NETHERWORLD POSTERS AND SHOWS
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Friday Sept 19, 1980

Local music store Guitar Showcase engaged the old San Jose Civic Auditorium where I saw the Circus and the Harlem Globetrotters as a kid and the Tubes and the Blue Oyster Cult among others as a young adult.

The event was intended to promote Emmet Chapman's Stick, so Emmet opened and a group of Guitar Showcase instructors and staff headlined as 'The Stick Band'.

Poster probably produced by the Guitar Showcase graphics folks who did their t-shirts and ads

 

 

Thurs Aug 7, 1980

Flapper McGee's was a San Pedro Square nightclub which was owned by some neighbors of Pete's. For a brief period in the early '80s long-time top 40 AM radio station KLIV became a 'Modern Rock' music station when AM stereo debuted -they sponsored the show and ran free ad spots promoting the event.

Our good friends at Backstage Music were also sponsors, and Backstage family member Jim Bohn's metal group Traxx opened.

Poster by Kari Forbes

 

Sat Sept 27, 1980

One of Netherworld's final shows was at the spacious Spangenberg theater in Palo Alto. Sponsor KFJC, then as now was one of the leading college radio stations promoting underground music. DJ Mike Belmas had a progressive rock show on the station and he was instrumental in helping us get this gig and in helping to promote it.

Some of the most vividly colored pictures in the gallery section were taken at this concert. Following this show Lighting Designer Steve Yarbrough went 'pro' -moving to LA and going on to do lighting for the likes of Hall & Oates, David Bowie, Elton John and Billy Joel.

The poster was probably designed by the KFJC promotions dept and appears to be a science-fiction comic or pulp novel illustration.