Trips Festival +|+ SFO January 1966

Hipstory: T R I P S F E S T I V A L January 1966
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Signed by WavyG aka Hugh Romney at the last HogFarm Pignic - 9/2001

this is the FIRST gathering of it's kind anywhere.
the TRIP -- or electronic performance -- is a new medium of communication & entertainment.

FRIDAY. JANUARY 21
america needs indians, sensorium 9 -slides, movies,
sound tracks. flowers, food, rock'n'roll. eagle lone
whistle, indians (senecas, chippewas, hopi. sioux,
blackfeet, etc.) & anthropologists. open theatre -
'revelations" -nudeprojections. "the god box" by
ben jacopetti. the endless explosion, the congress
of wonders, liquid projections, the jazz mice. the
loading zone rock'n'roll. steve fowler, amanda foulger,
rain jacopetti, & the unexpectable.

SATURDAY. JANUARY 22
ken kesey. members of the s. f. tape music center.
big brother & the holding company rock'n'roll. the
don buchla sound-light console. overhead projection.
anthony martin. ramon sender. bill maginnis. bruce
baillie. "the acid test". the merry pranksters & their
psychedelic symphony. neal cassady vs. ann murphy
vaudeville. the grateful dead rock'n' roll. allen ginsberg.
roy's audioptics. movies. ron boise & his electric thunder sculpture. the bus. hell's angels. many noted outlaws, & the unexpectable.

SUNDAY JANUARY 23
high energy experiments conducted in the cyclclotron of
dome-shaped longshoreman's hall by america needs
indians, open theatre, s.f. tape music center, the
merry pranksters. gordon ash by (light matrix). henry
jacobs (air dome projections), kqed, don buchla, the
grateful dead. the loading zone. big brother & the holding company, & many others still being assembled. since the common element of all shows is ELECTRICITY, this evening will be programmed live from stimuli provided by a PINBALL MACHINE. a nickel in the slot starts the evening.

the general tone of things has moved on from the self-
conscious happening to a more JUBILANT occasion where the audience PARTICIPATES because it's more fun to do so than not. maybe this is the ROCK REVOLUTION. audience dancing is an assumed part of all the shows, & the audience is invited to wear ECSTATIC DRESS & bring their own GADGETS (a. c. outlets will be provided).

design: Wes Wilson *
printing Contact Printing Co.

TICKETS
-$2 PER EVENING
-$5 FOR SERIES
AT CITY LIGHTS, S.F., ASUC
ANO CAMPUS RECORDS,
BERKELEY; HUT-T-I, S.F.
STATE-INFO: 392-5489

* In contrast to the formal art training that was received by Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson was all but untrained. Wes owned the Contact Printing Company, which consisted of an ancient 17"x 22" proof press where he created one-color posters. His early work was produced for the Trips Festival handbill and the San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeals. He soon began an association with Chet Helms who supplied Wes with art for Chet's Family Dog. That art included a photograph of an Indian with a stovepipe hat and a dangling cigarette with the motto: "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind." His friendship with Mouse, Moscoso and Rick Griffin, quickly had its influence and Wes started creating psychedelic inspired art for Chet and a more straightforward readable art for the more conservative tastes of Bill Graham.