concert posters and flyers by Joey Mars: click the file size next to a show..(high speed go straight for the big file)
Pardise Rock Club Spring Line up 2004 120K
Multi Venue poster featuring shows at Avalon, Orpheum, Tsongas Arena 120K
Paradise Rock Club 25th Anniversary Shows (comming soon)
Fleet Boston Pavilion Shows featuring Etta James, Earth Wind and Fire, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin (comming soon)
King Missile, The Joneses, Freddy K. and the Breeze 50k 193k
Buffalo Tom, Morphine, The Bags, Lubricated Goat 65k 206k
Reverend Horton Heat, Dumptruck, The Nieghborhoods 63k
Gigolo Aunts, Seka, Chloe 53k 159k
The Slaves, Left Nut, Dogzilla, The Atom Said 63k 237k
Wargasm, The Neighborhoods, Claude Raines 71k 274k
The 360's, Pajama Slave Dancers, Prime Movers 67k 255k
Bullet Lavolta, Come, The Volcano Suns, Dogzilla, Green Magnet School, ZugZug 61k 233k
The Bentmen, Seka, Upside Down Cross 75k 271k
Pearl Jam, The Lemonheads, Buffalo Tom, 7 League Boots, Venus Beads, Stress 125k
O Positive, The 360's, Dertonz, Maniax, Cliffs of Doneen, Paper Squares 68k 272k
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, N.Y. Citizens, Maelstrom, Funk Face Ant Farm, Not Our Dog 72k 273k
Manufacture, Left Nut, Heretix, Men With No I.Q's, In the Pink, Peecocks with special guest Xanna Don't 75k 273k
Dinosaur Jr. @ the Worcester Artist Group 8/17/91 54k 331k
I not only created the poster for this show but ran the whole event as well. It was a blast, we had about 500 people going nutz to the stylings of j and his gang. I believe within the next couple of weeks after this show, Dinoaur Jr. was in England at the Reading Festival chronicled in the film "1991 The Year Punk Broke"
Morphine, Concussion Ensemble, Scarce @ The Wang Center 4/15/91 30k 76k
You can put this one in the pile marked "Shows that never happened" This would have been a great show. Unforeseen difficulties caused this bad boy to be canceled. The poster happened though and it's one of my favorites. I have maybe 3 or 4 posters like this where the poster happened but the show didn't.
Bonehead: promotional piece 1995 66k 264k
Bonehead was phenomenal band from Worcester, MA. They had an intense hard core hip hop metal type thang going on. But like so many others they could not keep it going. This is one of my best pieces of black and white work to date.
Overcast, Plaid Gravy,Confused Society, Big Joke 11/1/91 33k 122k
Some great local bands from Worcester, MA got together for this post Halloween bash. A very different type approach to the poster for me. I arranged the design in a diamond shape. I always really loved the effect.
Digger, Voodoo Dolls @ the Rat 32k 143k
Digger was Chucky White's band. I did a few posters for them, but this one is my favorite. It's an ode to Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Rat Fink tm. Having the show take place at a club called the Rat seemed like a good time to bust out a grimey rat hang'n in a trash can. Ya see the Rat formally called the Rathskellar is in Kenmore Sq. in Boston. If you know anything about Kenmore Square, then you know it probably has the highest population of rats in the city. I used to work in a pizza joint in Kenmore Sq. Taking the trash out at night was always an experience! In the fall of 96 Kenmore Square was flooded. A virtual rat soup.
Allison D. @ Green St. Station 42k 138k 11/13/88
Allison D. was another band of Chuck's. This one can go in the pile of shows that never happened either. This is one of my favorites from the early days.
Shop Therapy: promotional piece 1997: 95k 188k
The full color illustration that was created for the Shop Therapy/ Joey Mars calendar. If ya got a big screen and the juice, I reccomend the larger file here. You won't be dissapointed. This one is good and tweaked.
T-Shirts:
Zidzoii 23k 113k
This t-shirt is the show stopper. I always get great feedback when I wear this one out on the town. It's just so wacked out and exciting. Printed on an all over press, it has the look of a full body tattoo with all these crazy cartoon characters hanging out in some virtual garden of eden. Printed with super soft water based inks, the comfort level is very high. The name comes from a derivative of one of my first cartoon characters called Zid from Zoid, and I always liked words that have a double i in them (ie Hawaii)
Dragon Dream 19k 122k
Cyberspace is the theme of this uniquely printed design. A red dragon is flanked by a cat jacking in as a cyborg plant is activated releasing flying lips with skeleton heads all held together by a magic border. Printed on a black shirt with diffusion ink it's the softest feel you have ever experience with inks on dark fabric. No build up of ink here as the inks bleach out the dark fabric and create vibrant colors along the way.
Paleon 43k 105k
This design has evolved into my signature piece. A fish floats by a cactus and giant mushrooms as a happy reptile scoots on by. The back has more whimsical characters playing about. Is it under water or are the fish flying?
Moodskull 10k 44k
A wigged out skull thrashes about as it's eyeballs twirl in a never ending vortex of madness. I call it mood skull because I feel it changes with the mood of the viewer. Sometimes it looks all bad and scary and other times it looks down right pathetic.
Snowboard Follies 12k 58k
A dragon shreds as a skeleton catches big air in this winter wonderland of freaks and fun
Looking For Mr. Plake 16k 66k
This T-shirt was commissioned by K-2 Ski Co. for the extreme skier Glen Plake. It pictures him sailing off a ledge mohawk ripping in the wind. A plethora of mountain animals look on in amazement at the talented K-2 pro.
Aerosmith 81k
I was commissioned by the band and Giant Merchandise to create an all over print t-shirt that had the same feel as Zidzoii. It was sold on the "Get A Grip Tour" in the states as well as retail locations throughout the world. I went to a concert, as a guest of the band, and it was hilarious to see hundreds of people walking around with the shirt on pointing at the different characters.
Enchanted Rainforest 44k 103k
A cartoon representation of the rain forest seemed like a fun project and it was. A dancing cat, various bugs, slugs and funky shrooms dot the floor. Birds, monkeys and aliens inhabit the higher elevations.
Stickers:
One of my favorite forums for my art has to be stickers. There so much fun, they don't cost much. They are even suitable for framing. I have archived a bunch of my favorites below.
The Garden 26k 100k
About as much lunacy as you can pack into a 5" sticker.
Merlin the Magic Mushroom 10k 21k
A smile'n shroom adorned in a wizard hat. It's one of my oldest repeating characters.
Party Frog 19k 75k
A bug'd out frog sits a top a purple mushroom holding a string of balloons as the sun shines on
Skateboard Freak 10k 24k
A cyclops clutches his board as his dreads wave in the breeze
Spaceship 8k 15k
An alien is at the helm of this futuristic cyborg aircraft
Fractal Moon 17k 70k
A crescent skull moon is in a trance as an emerging fractal spreads it's chaos
Fractal Sun 15k 62k
A smile'n sun beams out good vibes surrounded by the sky like fractal
Moodskull 9k 23k
Sick, wacked , pathetic, crazy, it's all up to you
Paleon 16k 69k
A groovy fish floats by a cactus and a couple of huge shrooms surrounded by hieroglyphics
Scream'n Skull 14k 87k
Death never looked so happy
Racing Skull 6k 18k
A racing checkerboard surrounds a skull and crossbones back dropped against a fiery blaze
Sister Alien a.k.a. Galaxy Girl 6k 13k
A flower on her dress a dragon puppet in her hand and she's ready to launch
What's It Going To Be 5k 13k
An eightball bomb in one hand and a dragon puppet on the other and a yin yang on his chest
Cyclops 7k 13k
A shroom in one hand a dragon puppet on the other and a star on his chest
Trashed 13k 34k
A freaked out cat pokes it's head from a garbage can all twitched and tweaked
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