When I lived in Northern California (1995-2004) I went to a bunch of shows at world renown venues in San Francisco such as The Fillmore and The Warfield. Just walking into these historic venues is like taking a trip to a rock museum. You can feel the history in the room. Above the main bar at The Fillmore, there are huge B&W photos of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin from their days playing the club. And nearly everywhere else hang diverse concert posters in varying styles--from the '60s acid freak stuff to today's smooth computer generated product. But the coolest thing was that these venues would simply hand you a free copy of the poster (nice quality paper)at the end of the night, on your way out the door, as an added souvenir. I still have several from shows featuring the likes of Gillian Welch, Elliott Smith, Jonathan Richman and Belle & Sebastian. They're nicely done.
Today's RTD had a story and accompanying slideshow about a Charlottesville company, Public Domain, that is making posters for events at Richmond clubs The National and Toad's Place Richmond. Of course, nothing is free here. You have to pay $10 to take one home, but that's not asking too much.
One local artist who should be considered for local music posters is Adam Juresko, who lives in Oregon Hill and has worked on album covers and other music related art. Here is an article by Brandon Reynolds at Style, after Juresko won a Mountain Dew art contest.
Now maybe if promoters and local organizers threw in a live bootleg CD documenting the concert, fed directly from the sound board, we'd have another little souvenir (how about poster and CD for $15? Anyone?)
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