From vintage T-shirts to used guitar picks, music memorabilia can be extremelyvaluable. Tour posters, in particular, gain value because they're often onlymade in small quantities to advertise an ...
From Beethoven to Camper Van Beethoven, as long as there have been concerts there have been concert posters. Plastered all around town on bulletin boards, telephone poles, and record shop windows, the ...
Few types of music memorabilia have enjoyed a prolonged renaissance quite like concert posters. Once relegated to light poles and store shop fronts, these impressive pieces of art have come to be ...
A piece of music memorabilia from “The Day the Music Died”—when a deadly plane crash killed early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and, J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson—has made auction ...
Tour posters are an often-overlooked art form. They convey a message about the tour and the band and can even become the perfect addition to your home decor. Without a doubt, though, one of the most ...
As Mitch Putnam explains in the introduction to the new book focused on concert posters, OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art, he started his website about limited-edition art back in 2007 because no one ...
Pine Knob's summer concert poster is a return to nature. The Clarkson amphitheater has unveiled its annual summer poster and ...
Andrew Hawley deals in nostalgia. Even if it’s nostalgia that Hawley isn’t technically nostalgic for. Too young to have seen Bob Dylan’s 1965 show at the long-gone, Back Bay Theatre on Mass. Ave.,the ...
In the not-so-distant past, the concert poster — or flyer, or handbill — was one of the only ways to find out what musical acts were coming to town. The papers that were saved bring music history ...
You've probably seen Jason Munn at one of the Bay Area's many music festivals. Although chances are your eyes went right past the fold-up table Munn was manning and straight to the gallery of concert ...
When the Grateful Dead played its first live show Dec. 4, 1965, the band wasn’t exactly a newcomer to the music scene. The group, including Jerry Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir, had been ...