timothyripley wrote:electrachrome wrote:I honestly don't fully understand the Pollock obsession (beyond the flip factor). He hasn't made a GREAT Phish poster since 2003 (and one could reasonably argue since he departed from his two color hand pressed prints 10 years ago).
Too bad the masses were spoiled with a run of consistently great posters back in the day when not every show had a print made for it.
quality > quantity.
This is a decent gig poster.
I disagree, Pollocks alpine prints from last year were some of his best work IMO, right up there with the astron
I will concede that they where his best posters in quite a while. I would put them on par with Camden 2003.
I don't want to beat up on Jim, it's just the blind love of his work that I find annoying.
getting back to this weekends Methane poster here, it was pointed out on PhishPosters that there may be a number of song references embedded in the poster. lyrics to
Light are the most obvious, but the Blat/Boom could be
Wilson and the pig a reference to
Guyute. First reports in from the show are that they sold some pre-show outside the gate and the poster has metallic silver in it.