The 3rd in my Phish is Metal shirt series, Harry Hood! I’m currently doing a presale for this shirt that goes on til 12/16. Shirts are 100% heavy duty cotton, available in sizes S-3XL. Shirts will be limited, only the shirts ordered will be made. You can preorder in my Etsy shop, Joseeen.etsy.com.
I recently finished two new illustrations, inspired by the music of the Grateful Dead.
“Cosmic Charlie” Ink, watercolor, digital.
“West L.A. Fadeaway” ink and watercolor/digital
I also created some variants of this illustrations:
Although I’ve been a fan of Grateful Dead, I had’t done much art related to them until recently. Last year I was asked to create posters for Without A Net, an all star lineup of musicians playing the music of the Dead. This led me to create a few other illustrations that took elements of my own artwork with a GD twist, which I used to create some posters for the Dead & Co. show in Philly in 2015. And most recently, I created a poster for Splintered Sunlight, an east coast Grateful Dead tribute band. I avoided illustrating songs as I do for Phish, although I had plenty of people suggesting I do…
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I’ve recently created a new shirt inspired by the Phish song Petrichor. The second in my Phish is Metal series, I’m currently taking preorders until 11:59pm on 11/8 (this Tuesday) for a small run that I will be making of the shirt. Done in a death metal style, the shirt features images in the front and back, and will be printed on Fruit of the Loom Heavy Duty cotton shirts. Shirts are available S-XXL and will produced in very limited quantity. Shirts are $24, which includes shipping.
The song Petrichor is the last track off the newest album, Big Boat. A composed, mainly instrumental song, the track clocks in at over 13 minutes and is done in a style reminiscent of their early work. Even more amusing is the definition of petrichor: a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. Of course this song was ripe for the metal treatment!
What started as a shower thought, (What would Phish songs sound like done by a metal band? Is there a Phish metal cover band?) turned into a couple illustrations I ended up doing.
Growing up, it was all punk/metal/hardcore for me. My best friend veered towards Phish in our junior year of high school, but I was reluctant to surrender to the flow. It wasn’t until the summer of 2000, when we both graduated, that I finally got it. Since then, Phish has been a constant in my life, but I haven’t forgotten my roots. To this day, I occasionally still attend a metal show, along with my wife. (The fact that she loves Phish and metal is probably why I married her!)
I’m not sure what inspired the initial sketches, but they happened. I actually find it very humorous, since Phish is often abhorred by many metal fans. (Not all though, as I have met some at quite a few shows).
I enjoyed this project, since I’ve always had a fascination with the logos that metal bands use and the complexity that they employ. It was tricky, since most logos are often unreadable, and I wanted the “Phish” to be noticeable. With the final design, I felt that I managed to get as abstract as I could while making it readable. To the chagrin of most, I only made 3; one each for myself, my wife, and my friend, Jeff, who was the one that introduced me to Phish.
I’ve since been working on a couple other songs that I want to draw in this style. I just finished the Harry Hood, and have been sketching out some other songs, so I definitely will continue working on these, although I have no immediate plans to make shirts (although its possible for the future). I look forward to exploring other styles of metal logos to create new songs, and figuring out which songs are most appropriate for the metal treatment (or least appropriate!) Stay tuned for more!
I was recently asked to create the poster for Splintered Sunlight’s upcoming show at the Ardmore Music Hall. This show commemorates the 20th anniversary of them first playing at the Ardmore Music Hall (formerly known as 23 East).
Event details
Tickets: http://bit.ly/Splint20
SET 1: Martian Monster, No Men In No Man’s Land, Dogs Stole Things, Beauty of My Dreams, Destiny Unbound, Limb By Limb,Home, When the Circus Comes, Steam > The Wedge, Cavern, Walls of the Cave
SET 2: Crimes of the Mind, Golden Age > Simple > Light > Twenty Years Later > Blaze On, The Squirming Coil
ENCORE: Bouncing Around the Room, Bold As Love
SET 1: The Birds, Kill Devil Falls, 555, Roggae, Gumbo, Lawn Boy, Wilson, Maze, Wingsuit, More
SET 2: Mercury > Piper > Scents and Subtle Sounds[1] > Tweezer > I Always Wanted It This Way[2], The Horse > Silent in the Morning > Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Shine a Light > Tweezer Reprise
SET 1: Carini[1], Your Pet Cat, AC/DC Bag > Free > Possum, What’s the Use? > Wombat, Tube, Wolfman’s Brother, Ass Handed,Petrichor > Run Like an Antelope[1]
SET 2: Five Years[2], Soul Love[3], Moonage Daydream[4], Starman[3], It Ain’t Easy[5], Lady Stardust[6], Star[5], Hang On to Yourself[5], Ziggy Stardust[7], Suffragette City[5], Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide[4]
SET 3: 46 Days > Sand > Twist[8], Meatstick > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Backwards Down the Number Line > Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Space Oddity
SET 1: No Men In No Man’s Land, Breath and Burning, Poor Heart, Wolfman’s Brother, Water in the Sky, My Soul > NICU >It’s Ice > Ocelot, Fuck Your Face, Ass Handed, Saw It Again, Running Out of Time > David Bowie
SET 2: Dog Faced Boy > Seven Below > Petrichor, Maze > Dirt, I Always Wanted It This Way[1] > Piper, Bug
ENCORE: Buffalo Bill > Rock and Roll
SET 1: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, AC/DC Bag > Back on the Train, Blaze On, Sugar Shack,Things People Do, Birds of a Feather, Mercury, Let’s Go, Alaska, More
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] > Carini > Winterqueen, Ghost > Possum, Slave to the Traffic Light
ENCORE: Loving Cup
SET 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Blaze On, Ghost, Lawn Boy, Halley’s Comet > Sand, Tide Turns, 46 Days > Breath and Burning,Limb By Limb > Cavern > Also Sprach Zarathustra
SET 2: Julius > Fuego > My Friend, My Friend, Samson and Delilah[1], Twist[2] > Miss You[3], West L.A. Fadeaway[3] > Playing in the Band[4]
ENCORE: Quinn the Eskimo[2]
SET 1: Kill Devil Falls > The Moma Dance > Back on the Train, Undermind, Nellie Kane, Stash, Petrichor, Mike’s Song > Bouncing Around the Room, Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Crosseyed and Painless > Steam > Piper > Wingsuit, Sparkle > The Wedge, Wading in the Velvet Sea > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: The Ballad of Curtis Loew, Character Zero
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SET 1: Petrichor[1], Ghost, Heavy Things, Home[2], Poor Heart, Bathtub Gin, 555, Horn, More[2]
SET 2: No Men In No Man’s Land > Down with Disease -> Cities[3] > Roggae > Twenty Years Later > Light >Free > Boogie On Reggae Woman > Harry Hood
ENCORE: Winterqueen, Tube > Rocky Top
Not just reading the book, 