Chuck Sperry

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Motorhead, Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy at the Warfield Poster

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How’s this for a Rock Moment? I leave George Gamboa and Doug Dashiell to go to the Warfield lobby and get a beer as Nashville Pussy wraps their set. In the lobby I run into Goldenvoice head honcho David Lefkowitz who says, “Chuck! Great poster for tonight!” and Eric McFadden appears and I say, “Hey Dude! You rocked the shit out of ‘Low Spark of High Heeled Boys’ with Gov’t Mule last week! Ron and I have to have a recording of that. It’s one of the Firehouse’s favorite songs. Amazing!” Right then Nashville Pussy’s guitarist, Ruyter Suys comes busting through the door on the shoulders of the biggest friggin bouncer at the Warfield, says. “Hey! Eric!” and deposits herself right into Eric McFadden’s arms right in the middle of this convo. Amazing show!

Slice of life and great night! Idea for the poster is something like this: Knights Templar, Knight of Rock’n’roll, or just plain Metal. You decide.

Three versions for your choice:

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Motorhead – Reverend Horton Heat – Nashville Pussy

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 68

Edition of 150

Heavy Silver Metallic and Transluscent Red on Black Paper

19″ x 26″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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Motorhead – Reverend Horton Heat – Nashville Pussy

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 68

Variant Edition of 20

Heavy Silver Metallic and Transluscent Red on Red Paper

19″ x 26″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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Motorhead – Reverend Horton Heat – Nashville Pussy

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 68

Edition of 10

Heavy Silver Metallic and Transluscent Red on Bronze Paper

19″ x 26″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

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Nick Cave, Red Sparowes at The Warfield, September 19 & 20, 2008

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Here’s the first poster I did for the Firehouse-Goldenvoice Poster Series.

Nick Cave played at The Warfield in San Francisco, California on September 19 and 20, 2008 with Red Sparowes.

I designed a 4 color silkscreen gig poster for this event using a very fine etching collage I created. This poster measures 26″ x 23″ and comes from an edition of 250, signed and numbered. This poster is #3 in the Firehouse Goldenvoice poster series.

Nick Cave – Red Sparowes

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 3

Editon of 250

4 colors on 14 point cover stock

26″ x 23″

SOLD OUT

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Mogwai and Dead Meadow at the Regency Poster

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I designed the 39th gig poster in the Firehouse-Goldenvoice Series for the Mogwai concert on May 17, 2009 at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California with special guests Dead Meadow.

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I used a blue-tinted silver and layered process color over it and got great results. This one shimmers and shines.

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Mogwai • Dead Meadow

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 39

Editon of 200

4 colors on 14 point cover stock

30 x 23

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

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Gov’t Mule Warfield Posters by Sperry and Hunter

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Dave Hunter and I created and printed a two-up poster for Gov’t Mule when they played Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2009 at the Warfield, Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series numbers 66 and 67.

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These were printed together on one parent sheet and cut apart, so the challenge was to bring out the best in each artist while sharing the same color palette. We chose to print a heavy silver metallic and tint the silver with three custom mixed primary colors and black.

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Both posters are available here in a limited offering.

A very limited release of uncut sheets containing both posters will be made at TRPS Festival of Poster at the Hall of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Saturday, October 10, from 10 am to 6pm.

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Gov’t Mule

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Numbers 66 and 67

Editon of 225

5 colors on heavy cover stock

22″ x 16″

Signed and Numbered

Gov’t Mule SF 09 Sperry –

single poster – FHGV #67

Sold Out – Thank You!

Gov’t Mule SF 09 Hunter Sperry –

set of two posters – FHGV #66 & #67

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Printing Zoltron’s Psychedelic Furs • Happy Mondays at the Regency

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This photo sums it up nicely: “Wiley, the kid on the poster; Zoltron, the man behind the kid on the poster; Sperry, the man behind the man behind the kid on the poster.”

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Printed Zoltron’s Psychedelic Furs / Happy Mondays poster on Wednesday. What a blast!

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Zoltron went off on the typography. He told me it took a few days just to place all the characters, highlights and blends on the fonts.

This thing is a symphony of yellow, really an eye grabber.

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We had really the best day of printing, and had a lot of cool visitors. George Gamboa, Dave Hunter and Dennis Loren made the scene – here’s the TMZ photo of the crew – George is behind the camera. Oh, yeah, while printing the doorbell rang and a mysterious crate from Italy arrived – the Malleus art got locked into the vault.

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Well, the funny part is we got finished at 8:30 pm Wednesday – so Zoltron and George dropped me off at my crib – and I started working on Phoenix. That drawing session went on to dawn. Caught about an hour of fitful sleep (too much coffee), woke up at 7:00 am and put the poster together for films. The whole idea just kind of dropped whole-piece out of the brain and onto the paper, definitely energized by the fun day before. Mr. Z picked me up at about 10:30 and off to get films on the way to the studio. I’m telling myself, things just happen in the way they should.

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Number 62 in the Firehouse Goldenvoice poster series is designed by Zoltron for The Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays concert with special guests Amusement Parks on Fire on September 17, 2009 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA. This silkscreen gig poster measures 20″ x 27″ comes signed and numbered by the artist from an edition of 200. Love my way? There is a special red and white colorway, with an edition of 10. Both for sale now at Zoltron.com

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