Rolling Stones Tour 12 Fairey

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Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:57 am

Picked this up last night at the Brooklyn show. There was an outdoor merch table and you could buy this without a ticket. For the upcoming Newark NJ shows i'll bet you can do the same thing. They had heavy cardboard envelopes to keep them in. Gary Clarke Jr. joined the Stones for a song, he isn't the 2nd coming of Jimi Hendrix as some claim, but he sure can play the blues!
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:08 pm

tired artist + tired band = perfect!
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:28 pm

was it really $300? :shock:
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:41 pm

ejg904 wrote:was it really $300? :shock:

Yup, three hundy, there was also a S/N litho of the new album cover by the Stones art director Walton Ford for $300, I didn't groove to that one at all.
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:12 pm

Browntrout wrote:
ejg904 wrote:was it really $300? :shock:

Yup, three hundy

And here I thought $800 tix were retarded
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:28 pm

That's the best design he could come up with? And a run of 1000? Lame. Definitely not worth the $300 in my opinion. Jeeze, it's their 50th anniversary. Certainly should have been worth some extra effort.
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:34 pm

Maybe Stones mgt. had his hands tied?
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:34 pm

thebends9 wrote:
Browntrout wrote:
ejg904 wrote:was it really $300? :shock:

Yup, three hundy

And here I thought $800 tix were retarded

OMG really $300? WOW run of 1000. I wouldnt pay $30 for this. Just look at the Rollins prints edition of 1200 better looking print IMO

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Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:36 pm

aahnutz wrote:That's the best design he could come up with? And a run of 1000? Lame. Definitely not worth the $300 in my opinion. Jeeze, it's their 50th anniversary. Certainly should have been worth some extra effort.

My guess is he had didn't have free reign, & had constraints from the band.
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:44 pm

he should have just found an image he liked from the AP.

what could go wrong?
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 2:14 pm

ejg904 wrote:he should have just found an image he liked from the AP.

what could go wrong?
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Maybe Ernie Cefalu and/or John Pasche should get co-credit for this poster?

Seriously, why hire an artist like Fairey if you're going to dictate the design? I'm sure another graphic artist could have done the job just as well.
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Sun Dec 09, 2012 2:41 pm

Lorraine, we are agreeing on something....suddenly I am beginning to fear 12/21/12, haha!
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Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:18 am

I drove eight hours (each way) for this show and could not bring myself to buy the poster.

Sure the design has minimal creativity going on, but I could have talked myself into maybe $75. No way at $300.

I think the dramatically overpriced tickets helped sell a lot of merch though. There's the drop-in-the-bucket mentality, combined with the "If I'm paying this much for a ticket I'm definitely walking out of here with a t-shirt" thing.

To think they'll make $600,000 off of two 1,000 run posters is crazy. And testament to Jagger the businessman I guess.
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