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Iggy and the Stooges at The Warfield

 

Iggy and the Stooges came to San Francisco to kick ass. They rocked Raw Power – and nothing says Raw Power more powerfully than a supernova. This poster was done as a special request from the band. I had planned to sit this one out, because I saw Gregg Gordon’s tour poster (shout out link to Gregg’s poster). The band asked me as a special request to make this poster to celebrate their show in San Francisco. There is a very limited edition of 85 prints, because I was asked on such short notice.

Iggy and the Stooges at The Warfield

December 4 & 6, 2011

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series No. 147

22 x 33

Edition of 85

5 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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Warren Haynes Band, SF & Denver Poster Set

Warren Haynes Band at The Warfield

San Francisco “Sly Stone” Jam Night

October 29, 2011

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series No. 146

16 x 23

Edition of 300

4 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Warren Haynes Band at The Ogden Theatre

Denver “James Brown” Jam Night

October 31, 2011

16 x 23

Edition of 300

4 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Warren Haynes Band SF & Denver UNCUT EDITION

October 29 & 31, 2011

32 x 23

Edition of 25

4 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

 

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Amon Tobin at The Warfield Poster

 

Amon Tobin, Eskmo at The Warfield, October 1 & 2, 2011

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series No. 143

20 x 26

Edition of 125

4 colors (with very heavy silver metallic) on black paper

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

 

Here’s a video about Amon Tobin’s show production “Isam Live”:

And here’s a live clip of the show:

Here’s a photograph of the actual poster (see below). Digital jpeg shown above.

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Ben Harper at The Warfield Poster Release

Ben loved the poster! He’s a way generous dude, gave me a lot of time, a very warm meeting at The Warfield. Artist Alex Fischer took this photo:

At one point I mentioned that I do a lot of art shows with Winston Smith who did Mr. Harper’s Relentless7 record cover, and Ben whips out his cell phone and said, “Oh yeah, man, I should text Winston, thanks for reminding me!” Very thoughtful. The show was outstanding! Here’s a snip where Ben Harper is singing it, live, no microphone (vid is mismarked 2010):


Ben Harper, Jenny O. at The Warfield, August 25, 2011

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series No. 140

26 x 20

Edition of 275

3 colors (with very heavy silver metallic) on black paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

 

 

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Public Enemy at The Regency by Chris Shaw

It was a sincere pleasure to work with Chris Shaw on this poster designed for Public Enemy at The Regency – and hella fun to go and see the show together – WORD! Here’s Chris:

“I was thrilled when Chuck Sperry asked me if I wanted to do a Pub­lic Enemy poster for his Gold­en­voice series, I’m a huge Pub­lic Enemy fan from way back when. Doing a poster for a band you love isn’t always as great as it sounds, some­times you can get hung up on try­ing to get a per­fect image and idea and over­work the art. Try­ing not to over-think things, I decided to go with an old-school polit­i­cal poster, the kind of thing I was mak­ing in the 80’s when I lis­tened to P.E. con­stantly. I’ve made a ton of art over the years lis­ten­ing to that band, and felt like going back to my roots.

Some­how I think I’ve wanted to make this poster for a long time. The last time I made a Pub­lic Enemy poster it was for the Fill­more, I don’t think a riot cop with a bloody baton would have passed pre-screening over there. In par­tic­u­lar, I decided to make this poster a BART cop. BART is a Bay Area tran­sit agency who’s police force has been involved in some very ques­tion­able shoot­ings, have been han­dling them­selves pretty badly, they’ve been in the news a lot. Know­ing the band, the image seemed fit­ting, and timely.

The image is a col­lage of pieces from dif­fer­ent riot cop pho­tos, put together to make an espe­cially sin­is­ter fig­ure. I altered a lot of the small details along the way then sep­a­rated the art into 3 col­ors, stan­dard “pol­i­tics” black & red, plus a bright sil­ver… the sil­ver gives it that rock poster feel. For the vari­ants, we printed a pure cyan instead of the black plate, and used some dif­fer­ent stock. A big thanks Chuck for being the mas­ter of his press, this was an espe­cially clean run of posters.”

Chris will have these posters and vari­ant edi­tions drop­ping at a ran­dom time on his web­site this Fri­day, August 26, 2011. Full poster details, loads of photos and documentation, at chrisshawstudio.com

 

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