by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Apr 19, 2019 | Featured
Stanley Mouse
“Test Run”
| Albert Hofman Tribute Blotter Art |
Signed, Numbered |Edition of 100 pieces
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by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Oct 31, 2017 | Grateful Dead
This poster known as “Trip or Freak”, was the collaboration of three of the Big Five Masters and most talented artists of back in the day – Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse. It is one of the most enduring images of the psychedelic poster era.
The central image is of Lon Chaney from the Phantom of the Opera (1925) and was Kelley’s contribution. The concert information lettering at the bottom was done by Griffin and the “Trip or Freak” lettering in the form of a topless woman was by Mouse.
The “Trip or Freak Fantasmagoraball” was held 50 years ago on Halloween in 1967 at the Winterland Arena. Winterland would later be renovated and used for hundreds of concerts throughout the 70’s, but for this concert it was still a dilapidated, run down place with a definite Halloween-like atmosphere. The popularity of this “Poster From The Past” has helped push the price of a top condition original piece to as much as the $5000 mark… or more. One reason this poster is as rare as it is is because hundreds of these posters were dipped in LSD and each head was one healthy hit, this poster was literally eaten off the planet, just sayin’!
Performing that evening were The Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company. This dance/concert lived up to the awesomeness of the poster. UNFORGETABLE! It was printed two times.
Approved by the Phantom….& Professor Poster
Audio
Track 01)Alligator->drums 11:56
Track 02)Caution//cut, 18:20
Track 03)Cryptical Envelopment->01:41
Track 04)The Other One-> 02:33
Track 05)Cryptical Reprize 10:41
Archive Note:
This is a fake version of this show comprised of material from November 10th and 11th, 1967
https://archive.org/details/gd1967-10-31.sbd.unclebarry-kikola.33933.flac16
by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Jun 25, 2016 | Grateful Dead
From Professor Poster
This happens to be probably one of the most classic and iconic “Posters
From The Past” done during the 1960’s. This is Family Dog poster #14 entitled “Zig Zag Man” (duh….what else!) and I’ve got a lot to say about it!
This image is from the cigarette rolling papers product logo along with the Zig Zag product logo lettering. At the time this poster was done, most of the Hippie community smoked marijuana and, of course, used rolling papers to roll their joints. Just as almost everyone in the wealthy upper classes is familiar with the “Winged Lady” product on the Rolls Royce, most every Hippie was familiar with the product logo of the Zig-Zag man and the response in the targeted community to it’s appropriation for use on a rock concert poster was overwhelmingly favorable. EVERYONE just loved this poster. As cool as it was, other rock artists of the time said “Why didn’t I think of that?” It was so obvious, but it took Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly working together for the very first time as Mouse Studios to come up with the idea and bring it to realization. There was however some fear that they would be sued for using this copyrighted image, but apparently the company saw it as free advertising and never bothered them. There is a certain irony to the quotation that they placed at the bottom of the poster. “What you don’t know about coping and duplicating won’t hurt you” This poster was so popular that it became the first poster to be pirated. When Chet Helms who was the head man of the Family Dog heard of the pirate posters he had a rubber stamp made up that read “Genuine Counterfeit” and with his posse went into the stores selling these posters and stamped as many copies before being ejected from the stores. It is part of the irony of their chosen form of Hippie Justice that both with and without the stamp these posters are also very collectable as well. The one seen here has a old both Mouse and Kelly’s signature from when it was first circulated!
And it was 50,……yeah 50 years ago!!! on this day in June back in 1966, that Big Brother & the Holding Company and the Quicksilver Messenger Service played this historic concert at the Avalon Ballroom here in our beautiful City by the Bay. Knock-out Light show provided by Bill Ham & Company (of which I was a fledgling member at the time) This poster has been printed an amazing NINE times both authorized and UN-authorized. Just as a footnote and not that it really matters to anyone but me, but it was the first time I dropped acid at the Avalon and I’ll never forget watching Janis as I sat on the floor right in front of the stage, singing her heart out. What a show it was ….especially for me!
Share the “Zig-Zag” man with a friend!
Nostalgically Approved by Professor Poster
by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Oct 10, 2012 | Grateful Dead
Some examples of the poster and rock art of Stanley Mouse:
by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Nov 10, 2011 | Grateful Dead
This was a special fundraiser for the Grateful Dead Archive
Pictures and notes are courtesey of longtime Deadheadland friend and supporter, Julie Postel:
Nicholas Meriwether has outdone himself in his role heading up the Grateful Dead Archive as part of the Special Collections of the University of California at 
Santa Cruz. He put together a hardbound book for each guest and with the generosity of Roger McNammee, organized a special poster for this fund raising event designed by Stanley Mouse which also became the cover of the book for this event titled “Attics of Our Lives”.
My husband Rus and I were thrilled to be a part of such a great evening which included music by a 4-piece band made up of musicians from Slugs and Roses and China Cat.
We were treated to a preview of the Grateful Dead Archive exhibit which will open to the public in April and we were surrounded by those who have supported the Grateful Dead and their music from the beginning.
A highlight for me was listening to Dennis McNally tell Marc Pincus and his wife about the evening when he called Vince Welnick to ask him to call Jerry and tell him that he was nervous about their upcoming singing of the national anthem for the Giants – Vince convinced Jerry that he needed to rehearse and so they did and their rendering of the national anthem turned out to the best ever and people say that version of the anthem spurred the Giants into a winning streak!
Rock Scully, Allan Trist, and Stanley Mouse were among the notables in attendance and it was a great evening for Barry Barnes who has just published the finest book on the Grateful Dead business model (“Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead: The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip
“) and his work, too, was honoured in the preview exhibit.
Julie Postel
Checking out the exhibits at the Grateful Dead Archive preview event
