The Last White Christmas was a music festival held in Pisa, Italy on December 4, 1983. Several albums were released with recordings from the event. A 35th anniversary event was held in 2018.
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34-536: A Berkeley Photocopy show. A friend of Jello Biafra told him of the piece, and later Smith sent him samples of his work. This was the beginnings of the collaboration of Smith and Scotti with the Dead Kennedys. Scotti later became the drummer for The Feederz . To date, Smith has three published collections of his works: Act Like Nothing's Wrong , Artcrime and All Riot on the Western Front . Smith
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68-898: A scholarship to study Cinema at the International University of Art (Florence & Rome). For a few years he traveled throughout Italy, roadie-ing for well-known Italian jazz band Perigeo . Over the last 30 years, Winston has had numerous one-man shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Antwerp, Berlin and Rome. His work has been included in numerous books chronicling the punk rock era as well as having his work included in art text books plus several book covers, such as Greg Palast 's best-sellers " The Best Democracy Money Can Buy " and " Armed Madhouse ". In addition, Winston has designed over 50 record covers including covers and insert art for Jello Biafra , Burning Brides , George Carlin and Ben Harper . Smith
85-658: Is a reference to the character of the same name in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . Smith left the U.S. in 1969 to study art in Italy and, struck by the profound social changes that had occurred during his absence from the U.S., adopted the name after returning to America in 1976. In Italy, Smith attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Florence studying classical Renaissance art and later won
102-513: The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the International University of Art in Rome . Smith met fellow artist Jayed Scotti in 1976 and the two collaborated on several projects, producing their self-published magazine Fallout , a satirical pulp-zine, illustrated and written by the duo. They also distributed false posters for non-existent bands and clubs in San Francisco, with the addresses listed on
119-556: The Motéma Music logo. Smith is particularly known for his collaborations with Jello Biafra (former Dead Kennedys frontman) and Alternative Tentacles , for whom he has done numerous covers, inserts, advertisements, flyers, and logos. He is responsible for the famous Alternative Tentacles logo as well as the well-known Dead Kennedys logo and six of their record covers. One of his compositions, God Told Me to Skin You Alive ,
136-610: The Italian label Area Pirata re-released the Last White Christmas concert thanks to the granting of the reprint rights free of charge by Chris Chacon of BCT. Winston Smith (artist) Winston Smith (born May 27, 1952) is an American illustrator who primarily uses the medium of collage . He is probably best known for the artwork he has produced for the American punk rock group Dead Kennedys . He also designed
153-484: The cinema hall, there was an exhibition of 35 posters made by Italian and international graphic designers and illustrators for the 35th anniversary of the concert. Among the artists who participated with their own work created for the 35th anniversary of the concert there were: Winston Smith , Craig Henning, John Yarbrough (designer of the cover of the first concert release on cassettes), Tuono Pettinato , Vittore Baroni , Giuseppe Palumbo and Prof.Bad Trip. In June 2020,
170-465: The concert (six hours), engineered by Alessandro Sportelli and Alessandro Paolucci via a cassette tape deck "wired directly to soundboard, no ambience mics ..." (Alessandro Sportelli interview), was later released by Bad Compilation Tapes / Borderless Countries Tapes of San Diego February 1984, in two volumes titled BCT #6 Last White Christmas I and BCT #7 Last White Christmas II as a co-release with Cessophonya Records of Jim Plumbago in Italy. About half
187-581: The flyer often located in the Pacific Ocean. The IDOL or Cross of Money image (later used for the Dead Kennedys first EP album " In God We Trust, Inc. ") was created in 1977 in the Fairfax studio of Fallout, as a comment on religious hypocrisy and the worship of money. This was a 3D art piece, fashioned from a real crucifix. Later it was remade as an early color photocopy and submitted to
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#1732793396285204-496: The international collector. Ten tracks taken from the recording of the concert were published on the album Urla dal Granducato by Area Pirata Records in 2003. In December 2018, the 35th anniversary of Last White Christmas was celebrated with the LWC35 concert in the historic Lumiere cinema of Pisa, the first cinema to be opened in Italy (1899). Among the guests of concert were polemica of Hilary Blinder, ex drummer of Sabot. In
221-406: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LWC&oldid=1255322065 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Last White Christmas The Last White Christmas music festival
238-535: The tracks were used. These two live albums were later reissued on CD in 2000 by BCT (Bad Compilation Tapes) in conjunction with Schizophrenic Records of Hamilton (Ontario, CA), Enterruption of San Francisco (California, U.S.), Ponk-111 of Walnut Creek (California, U.S.) and Human Stench of Pittsfield (Massachusetts, U.S.) with a few extra tracks. Limited edition: 500 pressed each. Last White Christmas tracks Some record productions made with recordings taken from Last White Christmas vol.I and vol.II: A must for
255-551: Was born and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . He briefly attended (two months) Oklahoma Christian College and Central State University . After spending nearly seven years in Florence, Italy , Smith moved to Boston and then hitchhiked to San Francisco, where he worked as a roadie for numerous San Francisco bands such as Journey , CSN&Y , The Tubes , Santana and others in the 1970s. While in Italy, he studied at
272-538: Was held in Pisa, Italy on December 4, 1983: the day of Saint Barbara . The festival, organized by the Granducato Hardcore (GDHC), was held in the deconsecrated church of San Zeno . The church hosted the first GDHC initiatives until July 1894 when the circle Victor Charlie opened. In one of the bands that performed at festival also played Fefo Forconi then with Toxic Reasons . The recording of
289-785: Was used as the cover of Green Day 's album Insomniac . A version of an illustration which had been on the back cover of the Biafra/D.O.A. album Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors was later featured on the cover of the April/May 2000 issue of The New Yorker magazine. His work has also appeared in Spin , Playboy , Wired , Utne Reader , Mother Jones , Metro Silicon Valley , Ugly Planet , National Lampoon , and numerous punk fanzines , such as Maximumrocknroll , Seconds , Punk Planet , etc. His name
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