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The 1970s

Although postercentral.com focuses only on the half-century which ends at the close of 1969, some early ’70s posters carried forth the boxing-style tradition of poster design, and definitely added to the genre’s legacy. Please enjoy a few samples here of early ’70s concert posters that could have just as easily been from the late ’60s, many of them made by Globe Posters of Baltimore, MD. And please be aware that I pay top dollar for the best posters like these, even from the 1970s.

Details on the posters pictured above: The Allman Brothers Band with Wildfire and The Toy Factory (featuring Toy Caldwell, later to become The Marshall Tucker Band) at the Charlotte Park Center in Charlotte, NC on April 17, 1971 (six months before Duane Allman died); Led Zeppelin at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, TN on Aug. 25, 1970 (looks like a bootleg but definitely real); James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Al Green, The Impressions, The Chi-Lites and Barbara and The Uniques in America’s First “Soul Bowl” at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, IL on Dec. 26-27-28, 1970; Pink Floyd at the Park Center in Charlotte, NC on March 23, 1973; Ike & Tina Turner plus Spirits at an unknown city’s Coliseum on July 31, 1970; Neil Young at the Winnipeg Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on Jan. 13, 1971; The Spring Weekend Committee of American University Presents The Byrds and Tim Hardin at the Leonard Gym of American University in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 1970; Northwest Releasing, Ltd. Presents the Grateful Dead, the Riders of the Purple Sage and Ian and Sylvia at the P.N.E. (Pacific National Exhibition) Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Jan. 23, 1971; Concerts, Inc. presents Black Sabbath (with Ozzy Osbourne) and Wild Turkey at the Park Center in Charlotte, NC on March 7, 1972; Janis Joplin and Van Morrison at the Cole Field House at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD on June 19, 1970; Chicago at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, NC on Feb. 27, 1971; and John Lee Hooker and the Coast to Coast Boogie Band at Liberty Hall in Houston, TX on Dec. 1, 2 and 3 in an undetermined year in the early 70s.