The Grateful Dead comes East for the 1st time...
Item # 727141
June 01, 1967
THE VILLAGE VOICE, New York, June 1, 1967
* Grateful Dead - first Eastern tour begins
* Very 1st performances in the East advertisement
* Jerry Garcia - Bob Weir - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
* THE DOORS very early performance ad
* Steve Paul's "The Scene" nightclub
Page 19 has a small performance advertisement for the Cafe Au Go Go nightclub in Greenwich Village with one of performers listed as: "Grateful Dead" (see image) This was actually the groups very first shows on the East Coast. The Greenwich Village basement club on Bleeker Street was a dank, dark hole of a place, but it introduced the Dead to New Yorkers for that set of shows.
Page 18 has a ad for "The Scene" nightclub with one of the performers being "The Doors" This is also a very early item on this iconic band.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
It is worth noting that "The Village Voice" was an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City.
Other interesting items from the counter-culture era. Complete in 40 pages, tabloid-size, one crease across the center, nice condition.
Background: The June 1, 1967 issue of The Village Voice serves as a vital historical nexus capturing the precise moment the tectonic plates of American counterculture shifted and converged. By documenting the Grateful Dead’s legendary East Coast debut at the Cafe Au Go Go alongside a concurrent, nascent performance by The Doors at Steve Paul's "The Scene," this artifact captures two regional subcultures—San Francisco's communal, improvisational psychedelia and Los Angeles's dark, poetic theatricality—colliding in the artistic epicenter of Greenwich Village. Occurring on the exact eve of the "Summer of Love" and coinciding with the Dead’s seminal free concert in Tompkins Square Park, these advertisements signify the definitive nationalization of the 1960s underground rock movement. They freeze in time a brief, fragile window where these future rock titans were still accessible club acts, forever cementing New York City as the essential crucible that validated and amplified the defining sounds of a generation.
Provenance note: This issue comes from The Village Voice's own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive.
Alert: Many issues of The Village Voice contain articles and/or photos which some consider offensive, and are certainly inappropriate for children. Please purchase with discretion.
* Grateful Dead - first Eastern tour begins
* Very 1st performances in the East advertisement
* Jerry Garcia - Bob Weir - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
* THE DOORS very early performance ad
* Steve Paul's "The Scene" nightclub
Page 19 has a small performance advertisement for the Cafe Au Go Go nightclub in Greenwich Village with one of performers listed as: "Grateful Dead" (see image) This was actually the groups very first shows on the East Coast. The Greenwich Village basement club on Bleeker Street was a dank, dark hole of a place, but it introduced the Dead to New Yorkers for that set of shows.
Page 18 has a ad for "The Scene" nightclub with one of the performers being "The Doors" This is also a very early item on this iconic band.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
It is worth noting that "The Village Voice" was an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City.
Other interesting items from the counter-culture era. Complete in 40 pages, tabloid-size, one crease across the center, nice condition.
Background: The June 1, 1967 issue of The Village Voice serves as a vital historical nexus capturing the precise moment the tectonic plates of American counterculture shifted and converged. By documenting the Grateful Dead’s legendary East Coast debut at the Cafe Au Go Go alongside a concurrent, nascent performance by The Doors at Steve Paul's "The Scene," this artifact captures two regional subcultures—San Francisco's communal, improvisational psychedelia and Los Angeles's dark, poetic theatricality—colliding in the artistic epicenter of Greenwich Village. Occurring on the exact eve of the "Summer of Love" and coinciding with the Dead’s seminal free concert in Tompkins Square Park, these advertisements signify the definitive nationalization of the 1960s underground rock movement. They freeze in time a brief, fragile window where these future rock titans were still accessible club acts, forever cementing New York City as the essential crucible that validated and amplified the defining sounds of a generation.
Provenance note: This issue comes from The Village Voice's own archives, part of their in-house collection used to create their digital archive.
Alert: Many issues of The Village Voice contain articles and/or photos which some consider offensive, and are certainly inappropriate for children. Please purchase with discretion.
Category: The 20th Century
