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Muddy Waters Vulcan Gas Company Poster

2012-02-16T05:41:00.000-08:00

Check out this sick Muddy Waters Vulcan Gas Company poster! And look who was the the warm up band - Johnny Winter! Supposedly, when Johnny was wailing out, Mud called Chicago and screamed into the phone at Willie Dixon *that* was a white boy wailing out! This poster has been folded but nothing some tender, loving, professional restoration couldn't fix.

Gilbert Shelton Piece - Rag Benefit 5/19/67

2012-02-15T08:12:00.000-08:00

Here's an extremely rare Gilbert Shelton piece from Tut's Tomb Dallas. It promotes a Rag Benefit which was the "underground" newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin. To read more about the Rag go HERE. It looks like this piece could really use the services of Kiloh's expert poster restorer but what-the-hey it's rare-as-hen's-teeth!

Steppenwolf Hemisfair Arena 10/13/68 Poster

2012-02-14T07:28:00.000-08:00

Check out this, rare-as-hen's-teeth, Steppenwolf Hemisfair Arena 10/13/68 poster by Gilbert Shelton. It's often mistaken as a Vulcan Gas Company poster because it's by Gilbert and this poster maintains the same dimensions as a Vulcan poster (BIG).

This poster is from Tut's Tomb Dallas where that big time collector is breaking it all out for the fans to see.

Austin Inner Sanctum Records Poster and More

2012-02-13T18:13:00.000-08:00

Here’s a nod to your friendly Head Shop / Record Store. See, poster for Inner Sanctum Records by Jim Franklin; poster for some head shop by Jim Harter; Oat Willie’s by Gilbert Shelton. Go HERE to read the Wikipedia article on Inner Sanctum Records. Go HERE to read about Oat Willie’s.

Bruce Springsteen Armadillo World Headquarters 6/15/74 Posters

2012-02-13T07:42:00.000-08:00

Check out these two Bruce Springsteen Armadillo World Headquarters 6/15/74 posters. Springsteen played the Armadillo four times in 1974. These two posters are out of Tut's Tomb Dallas. Enjoy.

Signed Golden Dawn Vulcan Gas Company Posters

2012-02-12T07:20:00.000-08:00

We are still perusing Tut's Tomb Dallas and check out these two Golden Dawn Vulcan Gas Company posters! Signed by Gilbert Shelton too! This Collector is trotting it all out for the fans to see, no "website" with tiny thumbnail shots. As if, "Omigawd, I must prevent *them* from using MY images!" It's so small-minded and counter to the Quest for Pure Sanity. With the opening of Tut's Tomb in Austin, and Tut's Tomb in Dallas, the music is coming out and the images are coming out! Let those wishing to control things, or own part of the story by holding some "artifact", grab what they can while they scurry out of the way of the Wheels of Progress. The Quest for Pure Sanity continues.

No, Tut's Tomb Dallas has cracked open the doorway. You're not getting a little peek, in the form of some low-pixal thumbnail, but you are getting full-on digital photography glory. At the bottom of this post is a vid of the Blow Your Mind poster from the Tut's Tomb, Unit P, Auxiliary Site in Phoenix, Arizona.

13th Floor Elevators Signed Vulcan Gas Company Posters

2012-02-11T19:24:00.000-08:00

We are back visiting that Uber Collector who lives in Tut's Tomb Dallas. Want something to feast your eyes on? How about both "Pooh" and "Brains and Guts" posters signed by Gilbert Shelton, Roky Erickson & Spencer Perskin?!! Yes, Virginia... There is a Santa Claus and he lives in all of the LSD damaged minds of the cognoscenti worldwide! It doesn't get any sicker than this! Unless it's those two "Pooh" handbills!

Feast your eyes... I got nothing more to say.

Bill Narum Piece - Johnny Winter, Allman Brothers - Manor Downs, 7/28/79

2012-02-11T00:36:00.000-08:00

Look at this beauty! It's a Bill Naurm piece promoting a Johnny Winter, Allman Brothers show at Manor Downs, Texas 7/28/79. Jerry Jeff Walker opened; then Johnny came on. I heard that Johnny didn't know when to quit and almost got his plug pulled. The Allman Brothers put on an amazing show.

Music for the Spheres Being Produced

2012-02-10T16:41:00.001-08:00

Music for the Spheres being produced.

The 13th Floor Elevators - Music of the Spheres (vinyl boxset being manufactured) from Charly Records on Vimeo.

13th Floor Elevators "Pooh" Handbill

2012-02-10T15:04:00.000-08:00

Check out these two "Pooh" Vulcan Gas Company handbills! These handbills are even rarer than the posters! One is a "negative" version of the other (almost) and confirms that two versions of this 'bill were produced. One handbill is autographed by Spencer Perskin. Again, we are in the home of the serious collector of Texas Psych art. This site is known as Tut's Tomb Dallas. There's a Tut's Tomb Austin and a Tut's Tomb Unit P Auxiliary in Phoenix (my home). But Tut's Tomb Dallas has yielded many "wondrous things" for us to grok over the next months.

And that's what it's all about - sharing. See... this Collector is part of the human race and he GETS IT. He gets the Quest for Pure Sanity thing. Part of this Quest is that one doesn't "hold on" to anything and they share with others. Our Collector in Dallas understands this.

The other? What others? Paul Drummond? The guy obtains a single, never-seen-before, photograph of Roky and the Spades and falls all over himself to copyright it in his name. Really? Paul wasn't even born when that photo was taken so... why is he copyrighting it in his own name? And how did he get it? He talked it out of the person that took it with the ol' "I'm an Author and I am writing a book" scam. Read more about this picture here.

Patrick Lama? That guy wrote his own Wikipedia article! No loss of the ego there. And a big part of the Quest is reduction of the ego. This guy has a long history of shenanigans in the Texas Psych space. Like cribbing the 'Elevators' stuff out of the Jack Ortman Scrapbooks. He fell over himself to give all his friends props in his "13th Floor Elevators Reference File" but Jack got a single mention as a "source" when Lama ripped the entire piece of work out of the Ortman Scrapbooks.

When Walt Andrus died Lama had the enormous brass balls to get on Mr. Andrus' Obituary on the Houston Press blog and complain that they had used "his" photograph of Mr. Andrus without his permission. Then he threatened that "no more" would be forthcoming as if he even has anything worth looking at! Back in the day, Lama used to get on the Internet message boards and crow about "this" 'Elevators 45 rpm mix and "that" mono LP track. But God forbid he would share anything. It was all about that SELF IMPORTANCE of being able to say that he had something that other didn't. And really? All he had was some scratchy vinyl that he bought on Ebay. Lama has no "in" with people. To read more about Lama go here. Yuk.

This brings us to Billy Miller also known as Billy Alienate. Once, he had a minor part in one of Roky's bands. He has since turned that into a career of being somebody that "knows" Roky. He also is in possession of cassette tapes of Roky Erickson Aliens Session that he claims to "own". Billy used to to convert like... 10 seconds of some rare session to MP3 and post it for people to hear. The whole idea of this was to boost that SELF IMPORTANCE by showing that he "owned" something that nobody else had.

Well... Cracking open Tut's Tomb in Austin put the kibosh on that nonsense. What was in Tut's Tomb Austin but the entire Aliens sessions on reel to reel and cassette! Billy has nothing to crow about now but that doesn't stop him. To read more about Billy Alienate go here and here and here.

People like this don't get the Quest for Pure Sanity; it totally escapes them. And don't be fooled by their rap and they DO have a rap.

To read more about Jack Ortman go here and here and here.

Enjoy the images that will be published!

13th Floor Elevators Cashbox Tear Sheets

2012-02-06T19:48:00.000-08:00

Check out these three pages out of 1966 music magazines. See… back before there were all these modern conveniences, like the Internet and mobi apps, groups had to do things like pay the Disc Jockey to play their song (Payola) or buy advertising space in a music mag that the DJ might read such as Cashbox, Billboard and Record World.

These are Cashbox tear sheets from 13th Floor Elevators 45 rpm ads. I guess IA thought enough of this method of advertising to purchase full page ads. A “tear sheet” is just that; a single sheet “torn” from the magazine that show’s the client’s ad. Really, tear sheets are sent to the client prior to the ad running so they can see the layout.

Two of these are from that Uber Collector who is giving us a glimpse into “Tut’s Tomb”. One piece is mine; the one with all the signatures on it. I have Roky, Tommy, Clementine, Ronnie, John Ike, Danny Thomas and Powell St. John. Yeah, I know folks.

Roky Erickson Posters on Display

2012-02-02T15:19:00.000-08:00

Roky Erickson

Check out these sick Roky Erickson posters on display in the home of our Uber Collector. Most of these are signed. I'll shaddap and let you feast your eyes.

13th Floor Elevators Posters

2012-02-02T06:58:00.000-08:00

13th Floor Elevators

Check out these three framed 13th Floor Elevators posters. We have two Avalon Ballroom ones and a Vulcan Gas Company. Our Uber Collector is still giving us that tour of his home. Below this are three vids showing the restoration and framing of a Vulcan poster by the band. It just keeps getting better and better and better.

Johnny Winter Vulcan Gas Company Poster

2012-02-01T19:29:00.000-08:00

Johnny Winter

This is an extremely rare Johnny Winter Vulcan Gas Company poster known as Two Headed Snake. It's from the home of that Uber Collector. This was a Johnny / Bubble Puppy gig. Pretty sick! Enjoy!

Clementin Hall Remembers Janis Joplin

2012-02-01T14:11:00.000-08:00

Janis Joplin

Ms. Clementine Hall recently sent the Texas Psych Blog this exclusive piece about her friend - Janis Joplin:

Clementine Hall on Janis Joplin:

As I recall, the first time the people who knew her in Austin heard her sing was when she was about 18. We were at" the Ghetto" (a cheap, ramshackle housing development on the campus of the University of Texas), in the apartment of Wally and Tommy Stopher. Powell St. John also had a room there (with a joke sign over the door that said "ball room" (meaning room in which to have sex!) I was mostly hanging out with Wally Stopher (who to this day remains my oldest friend from the University of Texas). I remember Powell being there, and Wally and another friend Ramsey Wiggins (whose brother Lanny Wiggins was an exceptionally fine 12-string guitar player; he and Powell and Janis later formed a little hootenanny-type folk/blues group that called themselves the "Waller Creek Boys," after the creek than ran through our part of the campus). Besides myself, I'm not sure who else was there at the time - there were always people drifiting through. I cannot recall what we were talking about; usually we just sat around and listened to records and smoked cigarettes. Anyway, Janis walked in, dragging a big old reel-to-reel tape recorder and asked us to wait until she left and then turn on the recorder and play a tape she'd made of herself singing. She also made us promise that we would tell her the absolute truth about what we thought of her voice. We promised, she left, we turned on the machine.

(At the time I had a light Joan Baez-type soprano voice and had sung a few solos in high school, but had had no exposure to blues or anything outside of classical, pop or folk singing. I had never let anyone at the Ghetto hear me sing. I was like a blank slate where most music was concerned.) Through my ears, that tape was the most extraordinary thing I had ever heard in my life. First of all, I had never heard Bessie Smith (and Janis had chosen mostly her songs); secondly, I had never heard a white female voice remotely like Janis' voice. Despite the complete unexpectedness of the experience of hearing Janis sing for the first time, I was instantly converted. I was absolutely thrilled by the sound, immediately and permanently. As was everyone else in the room. None of us could believe what we heard. It was the same voice we know now, except that it lacked the screaming she later asked Roky if she could borrow.

Janis was gone for about 30 minutes and we kept re-winding and replaying the tape and finding ourselves at a loss for words. The other people there were much more familiar with the music than I, but they were as flabbergasted as I was. Every one of them. We never stopped listening and waiting for her to return. When she finally came back, we carried on and on and she kept saying, "Are you sure? Are you shitting me? Please don't say shit you don't mean." I learned a bit later that the voice she grew up with was a light soprano (her family kept asking her to return to her "pretty voice" and give up her blues voice). From that moment on, we kept urging her to get up and sing before others, and as soon as she sang at a campus "Hootenanny" she became famous on campus.

I have vivid memories of those Hootenannies on Wednesday night on campus. She would sing, Powell would play guitar and harmonica and Lanny Wiggins would play 12-string guitar. Janis turned me on to small, slender cigars called "Havatampa Jewels" and we would sit cross-legged on the carpeted floor and smoke them - they were absolutely delicious. At one point, I got up the nerve to stand up and sing a Sottish lullaby in my newly discovered mezzo soprano voice, and John Clay (a legend on campus, a songwriter extraordinaire and banjo player we all respected) actually praised me, telling me that I had sung it authentically and asked me to come and sing that song with them on the radio. I was overwhelmed but I did it. I sang after Janis and the others had sung and played, but never again.

Janis, Powell and Lanny Wiggins then started playing regularly at Threadgills in Austin (a beer bar and restaurant combination that became much beloved by Austinites). They could have free beer if they played music. I can see and hear them so clearly in my mind. They were so extraordinary, with their fusion of old country, old blues and a little Woody Guthrie protest music. I can still see Powell ratcheting his foot up and down, as if he were playing an old pedaled sewing machine, and absolutely wailing on his harmonica. (Three harmonicas really stand out in my memory from those times: Bob Dylan's, Roky Erickson's and Powell St. John's. I could listen to those guys play harmonica all day (and often have), without ever tiring of it. Janis was in her element at Threadgills: only a few uptight frat types or hard-core cowboys made it out there, and those that did lightened up after a few beers and the music soaked in. She was full of laughter and affection for people, while still maintaining her tough/hip girl defensive appearance.

Janis often mentioned how moved she was by our acceptance of her tape-recorded singing. But she was terrified about singing before a real crowd and when the time came for he to sing at a fund raiser the Elevators were playing at, she had to be literally pushed onto the stage by friends. She went on in her usual costume: black dress, black hose, black sensible shoes and her hair pulled back in a bun. Once she started singing, her talent was recognized.

I was present at only one other occasion when Janis was thrilled to pieces by something said to her. Tommy and I were visiting Chet Helms (the proprietor of the Avalon Ballroom) in San Francisco at the time we we touring the Bay Area with the Elevators. Before going out Chet had told us that B. B. King was in town and might be calling, and asked us to take a message. He mentioned that B. B. King loved to come to Chet's place to play the slot machine Chet had installed for special guests. This machine was programmed to pay out more than not. Sure enough, that afternoon, when Janis was also visiting, the phone rang and she picked it up before we could tell her about the expected call. We heard her end of the conversation but she was doing very little talking and she didn't sound like her usual self (which was usually full of laughter and wise-cracking when she was in a comfortable environment). When she got off she was almost fainting with pleasure. She had heard his message and then she said, "You probably don't know who I am, but my name is Janis Joplin and I am a great fan of yours." After that she was completely silent, except to say good-bye. It turned out he had said: "I know who you are. You are the best damn white blues singer in the world."

Austin George Kinney Benefit - Uncle Billy's 3/17/02

2012-01-30T08:24:00.000-08:00

Mal Thursday says:

I have a tentative date for the next George Kinney benefit, on SXSW Saturday March 17th from 2 pm to 2 am at Uncle Billy's Lake Travis.

I am trying to get Bubble Puppy, Josefus, and Shiva's Headband for the show, along with Lone Star Hippie, The Texas Garage Project, Jesse Sublett, and UK fuzzmasters The Higher State.

Shiva's Headband is playing a record release show for their SINGLES COLLECTION anthology at Uncle Billy's Lake Travis on Saturday February 11th.

Here's some vid from a Kinney Benefit at Uncle Billy's:

13th Floor Elevators - Magic Mountain Music Festival Poster Signed by Roky!

2012-01-28T10:32:00.000-08:00

Check out this framed Magic Mountain Music Festival poster signed by Roky! This is from the home of that Uber Collector who is sharing his stash with we mere mortals.

The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival was an event held June 10 and 11th, 1967 at the 4,000 seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre high on the south face of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. Kicking off the summer of love, this is the first real rock & roll festival, predating Monterey by a few weeks. At least 36,000 people attended the two-day concert and fair that was the first of a series of San Francisco area cultural events known as the Summer of Love. The Fantasy Fair was influenced by the popular Renaissance Pleasure Faire and became a prototype for large scale multi-act outdoor rock music events now known as rock festivals.

Admission to the festival was two bucks and all proceeds were donated to the nearby Hunters Point Child Care Center in San Francisco. The Fantasy Fair was originally scheduled for June 3 and 4 as a benefit for the center, but was delayed one week by inclement weather. Several acts booked for the original dates were unable to perform, including the 13th Floor Elevators.

Alec Palao wrote of the fair in Cream Puff War #1: “The dichotomy in Bay Area music was never so evident, as the self-proclaimed “adult” scene separated itself from the “teen/pop” scenes.” Paradoxically, Greg Shaw recalls that there was not really a large gap splitting the radio preferences of the teens and the hip until Tom Donohue’s free-form KMPX fully flowered in the fall of ’67. “Being a KFRC event, it probably attracted some younger fans who wouldn’t have minded [Every Mother's Son], with the older hippies coming for their own reasons, if only a groovy day out in the sun.” A review of the bands that played indicates that most were groups that played the Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms and were part of the Psychedelic scene at the time. It wasn’t a teenie-bopper event.

Here is the musical line up for both days:

Saturday, June 10

    Mount Rushmore
    Rodger Collins
    Dionne Warwick
    The Doors
    The Lamp of Childhood
    Canned Heat
    Jim Kweskin Jug Band
    Spanky and Our Gang
    Blackburn & Snow
    The Sparrow
    Every Mother's Son
    Kaleidoscope
    The Chocolate Watch Band
    The Mojo Men
    The Merry-Go-Round

Sunday, June 11

    Sons of Champlin
    Jefferson Airplane
    The Byrds with Hugh Masekela
    P. F. Sloan
    Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
    The Seeds
    The Grass Roots
    The Loading Zone
    Tim Buckley
    Every Mother's Son
    Steve Miller Blues Band
    Country Joe and the Fish
    The 5th Dimension
    The Lamp of Childhood
    The Mystery Trend
    Penny Nichols
    The Merry-Go-Round
    New Salvation Army Band
Here are a couple of quotes about the festival:

Kathy McCarthy Cari:

"I was 14, lived in Tam Valley, at the base of "the mountain" and was lucky enough to go both days. It was my first concert of any kind. I watched a lot, walked around the grounds and people-watched too. There were couples in the bushes, getting high, making out and some were just picnicing. I don't remember if I was with anyone but I know my mom was pissed I went. She was trying to get me ready for a Edna McGuire School 8th grade graduation and I was not around for a dress fitting until 10 pm the first night. I vividly remember The Cyrcle (Red Rubber Ball), Grass Roots (Live for Today)and Country Joe (Going up the Country), The Byrds (Turn Turn Turn). Those songs play once in a while and they bring me back to that Fair. Just like it did this morning when the Cyrcle played Red Rubber Ball this morning. I hitched home both days and took the bus up. I lived 12 minutes from the Fantasy Fair and will NEVER EVER forget it. I remember lots...very fondly and emotionally."

Dave:

"I was 14 when I attended this festival (only went on one day). I remember the Doors were great, they did the long organ solo version of 'Light my Fire' like the one you could only hear on KSAN FM radio at the time. I also remember Dionne Warwick singing her cheesy top 40 hit 'Do You Know the Way to San Jose?' and she got lots of applause, even from the pack of Hells Angels that were with all their bikes right up front by the stage (total jerks otherwise). And I remember Canned Heat blew me away with 'Rollin and a Tumblin' and 'Bull Frog Blues". I went out and bought their album right away and it still is one of my favorites. Anyway, this was one of the best festivals I went to (along with Lake Amador). The 'Summer of Love' was no BS; people looked out for each other, and there was a feeling of kinship that was very optimistic and positive. Then the bad drugs (speed, smack, downers) and the sell-out media commercialization combined to crush it. But while it lasted it was a beautiful thing, as anyone who was there will testify. Rock-on!"

Don Steiner:

"We hitchiked from Sacramento and had a great time. I remember watching David Crosby taking a toke from a joint that was handed to him from someone below the stage. A great group "New Salvation Army Band" also played. I still have the program and made notes to who played that differs a little from the schedule. Great time in my life."

Jim Robertson:

"I was there both days. I was stationed on top of Mt Tam in the air force. The AF was so paranoid that they locked the gates at 5:00 Friday evening in fear of "peace & love". Anyone not on base was stuck (oh shit) whichever side of the gate they were on. I was lucky enough to be outside with tickets for both days! Decision I will cherish for the rest of my life!!"

Here are some photos:

Beefheart photos at Festival. Beefheart ( Van Vliet) walked off the stage right after the intro to the second song, having experienced some kind of LSD flashback. At 2:08, Ry Cooder is pictured behind Jerry Handley watching Don walk off the stage:

Review of Disc 8, A Love That's Sound, from Sign of the 3 Eyed Men

2012-01-26T15:19:00.000-08:00

This is a review of Disc 8, from that abortion of a 13th Floor Elevators box set - A Love That’s Sound. This is the only disc that is unique and hasn’t been done before (and better) by somebody else. Meaning, ALL of the material on the other nine CD’s has been released before by somebody else in better quality. OK, OK aside from the stray track that is.

Here is the track listing:

01 - Wait For My Love (unreleased 6th single)
02 - It's You (acetate)
03 - May The Circle Remain unbroken (original mix)
04 - Livin' On (take 1, full take with original vocals)
05 - Never Another (take 8, full take with original vocals)
06 - Dr Doom (take 6, original vocals)
07 - Sweet Surprise (take 5, original vocals)
08 - Moon Song (take 1, unreleased backing track)
09 - Livin' On (take 1, edited and overdubbed lead vocals)
10 - Never Another (rehearsal, unknown take)
11 - It's You (rehearsal, take 3)
12 - Moon Song (rehearsal, take 6)

Obviously, Paul Drummond doesn’t like Stacy Sutherland because none of Mr. Sutherland's tracks where he does vocals appear. It is apparent Drummond was trying to recreate the “lost” third album by the band to be called Beauty and the Beast. He failed miserably because there was, obviously, so little to work with. We have original takes, that appear on Bull of the Woods (making them duplicates), and duplicate titles (different takes) of four of the songs on the same disc. This disc is really a catch all for the last “Roky” tracks and NOT an unreleased third album as Drummond calls it.

The worst part of this disc is the thin and two-dimensional sound. This is because those idiots took the warm analog signal and ran some sort of horrible compression program on it once converted to digital. This “boosts” the overall signal across the dynamic range but it also flattens out that same dynamic range. The “warmth” and three-dimensional quality of the sound is utterly lost. This is not my opinion; this is fact. Graph this recording and then graph something put out by the Roky CD Club or graph an original ‘Elevators album. This Charly product is a (pretty much) flat line of constant noise. Shit, put it on and listen to it; let your own ears tell you.

And when you put these Charly discs on your stereo you can’t crank it like you normally want to without the sound getting all brittle-sounding. This is because the signal is ALREADY balls-to-the-wall on the disc. It doesn’t sound clear and loud like it’s supposed to. It sounds crappy and loud; the sound is hot and brittle. This is entirely Drummond/Charly’s fault. And it shows how Mickey Mouse and UN-knowledgeable they really are.

Still, one should get this eighth disc from the abortion of a box set. I think it’s called: Sign of the 3 Eyed Men. The ONLY reason for getting this eighth disc is that it’s still very interesting and unique; in spite of its glaring deficiencies. But this is the ONLY disc from that abortion of a box set that you need.

Texas Pop Festival Poster - "First State"

2012-01-24T15:25:00.000-08:00

Check out this “First State” Texas Pop Festival poster. This is from the home of that uber collector who has been kind enough to share with us.

Two weeks after Woodstock many of the same bands, and attendees, converged on the Dallas International Motor Speedway in Lewisville, Texas to rock out. Fans experienced the music of B.B.King, Canned Heat, Chicago, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton Blues Band, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Led Zeppelin, Nazz, The Quarry, Rotary Connection, Sam & Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly & the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White!

Here’s the list of bands in order of appearance:

Saturday, August 30
Canned Heat
Chicago Transit Authority
James Cotton Blues Band
Janis Joplin
B.B. King
Herbie Mann
Rotary Connection
Sam & Dave

Sunday, August 31
Chicago Transit Authority
James Cotton Blues Band
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
Incredible String Band
B.B. King
Led Zeppelin (announced as "The Led Zeppelin")
Herbie Mann
Sam & Dave
Santana

Monday, September 1
Johnny Winter
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
B.B. King
Nazz
Sly and the Family Stone
Spirit
Sweetwater
Ten Years After
Tony Joe White

Here's an example of a "Second State" poster:

Here's some vid from that weekend:

Shiva's Headband Picture Disc for Sale! Sick! Nice!

2012-01-23T18:16:00.000-08:00

Shiva's Headband has issued sick picture disc! Take a look at that puppy above (front & back). This disc is called The Singles Collection and features three extra tracks. Me? I doubt I'll even play this thing because it's going upon my wall!

Now, our buddy, Spencer Perskin, has a 1,000 of these things so... we need all of the cognoscenti to step up and pony up for one. We're always bitching about that "there's no good music coming out now" but here, one of our own, has independently put this great disc out. Support this great band and support the Texas Psych Genre of music by BUYING A DISC!

Please click either picture at the top to be taken to the site to purchase this great Shiva's Headband Picture Disc.

Fever Tree - Masonic Temple Poster 6/22/68

2012-01-20T23:05:00.000-08:00

This good-looking poster advertises a June 22, 1968 show at the Masonic Temple in Portland, Oregon that starred Fever Tree. There is no artist credit, but it was obviously created by the same artist responsible for many of the other Masonic Temple pieces of the day. This poster is in wonderful condition with a bit of handling, but no other flaws. Size: 14" x 22"

The Masonic Temple was built in 1925, at 1119 SW Park Avenue at SW Jefferson Street. The Masonic Temple building is now part of the Portland Art Museum (the address is 1219 SW Park). The 4-story building still includes the Grand Ballroom, which is probably a remodeled version of the Ballroom used for rock concerts in the 1960s. The current capacity is about 1000 (per the site), so perhaps up to twice that many could have been squeezed in.The Masonic Temple was a regular, if intermittent venue for Portland rock concerts in the 60s.

Clementine Hall Offering Rendering of Your Favorite Pet

2012-01-19T17:30:00.000-08:00

Our own Clementine Hall is now offering drawings of your favorite pet from photographs. See an example in this blog post. Can the fans please forward this blog post around to other discussion boards? Below is Ms. Hall's message to Texas Psych fans:

From Clementine:

Drawings of your favorite Pet... I can make a pencil portrait of your favorite pet, or wild animals, birds, etc. I make exceedingly realistic drawings. Photos are nice mementos but an original drawing is more than a memento, it immortalizes your special pet, captured in a work of art.

My large framed drawings (8X10) are $100 and the smaller ones (5X7) are $75. This price also includes framing them in a beautiful frame. Postage and shipping extra. Contact me at: clementinehall13@aol.com

PLEASE, limit queries to this offer!

Design for Avalon Spaceman Poster

2012-01-18T19:12:00.000-08:00

The original design for the Avalon Spaceman Poster was taken from a 1954 photo, by Ralph Morse, of an Air Force pilot, with patterns of light covering his face and shoulders (like a contour map), being measured for a perfectly fitted flight helmet. This was the cover story of the December 6, 1954, issue of LIFE; a report simply titled: "Jet Age Man."

This same image was used for two extremely popular and enduring psychedelic posters in San Francisco and Detroit known as both "Zebra Man" and "Spaceman".

Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly utilized the image for a 9/30 - 10/1/66 gig at the Avalon Ballroom by the 13th Floor Elevators.

Gary Grimshaw borrowed the image for 10/21 - 22/66 gig at Detroit's Grande Ballroom by the MC5.

Here's a vid with a close-up of the Avalon Spaceman poster:

Johnny Winter on Letterman 1/12/12

2012-01-17T18:01:00.000-08:00

Johnny Winter is back! Here he is the other night on Letterman! David Letterman, after the performance, said: “God Almighty, that was great. Johnny, good to see you. Here’s what we’re going to do. Paul, get us a van. I’ll get some cheap speed, some coffee and some donuts and we’ll just drive all night."

Johnny went though some really, really tough times with heroin addiction and then addiction to tranquilizers. It is SO GOOD to see him back and wailing out! I saw him in 1999, at Yasgur's Farm for the 30th Anniversary of Woodstock, and it left me shaken. He looked like he climbed out of a hospital bed to perform. He was a shadow of himself and played slow blues; the only thing that hadn't let him down was his slide.

Now he's back and sounding like the platinum-haired Guitar God I used to see strutting around on the stage at the Chance in Poughkeepsie. He'd get full of whiskey and cocaine and blow the doors in! One night, in the alley behind the Chance, my friend and I were smoking something and getting ready to go in. We heard Johnny playing his guitar backstage through an open window. We began yelling stuff up to the window and Johnny would let us yell some stuff and then reply with a guitar riff!

I saw him, at a free concert outside New Paltz, a few days after Muddy Waters died in 1983. I taped that show and he totally wailed out. This was released on the Roky CD Club a few years back. SUNY New Paltz insisted that their sound system be used along with Johnny's stacks of Marshalls. Johnny fried the SUNY New Paltz sound system.

A friend of mine went to see him in Albany in 1978; up at JB Scott's or JB Stokes. Midnight comes and no Johnny. One o'clock comes and no Johnny. Two o'clock comes and no Johnny. Finally, at 2:30 am, Johnny slithers up to the mic and yells: "I'M TOO FUCKED UP TO PLAAAAAAYYYY!" Then he passed out and fell into the audience. The crowd rioted and tore the joint down. My friend became a HUGE Johnny fan that night!

Fucking Johnny is back. Awesome.

2012-01-16T12:02:00.000-08:00

Check out this cool Grateful Dead San Antonio poster! The set list is below. That Dark Star is 24 minutes long! Yikes!

11/26/72, San Antonio Municipal Auditorium

Artist: Micael Priest

Setlist:

One:
The Promised Land
Deal
Mexicali Blues
Sugaree
Black Throated Wind
Bird Song
Beat It On Down The Line
China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
Box Of Rain
El Paso
Big Railroad Blues
Around And Around
Casey Jones

Two:
Playing In The Band
Brown Eyed Women
Jack Straw
Don't Ease Me In
Big River
Dark Star > Me And Bobby McGee
Brokedown Palace
Sugar Magnolia > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night