Dark Star Orchestra – Firehouse Goldenvoice Series reaches 100. Chuck Sperry and Dave Hunter poster goodness

WOW Chuck and Dave really killed it with this weekend.

From Chuck :

The Firehouse Goldenvoice Series of posters has reached number 100, with the promise of the next 100 posters and a bright future for the series ahead.

Many Thanks to David Lefkowitz for commissioning 100 posters for Goldenvoice, and making all this possible.

That’s why this pivotal poster includes numbers 100 and 101 in one piece designed and printed by Chuck Sperry and Dave Hunter.

The band on the poster is the Dark Star Orchestra, who recreate the music of the Grateful Dead. Dark Star Orchestra gathers the tribe – really most of the same people, their children and friends - who inspired The Original psychedelic rock promoter Chet Helms to commission the very first modern rock posters by Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley and Victor Moscoso.

The venue is the Regency which occupies the very same room - then called the Avalon Ballroom - where Mr. Helms promoted the first Grateful Dead shows for his production company, the Family Dog. It seemed appropriate to end the first 100 and begin the next 100 right where it all started.

In fact, when Dave and I delivered the posters on Friday to The Regency, there was Stanley Mouse with easel and canvas – painting a Skull and Roses – right in the lobby.

The inspiration for the poster is the Grateful Dead song “Sugar Magnolia” with it’s follow through to “Sunshine Daydream.”

With much respect and appreciation to the roots of the modern rock art poster, and with “next-level” design and printing techniques, Dave Hunter and Chuck Sperry present 100-101 – a psychedelic thank you, a friendly rock and roll IOU to the masters of the past, and a cheerful iridescent / metallic good morning to the future.

Dark Star Orchestra at The Regency
April 23 and 24, 2010
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 100
Edition of 150
6 colors on archival cream paper
35″ x 23″

This Poster and it’s variants will be released at ChuckSperry.net and on Dave Hunter’s site at 12 noon PST on Monday, April 26, 2010.

There are 3 variants also

Speckled Egg Edition of 20 on white with reflective white flecks paper

Blue Wave Edition of 10 on blue with opalescent wave pattern paper

White Marble Edition of 10 on white marble paper

Check Chuck's website for pictures of the variants