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Sooner or later, everyone comes to Rick's
• My old friend George Jansen is a writer, and just had his second novel published. It's about amateur baseball in 1900. I read it, and loved it. More...
• Prints of my Carousel Ballroom posters are now available.
• Here is a nice piece Richard Gilewitz just wrote about capoing:
To Capo or Not To Capo — That is the Question• Shubb Capo as a rhythm instrument.
A weird video by Peter Autschbach.
The Spring 2007 issue of Fretboard Journal includes an article about me, and the rock posters I did for the Carousel Ballroom in 1968. It's their issue number 5, with Tony Rice on the cover. The story mostly focuses on the fact that these posters (while they looked good) would have looked better if the communication between artist, printer, and producer had been better. In short, either three inks instead of four, or in one case the wrong color inks, were used. Fretboard Journal has kindly printed my revised versions of these four rock posters, on which I have digitally re-done the colors to appear closer to my original concepts.
They did a very good job of printing these, and making them look much more as I had originally intended. FBJ is a very classy publication, closer to a coffee-table book than a magazine, and I'm honored to be featured in its pages.
• In response to the interest generated by the article, these four Carousel Ballroom posters are now available as matted prints: digitally restored, printed on high quality photo paper with archival ink. Check them out here...
And speaking of ink, I'm getting more than my share lately. I was also featured in the March 2007 issue of Business 2.0 magazine. This is just a one-page piece, which is essentially accurate, but kind of truncates the development of Shubb Capos just a bit for the sake of brevity. You can see it or download it here (pdf). The same article has run in FORTUNE magazine, as well.
Here I am with Saga's Tora Bora Boys
Blackie
Rick Shubb, Vern Williams, Ray Park
David Grisman, Rick Shubb, Herb Pedersen
Ebenezer Flu, Miss Crapidula Crookshank, Honest Willie Cheatham, Dr. Avery P. Snootfull
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On Nov. 29, 2006, I lost a really close friend: Chip Dunbar. more...
previous articles:
• The Michael Richards thing
•The Rudeness Epidemic
• Do You Play Requests?
I'm going to start reserving some space on this page for pet peeves, beginning with my pettest of peeves: the pronunciation of the word:
It's not "nucular"...despite what the president and countless others might say. I know that my own English is not flawless, and I sometimes even appreciate creativity in pronunciation and usage, but this particular one is fingernails on a blackboard to me.
poster circa 1966
click for PDF
drawing, circa 1965
click for PDF
me circa 1964
I did this festival poster in 1974. (click for PDF, 877kb)
Besides the poster, I was in the festival, too. It was somewhat of a boondoggle, but fun anyway. I'll write more about that here soon.
Rick
