BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Maximum Plunder: The Poster Art of Mike King is the story of a guy who was in the right place at the right time, more than once. From the birth of the Northwest Punk scene in the late 1970’s to 90’s Grunge and beyond, Mike has been doing his part to put butts in the seats for over four decades, making posters for hundreds of bands you have heard of and thousands you haven’t, becoming America’s most prolific concert poster artist along the way. Mike has made posters for a wide range of artists in a variety of genres, from Country to Punk, Free Jazz to Death Metal and Soul to Klezmer in a wide variety of visual styles. This book is the chronicle of obsession and a life misspent. In it’s 280 pages Maximum Plunder: The Poster Art of Mike King features nearly 1100 posters from 1978 to 2016, presented in lavish color and crappy black and white.
The Ultrasounds Collection is the result of one determined collector’s 35-year quest to relentlessly seek out the rarest and finest quality Pacific Northwest concert posters, accumulated in order to be archived and documented as a sort of library of music history. The posters in the collection were issued from the late 1970s through the early 2000s, with the bulk of the collection focused on the highly coveted and historically important musical period of 1985 - 1995. The majority of the posters in the collection were designed by legendary and highly-regarded artist Mike King, the most prolific poster artist of the era. King created 6000+ posters for artists including (but far from limited to) Nirvana, Motorhead, the Dandy Warhols, Anthrax, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. As telephone poles were the primary advertising method of bands performing in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980s, the untouched condition of this collection sets it apart from others more prone to showing the passage of time. Looking at these pieces instantly transports you back in time to the Grunge Era of the Pacific Northwest - nothing like it has ever been found.
TITLE: Maximum Plunder: The Poster Art of Mike King (Hardcover Book)
PRICE: $115.00 USD
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COVER: Hardcover
PAGES: 280 Full Color
SIZE: 9 x 12 x 1 inches
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HELP YOUNG MUSICIANS: Enjoy your original concert poster art while helping young musicians get started out right. RewindMemorabilia.com, which is operated by the Alternative Music Hall of Fame™ Foundation, is a not for profit organization that receives 25% of gross sales on each original poster sale from the UltraSounds Collection. The foundation allocates a large portion of the money from each poster to help fund mission work, which includes the Young Musicians Resource Center. The not for profit ranking organization’s acceptable and administrative costs are also paid from this 25%. More Information
ABOUT:
Many of the posters in the UltraSounds Collection that Rewind Memorabilia sells are from the legendary artist, Mike King, who was at the forefront of cutting-edge and compelling concert poster artwork designs throughout the Seattle and the Pacific Northwest region during the explosion of Grunge, but also crossed many different musical genres. His work has sold for over $10,000 at auction. He is considered one of the most sought after poster artists of his generation and many experts believe his posters will continue to continue to appreciate well as they have.
Oregon native Mike King has designed more than 5,000 concert posters, as well as dozens of album covers and ephemera. His work ranges from punk, alt, metal, and jazz, to classic rock, blues, spoken-word, and pop, for arena shows, independent clubs, and everything in between.
