Posters, fliers, handbills (1988-98)

Here is a collection of posters and fliers from The Red Devils, Lester Butler and 13, collected from a variety of sources. They span the earliest days of the original Red Devils (pre-1988) to Lester Butler’s last performance.

For more gigs and important dates, visit the timeline section on No Fightin’. (Thank you to Frank Verstappe, Vince Jordan, Paul Brown, Feelgood, Jasper Heikens, Emy Bruzzo, Everaldo Pechler, Jürgen Van den Steene and others for their contributions to this page.)

The Sept. 28 show was canceled; this gig took place on Oct. 13, 1992
An invite to the “Ciao Def” party, where Rubin held a traditional New Orleans funeral to bury the word “Def,” thereby launching American Records. Tom Petty, the Rev. Al Sharpton and others attended the ceremony; The Devils were the house band for the party.