Fender’s Long Beach Adolescents Flyer Victor Gastelum - Russ Gibb Collection

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Fender’s Long Beach Adolescents Flyer - Russ Gibb Collection. Shipped with USPS First Class.
This is an original copy of a concert in the 80's designed by Victor Gastelum.  It featured
Adolescents -
The Adolescents are an American punk rock band formed in Fullerton, California in 1980. Part of the hardcore punk movement in southern California in the early 1980s, they were one of the main punk acts to emerge from Orange County, along with their peers in Agent Orange and Social Distortion.
Sluglord
Wasted Youth -
Wasted Youth was an early 1980s hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California. The band followed in the footsteps of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks. It was a prominent and popular act among the Los Angeles punk underground.
Mentors -
The Mentors are an American heavy metal band, known for their deliberate shock rock lyrics. Originally formed in Seattle, Washington in May 1976, they relocated to Los Angeles, California in 1979.
Mad Parade - A stalwart hardcore punk outfit from Los Angeles that has been delivering melody​-driven blasts of N.Y.C. and U.K.-influenced punk-pop since the early '80s.
Child Hoods
A club for all reasons .... Fender's International Ballroom ... was located in the old Lafayette Hotel complex in Long Beach, CA .
It rocked the LA, OC and Southern California music scene with PUNK, METAL, SKA and traditional ROCK for a little more than 5 years in the 80's .... but was eventually closed by the City Of Long Beach ... just too many fires, fights, public indecencies, and all around noise ....
In other words .... it was one hell of a rock n roll nightclub
Designed by Victor Gastelum -
In an attempt to write the story of the Long Beach California-based artist Victor Gastelum, it is tempting to simultaneously write the story of Tucson Arizona’s beloved sons Calexico. For, across the band’s vast body of sprawling, timeless work — encompassing a string of studio albums, tour records, a plethora of EP’s, soundtrack scores and a multitude of collaborative works — the artwork of Gastelum’s adorn some of the most precious of Calexico’s records since their inception in 1996, following core-duo Joey Burns and John Convertino’s previous spell as rhythm-section to Howe Gelb’s Giant Sand; another one of Tucson’s most revered bands. Victor Gastelum, a native of Southern California, would provide the artwork for one of the band’s earliest releases,
“Spark/The Ride”
, a single put out in 1996, prior to the band’s full-length debut
“Spoke”
(released by Quarterstick Records in the following year). The music (both written by Burns) can be perfectly summed up by the description found inside, set in all-lowercase, on a black-and-white postcard-sized insert:
“two western gems from two southwestern gents. joey and john from giant sand moonlighting in the tucson sun.”
The stencil artwork on
“Spark/The Ride”
is vintage Gastelum, featuring a young man and his low-ride car in a striking 2-color blue and gold combination. The image — like his later work — is isolated on a white background like a flash-aided Richard Avedon portrait, highlighting the iconic feel of the image in its minimal setting. The artwork would be the first of many in a near-symbiotic journey between Gastelum and Calexico over the next couple of decades when Gastelum would go on to produce the artwork for the band’s studio albums
“The Black Light”
(1998),
“Hot Rail”
(2000),
“Feast Of Wire”
(2003), the tour record
“Tool Box”
(2007),
“Carried To Dust”
(2008), the limited edition box-set — comprising the band’s tour-only releases —
“Road Atlas 1998-2011”
(2011) as well as a host of various singles and EP’s (including
“Stray”
,
“The Ride (Pt. 2)”
,
“Ballad Of Cable Hogue”
,
“Crystal Frontier”
,
“Service & Repair”
,
“Even My Sure Things Fall Through”, “Alone Again Or”, “Quattro (World Drifts In)”, “Black Heart”
and
“Convict Pool”
).
Gastelum’s first meeting with Californian-born Burns came during his spell working as a designer for SST Records (home to such bands as Black Flag and The Minutemen) at the turn of the nineties. This period would also prove crucial in Gastelum’s artistic development through the meeting of another influential artist — the Tucson-born graphic artist Raymond Pettibon — whose iconic, hugely distinctive and influential drawings would be widely seen during the vibrant punk music scene of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Pettibon’s unique and sophisticated combination of image with text would also prove influential to Gastelum’s own artwork. Since the mid 1990’s, Gastelum has had numerous solo and group shows, as well as collaborating with Pettibon — amongst others — for the publications
“Faster, Jim”
(a special limited edition artist book published by Hamilton Press in 2002, the aluminum book cover is by Gastelum and the slipcase — featuring the artwork
“Good Year”
— is a collaboration between Gastelum and Pettibon) and
“Line Drive”
, a portfolio of 12 lithographs featuring 12 artists’ response to the subject of Baseball (Gastelum’s 6-color lithograph, entitled
“LA Fury”
, features alongside artworks by such artists as Pettibon, Ed Ruscha and Dani Tull).
Born in Torrance, California, Victor Gastelum’s distinctive artistic vision was much influenced by the punk and “DIY” ethos (characterized by the hand-assembled rough-and-ready made collages, photocopies and the often-coined “artless” approach as advocated by the Punk movement) of the period during the eighties when he graduated L.A. Trade Tech. The fact that Gastelum’s own training provided a grounding for commercial — as opposed to fine — art would prove significant. Gastelum would quickly appreciate the art of craftsmanship while learning techniques (stenciling, spray paint, overspray, creating halftones) which he would soon finely harness and adopt in his own personal work.
Growing up as a Latino in Southern California would shape much of Gastelum’s outlook on the world, and his near-outsider status would be similarly shared by his friends in Calexico. As Joey Burns recounted during an interview at Austin Town Hall in 2008:
Other memorabilia in the photo is only proof it is from Russ Gibb's private collection and NOT included in the sale.
The will of Russ Gibb provided for this item to be sold to benefit the students of the Russ Gibb Digital Media Center - WDHS Studios located in Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan.
One of several items from his private collection that will be sold.  WILL combine shipping.