20世纪中期萨克拉门托摇滚表演的海报是大学图书馆画廊新展览的主要部分。 （博彩平台/Phillip Altstatt）
迪克西·里德
The Grateful Dead and the New Riders of the Purple Sage – Dead founder Jerry Garcia’s offshoot country band – played 萨克拉门托’s Memorial Auditorium three days before Christmas 1970.
当晚的人群中有19岁的艺术家罗杰·谢泼德（Roger Shepherd），他为音乐会创作了迷幻的广告海报。 他还画了舞台背景，展示了一个优雅的女性形象在星空上跳舞。
“They tried to take it at the end of the night, and I told them, ’Uh, no,’ ” Shepherd says now. “It was the only sign I ever did. Honestly, that was a long time ago, and I don’t know who asked for it or why I did it.”
海报和其他摇滚纪念品将于11月1日至12月15日在大学图书馆画廊举行的“摇滚与广播”展览期间展出。 （萨克拉门托州立档案）Shepherd’s two Grateful Dead art pieces will be on display during the “萨克拉门托 Rock & Radio Collection” exhibit, which opens Friday, Nov. 1, and continues through Dec. 13 in the University 图书馆 Gallery. The show will include more than 60 local concert posters and handbills and related music memorabilia from 囊状态’s 萨克拉门托 Rock & Radio Collection.
11月13日星期三下午2点，在图书馆画廊，谢泼德将与音乐海报艺术家Paul Imagine和Jason Malmberg以及收藏家Marty Hohn一起参加小组讨论。
展览和讨论是免费的，向校园社区和公众开放。
Dennis Newhall ’73 (Theatre Arts) will serve as panel moderator. 今年早些时候，他向萨克州立大学捐赠了数百张原始的音乐会海报、传单、t恤、领带、K-ZAP电台的标志服装、照片、音乐会门票，以及一张来自他现已关闭的萨克拉门托岩石与广播博物馆的绿洲舞厅鸡尾酒桌。
Newhall’s initial gift of 650 items is housed in the University 图书馆's Gerth Special Collections & University Archives. 剩下的约4000件承诺物品将随着时间的推移送到萨克州立大学。
“This is not an art collection,” Newhall said. “This is a story about the venues, the poster artists, the pioneering radio stations that brought rock ‘n’ roll and rock to 萨克拉门托, and the rock bands that played here. It’s about this community.”
Rising rent costs in 2017 prompted Newhall to shutter his midtown 萨克拉门托 Rock & Radio Museum and put into storage everything he’d collected over 17 years. 然后他开始为他的宝藏寻找一个新家。
University 图书馆 Dean Amy Kautzman and James Fox, who heads Special Collections & University Archives, saw a newspaper story about Newhall’s search and were interested in acquiring and preserving the collection.
“I realized this would be unlike anything I had imagined – a place where it would stay together forever,” Newhall said. “There would be endless opportunities for students to go out and find new things to add to the collection and know what old things to look for.
“And the University has the wherewithal for preservation, which is so important. The reds are starting to fade on some of the posters.”
萨克州立大学于2019年2月首次推出了萨克拉门托岩石和无线电收藏，并在特别收藏中举办了招待会和小型展览。 此后，该大学还将作品借给艾拉·k·麦克拉奇图书馆和首都公共广播电台展出。
纽霍尔于1991年开始收集当地和地区的音乐会海报，当时他是一家商业录音工作室Nakamoto Productions的音响工程师和配音员。 这家店的前身是曾经很受欢迎的音乐俱乐部Crabshaw Corner和Oasis Ballroom。
Inspired by the building’s legacy, business owner Ray Nakamoto asked Newhall to track down concert posters from the clubs, which he wanted to use as wall décor.
Newhall had loved rock ‘n’ roll since childhood and worked at iconic K-ZAP Radio, so he knew that Roger Shepherd – who drew the original K-ZAP cat logo (based on the Cheshire Cat from 爱丽丝梦游仙境) – was a prolific poster artist.
纽霍尔问，谢泼德很快就寄来了一叠他的原版音乐会海报和传单。
Three of Shepherd’s posters, along with the Grateful Dead backdrop, will be displayed in the University 图书馆 Gallery. Malmberg和Imagine将各自展出两张海报。
1970年12月，《萨克拉门托蜜蜂报》报道了感恩而死乐队的演唱会。 The music critic reported that 4,700 young fans “turned up and turned on” and stayed until an orchestrated onstage explosion ended the show at 1 a.m.
谢泼德几乎不记得半个世纪前的那个晚上，但他回忆说，他为这张海报赚了350美元。 当时这笔钱太多了，他和一个朋友开玩笑说，他可以在19岁退休。
He became one of 萨克拉门托’s most sought-after artists for concert posters, album covers, and music venue advertising.
“I tried to do something a little different every time,” Shepherd said. “I didn’t like to be boring in my style and do the same thing twice. 回头看，一切看起来都很相似。 So I guess that was just me.”
The “萨克拉门托 Rock & Radio Collection” exhibit was curated by Newhall, Fox, and Special Collections librarian Lynn Drennan.
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什么: 萨克拉门托岩石和无线电收藏展览
当: 11月1-Dec。 13; 画廊开放时间为星期二至星期五上午十点半至下午三点半
地点: 博彩平台图书馆画廊
录取: 免费向大学社区和公众开放