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Contributor Archives: Katherine York
Touring the Vault with Katherine Featuring Bonnie MacLean
On this tour of the Vault, we take a look at the work of rock poster artist Bonnie MacLean. The evolution of the rock poster as a unique art form began in San Francisco in the mid Sixties as artists who were commissioned to create advertising for concerts broke free from the confines of commercial [...]
WADAYAKNOW!
Guess who had the Number One album of the Decade — THIS DECADE?
The office mates and I were in a guess-off.
Beyonce? Jay-Z? Kanye West? Tim McGraw? Keith Urban? Carrie Underwood? U2?
Nope. The Beatles. The Fab Four beat all of them and Britney and Madonna as well as AC/DC and Kiss who sold their releases exclusively through content [...]
Touring the Vault with Katherine Featuring Vintage Rock Tickets
Welcome to the 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 stories of [...]
Touring the Vault with Katherine Featuring Bob Dylan and The Band
In this edition of our “Touring the Vault” video series we look at how difficult it is to take a great concert photograph. We’ll go straight to the light table with our mountain of proof sheets from a series of early concerts by Bob Dylan and The Band taken by photographer Joe Sia between 1972 and [...]
Electric Plug or Eclectric Crud?
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
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 [...]
LET THEM DANCE, DAMMIT!
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 [...]
Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer, American Minstrel