An 11x17 poster advertising the live recording LP released by Trap Records in 1979, featuring a legendary list of Portland punk bands: the Wipers, Neo Boys, Bop Zombies, Stiphnoyds, Sado Nation, Smegma, Rubbers, Lotek and Cleavers. This poster is sometimes mistaken as the concert poster for the show, although it was produced later to promote the album's release. The poster is featured on page 191 of Mark Sten's 2015 book "All Ages: The Rise and Fall of Portland Punk,1977-1981". A few pages detail the story of producing the LP.

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The concert poster for Pigmy Love Circus, Nervous Christians, Dead Moon and Hog Wild at at the PDX Underground club on April 13, 1991.

Condition: Fair/Good, with the usual staple holes and wear from being stapled to a telephone pole; slight discoloration around edges of poster likely due to being stapled on top of another poster whose color has bled."
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An original concert flyer for Public Image, Ltd. with the Mutants and Pompeii 99 at the Hollywood Palladium on June 10, 1983. Also an early Goldenvoice poster, which promoted its first concert in 1981.

Condition: Near Fine, a few soft creases and surface dimples to flyer.
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A poster for two nights of Portland punk at the short-lived punk "club" Pacific Academy featuring Bop Zombies, the Rats, Cleavers, UHF and Preppies on July 18 and Sado-Nation, Stiphnoids, Smegma, Dots and Briefcases on July 19. Produced by Mark Sten's Alternative Arts Association and featured on page 201 of his 2015 book "All Ages: The Rise and Fall of Portland Punk,1977-1981", which also features the story of Pacific Academy, a youth vocational school that allowed punk shows in the evening for a short time.

Condition: Fine, like new.
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A 1983 flyer for the Violent Femmes at the Mediterranean Tavern on West Burnside in Portland, and the Violent Femmes first Portland appearance. George Touhouliotis ran the Mediterranean Tavern and started doing poetry and live shows there in the early 1980s. It was this Violent Femmes show that prompted Touhouliotis to open the legendary Satyricon, saying "They weren't really loud—it's the Violent Femmes. But there were a lot of complaints from the people upstairs. So this other space, Satyricon—it seemed right" (Willamette Week, 10/26/2010). The Femmes self-titled debut.....
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The poster for the Melvins and Enemy Mine at Berbati's Pan on June 14, 1999. Poster design by Guy Burwell who designed many posters for Berbati's and Satyricon in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A Mike Thrasher production, sponsored by The Rocket magazine.

Condition: Fair/Good, with the usual holes, tears and creasing from being stapled to a telephone pole.
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A collection of 62 original concert postcards produced by Family Dog Productions during the heyday of the Bay Area psychedelic music scene. Family Dog Productions began producing concerts in the mid-1960s at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco alongside a young Bill Graham. Chet Helms hired a group of young artists to design the graphics for their posters and handbills who became know as The Big 5 of psychedelic art: Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse (aka Mouse Studios) and Wes Willson. All are represented in this.....
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The postcard for Quicksilver Messenger Service, Kaleidoscope and Charley Musselwhite at the famed Avalon Ballroom for three nights: January 12-14, 1968. Chet Helms was manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, which famously added Janis Joplin as its singer for a period. Helms formed Family Dog Productions, and began producing concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium alongside a young Bill Graham. Helms and Family Dog hired a group of young artists to design the graphics for their posters and handbills, which became the standard by which all psychedelic concert posters.....
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The postcard for the Chamber Brothers and Iron Butterly at the famed Avalon Ballroom for two nights: April 28 & 29, 1967. Chet Helms was manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, which famously added Janis Joplin as its singer for a period. Helms formed Family Dog Productions, and began producing concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium in SF alongside a young Bill Graham. Helms and Family Dog hired a group of young artists to design the graphics for their posters and handbills, which became the standard by which all.....
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A rare, early Foo Fighters poster in an oversized, signed and numbered silkscreen edition for their club concert with Shudder to Think and Wool at La Luna in Portland on July 24, 1995 (the year of their self-titled debut album). Designed and signed by Mike King of Crash Design, numbered 22 in an edition of 100. Printed at Gary Houston's silkscreen studio, Voodoo Catbox, in Portland. Rare, and especially so in this fine of condition. Pure Lard!

Condition: Fine.
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The concert poster for the Hellcows, Monomen and Dirty Bird at the Blue Gallery on May 26, 1990. Poster design by Mike King (also the drummer in the Hellcows) and featuring a drawing at center by longtime Portland musician/artist Sean Croghan. The Blue Gallery was a punk/rock club and art gallery run by Tim Brooks in NW Portland for a few years, circa 1989-1990.

Condition: Very Good, with six areas of staple holes from being stapled on a telephone pole, otherwise surprisingly very clean.
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An oversized tour poster for Tuxedomoon, the pioneering post-punk, new wave (no wave) band that formed in San Francisco in 1977. They signed with The Residents' label Ralph Records and released their first album in 1980. The band also appeared in and is on the soundtrack of the cult NYC film "Downtown 81" starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, which also included cameos by many New York icons such as Debbie Harry, John Lurie and Fab 5 Freddie. Tour dates noted on the poster include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver BC, Seattle, Chicago.....
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An early Portland punk flyer from 1978 featuring The Wipers and King Bee, with a plea on the poster to help save/pay the rent at the short-lived New Arts Center, which hosted punk shows in Portland for only about two months.

Condition: Near Fine, light toning to paper.
Item #1256

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