Inspired by a couple recent online conversations with Cindy and Jose, I hunted down all my old souvenirs from my time as Promotions Director of WMUR. It is the 20th anniversary of when I was really involved instead of working harder in my classes. (I blathered on about it four months ago in greater detail.) I knew I saved these posters, I just wasn’t sure where they were stored. If this stuff is at my parents’, tough luck, they probably threw it out to make space. I lucked out pretty quickly while rummaging through the disaster known as my home office because the tape, the concert plugs and the tax paperwork surfaced with little effort.
After I scanned and tweaked the files, I decided to hold off posting until today. Why today? This particular concert and supporting flyer were always special to me for multiple reasons:
- Tony Selig, Stardate’s rep, rewarded me for my past hard work and enthusiasm with second-row seats to Jerry Harrison.
- It was the first show I went to with Carrie who would become my long-term girlfriend by 1989.
- The guy who drew the picture of Jerry was a huge fan and I was happy to use this over all the photocopied material I had to scrounge up. I think I know his name but I’m leaving him anonymous in case I’m wrong…not to steal the glory. The artist did get to meet Jerry after the show to have his original drawing autographed.
- Milwaukee’s weather was gorgeous that day, something uncharacteristic of the city in April.
- This concert was also a homecoming for Jerry because he was from the area and his reputation as a producer was growing and the Talking Heads were unofficially done.
It was a great performance. He got everyone off their butts with his hit “Rev it Up” and for the encore Jerry led the band in a cover of “She Cracked” by the Modern Lovers (his first band) and “Life During Wartime” by the Talking Heads. I’ve been a fan of his work ever since. When I saw him perform again in 1996 with the Heads, I was one of maybe 10 people who recognized Jerry’s solo material when Johnette let him take over the vocal duties.
The rest of the WMUR Gallery is posted separately. I decided to give iWeb a chance at demonstrating its fancier Web layout ability. There was a good looking DIY template despite it being too heavy in CSS and Javascript. After I was introduced to using Macs with QuarkXpress the following semester, I could only imagine how much easier and nicer these flyers could’ve been. To answer any questions about why these are printed on pastel-colored paper; Marquette’s print shop decided what my choices were.
Next goal, Jose and I are going to find a way to digitize a cassette of WMUR promos, stations IDs and other bits, should it still play.