Psychodelic Sixties

The Lizard King slays all the teen mags.

The greasers discovered hash pipes and striped trousers, while this guy jacked some beads from a Buddhist or mama’s jewelry box. It’s all good.

Photo from George Harrison’s early August 1967 to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury

Evidently, when you psychedelicize Davy Jones, peacock feathers sprout from his face.

1967 was so weird that even the Fugs had a legit shot of becoming teen heartthrobs

Vroom... Rawr...

You fill me with inertia.

Sorry if this is old hat to you folks across the pond, but you American indie kids need to see this. A band this militantly twee with a cool-ass chick bassist would get an automatic 7.3 from Pitchfork if it came out now.

Cleveland ABC-TV music show Upbeat hosts “the Funkadelic” just right before Bobby Sherman (!?!), while the group is probably high enough to be peeled off the ceiling. As the kids say, it’s lit AF.

Mexican ad to “psychedelicize your guitar”

Early 1970s Mexican radio ad

ABC Records promo ad from pioneer psychedelic jazz-rock group The Free Spirits

Elektra ad for Beatles cash-in LP by the Charles River Valley Boys. 

Rare ad from the Gurus, a group that tried to catch the raga rock wave in ‘66. Blue Snow Night is actually quite good.