1.
AVENGERS, Controllers, The Urge.
San Francisco: 330 Grove St.
18 May [1979].

11 x 8 ½ inches. The Avengers would play only six more shows after this one, their last performance being on the 23rd of May at the Mab.
$40

2.
BAD BRAINS.
[San Francisco]: Elite Club.

8 ½ x 14 inches. I imagine this was a fan creation. I knew kids who would make and distribute their own flyers for shows, just wanting to share their enthusiasm for greatness. Bad Brains played a number of shows at the Elite Club, so difficult to assign this one to a specific date.
$30

3.
BAD BRAINS, Lewd, Wasted Youth, Crucifix, Code of Honor, Vicious Circle.
San Francisco: Elite Club.
5 March [1982].

14 x 8 ½ inches. An amazing lineup of some really aggressive bands. I can’t imagine there was much left of the club, or the attendees, by the time Bad Brains hit the stage.
$75

4.
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN.
Belle and Sebastian Write about Love.
NY: Matador Records, 2010.

17 x 11 inch two-sided poster. One horizontal fold, else fine. Promotional poster for their eighth album. On the verso are two short prose pieces, “The Hum of the Cosmos” and “School in June.”
$25

5.
BLACK FLAG.
[San Francisco]: Mabuhay.
[1980].

11 x 8 ½ inches. Classic work by Raymond Pettibon featuring two signature elements: police, Patty Hearst and the SLA.
$250

6.
BLACK FLAG.
[San Francisco]: On Broadway.
[1982].

11 x 8 ½ inches. Hippies. Another classic from Pettibon. His caption reads, “if you’re really Christ, why don’t you raise Janie?”
$200

7.
CABARET VOLTAIRE. Sluggin’ Fer Jesus.
[San Francisco]: Rough Trade.
[1981].

16 ½ x 13 inches. Spectacular poster promoting this EP, issued originally in Belgium. Designated “Trade One 12” but it’s really 121.
$200

8.
CAGE/CUNNINGHAM.
San Francisco: Roxie Cinema.
1992.

16 x 10 ¼ inches. Light wrinkle along top edge, else fine. Promotional poster for the West Coast theatrical premiere of Elliot Caplan’s film, a portrait of John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s fifty-year collaboration.
$75

9.
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Spot 1019.
San Francisco: I-Beam.
28 December [1987].

Single sheet (7 x 4 ¼ inches, closed). Interior blank, additional shows printed on the verso: Revolting Cocks, fIREHOSE, Meat Puppets, John Cale & Chris Spedding.
$20

10.
CHROME. Half Machine Lip Moves.
San Francisco: Siren Records.
[1979].

16 x 20 inch poster by Damon Edge for insertion into copies of Chrome’s third LP. Two old folds (as issued), else very near fine.
$45

11.
THE CLASH.
San Francisco: Warfield Theatre.
1 & 2 March [1980].

5 ½ x 8 ½ inches. The first of nine US shows in support of the London Calling LP, the cover of which I saw at an older kid’s house, providing my intro to punk rock. Before this show, Joe Strummer insisted the first two rows of seats be removed from the theatre to allow for dancing.
$45

12.
EASTERN FRONT.
Berkeley: Acquatic Park.
25 & 26 July [1981].

17 x 9 ½ inches. Poster designed by Pepe Moreno. The first “Day on the Dirt,” nicknamed after the monster Bill Graham “Day on the Green” concerts held at the Oakland Coliseum. I remember my little league coach telling us, “I don’t want you smoking the turf at the Day on the Green this weekend,” an admonition I found hilarious.
$50

13.
EASTERN FRONT.
Berkeley: Acquatic Park.
31 July [1982].

16 x 9 ½ inches. Randy Tuten designed this poster for an epic day of punk rock at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park. Check out Husker Dü tucked down in the lower corner..
$50

14.
THE ENGLISH BEAT, Joe “King” Carrasco.
San Francisco: The Cinema.
3 & 4 November [1982].

17 x 11 inches. One of the best English Beat flyers I’ve encountered, using the Beat’s “Go Feet” logo to excellent effect.
$75

15.
FEAR, Pariah.
San Francisco: On Broadway.
18 June [1983].

14 x 8 ½ inches. One of a number of Pariah-produced flyers and good on ’em. Fear’s lead singer, Lee Ving, appeared in Flashdance (1983), which was weird. Note Pariah’s recycling of collage elements in item #20 (below).
$30

16.
[FRITH, Fred].
STEP ACROSS THE BORDER.
San Francisco: Roxie Cinema [1990].

16 ½ x 11 inch poster. Fred Frith is the subject of this documentary film by Nicholas Humbert and Werner Penzel.
$75

17.
GANG OF FOUR, Translator.
San Francisco: Kabuki.
5 September [1982].

8 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Touring to support their third album, “Songs of the Free” which featured, “I Love a Man in a Uniform.”
$25

18.
GIRLS AT OUR BEST!
[Leeds + San Francisco]: Record Records/Rough Trade.
[1980].

13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Promotional poster for Girls at Our Best!’s second single, released on their own label (RR2). While this was distributed in the UK as RT055, it marks the debut of Rough Trade US.
$50

19.
GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE.
San Francisco: Old Waldorf.
17 October [1982].

5 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Touring to support “The Message” which, in 2002, was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registery.
$50

20.
PARIAH, Personality Crisis.
San Francisco: On Broadway.
18 August [1983].

14 x 8 ½ inches. On discogs I found this bit of history, a pity not to share, “Pariah soon graduated to weeknight shows at the Mabuhay Gardens (downstairs from the On Broadway -ed) where the malicious soundman regularly introduced the band as ‘Piranha’ and when he did pronounce the name correctly he would ask the audience ‘isn’t that a gum disease?’”
$30

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