenswil/Zurich. We will join artists Lindsey Kuhn, Malleus, Guy Burwell, Chris Hopewell, Justin Kramerer, Blackyard, Michael Hacker, and photographer Fabian von Unwerth for the event.

Ron, Lindsey and I will then tour Switzerland together visiting Luzern with artist Mart Infanger, Bern, and Geneva. The tour ends in Frankfurt, Germany with a show with Ron and Lindsey appearing. Meanwhile, I’ll be flying home to attend The Rock Poster Society’s Hall of Flowers show in Golden Gate Park, home in San Francisco.

Rockaholics II – Saturday, October 2, 2010 – Villa Rosenmatt, Gessenerweg 5, Wadenswil/Zurich, Switzerland • Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Lindsey Kuhn, Malleus, Guy Burwell, Chris Hopewell, Justin Kramerer, Blackyard, Michael Hacker, and photographer Fabian von Unwerth.

“American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art” by director Merle Becker, will be debuted to the Swiss audience at Rockaholics II.

For Rockaholics II master printer Albert Mantel will produce beautiful and strictly limited anodized aluminum prints of many of the artists attending. I will be exclusively releasing 5 anodized aluminum images from my archive at the Rockaholics II event in Zurich, in editions of 5 each, signed and numbered. Here are the five images to be released as anodized aluminum:

Voice Magazine will debut a special edition of it’s publication devoted entirely to rock art – what a treat for attendees of Rockaholics II!

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Rock Poster Bazar – Monday, October 4, 2010 – Metzgerhalle, 1 Baselstrasse, Luzern, Switzerland – Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Lindsey Kuhn, and Mart Infanger. Starts at 5 pm.

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Rock Poster Bazar – Tuesday, October 5, 2010 – Cafe Rossli, Under the Bridge at the Reithalle, Bern, Switzerland – Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Lindsey Kuhn, with Concert by Shellac at the Reithalle upstairs. Starts at 5 pm.

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Flashback – Wednesday through Friday, October 6-7-8, 2010 – La Station Orbitale, Bat G, SIP de Plainpalais 10 Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers, Geneva, Switzerland – Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Lindsey Kuhn. Opening October 7, 5 pm until late.

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I’ll be home October 9, 2010, from 10 am to 6pm for TRPS Festival of Rock Posters.

TRPS – Festival of Rock Posters – Saturday, October 9, 2010 – Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. 10 am until 6 pm.

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Ron and Lindsey will be appearing in Frankfurt, Germany. My work will be appearing but I will be home for TRPS.

Rock Poster Art Show – Saturday & Sunday, October 9-10, 2010 – Gallery We Are 3, Stephanstrasse 1, Frankfurt, Germany – Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Lindsey Kuhn. Opening October 9, 7 pm until late.

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