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Psychedelic art

Posted on February 19, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A psychedelic artwork “Psychedelic art (also known as psychedelia) is art, graphics or visual displays related to or inspired by psychedelic experiences and hallucinations known to follow the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and DMT. The word … Continue reading →

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The Beatles: The Strange History of Sexy Sadie

Posted on January 8, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Meditation chambers at the old Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram “‘Well, if you’re so cosmic you’ll know why,’ John Lennon explained to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as the final two Beatles left his Ashram before fulfilling their Transcendental Meditation regimen. … Inner … Continue reading →

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Fillmore Bill: Bill Graham’s Legacy

Posted on January 6, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

During the 1965 Mime Troupe arrest: from left to right: Bill Graham, Ron Davis, Luis Valdez, Paul Jacobs. “Bill Graham’s rise to fame coincided with (and is partly owed to) the heyday of late 60s counterculture movement and its music … Continue reading →

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Ed Sanders – Tales of Beatnik Glory

Posted on December 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… Foremost, it was [Ed] Sanders’s time, most certainly—Tales of Beatnik Glory proves it. As the owner of the Peace Eye bookstore, publisher of the legendary Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, and founding member of The Fugs, Ed Sanders was … Continue reading →

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Bob Weir on Psychedelic San Francisco and the Birth of the Grateful Dead

Posted on November 14, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Fillmore West at Van Ness and Market, 1970, with marquee advertising upcoming Grateful Dead shows. “Bob Weir’s long, strange trip with the Grateful Dead began on New Year’s Eve, 1963, when he followed the sound of a banjo into a … Continue reading →

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Love Never Dies: The Beatles’ Revolver Revisited

Posted on November 9, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Beatles in Abbey Road Studios, 19 May 1966. Courtesy of Apple Corps Ltd. “‘London swings… it is the scene,’ declares TIME magazine’s 15 April 1966 cover story. The most ‘with it’ ‘fab’ ‘groovy’ ‘kinky’ place on earth. Hopping from … Continue reading →

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“American Pie” – Don McLean (1971)

Posted on September 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘American Pie’ is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. … The repeated phrase ‘the day the music died‘ refers to a plane crash in 1959 that killed early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, … Continue reading →

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Detroit Artist’s Workshop

Posted on June 29, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Red Door Gallery – 1964 Archie Shepp: “On November 1st, the Detroit Artist’s Workshop, now defunct, celebrated its tenth anniversary. Not exactly an earth-shattering event, this anniversary, but one with great significance for those of us whose daily cultural practice … Continue reading →

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Stewart Brand Saw the Future

Posted on June 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“You may have heard the just-so story about environmentalism as we know it. On Christmas Eve 1968, an astronaut aboard NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft took a photograph of the faraway surface of a green-and-blue, cloud-marbled planet known to its English-speaking … Continue reading →

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Diaries, 1970–73 – Duncan Hannah

Posted on June 3, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

September 1970. Eisenhower High School. I can’t get into the teen spirit of the Hopkins High pep rally. Purple Power! Youth Fever! Sieg Heil! Makes me sick. “I put out a comic book with some other freaks that is sold … Continue reading →

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