About The Mad Apple Shop
Since I was a teenager in the late seventies, music, concerts & art have been the dominant force in my life. In the early eighties I worked in a record shop and also worked for a local Rock radio station so I always knew when tickets were going on sale to various shows, and at times, was able to get tickets through some connections I had made along the way. As a result, I've been to nearly 200 shows in my life and I saved the concert ticket stub from every one of them.
One day while flipping through my concert stub book, I got to thinking that as cool as it is to have all of these stubs, they're not very visual in terms of putting them on display, which go me thinking about the idea of creating my own Tour Posers for some of my favorite shows.
I'd been a part time artist for many years so I decided to put my amateur graphic-design skills to use. The first poster I created was for my very first show: KISS, Dynasty Tour 1979.
I realized then that a concert poster can truly take us back to the place and time that we saw one of our favorite bands or artists perform, and in the case of many of us, had their lives transformed as a result.
Most of the Tour Posters I create are my own original designs, and all are historically accurate to an actual show and tour. Some of the posters in my collection are reprints of vintage posters, digitally restored when possible, and are marked accordiingly.