Grateful Dead, Joan Baez 1966 "Peace" / Winnie the Pooh Mt. Tamalpais Poster (AOR-2.325). ...

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Grateful Dead, Joan Baez 1966 "Peace" / Winnie the Pooh Mt. Tamalpais Poster (AOR-2.325). An original first-printing paper concert poster for the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Joan Baez and her sister Mimi Farina playing the Mount Tamalpais Peace Festival on Saturday afternoon, October 8, 1966. The distinctive and popular Winnie the Pooh & Piglet artwork for this poster was created by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley.

Baez and Farina had to cancel their appearance at this event, so they were replaced by headliner Bola Sete and a new round of posters and handbills were printed. The Art of Rock book thought so much of this image that they printed all three versions known, with this version being the unquestionable first printing.

The Mt. Tamalpais Outdoor Theater was in Marin County, north of San Francisco. The daytime event was a promotional effort for Democratic anti-war congressional candidate Phil Drath, who was a write-in candidate but lost his bid.

It was a busy day for the Dead; after playing this afternoon gig, they played Winterland that night with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Jefferson Airplane (poster BG-30).

In addition to the musicians, two guest speakers are listed on the poster. Ed Keating was an activist who founded Ramparts magazine, was one of the West Coast's most outspoken leaders of the anti-Vietnam War movement and a champion of the underdog. As a lawyer, Keating was also part of the legal defense team for Black Panther leader Huey Newton.

The other speaker, Don Duncan, was a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who served early in the Vietnam War, but came back home opposed to it and famously appeared on the cover of Keating's Ramparts magazine in '66 with the caption above his head, "I Quit!" In doing so, Duncan became one of the earliest military opponents of the war and one of the antiwar movement's leading public figures.

The poster measures 14 3/16" x 20" and grades to Near Mint Minus condition. Very gentle, rolling 3 ½" diagonal crease in the lower right corner that goes through "THE" of "In the Sun" but barely visible. Bottom line of lower left, there's a few little 'indents' on the word "Almost," but invisible; you can see them a little on the verso. Light toning throughout. On the verso, very light writing in pencil in the top right corner. COA from Heritage Auctions.

Literature: See Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, p.228 (illus.).

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