Holy Grails! If you got 'em, let us see!!!

mfc2006

1998 Kansas City

i'm still floored that it's actually on my wall. several friends on this board banded together to get it for me. i can't say thanks enough...

mookeywrench

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

why are 98 posters so hard to find?

They weren't seen as collectibles. People hung them up on their walls with pin tacs or just folded them up...treated them like any other college-dorm room poster.

bobasfeet

Yeah was lucky to score my first 10c poster from here in 98 .. rushmore!

Hussa

That's so dope, man! Congrats!!

hrd2imgn

they made very limited editions of 1998 posters

editions ranged from 1000, to 500, to 350, a few with less, a few with more....and they were actually good posters as well.

that Alpine valley 98 evaded me for years, I finally got lucky this year, although it is signed right in the front of the print by Frank Black...so fucking what!

Think of everything is being limited now and what a bitch/cluster it is getting the stuff like vinyl and posters, well it was pretty much like that for all the 98 posters. It wasn't an obsession like it is now. I remember seeing the Alpine poster at the show and passing since it was just a fucking poster and I would rather have a t-shirt (insert sound of me hitting my head against a wall). I had 40 bucks for merch and a t-shirt was really what I wanted!

LeatherMosquitoMan

mfc2006 wrote:

1998 Kansas City

i'm still floored that it's actually on my wall. several friends on this board banded together to get it for me. i can't say thanks enough...

I know the feeling. I came home today and my wife had it hanging on the wall right inside our front door. I got this huge grin!

LeatherMosquitoMan

hrd2imgn wrote:

they made very limited editions of 1998 posters

editions ranged from 1000, to 500, to 350, a few with less, a few with more....and they were actually good posters as well.

that Alpine valley 98 evaded me for years, I finally got lucky this year, although it is signed right in the front of the print by Frank Black...so fucking what!

Think of everything is being limited now and what a bitch/cluster it is getting the stuff like vinyl and posters, well it was pretty much like that for all the 98 posters. It wasn't an obsession like it is now. I remember seeing the Alpine poster at the show and passing since it was just a fucking poster and I would rather have a t-shirt (insert sound of me hitting my head against a wall). I had 40 bucks for merch and a t-shirt was really what I wanted!

yeah. I was the exact same way in 1998. And i lost that fucking yueld tour shirt too. Gun to my head, i'm taking the poster first, every time.

LeatherMosquitoMan

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

why are 98 posters so hard to find?

Go through anyone's holy grail that's a poster, and i'd say a high percentage are from 1998. That year was also a LOT of people's first shows... and with such limited copies, now that posters are relevant and collectors items, pretty much any copy of any poster belongs to someone that actually wants it.

peacefrompaul

mookeywrench wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

why are 98 posters so hard to find?

They weren't seen as collectibles. People hung them up on their walls with pin tacs or just folded them up...treated them like any other college-dorm room poster.

I got a '98 poster from 2-feign-reluctance that was apparently hung in a college dorm. So I am carrying on its legacy and it is hanging in my college dorm.

AfghanTwilight

I'd just like to put out a word of caution to anyone finally getting their holy grail poster: Do not let it sit in an ill-suited frame for too long. Humidity and such will get to it and create waves in the print. It's best not to sit on true glass, though plexi isn't as much of a concern.

LeatherMosquitoMan

AfghanTwilight wrote:

I'd just like to put out a word of caution to anyone finally getting their holy grail poster: Do not let it sit in an ill-suited frame for too long. Humidity and such will get to it and create waves in the print. It's best not to sit on true glass, though plexi isn't as much of a concern.

The frame i currently have it in (as you see in the pictures), lol, is a $16 frame from target. It's just something to keep in protected until next payday when i'm going to order a custom made frame for it that fits perfectly.

It'll be plexi, i don't have ANY frames with glass.

Thanks for the heads up though.

MattCam420

imalive wrote:

LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:

MattCam420 wrote:

That is a really cool poster! Congrats. My holy grail is Dallas 98 poster, one of my favorite shows that I attended. I will never get that damn poster

Also, the MSG II Donkey Kong. When I got to the merch booth they were all gone :( I got the ramones and buzzsaw shirt however.

Once again, awesome poster man!

Never say never. I had begun to think that way about this one, and i'd only seen it on ebay maybe 3 times in 5 or 6 years. And everybody on ebeans with it never wanted to sell.

Just be patient.... there'll be one out there, somewhere, eventually. I literally checked ebay every single day for the past 6 months. And one day, there it was.

agreed....it'll turn up if you're willing to pay the going rate



the donkey kong, I wouldn't think would be too tough...

Awesome! I should have gotten that poster at the show but the merch store across the street was like a mile long. All out when I got up to it :( Did you get it at the show? Still my favorite show I have attended because Yield is my all time favorite record.

Glad people are getting their holy grails though, very cool. Maybe one day I will. Thanks for sharing your collections.

Damiens

Talking about people using the 98 posters as dorm posters. When I moved dorms had both my 98 Denver and 98 St.Loius "dry matted" at a local art shop. Still have them to this day, seemed like such a good idea at the time...

jason_94

I just got mine a couple of weeks ago. I took it to American Frame today and I will hopfully have it before the weekend.

Then, I just have to figure out how to get pictures of it on here !

AfghanTwilight

I've got a 98 KC with staple marks in all corners. Not my doing, but not the poster's undoing either. Was not my holy grail, but I thought i'd point out that corner holes don't ruin a poster if you're going to matte/frame it. Don't let imperfections stop you from getting the print you want most at a reduced price.

Dirty Stuart

AfghanTwilight

Is that a real Reenk Roink?

defsteve

Have an original Pearl Jam Mookie Blaylock shirt given to us by Kelly Curtis in the offices of Curtis Management in '91. Also he gave us official Pearl Jam, Curtis Management and Alice In Chains business cards (as well as letting us watch the 'Alive' video on a HUGE TV and giving us a lot of other stuff).

And a setlist/ticket from the Borderline show in '92.

LeatherMosquitoMan

defsteve wrote:

Have an original Pearl Jam Mookie Blaylock shirt given to us by Kelly Curtis in the offices of Curtis Management in '91. Also he gave us official Pearl Jam, Curtis Management and Alice In Chains business cards (as well as letting us watch the 'Alive' video on a HUGE TV and giving us a lot of other stuff).

And a setlist/ticket from the Borderline show in '92.

I'm curious about the Mookie shirt. I was talking to Dave Krusen a while back and he said that the 5 of them were given shirts, but there were only 5. Surely it's not the same shirt and there were re-productions? I think he said it was long sleeved? Either way, i'd like to see what it looks like? Photo?

So you worked for the band back then eh? That must've been pretty cool!

defsteve

LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:

defsteve wrote:

Have an original Pearl Jam Mookie Blaylock shirt given to us by Kelly Curtis in the offices of Curtis Management in '91. Also he gave us official Pearl Jam, Curtis Management and Alice In Chains business cards (as well as letting us watch the 'Alive' video on a HUGE TV and giving us a lot of other stuff).

And a setlist/ticket from the Borderline show in '92.

I'm curious about the Mookie shirt. I was talking to Dave Krusen a while back and he said that the 5 of them were given shirts, but there were only 5. Surely it's not the same shirt and there were re-productions? I think he said it was long sleeved? Either way, i'd like to see what it looks like? Photo?

So you worked for the band back then eh? That must've been pretty cool!

Nah we were on holiday. Had been in touch with Curtis Management previously because loved Mother Love Bone. We were on holiday in Vancouver and went up to Seattle for a few days. Kelly said there were only 12 shirts made and gave us one.....as he knew we were big followers/fans. It is short sleeved and has 10 Club on the back. This was in October 1991.