GRATEFUL DEAD 67 TRIP OR FREAK RICK GRIFFIN KELLY MOUSE

   TRIP OR FREAK  

  RICK GRIFFIN, ALTON KELLY AND STANLEY MOUSE  
 8.0 VERY FINE Original Poster Printed in 1967 
  WHITE PAPER HIGH-GRADE 

RICK DREW ORIGINAL ART ON TWO OF THESE SERIGRAPHS I PUBLISHED,
JUST A DAY OR SO BEFORE HIS TRAGIC UNTIMELY DEATH MID-AUGUST 1991.

CONTAINS AUTHENTIC SIGNATURES AND ART

BY RICK GRIFFIN, ALTON KELLY AND STANLEY MOUSE

GRATEFUL DEAD

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The very rare original 1969 first version of this famous Halloween concert poster

sells regularly in the five to seven thousand dollar range.

The urban legend has it the local acid dealers of the day

were cutting up the 100s of little Lon Chaney heads

into orange sunshine blotter tabs.

Whatever reason there is that comes to be called "truth,"

one thing is for certain, this has always been one of the toughest posters out there

to acquire ever since I began collecting and dealing them,

first in my Telegraph Ave comic book store beginning August 1972,

then also in my Haight Ashbury store first opened November 1976.

This is a one of a kind opportunity for the Rick Griffin and/or Grateful Dead collector

who thinks they have "everything" because......

ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD CAN OWN RICK'S LAST WORK OF ART, READ ON......

Rick Griffin was a good friend of mine since 1973 when he first wandered
into my Berkeley California comic book store Comics & Comix
on Telegraph Ave at Dwight Way back in the day.
We traded C&C's old comic books & pulps for his original art,
with me first ending up with his original cover to the
Print Mint edition of Tales From The Tube.
By 1991 I had became Rick's last art agent
and semi-partmer when we opened a
Rick Griffin Art Gallery in The Cannery
at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
He created several business logos, store signage, shirt designs, etc insisting that
gallery also carry comic strip book items from around the world as he
remained true to all the art fields he enjoyed working in.
He could never forget his Zap Comics involvement
and in this piece he also pays homage to his Von Dutch roots.
He was coming down from his mid-age crisis,
tuning back into his kids, wanting to create new art
as he began the next level of his extra-ordinary career.
We worked on creating a gallery where he could showcase
his new work. He was at peace with himself.
He was supremely confidant with his artistic abilities.
This is the very last drawing Rick made before he died.
He told me that day from now on all he was going to paint and draw
were nude women as envisioned by the thought balloon
as seen in his self-portrait of himself as artist in the scans.
Just two days later, after a tremendous amount
of hard work and money laid out for many months,
Rick Griffin had his most unfortunate motorcycle accident.

I miss my friend. We went to First Showing First Day of the 1989
Batman premiere at the Coronet Theatre over on Geary in San Fran.
He was such a fan of the best of culture world-wide -:)
He parked the Harley that was later in the fatal accident
blocking the front door to my Haight Ashbury store,
sauntered in, kicked out all the customer browsers,
and told me he had two tickets to the first showing.
How do you say no to Rick Griffin?

I miss the new art which would have been created in past 17 years.
Never thought I would be selling this most special of momentos of a day now
long ago in that galaxy now far far away inside Fisherman's Wharf
It was a fun day when me, my former partner and three of the ghods
of the psychedelic poster art form, which transformed the way much
of the world viewed art and is still having its impact felt in new generations
of artists continuing to be inspired by that which came before,
got down to the business at hand.

After much mirth and jest of us all feelling good that day,
just two drawings later, Rick announced he had a hot date at the beach
up north of Golden Gate Bridge along the Marin coast with a new girl friend,
going surfing again, he said, before he was to head back to some where
on Long Island to finish up an animation project which initially looked most
promising as this veteran of lost causes kept looking towards the future.

This magnificent piece by my friend is being reluctantly put up for sale
as i need to get over to India to obtain hip replacement operations
so i can walk again. Earlier, HMO Aetna canceled a long-standing
policy stating the BS "undisclosed pre-existing condition"
because i had been a passenger in a vehicle accident
coming out of a summer 1973 Houston Texas Comicon.
I cannot wait to win my case 3-5 years from now
as i am told by doctors if I do not do this now,
it might not be successful.
I am more than willing to pay a policy
for a real Universal Health Plan in this country
covering all Americans like most all other
civilized countries in this world.

I have absorbed a lot of Griffin lore over the past 40+ years,
including having been first & foremost Rick's friend, then honored
as his exclusive art agent in a gallery devoted to his work in The Cannery
down in San Francisco's world-famous Fisherman's Wharf
opening back in May 1991, the year of his untimely demise.
The aftermath of the 6.5 years of his probate wars from leaving no will
was such it has been almost 15 years before I could consider
dealing in my friend's work again as the memories remain very strong.
I am soon completing work on a bio-book about the last two years
of my friend Rick Griffin's life as well as the aftermath of his death.
There is a lot of urban myth out there about what happened.

I also lament learning recently of the passing of Alton Kelly,

a true artist & businessman, and my friend in the day.

A SCARCE Artifact of American History
Original Seriagraph Of An Original Poster From A By-Gone Era
  MEASURES A HUGE 39 X 23 INCHES 
ARTISTS ARE RICK GRIFFIN, ALTON KELLY AND STANLEY MOUSE
ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD MAY OWN RICK'S LAST PIECE OF ART

 PRIME PERIOD PIECE 
 FANTASTIC EYE APPEAL 
SHARP CORNERS
Can send larger scans, just ask!
Zero Restoration
NO PINHOLES; NO TAPE
SUPPLE OFF-WHITE PAPER

VERY CLEAN SERIGRAPH POSTER OVERALL AS SEEN IN THE SCAN,
POSTER IS PICTURED IN ART OF ROCK (AOR) ON PAGE 185

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