As the Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, the band is considering doing some sort of tour next year. As we eagerly await news of the band hitting the road again, the Rock Art Show will celebrate the Stones legendary tours of the 70′s with an incredible special on four different limited edition Rolling Stones Tour Art prints. http://store.rockartshow.com/products/Set_of_4_Rolling_Stones_Tour_Art_Lithographs-547-0.html

I’m going back on the road with Ringo this summer. I’ll be set up at about a dozen Ringo Starr concerts during the upcoming tour (mostly in the Northeast and Northwest). I’ll be selling very limited hand signed artwork from Ringo. All of Ringo’s proceeds from the sale of the art goes to the Lotus Foundation. As with his previous tour, I will blog from the road and let people know what it’s like to be part of Ringo’s tour. The photo is an example of Ringo’s new art….it’s awesome.

Today is National Record Store Day. Support your local independent record store and buy some music today.

Our thoughts are with Levon Helm, legendary drummer for the Band as he enters the final stages with his battle with cancer. Levon’s wife and daughter posted on his website, “Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way though this part of his journey.”

On a personal level, I was honored to have worked with Levon in 1990 as the Band performed a free concert in a South Jersey park for the radio station where I worked at the time. It was a phenomenal performance. One I’ll always remember. Levon went out of his way to pose for photos with the radio staff and greet all of our “VIPs” – A

Levon Helm at the Last Waltz, Thanksgiving Day 1976, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco from photographer James Fortune.

Michelle Silenzio-Franklin, one of the nicest people in the world and a good friend of everyone at the Rock Art Show poses with Baron Wolman and one of his famous photos of Janis Joplin at the MGK Classic Rock Art Show in the Philadelphia area last week. Baron was signing copies of his critically acclaimed book The Rolling Stone Years at the show. By Sunday early afternoon….every book was sold out! Thank you to everyone who attended.

It was 45 years ago today……..

On March 30, 1967, The Beatles arrived at Chelsea Manor Photographic Studios in London to pose for what is arguably the most famous album cover in history…Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The historic album cover was designed by Peter Blake and photographed by Michael Cooper. The Rock Art Show has a limited quantity of an Official Fine Art Lithograph of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover with the Beatles signatures replicated on the bottom of the lithograph. Officially licensed by Apple Corps in 1993 (with the Apple logo embossed in the paper), these limited edition hand-numbered lithos have been out of print for almost 20 years! Includes original certificate of authenticity from the publisher. Check it out!

The Rock Art Show will feature the world premiere of a rare photograph featuring the Allman Brothers captured during their first few days as a band in Macon, GA 1969 from Rolling Stone Magazine first chief photographer Baron Wolman. This photograph features Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson and Capricorn Records founder Phil Walden. The only existing copy of this photograph was in the possession of the Allman Brothers until now. Baron Wolman will appear in person, signing copies of his critically acclaimed coffee table book, The Rolling Stone Years, and premiering the Allman Brothers photograph at the 102.9 MGK Classic rock Art Show, Saturday, March 31st and Sunday, April 1st at the Montgomery Mall in North Wales, PA.

Niko, age 3, shows off her Yellow Submarine shirt while admiring the Yellow Submarine original artwork at the America on Wheels Museum in Allentown.

If you live anywhere near the Allentown, PA area, you should check out the America on Wheels Museum on North Front Street. We are holding a special Beatles art show and sale at the museum from now until March 11th. The weekend of the 3rd & 4th, there is going to be Beatles collectibles vendors, live music, Beatle movies and more. On top of it all, the museum is AMAZING. I never knew this place existed and it’s worth making the trip out there. Cars, motorcycles in a very cool presentation. Two thumbs up!