• Unveiling of an early Neon Rose series litho by Victor Moscoso, Exhibition opening March 7, 6:30-8:00 - exhibit (with Wes Wilson) runs through May. Amazing works.
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    Unveiling of an early Neon Rose series litho by Victor Moscoso, Exhibition opening March 7, 6:30-8:00 - exhibit (with Wes Wilson) runs through May. Amazing works.
  • Coming out of hibernation! Dual Retrospective - the recently deceased Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso - early works. Opens March 7!
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    Coming out of hibernation! Dual Retrospective - the recently deceased Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso - early works. Opens March 7!
  • Enjoyed meeting David Graham, Bill and Bonnie MacLean’s son at the Bill Graham Exhibition in NYC on Thursday. David looks like his Dad (more handsome maybe) and is a super nice guy. Bonnie MacLean RIP, 1939-2020.
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    Enjoyed meeting David Graham, Bill and Bonnie MacLean’s son at the Bill Graham Exhibition in NYC on Thursday. David looks like his Dad (more handsome maybe) and is a super nice guy. Bonnie MacLean RIP, 1939-2020.
  • Jes sayin’...
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    Jes sayin’...
  • Highlights from “Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution” exhibition at New-York Historical Society Museum last night. A Fillmore East Reunion. Met many interesting people, authors and photographers I’m hoping to coax over to the Bahr to speak. I highly recommend the exhibition - very informative and amazing photos and posters.
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    Highlights from “Bill Graham and the Rock and Roll Revolution” exhibition at New-York Historical Society Museum last night. A Fillmore East Reunion. Met many interesting people, authors and photographers I’m hoping to coax over to the Bahr to speak. I highly recommend the exhibition - very informative and amazing photos and posters.
  • Bahr Gallery has 11 pieces on loan to the Bill Graham Rock and Roll Revolution Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Museum. If you’re going to the Opening Gala tonight, I’ll be there and hope to see you! Exhibition runs through Aug 11.
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    Bahr Gallery has 11 pieces on loan to the Bill Graham Rock and Roll Revolution Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Museum. If you’re going to the Opening Gala tonight, I’ll be there and hope to see you! Exhibition runs through Aug 11.
  • Wes Wilson, founder of the psychedelic poster movement and one of San Francisco’s Big Five poster artists, passed away Saturday. Our Wes Wilson Retrospective (planned well before this news) opens March 7.
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    Wes Wilson, founder of the psychedelic poster movement and one of San Francisco’s Big Five poster artists, passed away Saturday. Our Wes Wilson Retrospective (planned well before this news) opens March 7.
  • The companion piece to Hawaii Pop Festival. Girls get Wings! 1967 surrealist collage and very psychedelic lettering by Victor Moscoso. I ran this through the Instagram filters (chose Lark) and the clarity of the lettering was changing wildly. Quite cool.
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    The companion piece to Hawaii Pop Festival. Girls get Wings! 1967 surrealist collage and very psychedelic lettering by Victor Moscoso. I ran this through the Instagram filters (chose Lark) and the clarity of the lettering was changing wildly. Quite cool.
  • Here’s to days getting longer...slowly...but yes.
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    Here’s to days getting longer...slowly...but yes.
  • Working behind the scenes....
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    Working behind the scenes....
  • Happy New Year - 1985 style here, in photo of the 3-story high cake carrying Bill Graham toward the Grateful Dead’s stage at midnight. Graham loved appearing at New Year’s shows dressed as Father Time with some sort of grand entrance (on a giant mushroom, a lightning bolt out of the sky, etc…) and this giant float was to celebrate the Dead’s 20th anniversary. The show was broadcast nationally on TV and radio and the video of Father Guido Sarducci and a “highly acidic” Ken Kesey raving as the cake rolled in is priceless. Google for yourself!
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    Happy New Year - 1985 style here, in photo of the 3-story high cake carrying Bill Graham toward the Grateful Dead’s stage at midnight. Graham loved appearing at New Year’s shows dressed as Father Time with some sort of grand entrance (on a giant mushroom, a lightning bolt out of the sky, etc…) and this giant float was to celebrate the Dead’s 20th anniversary. The show was broadcast nationally on TV and radio and the video of Father Guido Sarducci and a “highly acidic” Ken Kesey raving as the cake rolled in is priceless. Google for yourself!
  • Victor Moscoso designed this 1966 Avalon poster, known as “Hippie Santa Claus.” At the time of this concert, the Family Dog was using radio ads promising a Hippie Santa Claus, who intoned “Ho Ho Ho,” in a very hip voice, thus the name of the poster. Victor Moscoso was one of San Francisco’s Big Five poster artists and yet this is the only poster he ever designed promoting a Grateful Dead concert. Moscoso referred to this image as “The Satanic Santa” because of the horns, and actually, in Central European tradition there is an evil character (Krampus) who brings bad things to children who are misbehaving. [Note: if Krampus visits, it is customary to offer him a glass of schnapps.] But, upon further review, this Santa looks rather supremely happy, even stoned perhaps, and so maybe we could agree on the name, “Mischievous Santa.” Merry Christmas from Bahr Gallery!!
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    Victor Moscoso designed this 1966 Avalon poster, known as “Hippie Santa Claus.” At the time of this concert, the Family Dog was using radio ads promising a Hippie Santa Claus, who intoned “Ho Ho Ho,” in a very hip voice, thus the name of the poster. Victor Moscoso was one of San Francisco’s Big Five poster artists and yet this is the only poster he ever designed promoting a Grateful Dead concert. Moscoso referred to this image as “The Satanic Santa” because of the horns, and actually, in Central European tradition there is an evil character (Krampus) who brings bad things to children who are misbehaving. [Note: if Krampus visits, it is customary to offer him a glass of schnapps.] But, upon further review, this Santa looks rather supremely happy, even stoned perhaps, and so maybe we could agree on the name, “Mischievous Santa.” Merry Christmas from Bahr Gallery!!
  • Last minute special gift ideas! Open Christmas Eve 11-4pm
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    Last minute special gift ideas! Open Christmas Eve 11-4pm
  • This very trippy poster (Nov. 1968) is a classic example of Lee Conklin’s artistry. In Conklin’s world of hidden pictures, no central figure can include too many other figures, objects, or visual puns. This visual, of Mercury, the winged messenger, looks like it is melting, which certainly does tend to happen occasionally on hallucinogens. This Mercury is replete with his winged hat and scepter which includes two worms, snakes or striped tails [your choice] with face wrapped around the staff in the fashion of the medical symbol, the caduceus. Recalling the renaissance paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo the Sixteenth Century Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, this surreal piece is truly a masterful psychedelic poster. Bahr Gallery is Open Monday from 1:00-6:00pm and Tuesday Christmas Eve from 11:00-4:00
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    This very trippy poster (Nov. 1968) is a classic example of Lee Conklin’s artistry. In Conklin’s world of hidden pictures, no central figure can include too many other figures, objects, or visual puns. This visual, of Mercury, the winged messenger, looks like it is melting, which certainly does tend to happen occasionally on hallucinogens. This Mercury is replete with his winged hat and scepter which includes two worms, snakes or striped tails [your choice] with face wrapped around the staff in the fashion of the medical symbol, the caduceus. Recalling the renaissance paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo the Sixteenth Century Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, this surreal piece is truly a masterful psychedelic poster. Bahr Gallery is Open Monday from 1:00-6:00pm and Tuesday Christmas Eve from 11:00-4:00
  • 1966 Wes Wilson poster for the incomparable Otis Redding at the Fillmore 53 years ago TONIGHT. The legendary Stax singer made his only Fillmore appearance for these three nights and there was a different opening act each night - including the Grateful Dead, Country Joe & The Fish and, well, who can forget Johnny Talbot and his Thangs! The following December, the beloved R&B star would meet his tragic demise at age 27. Signed in silver by Wes Wilson, one of San Francisco’s Big Five and generally considered the founder of the Psychedelic Poster movement.
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    1966 Wes Wilson poster for the incomparable Otis Redding at the Fillmore 53 years ago TONIGHT. The legendary Stax singer made his only Fillmore appearance for these three nights and there was a different opening act each night - including the Grateful Dead, Country Joe & The Fish and, well, who can forget Johnny Talbot and his Thangs! The following December, the beloved R&B star would meet his tragic demise at age 27. Signed in silver by Wes Wilson, one of San Francisco’s Big Five and generally considered the founder of the Psychedelic Poster movement.
  • Something for everyone on your list! Which would you want to find wrapped in front of you?? Open 1-6 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon and Tues Christmas Eve 11-4
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    Something for everyone on your list! Which would you want to find wrapped in front of you?? Open 1-6 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon and Tues Christmas Eve 11-4
  • Sometimes you get a reminder of why you do what you do.
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    Sometimes you get a reminder of why you do what you do.
  • Private events are FUN at the Bahr Gallery! Here we hosted a Surprise 60th birthday party teaming with @oysterbaybrewing ! Wine and cheese reception at The Bahr, then the whole party moved to #oysterbaybrewingco down the street for dinner, cake and of course, great beer!
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    Private events are FUN at the Bahr Gallery! Here we hosted a Surprise 60th birthday party teaming with @oysterbaybrewing ! Wine and cheese reception at The Bahr, then the whole party moved to #oysterbaybrewingco down the street for dinner, cake and of course, great beer!
  • It’s Back!! We have found, acquired and framed another first printing Radio City 1980 piece! This famous Dead poster was banned by the Radio City Music Hall but some of the posters that had already been printed were stashed away instead of destroyed and this is one of those. The poster features a pair of skeletons leaning against the front of Radio City with a long line of people waiting to get in to hear the concert – among them, the Grateful Dead themselves! The cover of a video made of the final two days of the tour, Dead Ahead, featured the image on this poster. Christmas and Hanukkah are just around the corner….richly framed and behind nearly invisible Museum Glass…..who wants it?
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    It’s Back!! We have found, acquired and framed another first printing Radio City 1980 piece! This famous Dead poster was banned by the Radio City Music Hall but some of the posters that had already been printed were stashed away instead of destroyed and this is one of those. The poster features a pair of skeletons leaning against the front of Radio City with a long line of people waiting to get in to hear the concert – among them, the Grateful Dead themselves! The cover of a video made of the final two days of the tour, Dead Ahead, featured the image on this poster. Christmas and Hanukkah are just around the corner….richly framed and behind nearly invisible Museum Glass…..who wants it?
  • Couldn’t resist this little edit. Dark Stars! How we roll at the Bahr Gallery. Open house today through 7:30!
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    Couldn’t resist this little edit. Dark Stars! How we roll at the Bahr Gallery. Open house today through 7:30!
  • 1971 Fillmore East program advertising posters for sale including this classic Wes Wilson Oct 1966 piece. Graham was selling this for a buck! But it was almost certainly a second printing. Ours is a first printing and a few more bucks. Free to look at though so come on over! Open 12:00-7:30 today!
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    1971 Fillmore East program advertising posters for sale including this classic Wes Wilson Oct 1966 piece. Graham was selling this for a buck! But it was almost certainly a second printing. Ours is a first printing and a few more bucks. Free to look at though so come on over! Open 12:00-7:30 today!
  • Who’s going to Rock The Mox?? Considered by many to be one of the greatest rock posters of all time, this classic Rick Griffin design was later adapted and used as the cover design for the Grateful Dead’s third album, “Aoxomoxoa.” The shows themselves, in late January 1969, showcased the Dead at the height of fluid, weaving, jamming powers - in fact The Eleven and Lovelight from “Live Dead,” were recorded here at the Jan 26 show. There are numerous bootlegs of this psychedelic masterpiece, as well as at least 5 reprints. This is the real thing and a centerpiece of our Grateful Dead Exhibition, an original, pre-concert first-printing. Plus, it’s huge.
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    Who’s going to Rock The Mox?? Considered by many to be one of the greatest rock posters of all time, this classic Rick Griffin design was later adapted and used as the cover design for the Grateful Dead’s third album, “Aoxomoxoa.” The shows themselves, in late January 1969, showcased the Dead at the height of fluid, weaving, jamming powers - in fact The Eleven and Lovelight from “Live Dead,” were recorded here at the Jan 26 show. There are numerous bootlegs of this psychedelic masterpiece, as well as at least 5 reprints. This is the real thing and a centerpiece of our Grateful Dead Exhibition, an original, pre-concert first-printing. Plus, it’s huge.
  • Jimi Hendrix “Medusa” moving to a new home. “If I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll meet you in the next one And don't be late Don't be late” - Voodoo Child
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    Jimi Hendrix “Medusa” moving to a new home. “If I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll meet you in the next one And don't be late Don't be late” - Voodoo Child
  • Vegas!! These 1991 shows with Santana were the first of a total of 14 shows the Dead did at the Silver Bowl at UNLV, the last being in 1995. Prior to that, the band had played at the Aladdin a few times in the early 1980s where the tie-dyed fans mixed somewhat uneasily with the straight-laced rat-packs at the tables. Of course the Grateful Dead - thanks to Robert Hunter primarily - included well more than a DOZEN songs about gambling in their repertoire and who hasn’t sat at a Blackjack table and remarked that they can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines…. Poster on display and for sale at the Bahr Gallery, open every afternoon ‘cept Monday, through Dec 23.
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    Vegas!! These 1991 shows with Santana were the first of a total of 14 shows the Dead did at the Silver Bowl at UNLV, the last being in 1995. Prior to that, the band had played at the Aladdin a few times in the early 1980s where the tie-dyed fans mixed somewhat uneasily with the straight-laced rat-packs at the tables. Of course the Grateful Dead - thanks to Robert Hunter primarily - included well more than a DOZEN songs about gambling in their repertoire and who hasn’t sat at a Blackjack table and remarked that they can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines…. Poster on display and for sale at the Bahr Gallery, open every afternoon ‘cept Monday, through Dec 23.
  • My bedroom, age 13 or so (1971?). Always thought the two posters on the right (“Tomorrow’s President” and Martin Sharp’s metallic “Blowin in the mind”) were on my best friend’s wall growing up, not mine! Wow! As they say, memory is a poor conservator of history. These are all known in the trade as “Headshop posters”. Uhh...not the lions.
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    My bedroom, age 13 or so (1971?). Always thought the two posters on the right (“Tomorrow’s President” and Martin Sharp’s metallic “Blowin in the mind”) were on my best friend’s wall growing up, not mine! Wow! As they say, memory is a poor conservator of history. These are all known in the trade as “Headshop posters”. Uhh...not the lions.
  • Who doesn’t want Peace for Christmas? Billed as “the Fillmore Scene at Winterland,” this popular poster was designed by Bonnie MacLean for year-end shows wrapping up 1967. This colorful piece was typical of her flowing style with a beautiful woman offering both peace and love in the form of mistletoe. First-edition. Stunning!
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    Who doesn’t want Peace for Christmas? Billed as “the Fillmore Scene at Winterland,” this popular poster was designed by Bonnie MacLean for year-end shows wrapping up 1967. This colorful piece was typical of her flowing style with a beautiful woman offering both peace and love in the form of mistletoe. First-edition. Stunning!
  • (Worth zooming in). The Who and The Grateful Dead – wow! This poster advertised four consecutive Fillmore West mid-week and weekend concerts in 1968. The collaboration - one of only three by Alton Kelley and Rick Griffin - two of San Francisco’s Big Five poster artists - features a central design of a ghost-like image with a hand above and below, the lower hand holding some sort of Aztec serpent sculpture. A triptych in design, Griffin used hand-drawn color plates to make 3-D images project from the background, and the frames of the panel appear to be insect legs. The image's central background of an ominous looking mushroom cloud contrasts with the happy bubble-infused, cartoon-style lettering of the side panels. Rick Griffin designed the Art Nouveau-styled red borders and the lettering which reflected his dabbling in drawing for the well-known underground comix of the day. Kelley, a collagist, contributed the central images. There was only one printing of this doublewide poster and poster historian Eric King notes that this poster is very expensive in part because it has both the Who and Grateful Dead as headliners. This particular poster has an extra signature by Kelley in the lower right - he died in 2008. On display and for sale at Bahr Gallery, open today until 6pm and Sunday from 1-6.
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    (Worth zooming in). The Who and The Grateful Dead – wow! This poster advertised four consecutive Fillmore West mid-week and weekend concerts in 1968. The collaboration - one of only three by Alton Kelley and Rick Griffin - two of San Francisco’s Big Five poster artists - features a central design of a ghost-like image with a hand above and below, the lower hand holding some sort of Aztec serpent sculpture. A triptych in design, Griffin used hand-drawn color plates to make 3-D images project from the background, and the frames of the panel appear to be insect legs. The image's central background of an ominous looking mushroom cloud contrasts with the happy bubble-infused, cartoon-style lettering of the side panels. Rick Griffin designed the Art Nouveau-styled red borders and the lettering which reflected his dabbling in drawing for the well-known underground comix of the day. Kelley, a collagist, contributed the central images. There was only one printing of this doublewide poster and poster historian Eric King notes that this poster is very expensive in part because it has both the Who and Grateful Dead as headliners. This particular poster has an extra signature by Kelley in the lower right - he died in 2008. On display and for sale at Bahr Gallery, open today until 6pm and Sunday from 1-6.
  • 50 years ago TODAY the Sixties - as we like to think of them - ended at Altamont. This poster advertised shows that overlapped with Altamont. Turns out the Grateful Dead were supposed to play the Fillmore West that very night - after playing in the afternoon out at the speedway. The free concert was filled with tragedies immortalized in the Rolling Stones film, Gimme Shelter. You know the story. Rolling Stones, free concert at their end of their 1969 tour (where they had been criticized for high prices). Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane knocked cold by a Hells Angel. Jerry Garcia being informed of what had happened and the dangerous vibes after their helicopter landed – the Dead refused to play and left! Well, they also cancelled the gig night at the Fillmore West and THIS is the poster for the shows surrounding before and after! Ironically, this poster also featured a direct warning by artist David Singer about the dangers of drug use as speed, heroin and other less psychedelic and considerably more damaging drugs had become commonplace. The image is of a furtive-looking man drowning in a sea of pills, a cautionary statement, and certainly appropriate when paired with the Altamont tragedy.
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    50 years ago TODAY the Sixties - as we like to think of them - ended at Altamont. This poster advertised shows that overlapped with Altamont. Turns out the Grateful Dead were supposed to play the Fillmore West that very night - after playing in the afternoon out at the speedway. The free concert was filled with tragedies immortalized in the Rolling Stones film, Gimme Shelter. You know the story. Rolling Stones, free concert at their end of their 1969 tour (where they had been criticized for high prices). Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane knocked cold by a Hells Angel. Jerry Garcia being informed of what had happened and the dangerous vibes after their helicopter landed – the Dead refused to play and left! Well, they also cancelled the gig night at the Fillmore West and THIS is the poster for the shows surrounding before and after! Ironically, this poster also featured a direct warning by artist David Singer about the dangers of drug use as speed, heroin and other less psychedelic and considerably more damaging drugs had become commonplace. The image is of a furtive-looking man drowning in a sea of pills, a cautionary statement, and certainly appropriate when paired with the Altamont tragedy.
  • Victor Moscoso. @paigemyersdesigns
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    Victor Moscoso. @paigemyersdesigns
  • This is a first printing of a beautifully composed black and white collage by Bonnie MacLean. MacLean had worked and taken classes at Pratt Institute and was married to Bill Graham when Graham had a massive falling-out with his principal poster designer, Wes Wilson, in April 1967. Bonnie MacLean stepped in and designed many beautiful swirling pieces and some now hang in San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others. MacLean took a hiatus from designing posters for nearly a year and a half while she cared for her young son and this piece marked her return. There are numerous images, airplanes, butterflies, and members of the Airplane, a large sketch presumably of Grace Slick and a nice shot of Jerry Garcia all against a lunar landscape. The lettering looks like chalk on a blackboard – and this was all before you could just select a font in Illustrator!
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    This is a first printing of a beautifully composed black and white collage by Bonnie MacLean. MacLean had worked and taken classes at Pratt Institute and was married to Bill Graham when Graham had a massive falling-out with his principal poster designer, Wes Wilson, in April 1967. Bonnie MacLean stepped in and designed many beautiful swirling pieces and some now hang in San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others. MacLean took a hiatus from designing posters for nearly a year and a half while she cared for her young son and this piece marked her return. There are numerous images, airplanes, butterflies, and members of the Airplane, a large sketch presumably of Grace Slick and a nice shot of Jerry Garcia all against a lunar landscape. The lettering looks like chalk on a blackboard – and this was all before you could just select a font in Illustrator!
  • This cardboard poster advertised a Beach Boys show at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA that took place on March 12 1966. Super-rare. Very few were printed and how many survived the last 53 years. It’s an outstanding picture of the band and they were at the height of their powers. According to the Muhlenberg Weekly, opening for The Beach Boys were Noel Harrison (son of actor Rex Harrison) and The Lovin’ Spoonful. At Muhlenberg, students were voting to bring in more rock groups, even if they were considered, “high-school” and “would be bad for Muhlenberg’s ‘collegiate’ image.” A list of possible contenders included the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. While the Beatles did not make it to Allentown, the Beach Boys did. We have more than 150 framed first-edition rock posters to find that special gift...
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    This cardboard poster advertised a Beach Boys show at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA that took place on March 12 1966. Super-rare. Very few were printed and how many survived the last 53 years. It’s an outstanding picture of the band and they were at the height of their powers. According to the Muhlenberg Weekly, opening for The Beach Boys were Noel Harrison (son of actor Rex Harrison) and The Lovin’ Spoonful. At Muhlenberg, students were voting to bring in more rock groups, even if they were considered, “high-school” and “would be bad for Muhlenberg’s ‘collegiate’ image.” A list of possible contenders included the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. While the Beatles did not make it to Allentown, the Beach Boys did. We have more than 150 framed first-edition rock posters to find that special gift...
  • Panther Hall, 1970. Extremely rare and raging day-glo poster for the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service in Ft. Worth TX. Local opening act soon changed its name to ZZTop!. This is an oversized piece, beautifully framed and behind a large, nearly invisible sheet of Museum Glass. We are open every day except Monday 1-6, so you have no excuse for not gracing your office or home walls with this awesome relic!
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    Panther Hall, 1970. Extremely rare and raging day-glo poster for the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service in Ft. Worth TX. Local opening act soon changed its name to ZZTop!. This is an oversized piece, beautifully framed and behind a large, nearly invisible sheet of Museum Glass. We are open every day except Monday 1-6, so you have no excuse for not gracing your office or home walls with this awesome relic!
  • More Phish, Nassau Coll. Lighting amazing as well (as all the music and stuff)
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    More Phish, Nassau Coll. Lighting amazing as well (as all the music and stuff)
  • Added a little Phish to the diet...
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    Added a little Phish to the diet...
  • Classic Rick Griffin design for a date at the Shrine in LA on July 11, 1968. Image was strong enough visually that it thrived in black and white. Some sort of antlered creature wrapped up in scarves like a 1920s auto racer, hands tight on the wheel, with a background of crossbones and a halo of skulls. Whoa! What’s going on here! Although the concert was July 11, this piece is a commemorative poster that Griffin designed later—some time in the early 70s. These posters were then sold through Griffin’s company, California Graphic Exchange and this is a first edition, signed by Rick Griffin, who departed this world too soon way back in 1991.
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    Classic Rick Griffin design for a date at the Shrine in LA on July 11, 1968. Image was strong enough visually that it thrived in black and white. Some sort of antlered creature wrapped up in scarves like a 1920s auto racer, hands tight on the wheel, with a background of crossbones and a halo of skulls. Whoa! What’s going on here! Although the concert was July 11, this piece is a commemorative poster that Griffin designed later—some time in the early 70s. These posters were then sold through Griffin’s company, California Graphic Exchange and this is a first edition, signed by Rick Griffin, who departed this world too soon way back in 1991.
  • Pinwheel, by the great Wes Wilson. 1966. Very early Winterland shows produced by Bill Graham. Interestingly the shows were actually moved to the Fillmore - perhaps they didn’t sell enough tickets - where they added a show on Oct 9. The week before, Graham had run some shows at Winterland for the Airplane and Muddy Waters. This bright and well-laid-out piece perks up any room. We are open until 6 tonight and 1-6 tomorrow, Sunday.
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    Pinwheel, by the great Wes Wilson. 1966. Very early Winterland shows produced by Bill Graham. Interestingly the shows were actually moved to the Fillmore - perhaps they didn’t sell enough tickets - where they added a show on Oct 9. The week before, Graham had run some shows at Winterland for the Airplane and Muddy Waters. This bright and well-laid-out piece perks up any room. We are open until 6 tonight and 1-6 tomorrow, Sunday.
  • Dark Star Orchestra!
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    Dark Star Orchestra!
  • See you tonight at DSO at the Paramount?? Photo is a hint of how to identify me there.... we’ll be closing a wee bit early tonight for the show. Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday and we’ll be open from around 12:00-6:00pm so come on by!!
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    See you tonight at DSO at the Paramount?? Photo is a hint of how to identify me there.... we’ll be closing a wee bit early tonight for the show. Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday and we’ll be open from around 12:00-6:00pm so come on by!!
  • Flowerpot by Victor Moscoso, 1967. Beautiful lettering makes up the flowers and if you turn the vase upside down you can see a woman’s face in profile. Spouse Friendly! Bring some flowers to a friend you are thankful for!
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    Flowerpot by Victor Moscoso, 1967. Beautiful lettering makes up the flowers and if you turn the vase upside down you can see a woman’s face in profile. Spouse Friendly! Bring some flowers to a friend you are thankful for!
  • Need a Thanksgiving housewarming gift? How about this sweet little handbill from Thanksgiving 1967, framed patriotically, 12” x 10.5”. Museum Glass. This piece is called “Turkey Trot” and it’s by the immortal Rick Griffin. Janis Joplin and Big Brother headlined this Thanksgiving Show 11/23/67 at the Avalon. “Complete with exotic birds from far away lands...displaying curious plumitage, roasting ears, random thoughts, blown minds, feathers, blood sacrifices, incantations, caterwauling, kicks and struts.” I’m going to pass on the caterwauling this year. We’re open Tues and Wed afternoon 1:30-5:30 if you’d like to delight your host or hostess with this special gift.
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    Need a Thanksgiving housewarming gift? How about this sweet little handbill from Thanksgiving 1967, framed patriotically, 12” x 10.5”. Museum Glass. This piece is called “Turkey Trot” and it’s by the immortal Rick Griffin. Janis Joplin and Big Brother headlined this Thanksgiving Show 11/23/67 at the Avalon. “Complete with exotic birds from far away lands...displaying curious plumitage, roasting ears, random thoughts, blown minds, feathers, blood sacrifices, incantations, caterwauling, kicks and struts.” I’m going to pass on the caterwauling this year. We’re open Tues and Wed afternoon 1:30-5:30 if you’d like to delight your host or hostess with this special gift.
  • Ski season starts soon!! Grace your chalet walls with this 1968 first printing of “Trip and Ski” by Bob Fried and featuring the good ole Grateful Dead. [Note: we do not recommend those two things at the same time]. This show was at the Kings Beach Bowl in Tahoe - not a powder-laced mountain but in fact a bowling alley! Hey, it was 1968! Framed in “ski house barnboard” and behind Museum Glass. A double diamond gift, to be sure.
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    Ski season starts soon!! Grace your chalet walls with this 1968 first printing of “Trip and Ski” by Bob Fried and featuring the good ole Grateful Dead. [Note: we do not recommend those two things at the same time]. This show was at the Kings Beach Bowl in Tahoe - not a powder-laced mountain but in fact a bowling alley! Hey, it was 1968! Framed in “ski house barnboard” and behind Museum Glass. A double diamond gift, to be sure.
  • Classic image advertising a classic band. Show was July 25, 1969 at the Cow Palace south of San Francisco. OK I know what you’re asking. Cow Palace?? The idea for a large livestock pavilion was born at the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition in SF as that was one of the most popular exhibits. It took years to come to fruition but finally construction started on the California State Livestock Pavilion in the 1930s. As the Depression worsened, resistance to use of public funds for such a purpose grew. A local newspaper asked, “why, when people are starving, should money be spent on a Palace for Cows!?” A headline writer turned the phrase around and the name stuck. About 16,000 fans (none of them cattle, presumably) enjoyed this 1969 show. On display at Bahr Gallery!
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    Classic image advertising a classic band. Show was July 25, 1969 at the Cow Palace south of San Francisco. OK I know what you’re asking. Cow Palace?? The idea for a large livestock pavilion was born at the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition in SF as that was one of the most popular exhibits. It took years to come to fruition but finally construction started on the California State Livestock Pavilion in the 1930s. As the Depression worsened, resistance to use of public funds for such a purpose grew. A local newspaper asked, “why, when people are starving, should money be spent on a Palace for Cows!?” A headline writer turned the phrase around and the name stuck. About 16,000 fans (none of them cattle, presumably) enjoyed this 1969 show. On display at Bahr Gallery!
  • Iconic 1967 first-edition psychedelic poster by Big Five master Victor Moscoso. This was the inspiration for the movie poster for Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe movie from 2000. This and more than 140 framed pieces are available for special gifts - even if you are just treating yourself! We are open Thursday until 5:30, and Friday through Sunday from 1:00-6:00!
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    Iconic 1967 first-edition psychedelic poster by Big Five master Victor Moscoso. This was the inspiration for the movie poster for Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe movie from 2000. This and more than 140 framed pieces are available for special gifts - even if you are just treating yourself! We are open Thursday until 5:30, and Friday through Sunday from 1:00-6:00!
  • 77WABC “instant replay!” We’re in Newsday Hometown Shopper - yay! Now open Thursdays through Sunday 1-5:30. Will be expanding days open after Thanksgiving!
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    77WABC “instant replay!” We’re in Newsday Hometown Shopper - yay! Now open Thursdays through Sunday 1-5:30. Will be expanding days open after Thanksgiving!
  • This just in! First printing Pink Floyd first USA poster October 1967 - too bad they had Visa problems and missed these dates (they made it about two weeks later). This is a much better poster though, by the amazing Bonnie MacLean, Bill Graham’s wife who jumped in after Graham fired Wes Wilson. Good thing, as her more nuanced psychedelic style produced some of the most iconic posters of the period (and I just snagged her most famous piece - Show ya soon). So this poster came out before the shows to sell tickets for the event. It was about two weeks before their first album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was released so they weren’t super well-known. Bonnie addresses that by adding “From England” before the band name because of course what could be cooler than that? On display at Bahr Gallery and hey - I’m going to be in the Gallery a lot this whole week so just call or email me if you want to stop by. Regular hours these days are Thurs-Sun 1:00-6:00. (5:30 on Thurs).
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    This just in! First printing Pink Floyd first USA poster October 1967 - too bad they had Visa problems and missed these dates (they made it about two weeks later). This is a much better poster though, by the amazing Bonnie MacLean, Bill Graham’s wife who jumped in after Graham fired Wes Wilson. Good thing, as her more nuanced psychedelic style produced some of the most iconic posters of the period (and I just snagged her most famous piece - Show ya soon). So this poster came out before the shows to sell tickets for the event. It was about two weeks before their first album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was released so they weren’t super well-known. Bonnie addresses that by adding “From England” before the band name because of course what could be cooler than that? On display at Bahr Gallery and hey - I’m going to be in the Gallery a lot this whole week so just call or email me if you want to stop by. Regular hours these days are Thurs-Sun 1:00-6:00. (5:30 on Thurs).
  • Sold. Holiday gift buying is upon us and pieces are moving fast. If you had your eye on something, let me put a red dot on it for you. I am in town all week so if the lava lamps are on, come on in! Happy to schedule an appointment as well, just shoot me an email or PM.
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    Sold. Holiday gift buying is upon us and pieces are moving fast. If you had your eye on something, let me put a red dot on it for you. I am in town all week so if the lava lamps are on, come on in! Happy to schedule an appointment as well, just shoot me an email or PM.
  • Special Open House Tonight! 6:00-8:00 - Gallery-Style refreshments and our Grateful Dead vintage poster Exhibition! We are open today starting at 1pm buy break out the treats at 6. Also check out the new Project Space Gallery across the street - they have an opening event tonight also 6-8pm. It’s an Oyster Bay Art Walk!! Come enjoy a libation and then have dinner at one of Oyster Bay’s fine restaurants!!
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    Special Open House Tonight! 6:00-8:00 - Gallery-Style refreshments and our Grateful Dead vintage poster Exhibition! We are open today starting at 1pm buy break out the treats at 6. Also check out the new Project Space Gallery across the street - they have an opening event tonight also 6-8pm. It’s an Oyster Bay Art Walk!! Come enjoy a libation and then have dinner at one of Oyster Bay’s fine restaurants!!
  • 1966 Kelley-Mouse Pooh Peace handbill featuring Grateful Dead and Bola Sete. SOLD. Holiday gift season is here now. If you have had your eye on a piece, better move fast. Open 1-6 Fri Sat Sun.
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    1966 Kelley-Mouse Pooh Peace handbill featuring Grateful Dead and Bola Sete. SOLD. Holiday gift season is here now. If you have had your eye on a piece, better move fast. Open 1-6 Fri Sat Sun.
  • November 12, 1966. Grateful Dead at the Old Cheese Factory, promising “Good Times” (in circle, bottom right). Indeed, and no doubt! A beautiful homage to art nouveau styling by Mouse and Kelley. One of many vintage first printing posters from 1966 available for viewing and purchase at the Bahr Gallery! It’s time to secure that unique gift for a loved one or client. Grateful Dead Exhibition runs through December 23!
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    November 12, 1966. Grateful Dead at the Old Cheese Factory, promising “Good Times” (in circle, bottom right). Indeed, and no doubt! A beautiful homage to art nouveau styling by Mouse and Kelley. One of many vintage first printing posters from 1966 available for viewing and purchase at the Bahr Gallery! It’s time to secure that unique gift for a loved one or client. Grateful Dead Exhibition runs through December 23!
  • The Boys. Santa Fe, 1982. Still room tonight at our slack key guitar night starring Stephen Inglis with Calvin Schaeffer, Ben Diamond and Blake Hanson. Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 7:30. Cover includes refreshments!
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    The Boys. Santa Fe, 1982. Still room tonight at our slack key guitar night starring Stephen Inglis with Calvin Schaeffer, Ben Diamond and Blake Hanson. Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 7:30. Cover includes refreshments!
  • Hawaiian slack key guitar master Stephen Inglis live Saturday night at Bahr Gallery! Slack key Dead and Dylan, originals and Hawaiian classics. $20 includes your beverages and snacks and art and music. Doors open at 7. (Regular Gallery Open 1-6). Ben Diamond and Blake Hanson at 7:30. Stephen and Calvin Schaeffer from 8:00-9:50. RSVP if you can or just come down!
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    Hawaiian slack key guitar master Stephen Inglis live Saturday night at Bahr Gallery! Slack key Dead and Dylan, originals and Hawaiian classics. $20 includes your beverages and snacks and art and music. Doors open at 7. (Regular Gallery Open 1-6). Ben Diamond and Blake Hanson at 7:30. Stephen and Calvin Schaeffer from 8:00-9:50. RSVP if you can or just come down!
  • Miles Davis and Grateful Dead? Only time it happened was 1970, postered here at the Fillmore West. Beautiful piece by David Singer - see this and many more iconic and rare Grateful Dead posters (and lots by other sixties legends) at the Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay, open Friday through Sunday 1-6pm. Plus a live music event Saturday night! (See our website)
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    Miles Davis and Grateful Dead? Only time it happened was 1970, postered here at the Fillmore West. Beautiful piece by David Singer - see this and many more iconic and rare Grateful Dead posters (and lots by other sixties legends) at the Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay, open Friday through Sunday 1-6pm. Plus a live music event Saturday night! (See our website)
  • Rick Griffin’s Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa. Hawaiian slack key guitar Saturday night at Bahr Gallery starring Stephen Inglis, Calvin Schaeffer and Ben Diamond. Message me to RSVP. Stephen and Calvin played with Bill Kreutzmann’s band, House of Spirits around the Islands. Doors open at 7pm music 7:30-10:00. Refreshments included in your cover charge. Will be fun and probably our last musical evening of the year!
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    Rick Griffin’s Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa. Hawaiian slack key guitar Saturday night at Bahr Gallery starring Stephen Inglis, Calvin Schaeffer and Ben Diamond. Message me to RSVP. Stephen and Calvin played with Bill Kreutzmann’s band, House of Spirits around the Islands. Doors open at 7pm music 7:30-10:00. Refreshments included in your cover charge. Will be fun and probably our last musical evening of the year!
  • “Sore Thumb” Carousel Ballroom, 1968. Special viewing hours Wed 1-6 for Dead & Co. attendees! Got time between shows? Vintage Dead posters like this one available at Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay. 35 first-edition Grateful Dead posters on display plus a veritable catalog of other rare and iconic late 1960s psychedelic rock posters. This poster advertising a show with then-Carousel leasees Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead featured a clever reference by Alton Kelley to the DIY nature of the venture. A few months later Bill Graham wrested the lease from the bands and renamed it the Fillmore West.
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    “Sore Thumb” Carousel Ballroom, 1968. Special viewing hours Wed 1-6 for Dead & Co. attendees! Got time between shows? Vintage Dead posters like this one available at Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay. 35 first-edition Grateful Dead posters on display plus a veritable catalog of other rare and iconic late 1960s psychedelic rock posters. This poster advertising a show with then-Carousel leasees Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead featured a clever reference by Alton Kelley to the DIY nature of the venture. A few months later Bill Graham wrested the lease from the bands and renamed it the Fillmore West.
  • 1969 Fillmore West. Jerry Garcia admitted to often being late for shows and on June 6 Bill Graham hah had enough. Garcia arrived during the sixth song and Wayne Ceballos from Aum playing guitar. Don’t you be late too - 6 pieces in our Grateful Dead Exhibition have already sold so if you are interested don’t hesitate to email me to reserve your favorite. We’ll be open this Wednesday 1-5 for visiting Dead & Company showgoers!
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    1969 Fillmore West. Jerry Garcia admitted to often being late for shows and on June 6 Bill Graham hah had enough. Garcia arrived during the sixth song and Wayne Ceballos from Aum playing guitar. Don’t you be late too - 6 pieces in our Grateful Dead Exhibition have already sold so if you are interested don’t hesitate to email me to reserve your favorite. We’ll be open this Wednesday 1-5 for visiting Dead & Company showgoers!
  • Lots of visitors today! open Sunday 1-6pm. Background is 2 1966 Wes Wilsons on the bottom and 2 1966 Mouse & Kelleys on top with and a 1968 Alton Kelley in the middle.
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    Lots of visitors today! open Sunday 1-6pm. Background is 2 1966 Wes Wilsons on the bottom and 2 1966 Mouse & Kelleys on top with and a 1968 Alton Kelley in the middle.
  • Jerry Garcia - Electric on the Eel. (River, in NoCal). Not sure there is any electric there currently (another bad electricity pun). Hopefully the winds will lessen and let’s thank the teams of firefighters battling against all odds. This poster features “rosebud”, a famous portrait from the sixties repurposed here in 1987. In 1987, Wavy Gravy asked Jerry Garcia to play a benefit concert to raise money for his Hog Farm Collective. Garcia agreed, and brought the Jerry Garcia Band to French’s Camp on the Eel River in Piercy, California, a secluded spot three hours north of San Francisco. This show featured the mid-1980s to early-1990s lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band – Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Melvin Seals on keyboards, John Kahn on bass, David Kemper on drums, and Gloria Jones and Jaclyn LaBranch on vocals. There were three Electric on the Eel concerts, in 1987, 1989, and 1991. On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, Captured during the height of Garcia's late-period fame, these sets have a joyful and relaxed air to them, as did many of the Jerry Garcia Band shows of that era which often provided to him a sense of escapism from the touring and cultural behemoth that the Grateful Dead had become. So, there ya go!
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    Jerry Garcia - Electric on the Eel. (River, in NoCal). Not sure there is any electric there currently (another bad electricity pun). Hopefully the winds will lessen and let’s thank the teams of firefighters battling against all odds. This poster features “rosebud”, a famous portrait from the sixties repurposed here in 1987. In 1987, Wavy Gravy asked Jerry Garcia to play a benefit concert to raise money for his Hog Farm Collective. Garcia agreed, and brought the Jerry Garcia Band to French’s Camp on the Eel River in Piercy, California, a secluded spot three hours north of San Francisco. This show featured the mid-1980s to early-1990s lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band – Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Melvin Seals on keyboards, John Kahn on bass, David Kemper on drums, and Gloria Jones and Jaclyn LaBranch on vocals. There were three Electric on the Eel concerts, in 1987, 1989, and 1991. On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, Captured during the height of Garcia's late-period fame, these sets have a joyful and relaxed air to them, as did many of the Jerry Garcia Band shows of that era which often provided to him a sense of escapism from the touring and cultural behemoth that the Grateful Dead had become. So, there ya go!
  • Oh my, where did that Santana Lion that was hanging here go? That’s what Ripped Van Winkle seems to be saying and he’s ready to be sold too! Don’t let the piece you want walk off with someone else. Open today and Sat and Sun 1-6.
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    Oh my, where did that Santana Lion that was hanging here go? That’s what Ripped Van Winkle seems to be saying and he’s ready to be sold too! Don’t let the piece you want walk off with someone else. Open today and Sat and Sun 1-6.
  • Another Halloween-appropriate piece, this first-edition by the great Wes Wilson. Love the curvy lettering and the awesome Posada image of the dapper skeleton (started as a thumbprint). Even the title (attributed to the promoter Chet Helms) is cool: The Quick and the Dead. Clever. This early poster is from June 1966. Happy Halloween everyone and if you find a house giving out full-sized Charleston Chews, make sure to notify @locustvalleybookstore !
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    Another Halloween-appropriate piece, this first-edition by the great Wes Wilson. Love the curvy lettering and the awesome Posada image of the dapper skeleton (started as a thumbprint). Even the title (attributed to the promoter Chet Helms) is cool: The Quick and the Dead. Clever. This early poster is from June 1966. Happy Halloween everyone and if you find a house giving out full-sized Charleston Chews, make sure to notify @locustvalleybookstore !
  • Happy Halloween from this Frankenstein poster by Mouse and Kelley: great story: this was the first Grateful Dead Poster Mouse and Kelley did for the band. Take a close look at Frankenstein - he is TOASTED! Evidently so were the artists as they misspelled the band’s name!!! This was for shows in August 1966 and Mouse and Kelley redeemed themselves in spades the next month with the iconic Skeleton & Roses poster. Like it? This one is in great condition and is signed by both Kelley and Mouse. Beautifully framed piece of history. We’re now open Thurs-Sunday afternoons. Come check it out! 👻🎃
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    Happy Halloween from this Frankenstein poster by Mouse and Kelley: great story: this was the first Grateful Dead Poster Mouse and Kelley did for the band. Take a close look at Frankenstein - he is TOASTED! Evidently so were the artists as they misspelled the band’s name!!! This was for shows in August 1966 and Mouse and Kelley redeemed themselves in spades the next month with the iconic Skeleton & Roses poster. Like it? This one is in great condition and is signed by both Kelley and Mouse. Beautifully framed piece of history. We’re now open Thurs-Sunday afternoons. Come check it out! 👻🎃
  • Fun book signing party with @jayblakesberg last night. Around 110 people braved the dismal weather and got to hang with Jay and get a jump on holiday shopping!
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    Fun book signing party with @jayblakesberg last night. Around 110 people braved the dismal weather and got to hang with Jay and get a jump on holiday shopping!
  • Will you see Jerry tonight? Jay Blakesberg signs Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams for you from 6:00-8:30. Also see the Grateful Dead vintage poster Exhibition featuring pieces like this one from October 1966. “Beardless Jerry” is a masterwork by Wes Wilson, credited as the founder of the Psychedelic Poster movement in San Francisco. If the Grateful Dead were not enough for you back then, how about adding Lightning Hopkins and the Yardbirds to the bill? Note Wilson’s trademark lettering style in good form here and the photo by Herb Greene with his classic dining room wall hieroglyphics. Quite an amazing piece - a first-printing.
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    Will you see Jerry tonight? Jay Blakesberg signs Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams for you from 6:00-8:30. Also see the Grateful Dead vintage poster Exhibition featuring pieces like this one from October 1966. “Beardless Jerry” is a masterwork by Wes Wilson, credited as the founder of the Psychedelic Poster movement in San Francisco. If the Grateful Dead were not enough for you back then, how about adding Lightning Hopkins and the Yardbirds to the bill? Note Wilson’s trademark lettering style in good form here and the photo by Herb Greene with his classic dining room wall hieroglyphics. Quite an amazing piece - a first-printing.
  • Meet Jay Blakesberg Tuesday 6-8:30 at Bahr Gallery - only Long Island Appearance!! Signing his new book Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams. Refreshments. Awesome vintage Dead posters and some of Jay’s photos on display!
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    Meet Jay Blakesberg Tuesday 6-8:30 at Bahr Gallery - only Long Island Appearance!! Signing his new book Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams. Refreshments. Awesome vintage Dead posters and some of Jay’s photos on display!
  • 1984 Berkeley Community Theatre- 6 shows I was lucky enough to attend - the first of which was 35 years ago TODAY! Commenting on it in 4 minutes on Tales From The Golden Road!
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    1984 Berkeley Community Theatre- 6 shows I was lucky enough to attend - the first of which was 35 years ago TODAY! Commenting on it in 4 minutes on Tales From The Golden Road!
  • Jay Blakesberg Here Tuesday 6-8:30pm. He’s on Tales from the Golden Road today 4-6. I’m calling in at 5pm.
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    Jay Blakesberg Here Tuesday 6-8:30pm. He’s on Tales from the Golden Road today 4-6. I’m calling in at 5pm.
  • Two of my besties!!!
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    Two of my besties!!!
  • Lovely and worthwhile evening with Save The Children LI Council.
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    Lovely and worthwhile evening with Save The Children LI Council.
  • Historic poster that Radio City tried to destroy. 1980. First printing. Hung in Nassau County Museum of Art this Spring. Signed by Dennis Larkins. Will not last.
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    Historic poster that Radio City tried to destroy. 1980. First printing. Hung in Nassau County Museum of Art this Spring. Signed by Dennis Larkins. Will not last.
  • (Nearly) keepin it real at the former MATRIX in San Francisco. Now a high-end NightClub, the Matrix was a tiny club at Fillmore and Greenwich in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood run by Marty Balin’s (Jefferson Airplane) father in the mid and late 1960s. While the Fillmore and Avalon were “18+”, the Matirx advertised “minors welcome!” So if you were 15 and hip you were in. Big Five Psychedlic poster artist Victor Moscoso approached the Matrix in early 1967 and proposed creating several hundred concert posters for them per show for free IF he could own the rights and overrun and sell the rest. They took the deal! Many of Victor’s most famous pieces were from the Matrix (and a related poster series called Neon Rose). The Matrix was also the venue for a legendary set of shows in 1970 by Mickey and the Hartbeats, featuring Mickey Hart, Jerry, David Crosby and I forget who else but great tape, that.
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    (Nearly) keepin it real at the former MATRIX in San Francisco. Now a high-end NightClub, the Matrix was a tiny club at Fillmore and Greenwich in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood run by Marty Balin’s (Jefferson Airplane) father in the mid and late 1960s. While the Fillmore and Avalon were “18+”, the Matirx advertised “minors welcome!” So if you were 15 and hip you were in. Big Five Psychedlic poster artist Victor Moscoso approached the Matrix in early 1967 and proposed creating several hundred concert posters for them per show for free IF he could own the rights and overrun and sell the rest. They took the deal! Many of Victor’s most famous pieces were from the Matrix (and a related poster series called Neon Rose). The Matrix was also the venue for a legendary set of shows in 1970 by Mickey and the Hartbeats, featuring Mickey Hart, Jerry, David Crosby and I forget who else but great tape, that.
  • Annual Wall Street Dead aHead networking association bash! Crazy venue. #LikeMinds
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    Annual Wall Street Dead aHead networking association bash! Crazy venue. #LikeMinds
  • Only Long Island Appearance on his East Coast book tour.
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    Only Long Island Appearance on his East Coast book tour.
  • Image on a sweatshirt of a patron entering Bahr Gallery during the OysterFest...ya think there’s a match here?!
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    Image on a sweatshirt of a patron entering Bahr Gallery during the OysterFest...ya think there’s a match here?!
  • With the great Stanley Mouse at the annual Rock Poster Society Festival. Yes, he is signing YOUR posters!
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    With the great Stanley Mouse at the annual Rock Poster Society Festival. Yes, he is signing YOUR posters!
  • With Jim Hartley at SF Art Exchange - the creators of the market for high-end rock photos. Surrounded by Herb Green shots here.
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    With Jim Hartley at SF Art Exchange - the creators of the market for high-end rock photos. Surrounded by Herb Green shots here.
  • I’m being Framed!!! Wearing this shirt (“Torch and Heart” by psychedelic master Rick Griffin) because I’m headed out to SF tomorrow for Saturday’s TRPS Festival, annual one day trade show for rock posters featuring many famous artists and dealers and collectors. Lots of good meetings and visits set up!
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    I’m being Framed!!! Wearing this shirt (“Torch and Heart” by psychedelic master Rick Griffin) because I’m headed out to SF tomorrow for Saturday’s TRPS Festival, annual one day trade show for rock posters featuring many famous artists and dealers and collectors. Lots of good meetings and visits set up!
  • How sick is this? Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium, 1973?!! OK, they played a week apart but still - don’t believe there is another poster prominently promoting these two! At this point Led Zeppelin was ascendant and pulled an estimated 50,000 vs 20,000 for the Dead show. Original first-printing signed by artist Randy Tuten and hanging behind museum glass at the Bahr.
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    How sick is this? Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium, 1973?!! OK, they played a week apart but still - don’t believe there is another poster prominently promoting these two! At this point Led Zeppelin was ascendant and pulled an estimated 50,000 vs 20,000 for the Dead show. Original first-printing signed by artist Randy Tuten and hanging behind museum glass at the Bahr.
  • Bahr Gallery is proud to be supporting PinkAid Long Island by donating this poster (and separately a wine and cheese party!) for auction at the October 16 Benefit! The poster was commissioned and created by Wes Wilson, the creator of the psychedelic poster (back in 1966 San Francisco), for the Bahr Gallery and only 250 were printed. Framing donated by The Framing Workshop in Huntington. If you haven’t been to Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay yet, please check out our Instagram, FB page or website - it’s worth the trip...!
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    Bahr Gallery is proud to be supporting PinkAid Long Island by donating this poster (and separately a wine and cheese party!) for auction at the October 16 Benefit! The poster was commissioned and created by Wes Wilson, the creator of the psychedelic poster (back in 1966 San Francisco), for the Bahr Gallery and only 250 were printed. Framing donated by The Framing Workshop in Huntington. If you haven’t been to Bahr Gallery in Oyster Bay yet, please check out our Instagram, FB page or website - it’s worth the trip...!
  • Fun Opening last night for Grateful Dead Exhibition - lots of new faces and as always an eclectic mix where you never know whom you may know or run into!
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    Fun Opening last night for Grateful Dead Exhibition - lots of new faces and as always an eclectic mix where you never know whom you may know or run into!
  • We’re hung and ready to go! Grateful Dead Opening Reception 5:30-8:00 tonight!
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    We’re hung and ready to go! Grateful Dead Opening Reception 5:30-8:00 tonight!
  • Mouse and Kelley poster for Grateful Dead’s 1978 tour, signed by both artists. GD Exhibition Opening Reception is tomorrow, Saturday night, 5:30-8:00. Gallery refreshments and amazing new art!
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    Mouse and Kelley poster for Grateful Dead’s 1978 tour, signed by both artists. GD Exhibition Opening Reception is tomorrow, Saturday night, 5:30-8:00. Gallery refreshments and amazing new art!
  • Opening Reception this Saturday night Oct 12, 5:30-8:00! Here’s a large Tour Blank for Grateful Dead’s Fall 1971 tour which included 15 live broadcasts of shows across the country, having a major impact and increasing the band’s appeal. There’s more to the story, learn about it at The Bahr! Open Fri-Sun 1-6pm.
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    Opening Reception this Saturday night Oct 12, 5:30-8:00! Here’s a large Tour Blank for Grateful Dead’s Fall 1971 tour which included 15 live broadcasts of shows across the country, having a major impact and increasing the band’s appeal. There’s more to the story, learn about it at The Bahr! Open Fri-Sun 1-6pm.
  • Grateful Dead Exhibition Opening Reception this Saturday 5:30-8:00! Great new pieces and Gallery Refreshments...
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    Grateful Dead Exhibition Opening Reception this Saturday 5:30-8:00! Great new pieces and Gallery Refreshments...
  • Rick Griffin’s Pharaoh. 1984. Run of six shows at the BCT (Berkeley Community Theatre) I was fortunate to attend. Grateful Dead did not approve the poster and piece was confiscated outside where Griffin was selling them. Some survived! Grateful Dead Exhibition opens this weekend!!
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    Rick Griffin’s Pharaoh. 1984. Run of six shows at the BCT (Berkeley Community Theatre) I was fortunate to attend. Grateful Dead did not approve the poster and piece was confiscated outside where Griffin was selling them. Some survived! Grateful Dead Exhibition opens this weekend!!
  • Manor Downs near Austin 1982. Known as “AcidHorse” because of the yummy sugar cube, this poster hanging in our new Grateful Dead Exhibition, Opening Saturday October 12!! (Ok technically it’s open now....) so why did I choose this poster today? October 6! 53 years ago, this was The day LSD became illegal in California! What were they thinking? 😉
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    Manor Downs near Austin 1982. Known as “AcidHorse” because of the yummy sugar cube, this poster hanging in our new Grateful Dead Exhibition, Opening Saturday October 12!! (Ok technically it’s open now....) so why did I choose this poster today? October 6! 53 years ago, this was The day LSD became illegal in California! What were they thinking? 😉
  • Some pics from @dgans53 show at Bahr Gallery last night!
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    Some pics from @dgans53 show at Bahr Gallery last night!
  • Still have a few spots open! #davidgans
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    Still have a few spots open! #davidgans
  • Still time to reserve a spot for David Gans Friday Oct 4 at Bahr Gallery! Meet and chat with David 7-8pm then live music 8-10. Email or message me to save a spot. Cover includes refreshments...
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    Still time to reserve a spot for David Gans Friday Oct 4 at Bahr Gallery! Meet and chat with David 7-8pm then live music 8-10. Email or message me to save a spot. Cover includes refreshments...
  • Mark your calendar for a special appearance and book signing by author and photographer extraordinaire, Jay Blakesberg At Bahr Gallery! Monday Nov 4.
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    Mark your calendar for a special appearance and book signing by author and photographer extraordinaire, Jay Blakesberg At Bahr Gallery! Monday Nov 4.
  • We be hangin’.... Grateful Dead Exhibition opens Oct 12 with soft open this Friday night with David Gans (tickets still avail, email ted at bahrgallery)
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    We be hangin’.... Grateful Dead Exhibition opens Oct 12 with soft open this Friday night with David Gans (tickets still avail, email ted at bahrgallery)
  • @dgans53 David Gans playing at Bahr Gallery this Friday Oct 4th. Now let’s go. Run. And see. Details on Bahr Gallery website - email me for a reserved spot!
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    @dgans53 David Gans playing at Bahr Gallery this Friday Oct 4th. Now let’s go. Run. And see. Details on Bahr Gallery website - email me for a reserved spot!
  • Last chance to see Jimi is tomorrow, Sunday 1-6pm. Monday we start working on the next Exhibition....
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    Last chance to see Jimi is tomorrow, Sunday 1-6pm. Monday we start working on the next Exhibition....
  • How we ship to protect our Museum Glass and precious posters. Buy a Masterpak egg crate and puncture-proof box. Mark out the shape of the cradle. Cut the foam shape out (always use gloves!), nestle piece in it’s little foam bed, close up the box and voila! Off to Chicago!
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    How we ship to protect our Museum Glass and precious posters. Buy a Masterpak egg crate and puncture-proof box. Mark out the shape of the cradle. Cut the foam shape out (always use gloves!), nestle piece in it’s little foam bed, close up the box and voila! Off to Chicago!
  • Look who visited Olivia at Bahr Gallery today! Good college pal Nancy (Trespasz) Blair! Hi Nance!!
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    Look who visited Olivia at Bahr Gallery today! Good college pal Nancy (Trespasz) Blair! Hi Nance!!
  • lee Conklin crazy masterpiece hopped out of the Gallery to its new home in NYC last week. Find the hidden pictures!
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    lee Conklin crazy masterpiece hopped out of the Gallery to its new home in NYC last week. Find the hidden pictures!
  • Original by Mucha followed by psychedelic adaption by Mouse & Kelley!
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    Original by Mucha followed by psychedelic adaption by Mouse & Kelley!
  • Lots of Who colors on stage at Jones Beach with full orchestra. Most impressive was Roger Daltry, at 75, can still belt them out and hit the high notes. Fun evening!!
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    Lots of Who colors on stage at Jones Beach with full orchestra. Most impressive was Roger Daltry, at 75, can still belt them out and hit the high notes. Fun evening!!
  • Closing a little early today to see The Who at Jones Beach. This is half of a 1968 poster featuring a collaboration between Alton Kelley and Rick Griffin and the headliners on the other side of this beauty? The Grateful Dead.
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    Closing a little early today to see The Who at Jones Beach. This is half of a 1968 poster featuring a collaboration between Alton Kelley and Rick Griffin and the headliners on the other side of this beauty? The Grateful Dead.
  • A friend brought by these original Los Angeles Acid Test newspaper ads. Amazing history here!
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    A friend brought by these original Los Angeles Acid Test newspaper ads. Amazing history here!
  • Wildly surreal image by David Singer in this 1970 John Sebastian poster. This one has found a new home and departs tomorrow... #emptynester #notreally #morewherethatcamefrom
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    Wildly surreal image by David Singer in this 1970 John Sebastian poster. This one has found a new home and departs tomorrow... #emptynester #notreally #morewherethatcamefrom