Umphrey’s Wax On Wax Off Tour Poster

Umphrey's Wax On Wax Off tour poster by Kyle Baker

The main A/E is a limited edition of 93. This one is identical to the tour poster sold by the band during the tour except for the much smaller edition size and the ‘AE’ indicator next to the numbers.

Umphrey's McGee Wax On Wax Off Tour poster - Rainbow Foil Variant

The foil variants are exclusively available from Baker Prints — none were sold on tour nor on the band’s website. The Rainbow Foil variant is a limited edition of 74.

Umphrey's McGee Wax On Wax Off Tour poster - Pillars Foil Variant

Pillars and Lava foil aren’t as photogenic as Rainbow but both of these turned out great. This is the Pillars Foil variant, a limited edition of 35.

Umphrey's McGee Wax On Wax Off Tour poster - Lava Foil Variant

Here’s the Lava Foil variant, a limited edition of just 16. We added an extra white spot-screen to the separations before printing the rest of the colors on all of the foil variants, so that some parts of the art show-through to the foil while others have a white base. It’s a great effect we’ve used before.

Kyle has been reading all kinds of techno mumbo-jumbo about halftones lately. There are all different kinds in this poster—line, dot, elliptical, square, diamond—and they range in frequency from 3 to 80 LPI (lines-per-inch).

Balancing the halftone madness into a cohesive image was very challenging. The end result is a poster that’s fun to stare at (Kyle hopes anyway).

This above detail shot shows a fairly traditional approach to CMYK printing, but using a very low LPI to exaggerate the dot size and interaction. Might remind one of an old comic book… or an amateurish sheet of blotter acid (we wouldn’t know).

Tour posters can be tricky thematically because the best ones capture something quintessential about a band or tour. Whereas the best gig posters are often more focused and singular in subject matter.

This was a hybrid print run; the first five screens were printed with waterbased acrylic inks, and the last two were printed with UV-cure inks, to take advantage of each systems’ strengths. In the photo above you can see the extreme detail possible with UV-cure inks (they never dry in the screen and can be printed through very fine mesh counts—the record above was printed at 80 LPI using 380 threads-per-inch mesh).

Kyle experimented with different halftone angles as well, in some cases intentionally creating vibrating moiré and rosette patterns.

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ALL POSTERS ARE SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITIONS AND MEASURE 18" x 24"

Artist Edition of 93:
Price: $32.00
Rainbow Foil Edition of 74:
Price: $64.00
Pillars Foil Edition of 35:
Price: $64.00
Lava Foil Edition of 16:
Price: $64.00 SOLD OUT

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Notes

Kyle Baker went full-on print nerd for this one, his 6th-straight winter tour poster for the Umphrey's.

Our superlative silkscreen squadron printed the first five screens with waterbased acrylic inks and the last two with UV-cure inks, in order to take advantage of each systems' unique strengths.

The halftones—the interacting patterns that combine to form the images you perceive—range in frequency from 3 to 80 LPI. Kyle used all kind of different shapes and angles to create loin-tingling moiré patterns to simulate the warm vibrating buzz of a UM gig.

We printed metallic silver under the record and tone arm/hardware; not captured well in these evenly-lit photos, but gee whiz use your imagination huh?

As is often the case we used our patent-pending "Hot Marge" formulation to punch up the M plate.

Print Infos

Edition Size

93, 74, 35, 16

Paper

18 x 24 inches. Cougar Natural 100# cover and 10pt Holographic Board foils

Screens & Ink

7 screens: white, cyan, hot marge, yella, metallic silver, trans gray, rich black

Gig Date

January through March 2019

Venue

United States of America