In the world of concert posters some good examples of memorabilia are punk flyers, telephone pole posters, early mimeograph handouts, one-color flyers. Extending out from concert posters you might get into ticket stubs, stage used setlists, performer or venue contracts, menus from famous clubs, clothing and instruments...
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Family of Leadbelly Preserves Legacy of the Blues Legend, museum and music archive to open
by Eron Edgemon, Murfreesboro Post 9/7/08
The organization dedicated to preserving the music of legendary blues and folk musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, hopes to have a music archive and museum open in Murfreesboro within five years...
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Blues Legend B.B. King Opens Museum in Mississippi Hometown
by Randy Lewis, LA Times 9/8/08
Listen to what the blues master has to say about the $15-million museum bearing his name that's slated to open Saturday in the small Mississippi Delta town where he sweated for a few cents a day picking cotton nearly eight decades ago.
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Art Of Rock Poster Collecting
by Jacob Grossi, ConcertPosterArt.com, 2001
In recent years the field of concert poster art has expanded greatly, leaving many collectors to wonder just what is an original concert poster. Sadly, the most significant and true to form material is often getting buried in the masses of colorful oversized commercial posters, unauthorized posters, and reprinted material...
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Collecting Vintage Newspaper Concert Ads
by Jacob Grossi, ConcertPosterArt.com
ConcertPosterArt.com has one of the largest collections or music related vintage newspaper advertisements in the world, featuring many items which simply do not exist any other collection. In the past few years we have supplied ads to many reasearchers, biographers...
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History Of Concert Posters As Merchandise
by Jacob Grossi, 2008, ConcertPosterArt.com
Bill Graham was perhaps the first person the capitalize on the concert poster as a combined promotional and merchandising tool. Prior to Bill Graham, concert posters were for the most part strictly a promotional tool.
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Collecting Original Punk Rock Flyers
by Jacob Grossi, ConcertPosterArt.com 2008
Punk flyers were the perfect piss off, in your face response the psychedelic era posters of the 1960's. Printing was done on zerox machines, photo-offset, or offset for larger shows. Ranging in style from cut and past ransom-note collages to the handrawn images of Raymond Pettibon, Pushead and...
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How Music Memorabilia Trades Work and How To Benefit
by Jacob Grossi
Having a good working knowledge of trades will further your collecting goals and increase the investment potential of your collection. While in the long run, you may be after certain posters, you begin to see the value in buying any poster or handbill you can get at a reduced price.
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Rarity Desirability and Value of Collectibles
by Jacob Grossi, ConcertPosterArt.com 2008
A common question we often get both in our retail location and online is how do you asses the value of a given piece of memorabilia be it a concert poster, handbill record, guitar pick or anything for that matter. One thing...
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Lasting Benefits of Posters As Advertising
by Jacob Grossi, ConcertPosterArt.com, 2001
These days, concert promoters often don’t publish a high quality poster to advertise their events. They know that newspaper and radio ads are very effective, and many stick to these formats exclusively. What is often not taken into account is that both newspaper and radio ads are a time limited exposure...
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ConcertPosterArt.com Music Memorabilia Collector Resources and Related Links
The following is a list of concert poster and music memorabilia related websites and resources, as well as links to friends, family and local merchants to check out while visiting our retail location...
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Memorabilia Rocks Entepreneur Jerry Gladstones Bottom Line
by David Lieberman, USA TODAY 7/14/08
Last week, Christie's in London attracted the second-highest price yet for a piece of pop memorabilia — and nearly four times more than expected — when it auctioned the drumhead featured on the cover of The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, for 541,250 British pounds, or $1.1 million.
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Jimi Hendrix Burnt Guitar Expects Millions At Music Memorabilia Auction
by 7/18/08
Hendrix's 1965 Fender Stratocaster, which was famously set alight on stage during a performance at London's Finsbury Astoria in 1967, is going under the hammer with other historic artifacts from the world of music.
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James Brown Memorabilia to be Auctioned at Christies
by Rod Carter 7/17/08
James Brown may be gone, but he’s certainly not forgotten. Items once owned by The Godfather of Soul are scheduled to be auctioned off Thursday, July 17th in New York.
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Deadheads Dream For A Campus Archive: Grateul Dead Archives Donated University of California Santa Cruz
by Jesse McKinley, New York Times 2/4/08
The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part of a research center to be known as Dead Central...
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Wolfgangs Vault Expands It's Lock on All Thing Rock With Purchase of Assets From Tom Moffatt Productions
by Market Wire, August, 2006
Wolfgang's Vault, the world's premier online site for live rock concert performances and memorabilia, announces its acquisition of memorabilia and merchandise from Tom Moffatt Productions. Included in the purchase were all intellectual property...
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Who Are You: Photographers, Poster Artists and collectors clash over copyright law
by Todd Inoue
To some dedicated music-history buffs, this amounts to rock & roll treason. To rabid collectors, this is a dream score come true. To memorabilia dealers, it's stiff competition. And to photographers, it's a gross cash-out they won't benefit from. The brouhaha brewing with the photographers is familiar to some old-school concert-poster creators, who went through a similar bout of shock when Wolfgang's Vault...
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New Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Celebrates Graphic Art Tradition of Hatch Show Print
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print” will open at the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle Oct. 11...
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Punk Posters Paved The Way For Graphic Arts Career
by Erica Saelens, 10/11/02 Business Journal
Great article on Mike King, the unsung anti-hero of the thriving Portland Oregon concert poster scene.
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Woodstock Museum Opens In Bethel New York
by 5/29/08
With the June 2 opening of The Museum at Bethel Woods, old hippies and a new generation of culture lovers will experience the grooviness of Woodstock in film, photos and a collection of memorabilia. The 6,728-square-foot museum features 20 films, 164 artifacts and more than 300 photo murals of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Please visit our retail location, Burlington Records, at 170 Bank Street in Burlington, VT. Open 11am to 9pm everyday. ALWAYS BUYING, SELLING, TRADING...We work with clients worldwide. ConcertPosterArt.com is an archive and database website featuring one of the world's top collections of original concert posters and memorabilia. All material is personally selected and verified by lifelong collector and archivist Jacob Grossi. LIFETIME GUARANTEE OF AUTHENTICITY ON EVERY ITEM WE SELL. Phone 802-881-0303
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Concertposterart.com is the concert poster and music memorabilia division of Burlington Records. We are Vermont's premier vinyl record store, featuring the area's most diverse selection of LP's and 45's and New England's largest collection of original concert posters and music memorabilia for sale. All items listed as for sale can be viewed at our retail location. We have been serving the online concert poster community since 1997. We have over 50,000 different original concert posters, handbills, flyers, and vintage ads in our permanent collection. Jazz, punk, psychedelic, country, bluegrass, jamband rock and roll, folk, soul, gospel and every genre in between.
This site represents what is undoubtedly one of the largest collections of original concert posters and handbills ever amassed, and includes thousands of pieces not documented anywhere else. Among other major collections, the archive includes the largest collection of Portland Oregon telephone pole posters in the world, going back to about 1978.
The entire collection is unlikely ever to be completely databased, not only due to sheer volume, but also because the collection is in a constant state of growth. We are adding new material, both for sale and not for sale, on a weekly basis. While we have one of the largest and most unique collection of concert posters for sale, the site also lists many items which are in our permanent collection and are not currently available for sale.
Though we do stock some fillmores and silkscreens, our main focus is on those items which were actually used to advertise the concerts: telephone pole posters, punk flyers, vintage newspaper ads, etc. These official but non-merchandise ephemera pieces are typically the hardest to find as they were not items that were not produced and sold as merchandise. The posters were used to advertise on telephone poles and store windows, then often discarded or destroyed by the elements.
We only carry original and officially approved material printed prior to the event advertised. Poster and music memorabilia collectors are welcome to contact us to authenticate their material or for appraisal and consultation services.
