• My old friend George Jansen is a writer, and recently 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 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 included 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.

And speaking of ink, I was also featured in Business 2.0 magazine. This was 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.

 

drawing, circa 1965
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me circa 1964