Family Trees
CUSTOM ROCK BAND FAMILY TREES
As a huge fan of the Pete Frame Trees, I have done many of my own over the last few years. The first large scale tree I did was about Big Star - which Ryko used as part of it's marketing campaign in 1992. Here is is below.
In the Stax museum in Memphis. I'm pretty sure this is the 1992 original - the '92's were all folded, and this one appears to have the folds. This is also the first thing you see when you enter Ardent Studios. I'm quite humbled by the many comments I've gotten on this piece over the years.
Universal / Lost Highway / Kim Buie hired me to do this Golden Smog family tree poster as a promo item for their "Another Fine Day" poster. Ironically it features many of the same bands as my Big Star poster. They did a "free with purchase" version that was sent to record stores and....
...this limited edition of 200 on a heavier stock, all hand-numbered, as seen above. They were for really, really special people.
I also did a series of these for (I think) a music industry magazine called Album Network (or was it FMQB?). Those were more about influence than actually tracking band members. The first one was a thread that followed Tom Jones to Billy Idol.
I'm currently roughing out three or four new trees - based on many of my favorite bands and music scenes.