Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey/Pranksters 1970 Madison, WI Aquarian Express Concert Poster. ...

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Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey/Pranksters 1970 Madison, WI Aquarian Express Concert Poster. An original orange & blue concert poster for the Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, Country Joe, Crow and the Rotary Connection playing at the Sound Storm festival in Poynette, Wisconsin - a Madison suburb - over the weekend of April 24-26, 1970. The Dead played on the Sunday. Fun graphics on this one; we love how a bottom line says, "Produced Entirely by Freaks." In 1970, that meant anyone with long hair. This first-ever Heritage offering measures 14" x 20" and grades to Very Good Minus condition. From the Tim Backstrom Grateful Dead Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: The poster was once quarter-folded down for mailing; there's no broken color along those creases. There's a set of staple holes in each corner. There are ½" "sister tears" on the left edge, over from "Country" and then "Ken," which happened when the poster was folded down. All four corners have long diagonal creases but which are pretty harmless. Not considered damage are three blue-ink dots, considered printer's flaws... mostly obviously in the "R" of the big "Sound Storm," plus to the lower left of "Press" and down in the extreme right corner.


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