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Im the unofficial marketing deptm of my band and I just finished our latest gig poster. I'm pretty happy with it so I thought I'd share it. PLease don't report me to Fox.

 

;)

 

:p

 

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It seems that cartoon is popping up everywhere...

 

I don't know how much sleep I would lose about FOX coming after you...if I had a dollar for every band t-shirt I have seen lately with "GET-R-DUN" on it, minus the c with the circle around it, I would be driving to work in a porshe.

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Young man, there's no need to feel down.

I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.

I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town

There's no need to be unhappy.

 

Young man, there's a place you can go.

I said, young man, when you're short on your dough.

You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find

Many ways to have a good time.

 

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

 

They have everything for young men to enjoy,

You can hang out with all the boys ...

 

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

 

You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal,

You can do whatever you feel ...

 

Young man, are you listening to me?

I said, young man, what do you want to be?

I said, young man, you can make real your dreams.

But you've got to know this one thing!

 

No man does it all by himself.

I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf,

And just go there, to the y.m.c.a.

I'm sure they can help you today.

 

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

 

They have everything for you men to enjoy,

You can hang out with all the boys ...

 

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

 

You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal,

You can do whatever you feel ...

 

Young man, I was once in your shoes.

I said, I was down and out with the blues.

I felt no man cared if I were alive.

I felt the whole world was so jive ...

 

That's when someone came up to me,

And said, young man, take a walk up the street.

It's a place there called the y.m.c.a.

They can start you back on your way.

 

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

 

They have everything for young men to enjoy,

You can hang out with all the boys ...

 

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a

Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down

Young man, young man, pick yourself off the ground

 

It's fun to stay at y-m-c-a

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a

Young man, young man, are you listening to me?

Young man, young man, what do you wanna be?

 

y-m-c-a

you'll find it at the y-m-c-a

no man, young man, does it all by himself

young man, young man, put your pride on the shelf

 

Y-m-c-a

then just go to the y-m-c-a

y-m-c-a

young man, young man, i was once in your shoes

y-m-c-a

young man, young man, I said, I was down and out with the blues.

y-m-c-a

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Originally posted by bholder

Be glad if you don't get sued for copyright infringement. Other than that, yeah, it's pretty damn cool!

 

 

I'd be glad if we DID get sued. That would be some serious free publicity.

 

However it's never going to happen, so it's not something that I even consider. We only used it because of the name of the bar is "Griffin's", the name of the family in the show.

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That stage is tiny, you been there before? played there last month. Its cool though, the place fills up pretty easily. Good luck, I'll see if I can stop by; might have a show that night too.

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Originally posted by SA Rios

That stage is tiny, you been there before? played there last month. Its cool though, the place fills up pretty easily. Good luck, I'll see if I can stop by; might have a show that night too.

 

 

we play there once a month or so. It's not big, but we always have a great crowd. Come on out if you can. We might be doing the New Years Eve show there this year.

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Very funny. I happen to like both posters quite a lot, hope you realise I was paraphrasing a recent Family Guy quote in my original post :p

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How do you get those images in a format that allows you to print them 11" x 17"?

 

I'm working on our next gig poster and want something more creative...like you're doing...but have no idea how to create stuff like that.

 

Are there some tricks/tips you can share?

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Originally posted by SB

Very funny. I happen to like both posters quite a lot, hope you realise I was paraphrasing a recent Family Guy quote in my original post
:p

 

Nope. i sure didn't. *opens mouth, inserts foot*

 

 

:freak:

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Originally posted by Thunderbroom

How do you get those images in a format that allows you to print them 11" x 17"?

 

 

Just using photoshop. Set the canvas size to 10.9 by 16.6 (roughly). Is that what you're asking?

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Originally posted by catphish



Just using photoshop. Set the canvas size to 10.9 by 16.6 (roughly). Is that what you're asking?

 

 

No...I mean the Family Guy images for instance. Do you have those images as a huge file (jpg/bmp/???) that will print cleanly on your posters.

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Originally posted by catphish

This was the other possibility....

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What's so original about stealing 'The Family Guy' images for your poster? The fellow who designed the poster that you're bashing obviously knows something about graphic design that you don't.

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Originally posted by Thunderbroom



No...I mean the Family Guy images for instance. Do you have those images as a huge file (jpg/bmp/???) that will print cleanly on your posters.

 

 

Yes, if possible I find a good enough quality image to clean and steal. If not. I trace it, scan it, and digitially clean it up.

 

As for sizing it, I again use photoshop to size the image.

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Originally posted by Gruven


What's so original about stealing 'The Family Guy' images for
your
poster? The fellow who designed this poster obviously knew something about graphic design that you didn't.

 

 

Absolutely nothing. It's highly probable that the person who did SB's poster knows far more than I about graphic design and a great many other things.

 

In case you missed it (read the thread) , I mistook a comment from SB to be a rip on our silly poster and at the time (drunk and generally P.O.'d at someone not at all involved) made a mean comment.

 

Mea Culpa.

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Originally posted by catphish



Absolutely nothing. It's highly probable that the person who did SB's poster knows far more than I about graphic design and a great many other things.


In case you missed it (read the thread) , I mistook a comment from SB to be a rip on our silly poster and at the time (drunk and generally P.O.'d at someone not at all involved) made a mean comment.


Mea Culpa.

 

My humblest apology. I, in fact, did not read the entire thread.

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