ILLUSTRATION & THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE 1960s

[@billsawers9462]

What an amazing 12 minutes of absolutely fantastic nostalgia. I'm 74 now, so this was the era of my formative years. I consider myself very fortunate to have experienced all the wonderful music and artwork that came out of the 60's and 70's.Happy days indeed. And to this day I still have some of the original posters and magazines from that period and of course the music. Thank you for such a great video.

[@petebeard]

Hell there and thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video. I'm 73 (how did that happen) so the period means a lot to me too, and I still have a small but treasured collection of Zap Comix which I still read. Crumb and Griffin were my idols.

[@nongbloke]

@@petebeard Thanks for the video also from another 70 year old in Melbourne Australia who as a teenage art student was instantly beguiled with the explosion of alternative design. A treasured relic from those times is "The Great Poster Trip - Art Eureka" - a paperback copy I stumbled across in our National Gallery bookshop in 1971 as a penniless student and have managed to hang onto. Mainly concerned with the San Francisco scene, it has great examples of posters of all the artists you have mentioned here, and others. I see it's still available now secondhand even on Amazon and elsewhere. Griffin and Crumb were also my idols - I too have a small collection of underground comics bought at the time by mail order from Rip Off Press. Cheers, and thanks again for the video.

[@petebeard]

@@nongbloke Hello to you and many thanks for your appreciation and personal comments about the value of the great work created in that period. In case you haven't seen it there's a video dedicated to Rick Griffin on the channel too. And I intend to do Mr. Crumb, but I only feature those no longer with us, and it's possible he'll outlive me.

[@geneobrien8907]

@@petebeard I'm 74 and I have a collection of Zap Comix also, #0 through #7. I have two #0, they have two different prices on the cover, I think there were three different prices for that issue. I also have collected many of the Fillmore East & West concert posters They are framed in my garage, which I have set up as a kind of museum of 60's memorabilia. I'd like to get a copy of Martin Sharp's Hendrix poster but originals are very expensive and I can't find any reproductions. Wolfgang's Vault is a good source for Bill Graham's Fillmore posters. Too bad I can't post pics here, I think you'd like the way I have it set up.

[@geneobrien8907]

@billsawers9642 I too am 74 and I also have collected many of the Fillmore East & West concert posters, I have them framed in my garage, which I have set up as a sort of museum of 60's memorabilia, one wall is all framed albums from the era. I've also collected several of Zap Comix, #0 through #7.

[@PossumLover1111]

I was born and grew up in San Francisco from 1957 then moved to Houston, TX in 1985. Back in the heyday of the late 60s, my father owned another property and Stanley Mouse rented it from him. Mouse give my sister and I bunches of posters for free. We covered our schoolbooks with them and gave lots away. To this day, I have 5 left, framed and loved. When I kick the bucket, my daughter or son can have them but I can't sell them just yet or ever. Was a great city to grow up in once upon a time. I miss what San Francisco was.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment, and especially your first hand account of your connection. I was stuck in the dreary northwest of England and could only dream about the Californian lifestyle. As you observe it doesn't look so shiny any more.

[@Davett53]

I was already an artist in high school in the 1970s, and I collected underground posters and comic books. When I became a printmaker in college, I also learned about preserving old original prints and Posters. Later, one of my jobs as a picture framer, meant I got to preserve some wonderful music posters, from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some that had come into the shop I worked from, were from the marijuana dens of hippies. They smelled of pot and patchouli, and were subtly yellowed with a patina. One could almost receive a contact high from handling them. I treated them with as much respect & care one might give to the ancient "Dead Sea" scrolls. I carefully unrolled them, and repaired the dog eared corners, in some case even color matched, small tears with archival inked, papers. I secured them to archival mounting boards, with 100% rag content paper hinges, secure but not damaging to them. Then framed up to my customer's specifications.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your fascinating account of your connection with this period. I love the idea you were acting as a picture restorer for such recent artefacts. Oops sorry... I didn't realise there was another comment as I read this one first. And now I see even greater detail about your experience of that strange and unique time, so thanks a lot. I'm a little ahead of you in the queue...born in 1950. And I must admit I never really got into the peace and love thing, but the music and the graphics... that was something else.

[@Davett53]

@@petebeard Yeah, a minute or two before I was "hep to the scene", in 1968 when I was 12, I was given a very collectible poster from a concert held in San Francisco, at the Fillmore West, where then famous (USA) music promoter, Bill Graham, began his career. It was printed on a sturdy cardboard stock, that was white, and silk screened with Psychedelic intense colors of a red and blue,..that kind of vibrated,...because the design had an optical effect, of repeating swirls. I was a total newbie,....and knew nothing of its value or worth. I was just happy my folks let me hang it in my bedroom. Unfortunately it got lost, before I turned 18. I had no idea, that I wouldn't keep finding prime examples, of that period's art posters. In like 1970-71,....the art of Peter Max, had permeated the USA, and all sort of retail stores, would emulate his signature style. Those stores created (faux) Peter Max-like,...window display art posters. When the store's changed their window displays,...ordinary folks could sometimes buy the older display posters. I was able to buy them, and I was still in high school. They were very large posters mounted on rigid foam boards, & they were 8 foot tall. I had those mounted on my bedroom walls, as well. Good times!

[@Davett53]

This is my sweet spot. I grew up during this period of time. I was only 10 in 1963, a naive little boy in the USA, but by 1966 I was 13, and the counterculture was oozing into my suburb, in the mid-west of the country. It probably helped that I lived near a big city, and the surrounding regions were filled with many liberal arts colleges. Our older sisters and brothers were already experimenting with LSD , Hashish, and Marijuana,...and it wasn't too long before I was as well. The (famous) 3 Day Music Festival at Woodstock, (New York) occurred in the summer of 1969, and the next year I began my 4 years of high school. To prepare, I knew I had to try marijuana & hashish, since it was readily available, and our older siblings were already enjoying it. In 1968, the public high schools in my area had abandoned the restrictive dress codes, and for a period of time it was a free-for-all. Collar-less shirts, (T-shirts), were now allowed, & standard blue jeans, gave way to bell-bottom jeans. Wide belts, and sandals, were allowed. And growing one's hair long,....for the boys, slowly became the norm, followed by beards, mutton chop side burns, and every sort of mustache. I didn't try LSD, until my senior year,...but by then I knew I wanted to become an artist, as I had been dabbling in it during the years leading up to that time. The Beatles, and the artist Peter Max, were a big influence on me, and certainly all the counter culture poster artists, as well. "Head Shops" sold posters of this kind of art. The New York city art scene included the OP Artists, and the Pop Artists, and Andy Warhol were already on the scene, too. Screen printing was the quickest way to create poster art at the time, and I gravitated to that and became an Artist, printmaker. I got serious about it and studied it in college and graduate school, and earned two degrees. Years later, I went on to become a sculptor & furniture maker.

[@christhayil8354]

I'm obsessed with concert posters, especially from the 60s, 70s, and early 90s rock n roll. What a great collective and tribute to those artists who created this style

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your commetn. Happy to oblige

[@dancalmpeaceful3903]

Where are you located at? There's a record show in Cleveland, OH where (actually held in Richfield, OH) this one gentleman is always selling classic original San Fran Fillmore posters and such. I have several myself...

[@meenos3]

Like you Chris l love 1960s posters and over the years have collected and framed all of them. They represent my youth and take me back.

[@savage22bolt32]

Wow! this is a great compilation of 60's art. Memories flooding in.... In 1965 my mom bought a 1950 Ford school bus and converted it into a camper. In August of '69, we were on a family vacation in the bus, and not very far from a farm in Woodstock, New York. I almost got mom to swing by that music thing that was going on there. If she had, I'm sure our vacation memories would have not been just memorable, but epic!

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your appreciation of the video, and your trip (no pun intended) down memory lane. Keep on truckin' as they say.

[@mbhinkle]

The collection of videos that you have produced is simply the best I have ever seen. Thank you so much for your incredibly entertaining and informative work.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very grateful for your appreciation and commitment to the channel. Thanks a lot.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

Born in 1960, I have fond memories of this period of art in music. Much joyful time spent in record stores looking at album covers, underground comics, and posters. Still have my Roger Dean book, and Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comix.

[@petebeard]

Sorry i didn;t reply sooner. Somehow I missed your comment at the time so my belated thanks for it now.

[@Ellesmere888]

Thanks for this Mr. Beard. I remember being fascinated with Roger Dean's work when I first encountered it on a Yes album cover. He's still around. Unsuccessfully sued James Cameron for appropriation of his imagery in Cameron's film ''Avatar''. Being a Montrealer, born in 1960, I wasn't much exposed to Crumb and the Comix stuff. MAD Magazine and to a lesser degree CRACKED, were popular at that time in my area.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Unfortunately most of Dean's work came after the period, but I'm working on a video about record cover art history and he'll find his rightful place in there when/if I ever finish it.

[@davidwright9166]

As always top notch art and historical commentary. Well done.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation.

[@meenos3]

@@petebeard love your channel.

[@Banner_Bearer_of_Eternity]

What a beautiful episode! I was always interested in this period - it seemed some kind of mistery to me. My tutor back then provided me with a dozen of examples (including Jimmy Hendrix and Cream covers featured here) and no names at all. Thank you very much Pete, you rolled out enough material for a week-long Web search. Brilliant work!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual for your favourable comment.

[@albertcscs]

What a gas! So nice to go back to the 60's, if only for a few minutes. You knew it was over when Peter Max started mass producing his pop stuff. Sort of the Lawrence Welk of poster art. I was a Furry Freak Brothers fan myself, I read all the underground mags.

[@petebeard]

Hi again. This one seems to have set off the boomer generation somewhat.

[@TheMarkEH]

I entered my teenage years during the mid 60’s, so this was a nostalgia-fest for me. At the time, I had no idea what an outpouring of artistic and musical creativity was happening, it just washed over me like a warm tsunami . If I could go back, I would experience far more than I actually did at the time. Oh for a Tardis. Another great video, thanks Pete. P.s. I’d never heard of The Missing Links, but I will try and get hold of their albums, they sound great.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks for the appreciation. I can't tell if you're joking or not but you do realise there are no Missing Links, don't you? Just me and garageband.

[@TheMarkEH]

@@petebeard Hi Pete, if that is your band it sounds great. Here is the 1960's Austrailian group called The Missing links kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3mnZYGtiK1ojZI

[@petebeard]

@@TheMarkEH ...and there I was thinking I'd made up a great name for a band, expecially one that doesn't exist. Actually this lot sound OK - a bit like the Pretty Things and others but who'd ahve thought it? Australia in 65? Crap - now I'll have to think of something else.

[@TheMarkEH]

@@petebeard Hi Pete. You did make up a great name for a band..., but I guess you are now The Found Links

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

Lancelot Link and The Missing Links. Look 'em up.

[@raminagrobis6112]

The miniaturization of 60s album cover artwork with the advent of the CD format was one of the major drawbacks of that new technology. And I'd even venture to say that the unexpected (?) Renaissance of the vinyl format was not only triggered by a craving for the advantages of analog sound, but by the possibilities and sheer pleasure of looking at those glorious covers.

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your comment. And how right you are. In fact that will be something that's discussed when (if) I finally complete my history of the illustrated record album video.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

I remember that Caravan. the Land of Grey and pink.... tremendous under a blacklight. I became a Canterbury Sound head. Soft Machine. ...

[@chrisgenovese8188]

The Dave Attenborough of art does it again. The nostalgist in me would love to see a resurgence of 2D illustration and animation in the style of both the 1920s-30s and the 60s-70s. Thanks Pete, your videos are always delightful and I always click as soon as i see one pop up.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. I must say I like the Attenborough analogy. I just hope I live as long as he seems determined to do, and that way I might actually get to the end of my 'to do' list of subjects.

[@parry3231]

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[@gabrielerosa665]

I don't know if quit watching this video and to go for hearing music Pete! A great typographic, illustration and creative video! At 2:02 there's an astonishing collection of great typo's work! Crump isn't an "unsung" properly....but he deserves more "great public" exposition.

[@petebeard]

Hi Gabriel. Thanks for the comment, and although I loved it all at the time these days I find only Crumb, Griffin and Sharp's Hendrix poster have remained close to my heart.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

I fixed Mouses stereo system... invited by a friend, to go to Mouse's art studio, upon arriving, the music playing was distorted. So I immediately offered to have a look, found the speaker wires were messed up, and quickly fixed them. The studio was full of original artwork, that I had previously only seen on album covers, etc. That was a good day ☮

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comments about this video, and the Mouse anecdote. I envy you seeing the artwork. And when (if) I finally finish my history of record covers video Roger Dean will feature prominently for his work in the 70s in particular.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

@@petebeard Thanks very much for your work to bring this content to us. It was a magical time❤ Another unexpected connection I made to the music world was, to work for Morpheus Lights, who did stage lighting for the Grateful Dead, Starship, and others. I was/am a DeadHead, and went to a job interview, for electronic tech position, without any idea they did lightshows for rock bands. Imagine my surprise 😻 Got free back stage passes, etc. I have stories to tell 😉 Now I play keyboards in Grateful Dead tribute bands, and do my own stage lights 🎶🌎☮❤ Wish there was a KZbin video about the people/companies, who did the stage setups/lights/sound, and the crazy experiences they had, with the same quality that you bring ☮

[@briteness]

Thank you for re-doing this. Your music worked very well for it. The art from this period holds up at least as well as the music it was used to sell, but, although the leading visual artists of the period are hardly forgotten, they do not seem to have the pop culture name recognition of the musicians. Unfair!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

[@fishypaw]

As someone who was born mid 60's and loves the music and art scene of the time, I feel like this type of art is part of my DNA. Groovy upload. I approve. ✌😎👍 P.S. I still have a "Stoned Agin" poster (from when I was a teenager) and several Fat Furry Freak Brothers comics. 🥴

[@rossmcleod7983]

My graphic journey started when I copied exactly “Stoned Agin” way back then. Still have it. Martin Sharp always a firm favourite too.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreiation of the video.

[@janetownley]

I have original Stephen Gaskin’s Farm books 😊

[@DaveMcKay0960]

It was the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and then there was Fat Freddy, and Fat Freddy's Cat. What a blast from the past.

[@fishypaw]

@@DaveMcKay0960 Yea, probably stoned when I typed that

[@christheghostwriter]

Rick Griffin's posters for the Grateful Dead are among the most important visual artworks of the 20th century. His uniquely stylized imagery merged perfectly with the Dead's uniquely American blend of psychedelia, jazzy exploration, and deep-rooted folk and blues.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your comment, and in case you haven't seen it there's a video devoted entirely to Rick Griffin's life and work.

[@twistoffate4791]

Barry Godber died of a heart attack at age 24 in 1970. I didn't know anyone that young could die of a heart attack. Thanks for this amazing gift of a video. I truly enjoyed it.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. You have to wonder what he might have gone on to create.

[@TheKevphil]

Excellent dive into this period, Pete. It was something which I did not fully appreciate, being more absorbed by Jack Kirby than Robert Crumb during this time. And my taste in music ran more toward _Blood Sweat and Tears._

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks as usual.

[@andyventure]

Kirby and Crumb both trippy

[@macsnafu]

Kirby got pretty wild in the 1970s, though. The New Gods, The Demon, Omac, etc.

[@davidshurville3658]

This was one of your most enjoyable posts for me. I adore this period and the drug enhanced images spawned during it. So incredibly creative. Have you considered doing a post on Crumb or my favourite, the frequently obscene but mind blowing Robert Williams? Wish you would, just to 'challenge ' your viewership. Go on Pete!! Anyways, glad tidings and a big thank you as always. Kia Ora from Aotearoa.

[@tpe54]

As a kid in the 60s, we knew something was changing when we would go the the dept stores to look at album covers.

[@petebeard]

Yes, and buying them for the covers without having a clue about the actual music. Ah the money I've wasted that way...

[@LitHouseTieDye]

This is so informative and absolutely fantastical. This all happened a decade before I was born, but this artwork has been such a part of my life since I was a teen. It's so cool to know more about it. I was actually recently sitting on the floor of an antique shop reading old copies of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. I hadn't seen them in years. Thanks Pete. My FB groups are going to love this one. (~):)

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual for your appreciation.

[@pattheplanter]

Have you seen the new Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers videos on KZbin? Quite fun.

[@petebeard]

@@pattheplanter Hello and no I haven't. So thanks a lot for the information and I'll take a look immediately. I hope Gilbert Shelton got some money out of it.

[@pattheplanter]

@@petebeard I am pretty sure thay are officially licensed. I should have mentioned some of the voice actors: Woody Harrelson, Tiffany Haddish, Pete Davidson and John Goodman. ✂Edited to take out the Oxford comma which I had copied and pasted.

[@parry3231]

Fantastic and such a wonderfilled era of creativity and joyously living with love and harmony in a variety of artistic endeavors. ❤ Far out! Thanks Pete for your time in sharing this journey of our awakening and the ability to live outside of the normal step-by-step process of fitting in with constraint and conservative views on living. 🎉❤🎉

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video. It seems to have been a trip (no pun intended) down memory lane for quite a few viewers who remember that unique time.

[@parry3231]

@@petebeard It is certainly a trip!Thanks.

[@McQueenPaul]

It was interesting to see my youth as history. Having bought my first album along with a record player when I was 19, being the Moody Blues 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour', mainly due to the fact I was impressed by the cover art. I can't help thinking of this era as a great and innovative time, and I certainly miss the freedom of expression in these mad, woke times.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation for this video.

[@philhayhoe1]

Hey Pete! Love your channel, incredible research and very insightful. There's a couple of artists worthy of a full length feature...R.Crumb is mentioned but would be great to get in-depth (uncensored!) and similarly Moebius (Jean Giraud), Roger Dean and Patrick Woodroffe.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Moebius did a great rendition of Hendrix himself!

[@vincentgoupil180]

Moebius collaborated with Jean-Noel Coghe on Coghe's time with Jimi Hendrix on a book "Emotions Electriques". To see some of the images 'society of rock' com, "French artist Perfectly Captures Jimi Hendrix's Psychedelic Image".

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. Crumb does feature in another video called Between the Lines. But despite my enduring admiration for his work I always figured I couldnt add much if anything to the vast amount there is already about him. And like Roger Dean he is still among us and in terms of the single artist video series I confine myself to those who have fallen off their perches. But Dean will feature at greater length when/if I ever finish my history of the illustrated album cover. As for Moebius and Woodfiffe I admire them both but they are somewhat outside my comfort zone of existing knowledge. So I may get round to them but there are dozens of others I must prioritise before I reach my own imminent sell-by date.

[@Zephcas]

Growing up I was obsessed with the Moody Blues album covers as I listened to the records. They always fit the music so well. Sadly it seems many artists these days don't see the value in illustration to go along with their music.

[@petebeard]

Hello and i also remember studying the cover of Days of Future Past while listening. Of course the whle concept of discs is now flushed away for ever. When i get the time I'll finish my planned video on the history of illustrated album covers. R.I.P.

[@Dismythed]

I'm sorry I missed this. It didn't show up in my subscription stream for some reason. I have been looking forward to more poster and album art illustration videos. Nicely done as usual. I didn't know you had a band, and you headlining no less. You all are good. Kudos to the band. Thanks for sharing your music.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I have a video about the history of album illustration in the pipeline but lord knows when 'Ill get round to finishing it. Later this year, hopefully. And many thanks for the appreciation of the music. Actually, there is no band (that's why they are 'missing'). It's just me on various instruments and some drum loops.

[@Dismythed]

@@petebeard LOL. Nice. Kudos to the band anyway. 😉

[@parry3231]

​@@petebeardGreat creative passion and the ability to make a band sound with your own individual expertise with the different instruments and the love of music 🎶 Sounds very good and timeless ❤ A man of many talents ❤Thanks for sharing this with us all. ❤ The 60s were a trip for sure. It was a magical mystery tour . Such a plethora of artists in every aspect and medium.

[@melizen2]

Thank you for this - I was a teenager then - loved some of the music but didn't pay attention to the art work much, so this is a fine catching-up education. Even though I'm much younger now, I can't avoid thinking of the damage drugs have done through these decades - which gives me mixed emotions when I see the artwork ~

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. It's sad but true that many from that era burned brightly but briefly. "Hope I die before I get old' doesn't really resonate any more, does it?

[@SandfordSmythe]

I just learned of the connection there with Art Nouveau. I don't know why I didn't think of this. I am having luck in finding Art Nouveau objects in better thrift stores and antiques malls for under $20. Vases, candle stick holders, lamps, and a beautiful but faded painted wood board.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I hope you continue to find more Art Nouveau for your collection.

[@barbaraferron7994]

I was a teenager in the late 60's, east coast USA. The only one of these artists I was aware of was Peter Max. In art college, I heard of Andy Worhol then the Furry Freak Bros. Later I saw some of this style of art when Monte Python was shown on PBS. Then I heard of Mucha. I didn't see concert posters until they were shown on Antiques Road Show. Information trickled out slowly in the days before the internet.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. If I've introduced you to a few you weren't aware of I'm glad to have done so.

[@lawrencehudson9939]

Great art history it takes me back to my youth in San Francisco. My friends and I used to fix the electronics of some of those bands. Great fun.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation. I must admit that at the time it all looked a hell of a lot more fun (and better weather) on your side of the Atlantic.

[@dstirl]

Brilliant, Pete. Another informative and well-produced presentation. I was hoping you'd include one of my favourite UK illustrators of this counter-culture ilk - Hunt Emerson. But he was maybe a bit late - early 70s - and never gained much recognition.Although his raunchy strips in early soft-porn mags like Mayfair and Parade were always popular.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I'm aware of Hunt Emerson and like his work - I worked for some of those same mags in the 80s. But you are right, he missed the 60s. I last saw him at a comics convention about 8 years ago with his mentor Gilbert Shelton. Still plugging away with the comics.

[@TheWrldIsSquare]

I just discovered your channel this weekend and I want to sincerely thank you for all the content you've produced. Incredible standard of quality in both the research and presentation and I can't wait to watch everything. And I mean EVERYTHING.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. Some videos are better, some maybe not so much, but they are all well intentioned and I hope you continue to find them interesting,

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Absolutely wonderful piece, Pete! (I'm slowly but surely making my way through you amazing channel) As a poster artist, I've been lucky enough to get to know some of these great artists from the San Francisco scene. Stanley Mouse, David Singer, Lee Conklin, Dennis Larkins, Mark Spusta, EMEK, and others. Their work is truly inspiring. Have you thought about doing a video on San Francisco's legendary Fillmore? They have handed out posters after shows for decades. I've been fortunate enough to do a couple of dozen posters for various shows.... and it's an amazing experience to watch people get handed your work on the way out after the show to (hopefully) like and treasure the memory of that evening. There is such a rich vein of history at that venue. The walls upstairs are covered with the illustrated posters from throughout the history of the place. It something that makes The Fillmore so unique. Just an idea. Also a deep exploration of Ron Cobb would be great, too! His political cartoons in the 60s were incredible. Again... wonderful job and I always look forwad to your amazing work. Cheers!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. And thanks too for an enjoyable browse of your own work online. Much as I think your video suggestions are good ones I'm of the opinion that it would need somebody with greater knowledge of that whole scene than I have to do the subject justice. And although I'm aware of Ron Cobb's work it's only peripheral, and I tend to work with subjects I'm already fairly familiar with. Not to mention that I already have in excess of 50 other videos as works in progress, and hundreds more for unsung heroes instalments.

[@johnmavroudis2054]

@@petebeard No worries at all. I look at your channel as the best class in school I could ever take. Just keep 'em coming, Sir! Cheers!

[@timgarrett203]

Now you are into my lifetime and even more interested. I was hoping to hear some about black light posters? Used to go to the department stores and get posters in the ‘60’s and some were black light but not all were music related. As always, great video!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation. This blacklight poster thing wasn't a thing in Britain so I had never come across it.

[@timgarrett203]

@@petebeard that’s very interesting. I am surprised.

[@Tanzotown]

Wonderful coverage as usual Pete! Thanks so much for your untiring efforts. Here I appreciate your use of the term “plundering” which in the early examples you show is simply a form of modified collage. But when you get to Crumb, Wilson, Moscoso, Griffin et all you are getting to the very last of the pen and ink ILLUSTRATORS. WIlson for instance used triple aught Crow Quill pens and sat at his ink stained desk for days and nights at a time. His primary influence was Aubrey Beardsley but he never copied anything Beardsley did, he just wondered where Beardsley might have gone is he had lived longer. Unfortunately, with the advent of the computer, the plunderers won..(For now) And we we have had to endure the sticker kids who grew up to be the tattooed generation. Paste on , number sticker art. Now we have “ memes”...collage political cartoons. The computer is obviously helping artists along. Every once in a while I might see something (figurative) that is not, blatantly, obviously computer assisted, but not very often. No one on a computer can hold a candle to the illustrators you show us! Perhaps fortunately, censorship on the internet may be the salvation of real, hand drawn illustration. I predict a comeback in street posters and samizdat. Off topic...Have I missed your coverage of Frank Frazetta? He was really the first”underground cartoonist”.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and insight into aspects of the work shown in this video. For me it's only the work of Crumb and Griffin that has rally endured, but each to their own. And Frazetta has featured a couple of times if only briefly. He's in American 1950s illustration and The Origins of fantasy Art. I've steered clear f him as a 'stand alone' subject in the belief that he was too well known for me to add anything about him, but maybe down the line...

[@VoightComp]

I was very fortunate to have kept several concert posters from bands who performed in my city including Pink Floyd, The Chamber Brothers, Electric Prunes, and Country Joe and the Fish. They are museum quality framed and hanging in my home.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I envy you.

[@dianebonneau2350]

Thanks, Pete Graphic designer here and love this era for art and music. Excellent examples.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your favourable comment.

[@clemhollingsworth9885]

Hi, Pete. Watched this one again, and this go-round was struck by your comment regarding the influence of psychedelics on artistic expression. Long story short, as a teen I was intuitively drawn to counterculture (without the use of psychedelics!) as I had always suspected that parental guidance in most, if not all, matters derived from an attenuated consciousness. Psychedelic art has always given me permission to "Open it up!" Thanks again.

[@petebeard]

Hi and I'm glad you watched again. And for better or worse it seems pretty conclusive that without the drugs neither the music or the graphics would have been what it was.

[@lumpythefish]

well done again Mr Beard.... this is a subject near and dear to my heart. Crumb's Big Brother cover was a revelation for me. So much inspired art came out of that underground comix scene... it seemed to be a genuine art movement, done for the joy of doing it. I doubt any of those guys got rich. nice music btw.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for the comment and the Crumb cover was the first time I ever encountered his work, and I got hold of a copy of Zap 1 a year or so later. And thanks for the appreciation of the music - it took longer to make than the video.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Crumb afaik is really the only one who got "rich" and has been able to live very very comfortably in the South of France (he traded a suitcase full of his original comics and sketchbooks for his house and property there)...

[@wynnschaible]

This is the one I've been waiting for! Tons of memories..."A consensus that the party was over" -- never seen a better summing-up. The late 60s were a time when a whole bunch of disparate threads that really didn't have anything to do with each other came together. And they cross-fertilized and drove each other to new heights. But then, one by one they peeled off to follow their own logic of development. I watched them go, And saw the impoverishment and denial in what was left behind. And the more what remained grew in popularity, the further its artistic standards fell. Oh well, it was fun (at least most of it) for a while...

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. This one certainly seems to resonate with those of us approaching our collective sell-by date.

[@greghill7759]

Not just fun. It was a visual representation and promise of mystery and enchantment, where anything seemed possible. We couldn't possibly accept it would be too good to last.

[@wynnschaible]

@@greghill7759 and yet the Buddha told us. Lao Tse and the Gita and even Omar Khayyam told us. but we were young...

[@sail2byzantium]

Love this stuff! Thanks Pete--excellent work yet again. Now--as a follow up--a video on Roger Dean would be great, including his stage work and interior design in addition to the obligatory copious album cover work.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment and suggeston. Dean will certainly make an appearance in my record album video - when I finally complete it. But as far as featuring him in a solo video is concerned he doesn't actually qualify because he's still alive (and may well outlive me).

[@Moircuus]

Thanks! It's always a pleasure to learn, and especially so when the material is presented so well. Do you have any personal attachment to the material?

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I have an emotional connection to a lot of the work shown because I was born in 1950 and so the period hit me in my later teenage years and I loved - and still do - a lot of it. Other than that I created the music track as a homage to the times.

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

Pete, a great synopsis of illustration in this fascinating period. It's too bad that the decade was blighted by the on-going war in Vietnam and the ever-present menace of nuclear conflict. I don't think many of us who lived through the sixties fully appreciated the extent of the culture of the time. That was my case - too busy studying, getting married and having a family. keep up the good work.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for the comment. At the time I loved the graphics and the music, but only a little of either has endured for me. Probably the disillusionment of growing up and as you point out, taking on responsibility.

[@kc3718]

wonderful, i had been intrigued by the art, but had no real understanding of its historical process, so this was great. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very pleased you appreciated this video.

[@walterfechter8080]

After watching this video, I am reminded of multiple "window" (split screen) video of some concert footage. For the appreciation for the work of The Fool, Martin Sharp, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, and Peter Max. I remember all of them very well. Many thanks Pete Beard.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I think the first time I saw split screen was watching Woodstock.

[@walterfechter8080]

@@petebeard Hello Pete. You're welcome. Yes, the documentary film about Woodstock featured split screen imagery. So did the concert film, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (featuring Joe Cocker and Leon Russell).

[@Vulcandream]

I appreciate all of your content so much. Inspiring, educational, and a good reminder of the special place illustrators have had in our world cultures. Have you made any content that specifically focuses on political poster illustration? That could be fascinating and worth numerous episodes. -- as a child of the 60's I especially related to this episode as well.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comments about the channel. I haven't made a specific video on political posters but they have featured quite a lot in the individual illustrators who have appeared in other videos, as well as magazine videos such as Simplicissimus. Whether I should stitch an all embracing video on the subject I don't know, but it's worthy of consideration and thanks for the suggestion.

[@michaelvaladez6570]

This is a great introduction to those who were not there at the time..but this is what I grew up with..greatly appreciate this post..love all the images !!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks from another who was there at the time.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

Yes I was there in my late teens when all this started. I didn't care for the music and the art/posters was largely "copped" and not original. I was hung up on folk music, classical and Flamenco. My taste in art was Fauvism. I enjoyed the quality of the presentation as always.. very well done...

[@vincentgoupil180]

Viva Andre Derain ... at least the Unsung Albert Marquet.

[@petebeard]

Hello and my own jury is out regarding the merits or otherwise of this period. It seemed OK at the time though...

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

This kind of art caught my eye as a little kid, and the people associated with it always seemed to be the best kind of people. Made every difference to how I turned out. As I grew older, it seemed like the counterculture I grew up with kind of faded away, until it seemed like they'd all turned into yuppies. Sure, there are still some old hippies around, but the "hippies" that have come along to replace them have little to no connection to the counterculture of the sixties, largely just kids having fun with drugs and colorful clothing, but thinking those were the point, instead of being a symptom of people's thinking.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your comment and astute observations about the social issues connected with this movement. As one of the old hippies I tend to agree.

[@parry3231]

❤ It's in the heart felt energies of love that is always present and untouched by the circumstances that exist. Love is eternal and everlasting and is always the magic. We are still around and spreading the love and the joy of living with enthusiasm and peace as a goal ❤Respect and nurturing ❤Old and not giving up the dream of peace and freedom to live together with kindness and compassion. Appreciation for individuals who are diverse and unique in their lives because they let their freedom flags fly. Creativity and joyously living in celebration and jubilation ❤

[@naynaynay324]

Amongst all those, Rick Griffin is to me the most interesting as it's very much an exploration of the flow of the subconscious in image form.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. I'm a great admirer of Rick Griffin's work and there is a video on the channel dedicated to him, if you haven't already seen it.

[@projektor4]

I regret losing the 9 original Hapshash posters I had collected in the late 60´s but I´m happy to now have them (and some others) small but perfectly formed (inc. the metallic ink) in the Mick Farren edited book "Get On Down" a decade of rock and roll posters, plus Michael English´s book "3D EYE". A neat summing up of the psychedelic design of the times. Though I´m not sure about Canadian Bob Masse being the `ground breaker´ you suggest, as the Floyd were little know of outside London early in ´66. Their gig archive says they played the Marquee on the 13th. of March. The black text in the lower right has a CGI feel to it, not hand drawn and looking online I see the poster has an early 2000´s copyright. Bob did start working again in the late 90´s for more current artists and also produced some "souvenir" posters, which I believe this to be.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and insight. Your comment about the nefarious misrepresentarion of Bob masse's work got me thinking, and yes when I dug deep enough they are later creations attempting to pass for the actual period, and damn it I was taken in. I'm really grateful to you (even if it doesn't reflect well on me) and as soon as I've finished answering the many comments I've had to date I'm taking it down and re-making with the offending bits renoved. Mea culpa.

[@petebeard]

Hello again. On mature reflection I can't face taking the bloody thing down and re-uploading despite the major misinformation. Sadly you can't just edit the offending bit and it's already been just about the toughest video I've made and I'm sick of the sight of it. So I'm going to announce my misinformation in the description box as a disclaimer to make amends. How easily even recent history gets mangled...

[@galaxy_mosaic3587]

there is a record store in San Francisco, I believe Amoeba Music in the Haight-Ashbury area, where they have a large number of concert posters from the 60s up on the walls. watching this video reminded me of the time I visited there. it kind of felt like a museum of art of that culture. thanks

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment

[@justicecommander9455]

Great little resume on the psychedelic art of the 60's, it's interesting to think how much modern album covers get their inspiration from this decade as nowadays you need more than the musician's photo to bring attention.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm glad you appreciated this video.

[@cheerfulstrength940]

Thank you for recognizing these artists! I would love to see you cover Roger Dean, Peter Max, and Franzetta in detail. It would be very interesting to learn about their training, techniques, and careers. 💙🙏🏽💙

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. And regarding the three you name I'm not sure you'll be thrilled by my response. Roger Dean will feature in more deatail when/if I finish my video about record cover art. I'm an admirer of Frazetta but surely it's all been said and done by others? And I'm sorry to say that Peter max was primarily an artist (or so they say) and he's probably been well covered already.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Btw, this video dovetails nicely with your previous Maxfield Parrish. His mother leaving to join a commune in California, Roger Dean's work reflecting Parrish's landscapes and small scale offset lithography shops emulating Parrish's saturated colors. Ironically, Alistair Cooke & Ruth Emerson Parrish's son John Byrne Cooke was road manager for Janis Joplin 1967-1070.

[@petebeard]

I really don;t know how you make these connections, but I'm glad you do.

[@steveneardley7541]

I remember most of these posters, outside of the stuff by Martin Sharp, which is new to me. I loved how much "kitchen sink" creativity was going on at the time. I even tried my own hand at it. I think the most important thing about this art is how celebratory it is--a dive into very sensual colors and forms without any pretensions to high art. In the movie Grand Theft Parsons, there is a hippy hearse painted really badly with psychedelic patterns. I love it, because you could see that it had been done by a bunch of stoned friends in one afternoon--possibly two hours--without any concern with "doing a good job." Creativity was just something that was there, for anyone to explore.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your comment, and reflections on the nature of the 60s. It was a lot f this work that took me to art college in 69.

[@steveneardley7541]

I remember seeing all these underground films in the sixties--with terrible production values. My favorites were by the Kuchar brothers--Sins of the Fleshapoids, The Mammal Palace. These films were major inspirations for John Waters, whose first films were likewise really funny but absolutely poverty-stricken in terms of technique and equipment. But Waters got better and better as he went on. People now tend to put bands like the Beatles and Pink Floyd on a pedestal, but they began as kids with a lot of nerve, some talent, and the ambition to become good musicians. They were essentially garage bands. Similarly with Andy Warhol. No one took him particularly seriously at first. Now he's in the Met. George Kuchar ended up getting a professorate in filmmaking at San Francisco State, where he was able to pass on his brand of slapdash sixties creativity to his students.

[@Claude1Rochon]

One thing seems to have escaped your attention about the ..what you call Day-Glo colours of the first Psychedelic posters. They were made especially for rooms illuminated with UV neons called Blacklight neons... which wavelength provoked the posters' wild chromatics to explode and yield even more trippy situations for the Voyageurs.

[@petebeard]

Thanks for the comment. We didn't have that in the UK, or if we did I was too stoned to remember.

[@Claude1Rochon]

otherwise...it was a very entertaining post...and by all accounts...a VERY fun and trippy epoch to be a 17 year old in... cheers ! @@petebeard

[@morenofranco9235]

Wonderful, Pete. A trip down memory lane. This was the era I grew up in as an artist. How many record albums I bought - just for the ART!

[@petebeard]

Hello and yse I made that mistake many times. Great illustration and rubbish music...

[@macsnafu]

This kind of art and illustration shows the crossover between music and comics. Underground comics didn't merely disappear in the 70s, but inspired independent comics, and more interest in European comics artists, through publications like Heavy Metal, Witzend, and Star*Reach. I especially appreciated Marvel comics coming out with Epic magazine and reprinting Moebius' work for American audiences, although that didn't happen until the early 80s. And there were still some wild illustration done for music albums, some readily known, like Roger Dean's art for Yes albums, some less known, like the album art for Khan or Gong. Prog fans especially appreciated wild covers for prog artists, like art on Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery or Genesis' Nursery Cryme. Of course I'm not sure how many people are fans of both psychedelia/prog music and comics art, but I know that there at least some of us.

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your comment and observations. There's a history of record cover illustration in the pipeline, but it's turned into a bit of an epic so it might be a while before it's uploaded.

[@macsnafu]

@@petebeard I'll be looking for that video! ;-)

[@BlueisNotaWarmColour]

Great no-nonsense video. I'm glad videos like this can still get made, in which we simply enjoy the art for its own sake without the subject matter getting exploited for the sake of a soapbox rant.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. Its particularly welcome because that's precisely what I'm trying to achieve. Too may seem to think their opinions are to be inflicted on the rest of us.

[@errolfellows409]

Thank you. Informative and entertaining. A Dayglo collision - grand turn of phrase! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for yet another favourable comment, and a happy new year to you and yours!

[@rundoetx]

Excellent. Austin TX. had its own artists producing album covers and posters. Two that I was especially fond of were Jim Franklin and Guy Jukes. Thanks for posting.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. I'd never heard of the two you mention so I'll have to investigate.

[@rundoetx]

@@petebeard You wont be disappointed.

[@choosecarefully408]

_LOVED_ the opening music. It suited the band's laid-back style.

[@petebeard]

Many thanks for the comment. The first time I made this video I used actual music from the period and of course it got clobbered over copytight. So I vowed to re-make the music myself. I'm quite pleased with the results but it took much longer to make the tracks than it did to make the video so I won't be making a habit of it.

[@choosecarefully408]

@@petebeard When I saw the credit, I simply assumed that with today's technology you simply selected something that suited from what you already had recorded. I hadn't tried looking the band up to hear what the rest sounds like, but the piece in the outro sounds laid back as well. I just find that "laid back" felt more right with the opening piece.

[@gideonk123]

Great video! Since you mentioned 50s and 60s “boring” album covers, just want to mention the modern art covers of “Mingus ah um” and “Time out” by the Dave Brubeck quartet, both from 1959 by S. Neil Fujita

[@petebeard]

Hello and I was referring specifically to pop and rock. Jazz, blues and clasical had used illustration from the first album covers onwards. I'll be featuring many when I eventually complete my history of illustrated album covers video.

[@martinwilliams9866]

@@petebeard Then please include Quintessence's second album cover with the central illustration of Christ (I am not a Christian)

[@kelguy2002]

This is so Well DONE ... I didn’t want it To END .... THANK YOU PETER BEARD ! ☮️❤️💪🏼🎨🎨🎨

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your overwhelming appreciation.

[@henrydarker4314]

Thanks again Pete. It was the more 'photo-realistic' airbrushed art of Michael English that got me into creating airbrush paintings in the 1970s for a couple of years.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I remember those posters - egg, splashing ball etcetera and even had the cigarette packet poster on my wall. I used an airbrush too, but hated the damn thing. Ceremonially destroyed mine when I learned how to use Photoshop.

[@henrydarker4314]

@@petebeard Yep, all that time cutting Friskfilm :-), couldn't go through that again! The Rolling Stones tour poster at about 50secs in caught my attention, as I used a part of a similar poster, obviously same tour. '63? in a painting I made for a friend last year. I wont post the url, but if you put the video title below into the KZbin 'search' you'll find the two Stones paintings on my channel, accompanied by some of my music. BOTH ROLLING STONES PAINTINGS - Henry Darker

[@petebeard]

@@henrydarker4314 Hello again and thanks - nice painting, nice music. A pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[@J234-gw7he]

This channel is a little community of treasure. Keep up the good work Sir Pete

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I intend to keep making them as long as people keep watching - and liking -them.

[@olgierdogden4742]

A fine spectrum of the Counter Culture Illustrative works Peter. And being an ex art school student from Hornsey which was later engulfed by Middlesex Poly then to become Middlesex University I’ve got many many original posters and album covers by the likes of Rick Griffin and R. Crumb including his early Zap Comix. But I also have a very eclectic mix from some earlier Picasso pen and ink voyeuristic and biographical details. A fine and concise documentary.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation. Ah the notorious Hornsey college, home of the sit-in.

[@olgierdogden4742]

@@petebeard Indeedy. I was still at school in Holland Park which I found out recently was regarded as the Socialist Eaton! And clearly remember joining union with Hornsey over the terrible killing by the US state troopers of the Kent State Five. -Who you probably remember were silenced and one badly crippled when demonstrating over Vietnam. -I guess for many kid’s it was an excuse to bunk off but we had elder siblings who attended Hornsey and wanted to send a message there and then. Crikey, with all the things that are being removed from one’s liberty today just batting an eyelid in public with more than 3 people will have you on the register and very empty pockets for a while. I enjoy our little chats and especially when I have the time, watching your videos or rather documentaries. I look forward to watching some more and continue our dialogue. Cheers.

[@josephkarl2061]

I at some point want to take up skateboarding. This style of graphic design is what I'm aiming for when I do a custom board. It really gives you license to picture whatever you want ✌️👍

[@gabriellew6467]

Despite, broadly speaking, not being particularly drawn to the type of posters and art of that time I chose this episode, simply to try and conquer prejudice (although this is probably an exaggerated way of putting it). And your usual meticulous way of presenting did make me aware of some very interesting artists and their works. Thank you

[@petebeard]

Thanks again, and conquering prejudice and hopefully expanding viewers' appreciation of other styles and mindsets are two of my missions with the channnel. So it's always good to hear that to some extent my plan is working. It's certainly done that for me.

[@ancientmusketeer6564]

Great video, I still have my Nasty Tales badge and the poetry book that used the "love" illustration. Another great underground artist was Edward Barker whose cartoon strips often featured in IT.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And for giving me the name Edward Barker. I tried but couldn't remember his name although I remembered the cartoons. If memory serves he just signed as 'Edward' I think.

[@futuristica1710]

I remember much of the album art from my childhood, flipping through my parent’s records.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot.

[@Andrew_Haase]

As a professional graphic designer now, the work featured here was inspiring to me since high school - and now that the principles of design still apply in our age of a digital medium - the workmanship, knowledge of typesetting, plate separation, & articulation of artistic atheistic…are bar none, these artists & their workshops produced true works of art

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your comment, and clear appreciation of the achievements and contribution of these illustrators and designers.

[@Andrew_Haase]

Your channel is well crafted Pete - keep up the great work

[@WendyW123]

This one brought back a few memories from way back, lol. I still have a number of LPs from the 60's and 70's, which I used to play on my box Decca. Thank you as always Pete 😊

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation.

[@johndouglaswilson7504]

Very good, I like the designs, very psychedelic, as well as colorful, I like the mixture of Art Neuveux style Alphonse Mucha, and abstract designs.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Ah! My youth... though I was more Kensington Market and Oz than the Fillmore West. I had the Linda Eastman photo of Hendrix, the one the Martin Sharp picture is based on, as a poster on my wall along with lots of Don McCullin's Sunday Times Magazine Viet Nam photos and various other eye catching bits and pieces. ps - at risk of seeming unwhatever, it's nice to see the topless Germaine Greer yet again :) pps - It must have been Alan Aldridge who did the cover of the Pop Proms programme. I went to a couple or three of the shows at the Royal Albert Hall and still have the programme to this day.

[@petebeard]

Hello Paul. It was at Kensington market in 1969 that I saw my first (pirated) copy of Zap comix. Changed my life at that point.

[@marstondavis]

They used to hand out postcard size 'coming attractions' at The Avalon with all of the famous artist's latest work on them. Then you'd see the posters EVERYWHERE with that same art. They were just throw-away items at that time. How I wish I'd picked them up from the ground and saved them. They're worth a small fortune now.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Don't get me started on the supposedly worthless stuff I've let slip through my hands over the years.

[@stifledvoice]

Hard for a 60's kid like me to accept counterculture design paired with day-glo colors and illuminated with blacklights is just another quaint old style and relic of a bygone age. I still get a contact high just looking at the old stuff of my youth.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. It is very welcome and motivating.

[@barockychocky]

Thanks, Pete! I recognised Ingre's "Jupiter and Thetis" in the Moscoso poster for Moby Grape.

[@petebeard]

Hello and it's true those chaps really did carry on like a bunch of pirates.

[@andrietsa]

Pete, you are a treasure for doing what you do!

[@AdamSDoyle]

I'm a professional illustrator who had excellent schooling at undergraduate and graduate levels, but somehow the specifics of music poster art slipped past me. Thanks for the educational dose on the 60s!

[@petebeard]

Hello and its always a pleasure to hear from someone who's working as an illustrator. And of course I had to check out some of your work, which I must say I thoroughly enjoyed. It's particularly pleasant to see a portfolio with a wide range of approaches in their armoury. And I'm glad I could introduce you to an area you weren't previously familiar with.

[@AdamSDoyle]

@@petebeard Oh thank you so much for your kind words and again, for the effort you've put into showcasing the often overlooked role illustration has contributed to our culture🙏

[@Garspawnish]

I own dozens of the Family Dog posters. Best art of the mid-to-late 20th century. Moscoso and Griffin were such masters!

[@sclogse1]

I only have the Residents poster...a new years eve show, I think....

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment.

[@davidjoelsen3399]

Fantastic graphics, love them. But what is the music at the begning of the video?

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks fr the appreciation. The music throughout is me on various instruments and digital drums, trying to evoke the period.

[@davidjoelsen3399]

@@petebeard I love your music. I was desperate trying to identify it with Shazam but unsuccessful. That explains it. If you ever record a longer version I happily buy a copy.

[@jonsey3645]

Great sound from you and the band Pete. Although not surprised, I had no idea of the depth of your talent. BRAVO!

[@petebeard]

Thanks a bunch for your appreciation, and especially with regard to my musical contribution. I would do more with my own music but it takes considerably longer to make than the videos themselves.

[@stephenwaters9781]

Hi Pete, Do you accept requests? I always thought there is not enough good videos featuring Alan Aldridge. He was so good and yet, now really quite overlooked. Do you plan to focus on Aldridge at some point?

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't considered a solo video for Aldridge - probably because he was still alive when I started the channel (just) and you have to be dead to qualify. But now you mention it he's definitely worth a closer look. Don't hold your breath, though - he's joining a long queue of others waiting their turn. But thanks a lot for jogging my memory and I will investigate.

[@ralphchristianson]

We were there at the end of the 60s and loved the graphics as there were great colours and images. Very creative artists who opened new ideas of illustration. This went hand in hand with the music, good times were had, in spite of Vietnam and the racism which continues today.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your comment about the video. God times were indeed had, but of course it couldn't be sustained for long.

[@parry3231]

We have the same issues as we had then. As you said, racism, wars, and other stuff that seems like we should have learned from the past and evolved into a peacefulness that has a purpose for respect and love in our lives together. Maybe we could get it together during this time of craziness and hostilities and become compassionate and take responsibility for the betterment of life and the focus on living with love for the environment and all of us equally with a place of peace and joy with creativity and gratitude. ❤ It's high time for the dancing in the streets and a celebration of loving kindness to spread throughout the world ❤

[@doberman1ism]

Day Glow! I painted on a black posterboard with Dayglow paints back in the day. What a wonderful memory.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and this 'blacklight' poster thing was entirely new to me when American viewers referred to it in their comments. I'm pretty sure it wasn't something we had in the UK. Or maybe I just don't remember it - I'll ask some of my compatriots.

[@doberman1ism]

@@petebeard Yes, blacklight posters glowed in the dark with the black light on. It gives off a lavender purple effect color. Boy does that bring back memories. I had one of Bob Dylan that came with his album.

[@garymcguire8529]

I missed this one Mr Beard, but I can see the reason you did it. Bands in the pass did cover version of well known songs, so it is only to be expected they would the same thing their cover art!

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks again.

[@kinematics4999]

Great Selection Thank you.... Do you have a a video dedicated to Sci FI illustration ?

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And the answer to your question is...not yet. I've had a scifi project as a work in development for some months now, but then I've also got many others in similar stages of unfinished. It will be completed but I have no way of knowing when. For reasons I've given up trying to work out I'm just not able to work on one thing at a time. It isn't how my brain works, sadly.

[@kinematics4999]

@@petebeard Thank you Peter for the update, I have many projects in development, sometimes the delay feels terrible, sometimes I found a better way to do it after time, most important I learn is keep going even is just another small step. Best images I found are searching : Retro Future Magazines ... Thanks again Pete

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

When I was very young in 1969, my Dad had the 8-track cassette of The Moody Blues's IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD. That cover art weirded me out so much.

[@petebeard]

Hello and it's a strange phenomenon how some of these images edure in our memories. I remember the covers better than most of the music.

[@vincentgoupil180]

A nod to the Unsung Printers of the posters without whom there wouldn't have been the end product. Most designers were new not knowing how posters were made. Of the San Francisco area the printers were Bindweed Press - Frank Westlake, Call Litho, West Coast Litho, Tea Lautrec - Levon Mosgofian and others. Good article, *"San Francisco Rock Posters and the Art of Photo-Offset Lithography"*

[@petebeard]

Hello again and nce more the depth of your research astounds. I have wondered whether a video on illustration's dependency on the print process would be a good idea, but I'm not sure how many would be all that interested. And finding visual evidence in support would be a nightmare I think.

[@neillgj]

"imagery ... in many cases inextricably associated with the bands and performers" - says it all, Mr Beard . Well done.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the appreciation.

[@Davy.J.Y]

This was a really interesting and enjoyable video. It was great seeing all of those album and concert artworks, Good to see Rick Griffin, i have a book on him.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot. At the time I loved this stuff but as an old man half a century later only Crumb and Griffin have stayed high in my admiration.

[@agylub]

Started Uni in 1972 amid this explosion- the Uni magazine “On Dit” was full of psychedelic art as were the posters for the bands of the time.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your comment.

[@serendipitylovejoy4724]

Thank you for this video & content. Not only have you introduced me to some brilliant artists I’m now discovering some new bands & music to listen as well. Broadening horizons is a good thing which you do well.

[@petebeard]

Hello and that's really good to know. Like the graphics some of the music hasn't stood the test of time, but there are some real diamonds too, fortunately.

[@BerkshireIdeas]

I hope you decide to take a deeper dive into this genre with maybe some solo exposes on a few of the pivotal players like Roger Dean

[@petebeard]

Thanks for the comment. Dean didn't appear until the early 70s so he wasn't appropriate for this video. And he is alive to the best of my knowledge so not eligible for the solo series. But I'm working on a history of record covers, which although is turning into an apparently never ending project, he will be a sigificant presence in that.