wolfgang's vault

[johnfowles]

Following up a lead in another yahoo group message I found this old poster

The caption on the wolfgang's vault page at:-
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Catalog.aspx?VenueID=AMR is:-
Gordon Lightfoot Nov 24, 1978 Poster $58

[Jenney]

Wow. That's the theater where I went to my first GL concert! It was before that though, either 1970, or 1971 is my recollection. I didn't get to go to that particular show, not sure I had known about it.
Jenney

[Moosedog]

Hey, I bought that poster from Wolfgang's Vault about a year ago! It was pricey, and I'm dying to get it autographed.

Vickie

[Auburn Annie]

Yowza! Sigh.................

[RM]

Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
Yowza! Sigh.................

I assume you're referring to the ticket prices ?....

[Auburn Annie]

Chuckle ... uh, no

[brink-]

Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
Yowza! Sigh.................

ditto.

[johnfowles]

I thought myself that it was an amazingly good rare photograph of Gordon when younger and have saved it because with cropping and a modicum of editing it will form the basis of another fine made up album cover/CD jewel case insert design:-

Thinks has anybody seen that zoneranger character recently???

[johnfowles]

OK OK I have now done a "dummy" run
I firstly used a good picture editing program (MGI Photosuite) to crop the original again but this time cropping to a more suitable square version plus a small square of the background (to use to cover all of the remaining lettering). I then used my favourite desk top publishing programme Serif Page Plus 6
The SE version is available completely free from
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/sof...us/default.asp
I was able to create a plain unletterred blank with a maroon colored border onto which I could at some future date add my choice of text
I then faced the usual problem of deciding what font to use
I rather liked the original poster's font as used for Gord's name and recognised it as the same used on an old Everly Brothers compilation CD, which I had previously scanned to try to find its font:-

I then used a wonderful free detection service WTF (where this time that is a three letter acronym for "What The Font") as offerred by a fonts site as an aid to selling fonts:-
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
and browsed for my Everly scan then uploaded it and their on line program analysed the sample, which is apparently called a glyph and as you can see they found an exact match in their database,

a font called Exotic 350 Bold for which they wanted $24.75.Never one to pay for what might be available for free I googled for "Exotic 350 Bold free download" and found it at:-
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-e3.html which includes exotic 350 bold as a right click downloadable true type font file

Exotic 350 Bold BT.ttf 35KB which I placed in my C:\windows\fonts folder from where it is now available to any program's fonts menu
Therefore
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html
has joined my three previous finds
a good free site goldenweb at:-
http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file...ts/default.htm
http://cooltext.com/Fonts
http://www.dafont.com/
All l now needed to do was reopen my Page Plus basic blank file and add some sample text in the maroon color that I had already selected for the frame:-

[johnfowles]

I am replying to my own thread to bring it to the top again as I am about to refer to my font detection and aquisition procedure in a planned contribution to "Mother Superior" (the big hearted lady they call "githchewhatsit") Ruth's love songs project. watch this space!!

[Rainbow Trout]

Oh My, My, My What A Photo!!

[Moosedog]

I just love that poster, and had Gordon sign it for me when I was in Milwaukee. It's now hanging in my office where I can see it everyday.

Vickie

[mandoann]

Originally Posted by Moosedog

I just love that poster, and had Gordon sign it for me when I was in Milwaukee. It's now hanging in my office where I can see it everyday.

Vickie

Hi Vickie,

I have the poster too! As soon as I saw it I said "got to have it!" You are so fortunate to have Gordon's signature!

Ann
Portland

[Peter Bro10]

I don't really have anything to add

But thought I'd bring this one to the top for the benefit of anyone else who might have missed it.

Be sure to check out the 1968 concert too; use this link.. there are others too, I just found this one first...
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...ighlight=vault

Mercy! Saw the $425 poster of Gordon..but the Jim Marshall photo...$6,000 WOW. It's a great photo and photographer (signed too) but for that $$$$...could have gone towards buying a nice Martin guitar, signed by GL.