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Welcome to starting a poster collection. Today we're going to talk about choosing a poster
type. Categories and genres are large vast areas of posters that you can collect in.
And you need to make it more of a specialty for you when you go into categories. And to
give an example you're going to, we'll use rock and roll posters. And rock and roll posters
there's 40 to 50 years worth of posters that you're talking about that you can still collect.
And then you need to narrow that down and you need to focus on what you're going to
collect. And you can focus it to concert posters or you can focus it to commercial posters
or you can focus it to foreign posters. There's still a wide breadth of things you can choose
from. But you still need to narrow it down further to get to what your collection is
going to be about. Because you want your collection to be a little bit more defined within what
you're doing. For example, you're talking about Filmore posters. Your Filmore posters
are specific posters to either the Filmore east or the Filmore west which were venues
which were owned and promoted by a promoter by the name of Bill Graham whose very, very
famous. And he used visual art to promote his concerts. And he made these fabulous posters
which are probably the most collectible of all posters in today?s world. What happens
is there's concert posters and they have the venue where the concert was being performed
and then they'll have the artist which was on the venue. So you may get a poster which
had Jimmy Hendricks performing, which was the headliner, who the warm up act before
that was Led Zeppelin, who the warm up act before that was The Birds, so this poster
would appeal to a lot of collectors in a lot of different ways because there's Birds collectors,
there's Led Zeppelin collectors, there's Jimmy Hendricks collectors and then there's Filmore
collectors and then there's concert poster collectors. And so you reach a wider audience.