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Can You Pass the Acid Test ?? In this HubPage We Explore the Psychedelic Posters and Ephemera from Events Known As the Acid Tests Which Were Brought To You by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
Can You Pass the Acid Test ?? In this HubPage We Explore the Psychedelic Posters and Ephemera from Events Known As the Acid Tests Which Were Brought To You by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
Leading artists of the 1960s Psychedelic Art movement were San Francisco poster artists such as Wes Wilson, Mouse and Kelly (Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly), Victor Moscoso, and Rick Griffin. This is part 2 of a 2-part post on psychedelic graphics of the 1960s. For background notes and for earlier works, see part 1 also. February 24-26 1967 Artist Wes Wilson Grateful Dead, Otis Rush Chicago Blues Band, The Canned Heat Blues Band at Fillmore Auditorium, SF © 1967 Bill Graham © Wes Wilson March 10-11 1967 Artist David Carlin Poor Souls at Grande Ballroom, SF © David Carlin March 10-11 1967 Artist Victor Moscoso Postcard for Quick Silver at Avalon Ballroom © Victor Moscoso March 30 1967 Artist David Carlin Scott Richard Case at Grande Ballroom, SF © David Carlin April 1-2 1967 Artist Wes Wilson The Byrds, Moby Grape, Andrew Staples at Fillmore Auditorium, SF © 1967 Bill Graham © Wes Wilson April 2-21 1967 Artist Wes Wilson? The Mothers of Invention at Café Au Go Go - Garrick Theatre, NY © Liberty Graphics Ltd April 7-9 1967 Artist Wes Wilson Chambers Brothers, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sandy Bull at Fillmore Auditorium, SF © 1967 Bill Graham © Wes Wilson April 14-16 1967 Artist Peter Bailey Howlin' Wolf, Country Joe and the Fish, Loading Zone at Fillmore Auditorium, SF © 1967 Bill Graham © Peter Bailey April 21-22 1967 Artist Rick Griffin Quicksilver Messenger Service, Johnny Hammond and His Screaming Nighthawks, Charles Lloyd at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Rick Griffin April 28-29 1967 Artist Victor Moscoso Iron Butterfly at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Victor Moscoso May 5-7 1967 Artist Rick Griffin Postcard for Big Brother & the Holding Company, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Orkustra at Avalon Ballroom © Rick Griffin May 12-13 1967 Artist Victor Moscoso The Doors at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Victor Moscoso May 27 1967 Artist Bob Masse Jefferson Airplane at Richmond Arena, Richmond, Canada © Bob Masse June 8-11 1967 Artist Rick Griffin Big Brother & the Holding Company, Canned Heat, Congress of Wonders at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Rick Griffin June 20-25 1967 Artist Clifford Charles Seeley Jefferson Airplane, Gabor Szabo, Jimi Hendrix at Fillmore Auditorium, SF © 1967 Bill Graham © Clifford Charles Seeley June 22-25 1967 Artist Rick Griffin Charlatans, The 13th Floor Elevators at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Rick Griffin June 22-25 1967 Artist Victor Moscoso Siegal Schwall Band, Miller Blues Band at Avalon Ballroom © Victor Moscoso July 14-15 1967 Artist Bob Masse Grateful Dead at Dantes Inferno © Bob Masse August 1-6 1967 Muddy Waters, Buffalo Springfield, Richie Havens, Dan Bruhn’s Fillmore Lights © 1967 Bill Graham August 24-27 1967 Artist Robert Fried Big Brother & the Holding Company, Bo Diddly and Bukka White, The Salvation Army Band at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Robert Fried November 3-5 1967 Artist Gary Grimshaw The Paupers, MC5 at Grande Ballroom © Gary Grimshaw November 3-5 1967 Artist Robert Fried Canned Heat, Lothar and the Hand People, Allmen Joy, Super Ball at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Robert Fried November 10 1967 Artist Carl Lundgren James Cotton, MC5 at Grande Ballroom, Detroit © Carl Lundgren November 17-19 1967 Artist William Henry Postcard for Bo Diddley at Avalon Ballroom © William Henry December 8-9 1967 Artist Robert Fried Canned Heat in Denver, Colorado © Robert Fried December 26-30 1967 Artist Carl Lundgren John Lee Hooker at Grande Ballroom, SF © Carl Lundgren September 1-3 1967 Artists Kelly and Mouse Miller Blues Band, Mother Earth, Bukka White at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Kelly and Mouse September 15-17 1967 Artist Victor Moscoso Young Bloods, The Other Half, Mad River at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Victor Moscoso October 6-8 1967 Artist Victor Moscoso Blue Cheer, Lee Michaels, Clifton Chenier at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Victor Moscoso October 13 1967 Artist Gary Grimshaw Cream in Detroit © Gary Grimshaw October 15 and 22 1967 Artists Hapsash The Who at Saville Theatre, London © Hapsash October 27-28 1967 Artist Gary Grimshaw MC5 at Grande Ballroom, SF © Gary Grimshaw January 5-7 1968 Artist Charles Laurens Heald The Youngbloods, Ace of Cups, John Bauer's Rocking Cloud at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Charles Laurens Heald January 26-28 1968 Artists Kelly and Mouse Postcard for Country Joe and the Fish, Charlatans, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks at Avalon Ballroom © Kelly and Mouse February 10 1968 Artist John Van Hammersveld Jimi Hendrix Experience, Soft Machine, Electric Flag, Blue Cheer at Shrine Auditorium, LA © John Van Hammersveld February 16-18 1968 Artist Bob Schnepf Quicksilver, Ace of Cups, Flamin Groovies at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Bob Schnepf March 8-10 1968 Artist Stanley Mouse Postcard for Love, Congress of Wonders, Sons of Champlin at Avalon Ballroom © Stanley Mouse March 15 1968 Artist Alton Kelly The Grateful Dead at Carousel Ballroom, SF © Alton Kelly March 29-31 1968 Artist Bob Schnepf Jerry Steig and the Satyrs, Sons of Champlin, Alex Anders Timeless Bloozband at Avalon Ballroom, SF © Bob Schnepf April 11, 12-13 1968 Artist Patrick Lofthouse Big Brother and the Holding Company, Iron Butterfly, Booker T and the MGs at Fillmore Auditorium and Winterland, SF © 1968 Bill Graham © Patrick Lofthouse April 18, 19-20 1968 Artist Patrck Lofthouse Love, Staple Singers, Roland Kirk at Fillmore Auditorium and Winterland, SF © 1968 Bill Graham © Patrick Lofthouse May 10 1968 Artist Fantasy Unlimited Postcard for Jimi Hendrix Experience at Fillmore East, NY © Fantasy Unlimited May 17-19 1968 Artist William Henry Postcard for Junior Wells, Sons of Champlin, Santana Blues Band at Avalon Ballroom © William Henry May 24-26 1968 Artist John Thompson Postcard for Youngbloods, Kaleidoscope, Hour Glass at Avalon Ballroom © John Thompson July 26-28 1968 Artist Lee Conklin Herd, James Cotton Blues Band, Charles Lloyd Quartet at Fillmore-Carousel, SF © Bill Graham © Lee Conklin October 3-5 1968 Artist Lee Conklin Canned Heat, Gordon Lightfoot, Cold Blood at Fillmore West, SF © 1968 Bill Graham © Lee Conklin The following posters of The Beatles were created by American fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004). The applied graphics were done by British designer Richard Weigand, who I hung out with in New York in 1969. After a long career in publishing in New York, Richard Weigand is now (2013) Art Director of The New York Times. 1967 © Estate of Richard Avedon © Richard Weigand 1967 © Estate of Richard Avedon © Richard Weigand 1967 © Estate of Richard Avedon © Richard Weigand 1967 © Estate of Richard Avedon © Richard Weigand 1967 © Estate of Richard Avedon © Richard Weigand 1968 Poster for 'Hair' the musical Photograph by Ruspoli-Rodriguez © Ruspoli-Rodriguez 1969 June 27 1969 Artist Lee Conklin Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna at The Barn © Lee Conklin
Of all the rock posters from the 1960s, few command as much attention as those created for the legendary acid tests in 1965 and 1966. Organized by author ...
In honor of the musical legend's 75th birthday.
Before the folk legend succumbed to Huntington's disease, he performed an informal concert in a remarkable place with Pete Seeger and Rev. Gary Davis.
For obvious reasons, it’s easy to think of the great American folksinger/songwriter Woody Guthrie as a lifelong hardscrabble dust bowl Okie, but the reality is, the man called New York City home for nearly three decades, from 1940 until his death in 1967. Of course, that was at a time when lower Manhattan, especially Greenwich Village, was an urban bohemia, a haven and incubator for America’s artists and musicians. Those times are gone—I’m in NYC at least once a year, and every year, more and more of the Village looks like it’s been eaten by a strip mall. So it goes, but the character of what’s been lost there may be irreplaceable, as a startlingly rapid gentrification is eating into every once-affordable art enclave in that fabled city. I realize that the emergence of an arts district often heralds gentrification—I’ve long lived in such a neighborhood myself, and seen firsthand those kinds of changes, for better and worse—but from an outsider’s perspective, what’s been happening to NYC, especially the northern part of Brooklyn in the last several years, seems unusual and kind of alarming in speed and scope. So...
In the beating heart of the mid-60s, the Summer of Love painted the world with a kaleidoscope of ideals, artistic expression, and boundless optimism. Fueled
