Original Maquette For Black Flag, Simpletones, and U.X.A. Show
Incredibly rare original camera-ready paste-up for the flyer promoting the hastily arranged June 9th, 1979 Black Flag show at 5530 Hollywd. Blvd. — inscribed on the verso by artist Raymond Pettibon.
Very good plus.
Price: $15,000.00
Original Maquette For Black Flag, Simpletones, and U.X.A. Show
"Black Flag's philosophy on advertising was, 'Let everyone know the name of your band whether they like it or not!' You'd grab a bucket of wheat paste and flyer every locker at some high school. (Preferably not your own, it was too easy to get busted.)" — Dez Cadena (quoted in FUCKED UP + PHOTOCOPIED)
This flyer is the eighth Black Flag flyer produced, and was one of the earliest to feature Pettibon's art. Pettibon had created an earlier flyer for a gig the same day (at the Hong King Cafe) and the band were handing out those flyers on Thursday, June 8th when they received word that show had been canceled. They quickly lined up a second venue (5530 Hollywd. Blvd.) and had Pettibon design the flyer produced from this maquette.
Maquettes such as this were sometimes used to directly create xeroxed flyers, but as almost all of Pettibon's Black Flag broadsides were printed by offset lithography, this "camera ready" pasteup would have been used by the printer to create the photochemical plate from which the flyers were printed.
Pettibon is the artist most associated with American — and especially Southern Californian — punk rock. His indelible black-and-white images graced LPs and fliers for the likes of the Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Germs, Hüsker Dü, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Subhumans, Throbbing Gristle, and (most famously, as here) Black Flag — whose name the artist coined and whose iconic logo he designed.
All production materials for flyers such as this are scarce, typically either retained by the printer, discarded by the bands/artists, or lost to the deprivations of time. We've encountered only a handful in our career, and to locate an original maquette from not only one of the earliest flyers of a defining US punk band, but from one of the movement's most important artists, makes this something of a holy grail.
Pettibon (who has also worked under the names Raymond Pettibone, St. Pettibone, Chuck Higby, Raymond Ginn, and Ray Dylan) remains one of the most provocative and vital artists working today — one whose influence has grown far past his cult beginnings. An extraordinary and ephemeral primary document from the cradle of visual punk culture.
The Object
[Los Angeles]: n.p, [1979]. 11'' x 8.5''. Offset printer's photographic repro and several additional collaged elements mounted to cardstock, with a few hand amendations in an unknown hand. Inscribed by Pettibon on the verso: "For Igor / Raymond Pettibon." One element from the final flyer apparently perished (noting the second show the following night). Mild wear, toning, soil.
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