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TAKING A PHOTO OF A PHOTO BEING TAKEN -- WAY BACK TO THE OLOMPALI YEARS.

NOTE: The person in between Bob and Bill is Ken Babbs, not a member of the Dead.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1053x1557 -- Spotlight on a group portrait of American rock band, the GRATEFUL DEAD, photographed by Thomas Weir during the band's "Aoxomoxoa" period at Olompali State Park in Novato, California, c. 1969. 📸: Sylvia Clarke Hamilton.

OVERVIEW: "The Dead had a close connection to Olompali – it was, for them, something like sacred ground. After returning from Los Angeles in spring ’66, they moved to Rancho Olompali and stayed there through May and June, renting the property for several weeks.

Though they weren’t there long, they would remember their stay as an idyllic golden age, a “paradisiacal retreat.” (Although sometimes in their acid trips, they’d have threatening visions of the ancient Indians who’d used to live there, their spirits still haunting the walls and trees.)

The band held some famous parties during their stay, playing music for a stream of tripping visitors from San Francisco. On one occasion, May 22, they sent a flyer to all their friends in the music scene: "The Grateful Dead invite you to an afternoon of inter-galactic travel, to a communion with the spirits of long dead Indians, to a dance celebrating mainly all of us.""

-- GREGORNOT (via Reddit), "Aoxomoxoa" photo shoot 1969, 📸: Thomas Weir"

Source: www.reddit.com/r/grateful_dead/comments/1db84wl.

The GRATEFUL DEAD San Francisco concert poster (1969) - The EYE POPPIN’ ART OF RICK GRIFFIN (Part 10/10)

We conclude this short tribute to the incredible visual genius of RICK GRIFFIN with his second most well known poster / image created for The Grateful Dead’s shows at the Avalon Ballroom In San Francisco on January 1969

The image was titled AOXOMOXOA, a palindromic title Griffin created with Dead’s lyricist Robert Hunter, and features most of Griffin’s beloved concepts and images: a beetle, skulls shaped as penises, sperms ovulating the sun, life, death, rebirth...with incredible lettering

The image was so popular that the band decided to use it as the cover for their next album

The original poster above is extremely rare and has been reprinted / bootlegged many times since

A true masterpiece from the BIG FIVE’s most ‘out there’ Artist who left us too soon

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