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12/13/13 Golden Sails Hotel, Long Beach, CA poster by Dennis Loren

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12/13/13 Moonalice poster by Dennis Loren

December 13, 2013 Golden Sails Hotel, Long Beach, California
Moonalice poster by Dennis Loren

Legend

According to Moonalice legend, tonight’s poster by Dennis Loren celebrates tribal inventor Charles Crawford Moonalice. Born right here in Long Beach, Charles devoted his life to creating a hemp-powered one man band! Today is the centennial Charles’ near miss … the day he got closest. The bands of his era were huge, so Charles often integrated 50 or 100 instruments in a one man band. Then came the hard part: playing. What with the organ and all the horns, Charles need lots of wind. Beans did the trick.

Poster Details

Artist:Dennis Loren
Performers:Moonalice, Cubensis
Venue:Golden Sails Hotel
City, State:San Francisco, California
Date:December 13, 2013
Printer:PsPrint
Dimensions:12.75 in. x 17.25 in.
Medium:Offset Lithograph
Paper:14 pt
Series:Moonalice M660
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  2. This poster was a lot of fun for me to design. Last August – when I was back in Detroit for my high school reunion – I found the two old photographs of Charles Crawford “The One man Band.” He was a real person who built a contraprion that allowed him to play a violin, trumpet, piano and chello all at the same time. He worked in Detroit area in the 1890s, 1900s and on into 1920s. This was during the “Industrial Revolution,” when Detroit was a mecca for inventors of all kinds. The picture of the little boy playing the drum is me. It was taken by my late father in 1948, when I was around 2 years old. I thought the poster design needed one more element to give it balance and a little percussion – ha!!! – Dennis Loren

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