"TOOL / MELVINS" - 1998
"NEIL YOUNG" - 2003
By this time, I had a little bit of a following but it was kind of a scattered cult following. This Tool poster was a perfect storm
“I had done a poster for Neil before that was really more atmospheric. When this one came up, I wanted to attempt to make
for me. I’m thankful to whatever made the image come out of me that way, because I think the image was iconic. As far as
the Neil Young poster. By this time, I’d been working for about ten years, and I had a following. When you get to that point
the color theory, this is when I kind of started to develop my own palette. But all that’s the minor stuff. The major thing
in rock poster art, you can’t slack. With every poster, people are expecting the next level. And that was really depressing
is that this came out right when Tool became this really powerful thing in music. When you’re doing rock posters, it’s not
because I couldn’t come up with any ideas for a long time. So I just drew him holding up the peace sign. And then it hit me:
all about the art, it’s about the band. If that same image had been used for a smaller band, the poster wouldn’t be as well
I could make it cross generational boundaries if I could make it psychedelic. For me personally, the biggest thing that came
known. Then there was an interview done in Circus magazine, I think, where one of the guys in Tool said that the poster
out of this poster is that I got a compliment from Wes Wilson. You could argue that he really perfected the psychedelic text
was a "quintessential Tool poster." That helped.
in the 1960s with his Fillmore posters. So when I got an email from him, it was a big deal for me.”