Posts by Katherine York

Merged the field of concert production with a love of history and a good story to become a rock ‘n’ roll archivist — paisley rabble rouser on the side.

Contributor Archives: Katherine York

Electric Plug or Eclectric Crud?

Published: November 23 2009ByKatherine York
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We’ll never really know why people were booing during Bob Dylan’s performance at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday evening July 25th, 1965. While there have been differing opinions as to whether the dissatisfaction was being bellowed at discombobulated announcer Peter Yarrow, or the crappy sound system, the prevailing thought (or urban myth) is that the [...]

Touring the Vault with Katherine Featuring Joe Sia and John Lennon

Published: November 9 2009ByKatherine York
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Welcome to my new video blog series I call Touring the Vault in which I’ll take you on brief tours through the archive of Wolfgang’s Vault and give you a glimpse into our processes of learning and discovery. We’ll dig deep into the vast array of poster art, both inventoried and the as-yet-unearthed and tell you [...]

Between a Heart and a Hard Place

Published: November 4 2009ByKatherine York
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Husky, dusky, powerful, great voice, great guitar playin’, great camaraderie and I don’t have my flip video camera cause at the last minute I wimped out.  Got scared at the very end like the first time I skipped school.  Didn’t even skip my first class until I was a sophomore in HS…  I didn’t even [...]

Classic Posters with Katherine Featuring Griffin’s Flying Eyeball

Published: October 26 2009ByKatherine York
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Welcome to a new video blog series I call Touring the Vault, in which I’ll take you on brief tours through the archive of Wolfgang’s Vault, and give you a glimpse into our processes of learning and discovery. We’ll dig deep into the vast array of poster art, both inventoried and as-yet-unearthed, and you’ll hear stories [...]

LET THEM DANCE, DAMMIT!

Published: September 4 2009ByKatherine York
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I recently went to see Jackson Browne perform in a Grande Dame of a venue — gorgeous to look at, pretty good acoustics, and rows and rows of seats. The reuse of old movie theatres as rock venues has created bodily restrictions that go against the soul of the sound. I can beat my knees in [...]

Poster Corner – First Printing Sticker Shock and Does it Matter Anyway?

Published: August 19 2009ByKatherine York
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Antiques Road Show made a lot of people run to their closets and reach under their beds with its first broadcast of how much money a rock poster could garner. The collectability of rock posters such as the original BG Series of 1966-71 gets hotter every year — and the mint ones get rarer and rarer. If [...]

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