The Grateful Dead, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, and many other 1960s rock bands drew inspiration for lyrics, lifestyle, and attitude from the Beats. The writings of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg motivated Chet Helms, founder of Family Dog Concerts at the Avalon Ballroom and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, to drop out of college in Texas and hitchhike to San Francisco. He later returned to Texas and hitchhiked back again with friend Janis Joplin. In 1967 Helms helped organize the Human Be- In in San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park, featuring Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure along with Timothy Leary and bands including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and
the Holding Company\u2014giving Helms the unofficial title, \u201cFather of the Summer of Love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psychedelic poster art produced in San Francisco in the 1960s was an outgrowth of the word-and-image broadsides of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. Peter Bailey, of East Wind Printers, produced San Francisco Arts Festival Poetry Folios<\/em> in 1963 and 1964. He also earned acclaim for rock poster designs. Famously, Bailey designed the first poster for Bill Graham Presents at the Fillmore Auditorium, featuring the Jefferson Airplane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Bailey (American, 1924 \u2013 1991) Wes Wilson (American, b. 1937) Victor Moscoso (American, b. Spain, b.1936) In his 1999 memoir Light My Fire<\/em>, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek wrote: \u201cI suppose if Jack Kerouac had never written On the Road, the Doors would never have existed. It opened the floodgates and we read everything we could get our hands on \u2014 Howl<\/em>, Allen Ginsberg; Gasoline<\/em>, Gregory Corso; A Coney Island of the Mind<\/em>, Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Peyote Poem<\/em>, Michael McClure\u2026.\u201d Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, not only was inspired by Kerouac and the Beats, but he sought to become a poet himself, establishing a deep friendship with Michael McClure, who encouraged Morrison to publish his poetry and performed alongside him at a Sacramento poetry reading in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Randy Tuten (American, b. 1946) Victor Moscoso (American, b. Spain, b.1936) Wes Wilson (American, b. 1937) As a teenager in the late 1950s Jerry Garcia studied painting with Wally Hedrick, who introduced him to the writing of Jack Kerouac. Garcia later described how On the Road<\/em> inspired him: \u201cIt was really stunning to me. His way of perceiving music\u2014the way he wrote about music and America\u2014and the road\u2026. It became so much a part of me that it\u2019s hard to measure; I can\u2019t separate who I am now from what I got from Kerouac. I don\u2019t know if I would ever have had the courage or the vision to do something outside with my life\u2014or even suspected the possibilities existed\u2014if it weren\u2019t for Kerouac opening those doors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stanley Mouse (American, b. 1940) Lee Conklin (American, b. 1941) David Singer (American, b. 1941) Daddy Bread (William Raymond Bostedt), (American, 1945 \u2013 1998) According to Janis Joplin\u2019s sister, \u201cOn the Road<\/em> had been her map for finding life.\u201d When Joplin came to California she first settled in North Beach, the epicenter of the West Coast Beat movement, singing at coffee houses and befriending Beat poets Bob Kaufman and Richard Brautigan, among others. One of her last songs, Mercedes Benz<\/em>, was co-written by Michael McClure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wes Wilson (American, b. 1937) In 1958, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> writer Ralph J. Gleason likened comedian Lenny Bruce to the Beat writers. Both, he said, offer a \u201cre-assessment of all our attitudes.\u201d Like the Beats, Bruce offered a raw and honest vision of America, and he was often targeted by authorities for violating standards of decency. Following a series of arrests in New York in 1964, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones) all supported his defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This 1966 poster, for a pair of capacity concert dates at the Fillmore Auditorium that featured Bruce and Frank Zappa\u2019s band The Mothers of Invention, was for Bruce\u2019s final performances. 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Fillmore Auditorium: Jefferson Airplane, Mystery Trend<\/strong>, Feb. 4, 5, 6, 1966
First poster for Bill Graham Presents
San Francisco Rock Poster Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chet Helms
Fillmore Auditorium: Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company<\/strong>, Feb. 19, 1966
First poster for Family Dog Presents<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avalon Ballroom: The Doors, Miller Blues Band, Haji Baba<\/strong>, April 14, 15, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cow Palace: The Doors, Lonnie Mack, Elvin Bishop Group<\/strong>, July 25, 1969<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avalon Ballroom: The Doors, The Sparrow, Country Joe & the Fish<\/strong>, March 3, 4, 1967<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Herb Greene (American, b. 1942)
Fillmore Auditorium: Grateful Dead, Lightning Hopkins, Loading Zone<\/strong>, October 21, 22, 1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alton Kelley (American, 1940 \u2013 2008)
Avalon Ballroom: Grateful Dead, Oxford Circle<\/strong>, September 16, 17, 1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fillmore West: Grateful Dead, Pentangle, Sir Douglas Quintet<\/strong>, February 27, 28, March 1, 2, 1969<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fillmore West: Grateful Dead, Taj Mahal<\/strong>, Feb. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1970<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Randy Tuten (American, b. 1946)
Winterland Ballroom and Fillmore West: Janis Joplin and her band, Savoy Brown<\/strong>, March 20, 21, 22, 23, 1969<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fillmore Auditorium: Lenny Bruce, Mothers of Invention<\/strong>, June 24, 25, 1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n