Welcome to Five Points Live! Poster Collection & Memorabilia Tour
Our walls are covered with posters and memorabilia, mostly from a broad range of musical genres encompassed by rock and roll, over 75 pieces in all. Some are originals, others are reproductions. They represent a lot of our favorite artists, and many are from shows and festivals we've attended. We don't collect as an investment; rather, we take pleasure being surrounded by such fun stuff, and we delight in sharing this diverse, colorful and intriguing collection of memorabilia with folks who visit our home and attend Five Points Live! House Concerts. Enjoy! (We'll add more posters soon...)
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POSTER: Woodstock Poster - Second Edition, Signed
ARTIST: Arnold Skolnick
SIGNED: Arnold Skolnick, Grace Slick, Richie Havens
SHOW DATE: August 15 - 17, 1969
VENUE: Yasgur's Farm, Bethel, NY
The Woodstock festival was held in August 1969 and is the most famous rock festival in history. Woodstock attracted more than 400,000 people, as well as all of the top bands of the era. The original location that the event was to be held was in Wallkill, New York, but four weeks before the date, the local zoning board banned the event. Sam Yasgur convinced his father, Max, to allow the event to be held on their 600-acre farm in Bethel, New York. David Byrd had already designed a poster for the Wallkill location, but the abrupt change of venue called for a new poster design. Arnold Skolnick was pressed into action and the result is this — the most famous rock poster there is. This Woodstock Poster is a SECON EDITION, signed in pencil by original poster creator Arnold Skolnick, Jefferson Airplane vocalist Grace Slick, and performer Richie Havens. Beautifully made exactly the way the original was, using seven hand-cut rubylith overlays, then silkscreened on smooth, heavy stock, Skolnick famously made this poster at his kitchen table on short notice with construction paper and scissors.
Print Variations: Original posters for the Woodstock Festival were printed in two sizes; this is the larger one 24″ x 36″. The 2nd printing is is on heavier paper than the original.
Value:
1st Printing - <>$4500
2nd Printing - $100-600
About Arnold H. Skolnick - Skolnick is an American graphic artist and book publisher asked to design a music and art fair poster. Skolnick's son Peter remembers watching his father cut the words and bird from paper. He also remembers his father trying different layouts. Skolnick was hired on a Thursday and delivered the poster the following Monday around 11am. Although much money has been made from Skolnick's symbol, he received only one royalty check of about $15. While Skolnick has won many awards and many of his design solutions have become famous, perhaps his 1969 and his 40th anniversary Woodstock posters are his most famous.
Our Story: This poster was purchased from "VROOM: Official Catalog of Rock and Roll," which I received in the late 1990s. Jacques Vroom was the founder of VROOM, the country's premier marketer of music memorabilia and merchandise at that time. I have not officially verified this piece but believe it to be authentic. Framing by Corey Hartman, Furthur Frames, www.furthurframes.com
More Stuff: My friend Michael Kimmel was at Woodstock and says: "I have very good memories of Woodstock. I was such a good boy that I also bought tickets, and saved the program! I drove up, found my friends, and even in the sea of people, I saw friends from high school. I still remember the entire line-up in order from Saturday night's concert, which was simply unparalleled for the rest of my life. (Sunday's more of a blur because I fell asleep at around 10 AM after the Airplane...)"
+Actual tickets: We found (on ebay) and framed a set of the original, un-used tickets to the Woodstock festival. These hang near the poster in the living room/performance space.
ARTIST: Arnold Skolnick
SIGNED: Arnold Skolnick, Grace Slick, Richie Havens
SHOW DATE: August 15 - 17, 1969
VENUE: Yasgur's Farm, Bethel, NY
The Woodstock festival was held in August 1969 and is the most famous rock festival in history. Woodstock attracted more than 400,000 people, as well as all of the top bands of the era. The original location that the event was to be held was in Wallkill, New York, but four weeks before the date, the local zoning board banned the event. Sam Yasgur convinced his father, Max, to allow the event to be held on their 600-acre farm in Bethel, New York. David Byrd had already designed a poster for the Wallkill location, but the abrupt change of venue called for a new poster design. Arnold Skolnick was pressed into action and the result is this — the most famous rock poster there is. This Woodstock Poster is a SECON EDITION, signed in pencil by original poster creator Arnold Skolnick, Jefferson Airplane vocalist Grace Slick, and performer Richie Havens. Beautifully made exactly the way the original was, using seven hand-cut rubylith overlays, then silkscreened on smooth, heavy stock, Skolnick famously made this poster at his kitchen table on short notice with construction paper and scissors.
Print Variations: Original posters for the Woodstock Festival were printed in two sizes; this is the larger one 24″ x 36″. The 2nd printing is is on heavier paper than the original.
Value:
1st Printing - <>$4500
2nd Printing - $100-600
About Arnold H. Skolnick - Skolnick is an American graphic artist and book publisher asked to design a music and art fair poster. Skolnick's son Peter remembers watching his father cut the words and bird from paper. He also remembers his father trying different layouts. Skolnick was hired on a Thursday and delivered the poster the following Monday around 11am. Although much money has been made from Skolnick's symbol, he received only one royalty check of about $15. While Skolnick has won many awards and many of his design solutions have become famous, perhaps his 1969 and his 40th anniversary Woodstock posters are his most famous.
Our Story: This poster was purchased from "VROOM: Official Catalog of Rock and Roll," which I received in the late 1990s. Jacques Vroom was the founder of VROOM, the country's premier marketer of music memorabilia and merchandise at that time. I have not officially verified this piece but believe it to be authentic. Framing by Corey Hartman, Furthur Frames, www.furthurframes.com
More Stuff: My friend Michael Kimmel was at Woodstock and says: "I have very good memories of Woodstock. I was such a good boy that I also bought tickets, and saved the program! I drove up, found my friends, and even in the sea of people, I saw friends from high school. I still remember the entire line-up in order from Saturday night's concert, which was simply unparalleled for the rest of my life. (Sunday's more of a blur because I fell asleep at around 10 AM after the Airplane...)"
+Actual tickets: We found (on ebay) and framed a set of the original, un-used tickets to the Woodstock festival. These hang near the poster in the living room/performance space.
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POSTER: Grateful Dead - A Swell Dance Concert - Original, First Printing
ARTIST: David Byrd
SHOW DATE: March 15 & 16, 1973
VENUE: Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, NY)
A Swell Dance Concert at the 18,000 seat Nassau Coliseum on Long Island was sandwiched between the Dead's successful tour of Europe in early 1972 and their release of Wake of the Flood in November, 1973. Missing from the lineup at these shows was original keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who had been absent from the band since the Continental tour in 1972. Pigpen, who was only 27 when he died on March 8, 1973, from liver disease brought on by hard living, was replaced by Keith Godchaux and wife Donna Jean on keyboard and vocals, respectively. This show was on bassist Phil Lesh's 33rd birthday.
Print Variations: The oversized poster was printed before the concert on very thin stock. It measures 25" x 38". The 2nd printing is on smooth opaque cover stock and has a Wolfgang's Vault notation in the lower right hand margin. It was printed in 2008 by the Bill Graham Archives LLC in a 500 copy run. This reprint measures 20 3/8" x 30 7/8".
Value:
1st Printing - $1,854
2nd Printing - $53
About David Byrd - As the exclusive designer for the Fillmore East, Byrd produced 11 posters for Bill Graham between 1968-71. With his architectural training, powerful linework and sense of dimension and balance, Byrd said his understanding of symmetry "... Led [me] right up to Art Nouveau. Add to that my LSD experiences, and it all connected up somehow." Byrd's credits include concert poster designs for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Grateful Dead, movie posters for Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, posters for The Pasadena Playhouse productions, cover art for TV Guide, and work for Warner Bros. Byrd also designed a poster for the Woodstock festival in its original location in Wallkill, New York, that was changed four weeks before the date, thus scraping his design for the one shown above.
Our Story: This poster was a gift from Cousins Mirandi and Eve Babitz, rescued from their childhood home on Wilton Place in Hollywood, when they moved their mother, Aunt Mae, out of that home.
More Stuff: From my friend, Abbott Wallis - "I grew up a couple of miles away from where they built the Coliseum, I think it’s being torn down now 😂. I used to ride my bike there before they built it and after they built it too. Thanks for bringing up a sweet memory."
From Cousin Mirandi - TBD
ARTIST: David Byrd
SHOW DATE: March 15 & 16, 1973
VENUE: Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, NY)
A Swell Dance Concert at the 18,000 seat Nassau Coliseum on Long Island was sandwiched between the Dead's successful tour of Europe in early 1972 and their release of Wake of the Flood in November, 1973. Missing from the lineup at these shows was original keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who had been absent from the band since the Continental tour in 1972. Pigpen, who was only 27 when he died on March 8, 1973, from liver disease brought on by hard living, was replaced by Keith Godchaux and wife Donna Jean on keyboard and vocals, respectively. This show was on bassist Phil Lesh's 33rd birthday.
Print Variations: The oversized poster was printed before the concert on very thin stock. It measures 25" x 38". The 2nd printing is on smooth opaque cover stock and has a Wolfgang's Vault notation in the lower right hand margin. It was printed in 2008 by the Bill Graham Archives LLC in a 500 copy run. This reprint measures 20 3/8" x 30 7/8".
Value:
1st Printing - $1,854
2nd Printing - $53
About David Byrd - As the exclusive designer for the Fillmore East, Byrd produced 11 posters for Bill Graham between 1968-71. With his architectural training, powerful linework and sense of dimension and balance, Byrd said his understanding of symmetry "... Led [me] right up to Art Nouveau. Add to that my LSD experiences, and it all connected up somehow." Byrd's credits include concert poster designs for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Grateful Dead, movie posters for Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, posters for The Pasadena Playhouse productions, cover art for TV Guide, and work for Warner Bros. Byrd also designed a poster for the Woodstock festival in its original location in Wallkill, New York, that was changed four weeks before the date, thus scraping his design for the one shown above.
Our Story: This poster was a gift from Cousins Mirandi and Eve Babitz, rescued from their childhood home on Wilton Place in Hollywood, when they moved their mother, Aunt Mae, out of that home.
More Stuff: From my friend, Abbott Wallis - "I grew up a couple of miles away from where they built the Coliseum, I think it’s being torn down now 😂. I used to ride my bike there before they built it and after they built it too. Thanks for bringing up a sweet memory."
From Cousin Mirandi - TBD
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POSTER: Psychedelic Beatles Mandala - Possible Artist Proof
ARTIST: ©1967 JOHNNY MILLER 7th St. Gang [for A Sirkia]
SIGNED: “33%” handwritten in ball-point pen in lower left
SIZE: 32¼ h × 32¼ w in screenprint on paper
SHOW DATE: n/a
VENUE: n/a
VALUE: A similar poster sold in 2019 for $780
This poster was a gift from Jeanne Morgan, step-mother of Maggie. Jeanne is an artist and was also involved with the underground newspaper the Los Angeles Free Press back in the day. The poster we have appears to be an artist proof, hence the “33%” notation in ballpoint pen in the lower left corner, likely instructions for the next printing. The black and white poster depicts the Fab Four with the mustaches they wore in 1967, the Sgt. Pepper era, much like photographs of them from that time period.
Print Variations: Several versions of this poster appear for auction on the web, in color, as blacklight posters. Some are square like ours, others are die-cut to be circular. Most note that the artist is “Miller” and the source of the poster is A SIRKIA; references to Sirkia include an old address: 6311 Yucca St, Los Angeles (in the heart of Hollywood), and it appears that A Sirkia offered a lot of other round and rectangular psychedelic poster art from the same era, 1967-1968.
Our Story: Jeanne Morgan is our source of several rare items from the 1960s, including a wood-bound art/comic book titled "FILIPINO FOOD" that is on display in the office/green room where Five Points Live! musicians relax before the show and which will be added to these listings at a later time.
ARTIST: ©1967 JOHNNY MILLER 7th St. Gang [for A Sirkia]
SIGNED: “33%” handwritten in ball-point pen in lower left
SIZE: 32¼ h × 32¼ w in screenprint on paper
SHOW DATE: n/a
VENUE: n/a
VALUE: A similar poster sold in 2019 for $780
This poster was a gift from Jeanne Morgan, step-mother of Maggie. Jeanne is an artist and was also involved with the underground newspaper the Los Angeles Free Press back in the day. The poster we have appears to be an artist proof, hence the “33%” notation in ballpoint pen in the lower left corner, likely instructions for the next printing. The black and white poster depicts the Fab Four with the mustaches they wore in 1967, the Sgt. Pepper era, much like photographs of them from that time period.
Print Variations: Several versions of this poster appear for auction on the web, in color, as blacklight posters. Some are square like ours, others are die-cut to be circular. Most note that the artist is “Miller” and the source of the poster is A SIRKIA; references to Sirkia include an old address: 6311 Yucca St, Los Angeles (in the heart of Hollywood), and it appears that A Sirkia offered a lot of other round and rectangular psychedelic poster art from the same era, 1967-1968.
Our Story: Jeanne Morgan is our source of several rare items from the 1960s, including a wood-bound art/comic book titled "FILIPINO FOOD" that is on display in the office/green room where Five Points Live! musicians relax before the show and which will be added to these listings at a later time.
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POSTER: New Riders of the Purple Sage @ Kenyon College
ARTIST: Unknown
SHOW DATE: Friday, October 7, 1977
VENUE: Wertheimer Fieldhouse, Kenyon College campus, Gambier, Ohio
I graduated from high school in Sylvania, Ohio, in 1977, and that Fall matriculated at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Although my eventual major was Anthropology/Sociology, if you'd asked my father he'd have remarked "Doug's majoring in concerts and radio." As this poster and story suggest, my dad was not too far off.
Soon after arriving on campus, I was offered the chance to help with the very first show of that school year, the New Riders of the Purple Sage. I worked load-in, and as a budding Deadhead was awestruck to be moving road cases that were still stenciled with Grateful Dead logos. I recall seeing their road manager, Spencer Dryden, who had previously played drums in Jefferson Airplane and New Riders. Later my job was to babysit the NRPS dressing room and guard the goodies that their contract rider required, including five cases of Heineken (4 light, 1 dark), and a bottle of Jack Daniels...most of which they didn't touch. I remember enjoying the show from the front row - Buddy Cage on pedal steel, Dave Nelson and Marmaduke (John Dawson) on guitars, with my camera in hand. See my photo of Nelson in the slide show above. After load-out, I headed home to my dorm in the wee hours with two six packs of beer, one light, one dark.
I didn't see the New Riders again for many, many years, but their influence on my musical tastes, which runs heavily toward alt-country, was shaped by my earliest exploration of the Dead, New Riders, Byrds, and the like. I went on to be Chair of the Social Committee, bringing to campus bands including Arlo Guthrie and Shenandoah, the Pat Metheny Group, and Dixie Dreggs...and beginning a lifelong interest in concert promotion.
More Stuff: The slide show to the right of the poster photo about features the following -
- Close-up of the NRPS iconic logo
- My photo of David Nelson, NRPS lead guitarist, taken at this show
- Front/Back Cover of "Who Are Those Guys" released in March, 1977
- Poster from NRPS @ Providence College, 10/11/77 - four days after they played Kenyon
- Front/Back(2) Cover of "Marin County Line" released in November, 1977
Line-up at this show:
John Dawson "Marmaduke" (vocals, guitar)
David Nelson (vocals, guitar)
Buddy Cage (pedal steel guitar)
Stephen A. Love (bass)
Patrick Shanahan (drums)
Video from 10/15/1977 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ - eight days after the show I saw - is here.
POSTER: The Clash "Take the Fifth"
ARTIST: Unknown SHOW DATE: Saturday, September 22, 1979 VENUE: Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, USA First semester of my junior year in college I spent doing an off-campus, urban studies program in Philadelphia. In addition to taking a couple of seminars, and using the city as my classroom while living with some fellow students in a big house in West Philly, the program featured an internship component. My interest in concert promotion (see above) led me to work for a promoter named Stephen Starr, mostly staffing his club "Stars" located at 2nd and Bainbridge Streets in South Philadelphia. I worked the door, sometimes ran lights, saw some memorable acts in that room including The Motels and Pat Metheny Group, and I also worked shows that Starr did in other locations. The Clash made their first full American tour that same Fall just before their seminal London Calling album was released, and Starr brought them to the Walnut Street Theater, the oldest theater in continuous operation in the new world. I was on the stage crew and on the side of the stage for most of the show, which was a good thing for my ears as the band was reputed to be bouncing 125 dB off the back wall of this venerable old room. This poster survives and even has a mysterious telephone number scrawled on it in my handwriting. Further research suggests that this venue was a substitute for an earlier one (The Tower Theater), and the 20 song setlist is said to be as follows: Safe European Home I'm So Bored with the USA Complete Control London Calling White Man In Ham Palais Koka Kola I Fought the Law Jail Guitar Doors The Guns Of Brixton English Civil War Clash City Rockers Stay Free Clampdown Police and Thieves Capital Radio Janie Jones Garageland Armageddon Time Career Opportunities White Riot **AUDIO of the entire show is here if you dare... |
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