Personally I'm not a big fan of the doom and gloom subject matter like the skulls etc. I understand their place though as this is a rock band's posters. I like the cartoonish stuff because I wanna be able to hang it anywhere. Like this great piece which I have:
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I thought he only did 100 and destroyed most of them?
Roughly 100 were printed for this July 13, 2006 show at the Santa Barbara Bowl, and only 40-45 were sent to the promoter (Neiderlander) to be given to VIP's, and unless there is an unforeseen change of heart by Pearl Jam and their legal team, the balance of the posters (which Emek has) will never be offered for sale (this poster was commissioned by the promoter, not PJ).
So, were did the other ones end up, in the trash, or someplace else? Who knows.
Weird, showed up for me, now it's not. It's from expressobeans, and they have been having site issues for what seem like months now. Try refreshing, showing up again for me.
Expressobeans has been awful. Almost unusable which is a shame.
I am loving this thread. The debate/discussion and stroll down memory lane is quite informative.
So due to the rareness of this print, I don't think it comes up in the discussion quite as much, but the Emek Charlotte 96 print, were these sold at the show? It was my first show and I was very not hip to posters, but I don't recall seeing it, and I got the show specific shirt, as well as another No Code tour shirt that night. I even tore down some of those Jesse Helms posters they had up on the bleachers and had them for many years. But I digress..if the print wasn't sold at the show, and again, I'm not sure if it was or wasn't, how did posters work back then? How else would you obtain one? I think I first became aware of poster art as a thing in some of those mail order catalogs you could get for rock t shirts and memorabilia, that just also happened to feature some rock posters. I don't think most of them were going for much back in those days, but to a 16 year old kid, one of the now really classic ones that might have gone for $40-$50, that seemed like insane money at the time. Anyway, the Emek 96 is clearly a pretty iconic one, I saw a guy in Philly this year walking around with a t-shirt of that design. Not a ton of shirts have received that treatment, where they could work in another medium so well.
Pitt 13 is another personal fav for me, of shows I attended and prints I own. Of the Wrigley posters, no one ever talks about it, and it certainly wasn't my first pick, but when I got through the line the only thing they had left was the Munk One Hot Dog. I would have taken the alien over it, but ended up with that one. My buddy held on to them cause he was in the stands, yet during the rain delay, our posters still managed to get wet and a little damaged. It framed out nicely to where you can't even really tell, and I'll be damned if I don't love the thing today, damage and all. Everything about it just takes me back to that night, for better or worse. It hangs on my wall as a badge of honor of what I saw that night, and lived to tell the tale.
I too love the stories. I hope this thread keeps up, because it's a great conversation about the art and not just about buying and selling. And I think everyone's learning a lot too!!!
I was able to pick up the Munk One hot dog and it's extremely underated. I guess you either love a hot dog gangster squirting the word pearl jam on a wall with mustard or you don't. I think it's genius
I kind of took 'desirable' to mean 'has the highest demand'. In which case I'd agree. I think there's more people willing to drop more coin on the Kong & Crackerjack than anything else. That doesn't mean there isn't a market for the 90s posters, or that they would sell for less $$ than the Kong, but I think there's just less people wanting to buy those in terms of quantity.
I do like the Kong poster, because I'm from NY and I played Donkey Kong as a kid. Unless I suddenly came into a bunch of money, however, I'm not dropping $500 on one.
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I think it IS safe to say Lexington 16 won for the 2016 Spring tour. Demand for that one doesn't seem to be slowing. I personally love the print, but am somewhat surprised it's become so popular. I'm glad I finally got my Lexington 03 print last year so I don't have to sift through all the 16 print listings in my search.
I think the Kong (like most recent Ames posters) is overrated. They are like the Nickleback of poster producers (i.e., lets pick Transformers or Donkey Kong and the masses will go for it). They've figured out that all they need to do is put band members on the posters to sell it (Kentucky Six, Trieste 2014, Transformers NYC 2015, Mexico City 2015) and then make three variants of it. The masses love it but give me something actually creative by Sperry, EMEK, or Munk One any day.
These are my sentiments as well. I would add that I prefer a skull or skulls not be the focal point of the art, and that art is location inspired. I was at the two MSG shows in 2010. The Soto print was available in the main atrium an hour before the show..... the Donkey Kong was gone the next night. I would likely have purchased the second night print if it had been available, but I don't line up for hours for concert merchandise or pay exorbitant sums of money for $35 artwork
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So, were did the other ones end up, in the trash, or someplace else? Who knows.
Yeah 98s are simple and sweet.
Im partial to Sacto 98.
And I really like MSG 1 2016 (owl)
So due to the rareness of this print, I don't think it comes up in the discussion quite as much, but the Emek Charlotte 96 print, were these sold at the show? It was my first show and I was very not hip to posters, but I don't recall seeing it, and I got the show specific shirt, as well as another No Code tour shirt that night. I even tore down some of those Jesse Helms posters they had up on the bleachers and had them for many years. But I digress..if the print wasn't sold at the show, and again, I'm not sure if it was or wasn't, how did posters work back then? How else would you obtain one? I think I first became aware of poster art as a thing in some of those mail order catalogs you could get for rock t shirts and memorabilia, that just also happened to feature some rock posters. I don't think most of them were going for much back in those days, but to a 16 year old kid, one of the now really classic ones that might have gone for $40-$50, that seemed like insane money at the time. Anyway, the Emek 96 is clearly a pretty iconic one, I saw a guy in Philly this year walking around with a t-shirt of that design. Not a ton of shirts have received that treatment, where they could work in another medium so well.
Pitt 13 is another personal fav for me, of shows I attended and prints I own. Of the Wrigley posters, no one ever talks about it, and it certainly wasn't my first pick, but when I got through the line the only thing they had left was the Munk One Hot Dog. I would have taken the alien over it, but ended up with that one. My buddy held on to them cause he was in the stands, yet during the rain delay, our posters still managed to get wet and a little damaged. It framed out nicely to where you can't even really tell, and I'll be damned if I don't love the thing today, damage and all. Everything about it just takes me back to that night, for better or worse. It hangs on my wall as a badge of honor of what I saw that night, and lived to tell the tale.
I too love the stories. I hope this thread keeps up, because it's a great conversation about the art and not just about buying and selling. And I think everyone's learning a lot too!!!
I was able to pick up the Munk One hot dog and it's extremely underated. I guess you either love a hot dog gangster squirting the word pearl jam on a wall with mustard or you don't. I think it's genius
That doesn't mean there isn't a market for the 90s posters, or that they would sell for less $$ than the Kong, but I think there's just less people wanting to buy those in terms of quantity.
I do like the Kong poster, because I'm from NY and I played Donkey Kong as a kid. Unless I suddenly came into a bunch of money, however, I'm not dropping $500 on one.
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United Center Chicago IL 2003...Alpine Valley East Troy WI 2003...Toledo OH 2004...Marcus Amphitheater Milwaukee WI 2006
United Center Chicago IL Nite 1 2008...United Center Chicago IL Nite 2 2008...United Center Chicago IL Nite 1 2009
PJ20 East Troy WI Nite 1 2011...PJ20 East Troy WI Nite 2 2011...Wrigley Field Chicago IL 2013...iWireless Center Moline IL 2014
Bradley Center Milwaukee WI 2014...EV Auditorium Theatre Chicago IL Nite 1 2008...EV Chicago Theatre Chicago IL Nite 1 2011
EV w/ PT celebrating the Who Rosemont Theatre Rosemont IL 2015
6/26+27/98, 10/8/00 (IB), 6/21/03, 9/3+4/11 (PJ20) - East Troy
6/29/98, 10/9/00, 6/18/03, 5/16+17/06, 8/23+24/09, 8/20+22/16, 8/18+20/18, 8/29+31/24 - Chicago
6/6/03 - Las Vegas
10/5/04, 9/18/22 - St. Louis
6/29/06, 10/20/14 - Milwaukee
11/19/13 - Phoenix
4/26/16 - Lexington
Blackie is rare, not too sure it's the "best" though