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Link:Poster artist: The Coliseum 'makes for good design'
By Sam McDonald | 247-4732
March 6, 2009
Printmaker Jim Pollock has been with Phish through all of the rock band's ups and downs, ins and outs.
The Chicago-based artist has been friends with the musicians all the way back to their early days as college students in Vermont.
Of course, he'll be in Hampton this weekend.
Pollock's posters have become treasured works of art among Phish fans. They commonly fetch hefty prices on the Internet among collectors. So Phish heads will be sprinting to the merchandise table in Hampton Coliseum this weekend to purchase his newest poster commemorating the long-awaited reunion of the band.
Pollock will also appear as a special guest at Phamily Reunion: Best Poster Convention III, an event happening at the Best Western Coliseum Inn & Suites in Hampton on Saturday. Advance tickets to that show are required.
Here's part of a conversation with Pollock recorded last week.
DP: I wasn't sure we'd ever see Phish at Hampton Coliseum again. What are you hearing about the mood of the band?
Jim Pollock: Everyone seems to be really pumped up about this. I've been talking to people in the band, my good friend Page [McConnell, keyboardist]. It sounds like they've been having a great time, getting back together and playing a lot. They've been rehearsing. It should be a great bunch of shows. I'm very psyched for this opening night.
DP: You did a poster for the final Phish show at Coventry, Vt. It said "Thank You." Was it hard to come back and create a new image after making that final statement?
Pollock: I assumed they would all continue to play and do solo stuff. I've done a few pieces for their solo acts. I've kept busy since they stopped in 2004. I was a little shocked that they came back, but I knew that one time or another they wanted to play together again. I rarely do come out to the Phish shows. I've occasionally come out to festivals they've put on to do some printing and stuff. Outside of that, this is the first time I'm made the trek for a Phish show in quite a long time.
DP: Is this your first time in Hampton?
Pollock: It is. I've never been to the Hampton Coliseum, or Hampton, Va., for that matter. I've heard good things. I guess you guys have a lot of like rock shows that come through. It's a premier rock stage. A lot of people have good memories.
DP: As an artist, what do you think of the design of the Coliseum?
Pollock: It's very unique. It makes for good design, the multicolored crown ... Artists like to pay tribute to these celebrated rock venues, like doing a poster for the Fillmore. With Hampton Coliseum you have something interesting and unique in the design of the building. It's very striking.
DP: How's the new Hampton poster coming along?
Pollock: I'm printing away. I've been doing a hand run. I'm lowering my carbon footprint. I've been doing a lot of hand pressing, with a press I have from the 19th century. It's an iron hand press. Just old-fashioned style. A lot of my runs are smaller, which is kind of unique because of Phish. They always move a lot of posters. It's been a rigorous couple of weeks of printing, but I'm getting through it. It will be nice to be done with it.
DP: It's an iron hand press?
Pollock: It would be like something you'd see Ben Franklin print on. It's a big plate that you roll the ink on then you ... pull the big lever and it presses down on the ink and the plate.
DP: Are colors tough to control in that kind of process?
Pollock: Yes. It isn't a perfect art. Every print is definitely unique. No two are alike. I try to keep as much consistency as possible. It's an inconsistent art, but I think people like that about it. Each one is slightly unique in that the registration might be slightly off. Or the orange might be a different orange, the red might be a different red.
DP: That dovetails well with Phish, since the band never plays the same show twice.
Pollock: Absolutely. We've always had a good symbiotic relationship on that level. The fans have always been great, very supportive of my work ... It's amazing when you are fueled by all these people buying your art work. You just keep printing.
DP: It's good for you seeing your work fetching big prices, but you don't usually get a cut of that right? How much will you be charging for your new Hampton piece?
Pollock: That's up to the vendors and the band management. But we usually keep it in the $50-$60 range. Affordable. They're not inexpensive. In between merchandise and fine art ... But we keep them within a reasonable amount.
DP: Did the band offer a lot of input on this new design?
Pollock: Not a lot. I always submit some ideas, then we go from ideas that are submitted. There wasn't too much oversight. They wanted another piece. Since I was doing hand press I wanted to make it more what I did in 1999 and 2000, which were done on book binding press. I kind of tried to do it within that style ... I'm sitting here looking at a bunch of them all drying on the floor of my studio. I'm pretty sick of looking at them, actually.
DP: Thinking back to those early days when you first heard Phish play, did you realize they had something special right away?
Pollock: Oh yeah, I always appreciated their music. I always liked what they were all about, all their influences which were lot of the same as mine '70s and '60s rock. They wrote very tightly organized music — which they were able to play. They've always been great musicians ... I can't remember what year it was, but it was an Aragon show at Chicago when I realized that suddenly the crowds were much larger and something seemed to be afoot in terms of their popularity. Up until then, when they came through Chicago, they crashed on my floor ... I do remember watching them with four or five other people at some gigs early on in Vermont. But they're much better now. ... Every time I saw them, when they would come through Chicago, there was marked improvement from the previous year. That's what happens when you practice a lot.
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