With the same ardent affection as a mother for her incorrigible kid, artist Dan Rumain has been Rye Coalition’s designer, muse, roadie, photographer, and friend for almost 20 years.
He’s avidly labored over T-shirt designs, album covers, posters, and more for nothing more than a couple chicken parm sandwiches and the satisfaction of helping his NJ brothers out.
Dan’s contributed a couple of choice items for our kickstarter campaign, and we couldn’t be more grateful. An autographed, limited edition 6 color, 11x17in screen print of the “Rye Coalition Live at Maxwells” show poster printed by Joe Herbick at Ghetto Press (Baltimore, MD) is available for the $50 pledge (pictured below). The poster that we are giving away is a hand pulled screen print of a hand-rendered acrylic painting of Jack and Donna Leto’s (parents of Rye drummers Dave and Gregg Leto) wedding picture. The Rye show was Jack’s 70th birthday wish.
Dan’s “crows” T-shirt is available for a $35 pledge, also VERY limited quantity! Last but certainly not least, I asked Dan to design a new postcard to send anyone who donates $5 or more. His “Rye through time” collage of the Hard Luck 5 in front of the Newark Bay Bridge pictured above) is just… beautiful. We’ll be sending it to everyone along with a special message from Rye on the verso. I’d say “backside”, but I don’t want to encourage you all.
More of Dan’s amazing talents can be seen at http://danielrumain.wordpress.com/
You can pledge at any time, for any amount, towards making this documentary happen at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matzorific/rye-coalition-the-story-of-the-hard-luck-5-rockume
Rye Coalition "reunion" screen print (ltd)
