I’m a big fan of all of the bands Keith Morris has fronted… Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, and OFF!. My first punk show was the Circle Jerks in 1986 in Summerville, South Carolina. I illustrated this image from one of Glen E. Friedman’s photos of Keith around 1981 0r 1982 playing with the Circle Jerks. Glen also shot the Circle Jerks’ “Golden Shower of Hits” cover which is in the collage in the lower left. Keith was kind enough to write down all of his favorite song titles from all three bands to incorporate into the collage. -Shepard
I was approached by Glen E. Friedman asking if I’d be interested in collaborating with him and his friend Shepard Fairey on a poster using a photo he had taken a coupla’ dozen yrs. ago. I was familiar with Shepard and his work as we’d hung out at 2 or 3 art exhibits, seen various pieces of his including giant images of Henry Rollins, Ian McKaye, Glen Danzig and others at the KROQ punk gig out in San Bernardino and had been to his art space when he threw a flyer/poster/punk rock art shindig. Shepard and I talked about color schemes and seeing as I’m a fan of Rick Griffin who started off drawing comics for Surfer Magazine, posters for the Fillmore West and John Van Hamersveld who was responsible for the Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” album cover and some of my favorite handbills for early gigs at the Shrine Auditorium in the late 60’s I wanted to use some of their color examples…………4 days later we were going to print. -Keith Morris
18 x 24 inch screen prints, signed by Shepard Fairey, Glen E. Friedman and Keith Morris. Three different colorway versions available.
Reference Photo by Glen E. Friedman
Release date: Tuesday September 10, 2013 at a random time between 10 and 11am PST in the PRINTS page of the store. Limit 1 version of each colorway per person/household.
Further notes: Keith also mentioned his love of “Germs” blue, so I made a color variation inspired by that as well as the psychedelic vibe and my usual color palette.
-Shepard
KEITH MORRIS (4 COLOR)
18 x 24 inch, 4 color screen print. Signed by Shepard Fairey, Glen E. Friedman and Keith Morris. Numbered edition of 200. $75. Limit 1 per person/household.
Release Date: Tuesday September 10, 2013 at a random time between 10 and 11am PST in the PRINTS page of the store.
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KEITH MORRIS (BLUE)
18 x 24 inches, 3 color screen print. Signed by Shepard Fairey, Glen E. Friedman and Keith Morris. Numbered edition of 150. $75. Limit 1 per person/household.
Release Date: Tuesday September 10, 2013 at a random time between 10 and 11am PST in the PRINTS page of the store.
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KEITH MORRIS (RED)
18 x 24 inches, 3 color screen print. Signed by Shepard Fairey, Glen E. Freidman and Keith Morris. Numbered edition of 150. $75. Limit 1 per person/household.
Release Date: Tuesday September 10, 2013 at a random time between 10 and 11am PST in the PRINTS page of the store.
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Glen E. Friedman
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Shepard Fairey
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Shepard and Keith Morris
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Keith Morris
Flag, with Keith Morris singing, goes on tour again Friday the 13 you lucky punks! Check it out if you can. -Shepard
facebook.com/flagband
Starts Friday Sep. 13th in Minneapolis!
Tickets: http://bit.ly/132wysO
Artwork by Raymond Pettibon
