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http://www.ConcertPosterArt.com

Welcome, one & all, to my addiction. I collect, buy, sell & trade counterculture event advertisements from all era's in hopes of preserving some angles of history which would otherwise be lost. What I look for in a poster or ad is that it is actually a piece of history. Something that really gives a feel of the era. Something that was there. These are the posters, handbills, flyers and ads that the promoter used to promote the events. This niche is historically the most valid and time tested. When you read a book about say, Portland's Crystal Ballroom or the Fillmore East, look and see what they use for reference. Among interviews and news you will find they also used the advertising posters handbills and newspaper ads as historical doucuments for their research, often giving details and a feel of the event which would otherwise be forgotten. Not all, but the vast majority of my auctions are advertisements for events. These are the standard 11x17 telephone pole posters, 8.5x11 flyers and 5.5x8.5 inch handbills. These are items that are printed by the promoter, venue, or group to promote the show. They are generally not printed as an art item, though many do an awesome job of reflecting the moods and styles of the times. As such, most of these posters are printed on paper stock so the promoter can get as many as possible for their advertising dollar. In most cases, this is material which would otherwise be lost, historical documents bound for the landfill.

So how do you know it's actually the real poster?

I have collected over 50,000 different pieces from reliable sources over the past 15 years. Many pieces I collected directly off the street. For material that's "before my time" I use reliable sources such as promo guys, promoters, artists, or others who collected at the time of the event. This website represents my life's work: a database of this material which collector's, archivists, and others are able to reference to for reasearch pieces. I keep one of every piece I sell in our permanent collection for reference, many are never offered for sale as we have only one. The truth of the matter is that even with todays technology, you cannot clone a piece of paper. You can make a damn good copy, but even with a 50x magnifying glass you can see it is not as sharp as the original. Beware that some concert advertisements were not printed in a high quality format to begin with, though most are very sharp and crisp with nice even halftones. As such, the only way to truly tell is to reference to a first printing, collected at the time of the event, which is where my collection and others like it come in. I have no interest in discrediting the historical documents I have 1000's of dollars into by placing fraudulant posters into the market. I do have a collection of fakes(as well as the names of people they came from), so they can be documented as such. We guarantee eveything we sell to be original, as stated.

The son of an antiques dealer, I was raised in Montana on punk rock and 1970�s AM Country, I rebelled during the late eighties and early nineties as a teenager in Seattle during the height of the Northwest Grunge Scene. I guess you always go back to your roots, and the Grateful Dead took me there�at age 16, I was �on the bus�. I began collecting concert posters in 1993.

In 1997, I launched www.ConcertPosterArt.com, one of the first concert poster and music memorabilia related sites on the web, to help connect with other collectors and begin selling and trading the excess material to support my habit and expand the collection; by 1998 it was a full-time job. In 2005, I opened Riverwalk Records in Montpelier Vermont, missing the face to face interaction with other collectors I so cherished in the pre-internet days. Currently this website represnts a small portion (currently over 4,000 documented pieces) of one of the largest concert memorabilia collections in the world with many pieces that simply do no exist elsewhere. Quite frankly, I have put every resource available to me on the table to work towards the preservation of the concert posters and music memorabilia represented in our database and, by extension, the vast culture it signifies. A work in progress I am constantly documenting more and more of the collection as well as aquiring new collections to document. ENJOY THE TRIP!

Jacob Grossi
http://www.ConcertPosterArt.com
(802)223-3334
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Item 10,000 Lakes Festival 03 Miller
Edition 1st
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Listed 2003-10-15
Member posterjunkie
Terms Cash or Trade
Price $20.00
Note original 1st printing

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Memberposterjunkie
Real Namejacob grossi
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Joined2003-08-27 00:00:00
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Last Sale2006-11-23
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