Victor Moscoso, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Steve Miller Blues Band, The Daily Flash, Ben Van Meter, Rodger Hillyard: Peacock Ball at the Avalon Ballroom, March 10-11, 1967, 1st edition
VICTOR MOSCOSO USA
Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Steve Miller Blues Band, The Daily Flash, Ben Van Meter, Rodger Hillyard: Peacock Ball at the Avalon Ballroom March 10-11, 1967
Stanley Mouse / Alton Kelley, Grateful Dead & Oxford Circle at the Avalon Ballroom September 16 -17, 1966
STANLEY MOUSE USA
ALTON KELLEY USA
Grateful Dead & Oxford Circle at the Avalon Ballroom September 16 -17, 1966
Marked: Mouse Studios 66, 26(3), (c) Family Dog Productions 1966 639 Gough St., San Francisco, Calif. 94102
H: 20″ x W: 14″
Born in Detroit, Stanley Miller became known as “Mouse” after illustrating countless notebooks with his signature rodent sketch. Miller found an outlet for his creativity in pin-striping cars and airbrushing hot rod designs on posters and T-shirts. Mouse migrated to San Francisco in 1964, where he first met the artists associated with Family Dog, the organization producing dance concerts at the Avalon Ballroom. With collaborator Alton Kelley, Mouse experimented broadly with composition, lettering and imagery: Kelley came up with the ideas and Mouse executed the designs. Mouse and Kelley helped to establish the psychedelic style of expression under the name Mouse Studios.
*** An example of this poster is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
By 1967, Eric Burdon took the Animals into a harder, more psychedelic sound than the one listeners recognized from the band’s earlier incarnation. Burdon would later take this style even further when he teamed up with an obscure Los Angeles band known as War. The poster was printed only once before the concert
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