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October 18, 2009 By squirt

Butthole Surfers, Melvins, Regency Poster by Mike King

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I asked Mike King to create the Butthole Surfers Poster for the Firehouse Goldenvoice Series at The Regency, in San Francisco. I had the pleasure to spend some time with Mike King in the UK a couple of years ago. We were in Brighton, UK at the Fringe Festival; we both conducted workshops with British artists teaching silkscreening. The artists who attended our workshops formed an artist collective called BRAG – The British Rock Artists Group – and started firing off posters at mind-blowing speed, as they formed from our workshops and were really inspired to start from Mike and my visit. It was pretty gratifying to see that our workshops had made such a tangible impact.

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Anyway, I’ve always wanted to collab with Mike since. I exhibited posters with him earlier this year at Vanish Fine Art, during The Gigposter Book release party. We were hanging out at the show and I thought to ask him to create a poster for the Butthole Surfers. He said, “Why don’t I just send you black color separations and you choose the colors.” The rock poster documentary American Artifact was being released the same week, the premiere was the next day at The Red Vic Theater. Marty Hohn TRPS President, was asking to see my American Artifact silkscreen poster while I was talking to Mike. I busted it out. And Mike reacted, “Dude! Yep, I definitely want you to choose the colors!”

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So with the colors I chose, I went for ultimate eye-fry with multiple color vibrations on the blue/red, green/red, and blue/magenta: all vibrating color combinations. And just to give it that Firehouse touch, the three-eyed kitty is heavy silver metallic with a magenta tint.

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Butthole Surfers, Melvins at the Regency

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 73

Editon of 150

4 colors on 14 point coated cover

23″ x 35″

Numbered

(1 through 50 will be Signed and Numbered by Mike King)

available through Mike King at a future date – check here

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: BRAG, Butthole Surfers, Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series, Gigposters, Melvins, Mike King, Regency, The Rock Poster Society

October 15, 2009 By squirt

Moby at the Warfield Poster

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Here’s Firehouse Goldenvoice Series poster number 71 for Moby at The Warfield on October 15, 2009 in San Francisco.

I went for a Film Noir treatment, a mysterious meeting at a bar.

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You can see the heavy silver metallic and bronze tinting with orange accents below – two shots in different light to show the atmosphere of this poster.

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Moby, Kelly Scarr at the Warfield

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 71

Editon of 150

3 colors on archival cream paper

20″ x 26″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series, Kelly Scarr, Moby, The Warfield

October 14, 2009 By squirt

The Pogues at The Warfield and The Regency, San Francisco, October 13 and 14, 2009

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

ANUFROG

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.

POGUES

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.

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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

Sold Out – Thank You!

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Chris Schiflett, Devotchka, Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series, Jeff Wood, Johnny Thief, Malleus, Regency, Sean Wheeler, The Cheaters, The Pogues, The Warfield, Zander Schloss

October 5, 2009 By squirt

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

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series, Motorhead, Nashville Pussy, Reverend Horton Heat, The Warfield

October 3, 2009 By squirt

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

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series, Nick Cave, Red Sparowes, The Warfield

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