No reply from the facilitator asking permission to post this here. I'll delete it immediately upon request, with request for your forgiveness. Considered the "General" circle but all the hardware subject are so boring (with all due respect)...
Someone I know owns one of the most complete collections of music act posters (about 250 pieces), including every noteworthy act from 1966-1978. Included are both the more common psychedelic art and the earlier “boxer posters” (white background with large black block text ala fight posters). In many cases the music personality signed the poster in the owner’s presence. Many are uncut proofs; most in museum quality condition. Pictures of similar posters are in U. S. history books including H.S. textbooks.
The posters are in four major categories:
Jazz
Rock
The British Invasion
Blues (folk, bluegrass, country, early Dylan, etc.)
Besides the more obvious artists, included among other rarities are:
Muddy Waters
Sparrow, later Stepenwolf
The Warlocks, later The Grateful Dead
The Charlatans, later Dan Hicks (and His Hot Licks)
The Golliwogs, a H.S. act, later Creedence Clearwater
Sons Of Champlain, keyboardist later a principal starting Chicago
Al Kooper, later started Blood Sweat and Tears pre-David Clayton Thomas
Huey Lewis the regular act at Uncle Charlie’s in Corte Madera, CA, later Huey Lewis And The News
Etc.
There are posters representing almost unbelievable combinations of acts, something akin to Rachmaninoff with Eminem (well, not quite that weird but you get the gist).
The owner plays congas and blues harp, witnessed all or most of the acts, has first hand information of the poster’s making, and has fine details for each poster and its associated act. His food charity exhibit in IL was scheduled for ten days but it was extended to three weeks because of demand.
How far might you travel to see the posters in a nice gallery with either live or recorded spoken presentation plus high-quality music playback of various poster acts? (I realize many of the original recordings are not so good or worse.) What is an appropriate ticket price? Would the opportunity to view about twenty of the posters increase your likelihood of visiting a high-end audio vendor’s show booth? How much increase? What is an appropriate ticket price to eat wine/cheese and view all or most of the posters with a demo of great audiophile gear and world-class arch top and flat top guitars played by great musicians? (I realize the guitarists and audio rooms need acoustical isolation.)
I fondly remember viewing a moderate number of similar posters at a Santa Rosa, CA high-end audio-video store (long gone).
Many thanks!
