Archive for the 1960s Culture Category


Will Society End Up like Aldous Huxley’s Science Fiction Novel?

By on Thursday, August 29th, 2013 | 3 Comments

I was resistant to the western canon of literature as a youth. Much of it was required reading in school.  But, because I was a rebel or had a general non-interest in reading, it escaped me.  What a difference few decades make!  A voraciuos reader now, I find books like Aldous Huxley’s science fiction novel Brave […]

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Original Psychedelic Rock Poster Artists Painting Their Environment

By on Monday, February 18th, 2013 | No Comments

Continuing on with my previous post on original psychedelic rock poster artists, we might ponder where the inspiration for such inventive, bold, brilliant works of art would come from. Many might say from the hallucinogens that were ingested at the time. And that would be the easy answer. But, if you examine the lives of […]

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60s Psychedelic Poster Artists Illuminate A Decade

By on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 | 2 Comments

To explore famous rock posters in detail you may have a hard time separating them from the works of the 60s psychedelic poster artists. There are many reasons for this. The “rock” poster was invented to advertise events both musical and social that were growing larger and larger in the San Francisco area. The seeds […]

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How San Francisco Band Blue Cheer makes it in Los Angeles

By on Monday, January 7th, 2013 | No Comments

I am extending my conversation about San Francisco band Blue Cheer. It seems they were very much the residents at the corner of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. (This was at the height of Hippiedom in the mid 1960’s).  It is very interesting to me how the Pinnacle Rock Concerts (based in LA) seemed to really […]

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Whose a Better Guy Than Wavy Gravy?

By on Monday, November 26th, 2012 | No Comments

The answer to the question is… not many!  If you’ve seen the movie “Saint Misbehavin’: the Wavy Gravy Movie”– you know what I mean.  Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) is an activist and defender of peace, basic human needs and humanitarian causes. He spread the word around the world in a group called The Hog Farm  dressed […]

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Who is Rock Concert Artist Victor Moscoso?

By on Monday, October 8th, 2012 | No Comments

Rock Concert Artist Does that title bring to mind a guy with formal academic training @ Cooper Union, NY – Yale – SF Art Institute and taught there as well? Meet rock concert artist Victor Moscoso.  We’ll wax endearingly about all of the classic -golden era rock concert poster artists (Wes Wilson, Stanley “Mouse”, Alton Kelley, […]

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