Three Bits o Trivia (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The title of R.E.M.'s song, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" is a misquote taken from Dan Rather's mugger, William Tager. Big Brother and the Holding Company was the name of Janis Joplin's band. Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high...
The Paragraph Farmer (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Lotsa anthems on the three oldies stations to which I usually give a listen. Here's a playlist that I liked a lot: Piece of My Heart , Big Brother and the Holding Company Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me , Elton John Son of a Preacher Man , Dusty Springfield More than a Feeling , Boston
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
San Francisco’s early FM radio station KYA released this compilation of “21 Golden Gate Greats Vol. Two” with a rip off of R. Crumb’s cover for Big Brother and the Holding Company. There are tons of these radio station collections of their city’s local hits. Listen here! to an interview with John Lennon and other [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
"It's been an endurance test," Linda Tillery says of her 40 years of ups and downs in the Bay Area music business. Born in San Francisco 60 years ago Tuesday, Tillery was once a queen of the San Francisco rock scene. As lead singer of the Loading Zone, a...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Wild Life (Three Lobed) is a two-track EP by heavy-Seventies explorers Howlin Rain that emphasizes the band’s long-jam chops and reunites singer-guitarist Ethan Miller with members of his other band, Comets on Fire, including guitarist Ben Chasny. In the guitar-inferno parts of “Wild Life,” a Paul McCartney cover, Miller and Chasny sound like they’re soloing [...]
Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
It's steamy outside today folks. Summer is here and it's time for some summer music so do what I'm doing, grab a cold Sol, throw a lime in it and listen to good summer tunes. First we have Janis doing Summertime with Big Brother and the Holding Company from Stockholm, Sweden. A very good version with Janis in fine form. The woman sure as hell could perform: Next we have the late Bradley
konagod (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights. Alton Kelley, whose psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 67. I am having my own wake tonight. This is devastating to me. I loved his shit.
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
A poster designed by Mr. Mouse and Mr. Kelley for a headlining appearances by Big Brother and the Holding Company and Bo Diddley, 1966. One of their first posters, for a concert headlined by Big Brother and the Holding Company, reproduced the logo for Zig-Zag cigarette papers, used widely for rolling marijuana joints.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Alton Kelley's psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture. He was 67.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Graphic artist whose posters ushered in the psychedelic era
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Graphic artist whose posters ushered in the psychedelic era
Time (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67
LA Times (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Alton Kelley, a San Francisco graphic artist whose psychedelic posters and album covers captured the mood and music of the Grateful Dead, the Steve Miller Band, Journey and other top rock 'n' roll groups of the '60s and '70s, has died. He was 67.Kelley died Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif., according to publicist Jennifer Gross. The cause was complications from osteoporosis.With his creative...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Artist Alton Kelley, who created the psychedelic style of posters and other art associated with the 1960s San Francisco rock scene, has died. He was 67.
