A Very Happy New Year to Me!! (yeah, and you guys too)

As I mentioned just three posts ago, I collect rock art posters. Well, Thursday night I began ringing in the new year at the moe. concert in Asheville, NC. I saw the first of 3 shows that would be their 2005-2006 New Years bash series. It is ever so the jam band rage to put on a New Years gig(s). These usually stellar concerts are the must see shows by the dedicated fans. And the posters that are created for these shows can become the real collector items, particularly if the art work is well done. Well lookie what I got!! This is such a well done piece I can't even begin to tell you. This gem is signed and numbered by the artist, # 146 out of 400. Usually a lithograph is reprinted to about 1000 - 5000 depending on the popularity of the band. So 400 is a nice low number, making it all the more collectable (I do have a beautiful Dave Matthews litho signed and numbered at 200). This series was also embossed with the artist's logo. If this piece ever gets reordered for more printings it will not be signed or embossed. Nor is it likely that it would be a silkscreen, more probably a simple laser print, which means it wont have the texture or glitter to it. Another nicety that sets this piece apart is its size. A typical concert poster these days is sized at roughly 13" x 24". This stands at roughly 13" x 34". That sounds somewhat insignificant to a non-collector I'm sure, but the more a piece stands out in design or any other way will keep it being noticed on down the road over time. Now I just gotta find a frame that fits it. Click on the pic to see it in more detail! Oh yeah, the show... Some friends and I trucked up to cold-as-fuck Asheville, found our hotel then had dinner at a mexican restaurant (where I noticed a sign on the wall that read: Horje's Hot Sauce is now available for sale $4.95. Hence that post from 2 days ago), then we trudged 7 cold-as-fuck blocks to the venue. We managed to be about 10 feet from the stage for most of the show but then I needed some breathing room. Sadly the entire hall was packed elbow to elbow. Breathing room was a luxury that only those in their own bathroom stalls were going to find. The show was good, not stellar but good. 3 hours later when it was over we ventured down the now even coldER-than-fuck streets to a cool bar where we had Dark and Stormy's (2 oz Gosling's Dark rum 1 bottle Ginger beer 1 slice Lime and Ice) until last call.