Any comments, corrections or additions to this listing would be greatly appreciated.
1a) Copenhagen, Denmark poster
Date & Venue: Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 12, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance in Denmark at the Falkoner Centret in Copenhagen on November 12, 1970.
1b) Arhus, Denmark poster
Date & Venue: Vejlby-Risskov Hallen, Arhus, Denmark, November 13, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd.
Poster Size: 24” X 15"
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance in Denmark at the Vejlby-Risskov Hallen in Arhus on November 13, 1970.
1c1) Hamburg poster
Date & Venue: Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, West Germany, November 14, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd
Poster Size: 33” X 23.2”
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance at the Ernst-Merck Halle in Hamburg, West Germany on November 14, 1970.
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1c2) Tour blank:
Note: The posters for the November 1970 German tour (November 14-December 3) were made from tour blanks. These are posters in which the artwork and title are printed up in advance and sent to the promoters. The promoters then over print the posters with the date and venue information for the shows.
1d) Montreux handbill
Date & Venue: Altes Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, November 21, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd.
Notes: A handbill for Pink Floyd's performance at Altes Casino in Montreux, Switzerland on November 21, 1970.
1e1) Stuttgart poster #1
Date & Venue: Killesberghalle, Stuttgart, West Germany, November 26, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd.
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance at Killesberghalle in Stuttgart, West Germany on November 26, 1970.
1e2) Stuttgart poster #2
Date & Venue: Killesberghalle, Stuttgart, West Germany, November 26, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd.
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance at Killesberghalle in Stuttgart, West Germany on November 26, 1970.
The venue and date are printed sideways on this poster. This may be a printing error.
1f) Hannover poster
Date & Venue: Niedersachsenhalle, Hannover, West Germany, November 27, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance at the Niedersachsenhalle in Hannover, West Germany on November 27, 1970.
1g1) Munich poster #1
Date & Venue: Circus Crone, Munich, West Germany, November 29, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd.
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance at the Circus Crone in Munich, West Germany on November 29, 1970.
1g2) Munich poster #2
Date & Venue: Circus Crone, Munich, West Germany, November 29, 1970
Bands: Pink Floyd
Notes: A poster for Pink Floyd's performance at the Circus Crone in Munich, West Germany on November 29, 1970.
The venue and date are printed sideways on this poster. This may be a printing error.
Poster Tales: It was December of 1970, and I was in London, England. The music that I loved was undergoing some seismic changes. At the beginning of the year, the Beatles announced that they had broken up. The Beatles were the ones who introduced me to rock music in the first place and they were the trend setters of the underground. And, as if that wasn't bad enough, in September, Jimi Hendrix was found dead in his London flat. Jimi was one of my guitars heroes. I followed him religiously during his life and his album, Electric Ladyland occupied the top spot in my collection for months. These two groups that had helped shape my conscious and unconscious mind were now gone. It was the end of an era, and quite shocking at the time. But with the end of any one era, another era begins. And the new era that was dawning was one of cows, prisms, pigs and walls.
While in London, I did what I always did. I went in search of record stores and stores that sold posters (often one and the same). Two of the places that I visited were Carnaby Street, due to its reputation in the underground community, and Kings Road, which was the "new" Carnaby Street for fashion and underground items. Carnaby Street had dozens of shops selling pipes, incense, records and, yes, posters. They were everywhere. And Kings Road was just the same, with lots of underground shops. And, yes, I went down to the Chelsea Drugstore. If you have seen the movie A Clockwork Orange, that was the place where Alex visits the record store. It was like being in a maze of different shops. And everywhere there were posters.
I remember seeing lots of bright day-glow posters for sale. You couldn't miss them. There were Apple Records posters, Beatles posters, Hendrix posters, posters of the cow from Atom Heart Mother, lots of black light posters, numerous Hapshash posters, and all sorts of posters from the London underground. A plethora of riches!
Being a teenager at the time, I didn't have alot of money so I only bought a few posters. If only I could have bought them all. What an investment that would have made!