The Odyssey of Big Brother & The Holding Company
Source Materials and Show Notes
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Song List
Here are the audio and video songs we play in the presentation Many of these songs are available to stream from Spotify or iTunes (I will post a Spotify playlist soon).
Song and video list (with band name, song name, album title and year)
Audio clips:
Quicksilver Messenger Service, “Pride of Man”, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1968.
The Cream, “Crossroads”, CREAM Crossroads Live 1968, 1968.
The Grass Roots, “Let’s Live for Today”, Let’s Live for Today, 1967.
Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Purple Haze”, Live from Monterey Pop, 1967.
Chicago, “25 or 6 to 4”, Chicago, 1970
Books
D’Alessandro, Jill and Colleen Terry. Summer of Love: art, fashion and rock and roll, University of California Press and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017.
Unterberger, Richie, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, Backbeat Books, 2003. (Learn more about Richie’s books, classes and presentations)
Films
Rockin’ at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock, 1996, Directed by Mary Works.
Paper, Ink and Rock n’ Roll: A History of Rock Posters, 2016, Presented by Moonalice. (Series of 5 episodes on YouTube)
Art
The program includes posters by the following artists:
Bonnie MacLean
Alton Kelley
Stanley Mouse
Wes Wilson
Victor Moscoso
Rick Griffin
10 October 2020 Show
Some other notes from the program with applicable web links:
The website to see the rock posters of Russ's son Chris is at http://www.chrisbertetta.com/
Here's the YouTube link to the video of Cream playing "Crossroads"
Thank you Todd for helping answer some of the questions about how the posters were made. In the Q&A, he explained that a silk screen press was almost always used. Offset printing was not widely used.
Leslie says there is a good chapter on the printing process in Summer of Love: art, fashion and rock and roll, which was the catalog for the 2017 Summer of Love exhibition at the De Young.
Loved Bryan's recollection in Chat: "saw many shows at the "Berkeley Community Theatre" which I think was the school auditorium for Berkeley High. The Association, Mama's & Papas, The Doors in the 60's and even Elton John in '72 or '73"
Joanne noted we got one fact wrong: "In the presentation of Wes Wilson’s poster where he was pictured with a woman sitting below in front, [the woman] was his wife, not a friend as you mentioned." Thanks for setting this straight!