I recently got a message from somebody stating ” I love the setlists, but the header makes no sense!” They were upset that I drew mountain for the Kansas City show, everyone knowing that Kansas has no mountains. I was kind of excited, because this was the first time I’d received a comment regarding my headers. I’d consider these my favorite part of creating my illustrated setlists, since each one is different, and carries a significance about the show. When I started doing the setlists in 2014, most were an illustration based on the venue itself. They were inked drawings that were colored digitally, and I was never a fan of them (I’ve had no formal Photoshop training, so it’s been a learning process). When I was sketching out ideas for this year’s setlists, one of my main goals was to avoid digital as much as possible. My second concern was what the theme would be. I didn’t want to do the same thing as last year, since I figured they would play venues they’d played in 2014. Right before summer tour started, I had done a commissioned piece that consisted of illustrations of the whole Gamehendge saga, including all the other songs that have been confirmed to be related to TMWSIY, or took place in Gamehendge (at least according to the internet). Having sketched (and drawn) all these songs, it seemed fitting to use this as the basis of 2015’s summer tour. I used all the songs from TMWSIY, as well as a couple songs that are Gamehendge related. The last couple shows are based on songs played at the shows.
The Headers:
The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday: Col. Forbin steps through the door into Gamehendge
The Lizards : “We can swim it if we tried”
Tela
Wilson
AC/DC Bag
Fly Famous Mockingbird
Col. Forbin’s Ascent
The Sloth
Punch You in the Eye.
Possum
Divided Sky. Probably would’ve been better without mountains, based on the location.
Llama
Kung
Esther
Scent of a Mule (Played at the show)
Slave to the Traffic Light. It seemed fitting, seeing how close the Philadelphia Zoo is to the Mann Center. I actually made a poster based off this song for the Mann 2014 shows.
Reba. My favorite header.
Run Like an Antelope (played at the show)
Wingsuit. I prefer a literal interpretation of this rather than the convention definition of the word
An interpretation of the camping based on photos of Magnaball since I couldn’t make it 😦
Inspired by the “Poster is Dead – Poster’s so Dead” plane flyby.
Inspired by the Drive-In set the night before. Marquee includes a mashup of songs played that night.
Bike. Played at 2.42% of live shows
Sleeping Monkey. Leo’s choice.
The “Thank You” encore called for a minimal header in order to fit in my setlist.
These headers were quite a blast (and a challenge) to draw. I do have some original ink and watercolors of some of the headers available (email me or contact via ig, twitter, fb for availability), and can make some custom posters using the headers based on shows attended.
I am also selling a signed a numbered edition of the poster, from which all the proceeds will benefit the Deardorff family. I’ll have about 25 on hand at the show, and the remaining 25 will be available online for those that may not be able to make the event, but would like to help out Jess and Josey. Posters are 11×17 on cardstock, and they are available here directly via my site and will be mailed out after the event on 11/28.
Not just reading the book, 
