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DESIGNER:

Geoff Cade

VENUE:

Freeway Hall

Seattle

USA

SUBMITTED BY:

Art Chantry

2003-03-19 11:46:42

BANDS:

Feelies, The

Feelies Poster - Freeway Hall, Seattle - Geoff Cade

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kozik :

your next Goodtimes.
Opration Enduring Boner.

2003-03-24 13:18:16

RichieGoodtimes :

How can we sleep when our beds are burning?

2003-03-24 13:08:18

kozik :

how can we linger over posters when children are dying?
NO POSTERS FOR BLOOD!

2003-03-24 12:59:29

art chantry :

i gotta correct a mistake i made in that last post. it was not 'the meices', it was "the meyce".
not that anybody really cares.

2003-03-24 12:44:44

art chantry :

the majority of these b&w things i'm posting are from very early seattle punk (wait til i figure out how to post color stuff!)
the early punk scene in the seventies was VERY small in seattle, pretty much centered around a handful of bands/enclaves:
the whiz kidz - a glam theater rock performance gay junky crazy scene that spawned the screamers, the lewd and a buttload of others. some of the posters i put up date all the way back to 1972. folks like gorilla rose, satz (aka satin sheets), rio de janeiro, cha cha samoa, tommy gear, and especially tomata du plenty, actually helped to establish punk nationally - even playing a role in the earliest part of the dolls/cbgb/ramones/LA scenes. as far as i can tell, tomata executed the earliest true classic 'punk' poster i've ever found.
the enemy - a band that was originally known as the fruitland famine band who arrived in seattle, went punk aand opened the very first punk club in seattle back in about 77.
telepaths (who strangely morphed into bands like ministry) lived communally and maybe put on the first punk shows in seattle ('75 - '74?) and put out the very first seattle punk record back in 75.
the mentors - need i say more
the meices (later the moberlys) who were headed up by a hustler name of jim basnight and sorta spawned the first power pop stuff ins seattle around 77.
the red dress/chinas comidas/johanna went/nu-vitations scene were more a style that erupted out of artgeeks who were into james brown and hung out at hippy tavern like the rainbow. they were the genesis of the scene that eventually became popllama and hooked into the rem/tupelo/muscianship scene
the feelies with geoff cade.
as far as i can decern, these folks were the beginning of classic punk in seattle as we know it today. they all produced great posters that completely befuddled the nw. keep in mind that this was before star wars or even saturday night fever. all of this stuff eventually morphed into the 'seattle scene' that became famous.
of course, this all ignores the early nw scene of the early 60's that spawned the sonics, the wailers, the kingsmen, louie louie, the raiders, etc. etc. this might have been the ORIGINAL source of american punk, but that's up for the historians to decide.
art

2003-03-24 11:20:52

KJ :

Art I'm so glad these were submitted. The stories behind them are so interesting. I cant imagine what Seattle would have been like in 1976.

2003-03-24 10:38:52

brian kroeker :

fantastic!

2003-03-24 10:09:24

art chantry :

this is from about '75 or '76. early EARLY nw punk. geoff cade suffered from a rapid mental illness, roamed the streets and quickly died. he was one of the folks who helped establish punk in seattle.

2003-03-24 08:36:39

perkins :

I'm drawn to the cheapness of this

2003-03-23 18:27:33