Music Features More Bob Masse posters and the big pot bust The two Afterthought/Kitsilano Theatre concert posters featured in this month’s Georgia Straight 50th-anniversary installment are both beautiful examples of the style in the late...
Music Features Bob Masse rock posters and two great Kitsilano shows While writing this, I am sitting at the kitchen table of Welcome Home—a community mission in the North End of Winnipeg.
Music Features Pot wars, a notorious narc, happenings, and Kitsilano I attended two cannabis festivals this summer and, most recently, the Rifflandia Festival in Victoria last week (September 15 to 18).
Music Features The Grateful Dead and the best concert ever The poster you see is most probably the most famous of all the Afterthought Dance Hall posters.
Music Features The Trips Festival and the Grateful Dead come to town As I write this story, 50 years after I started in the music-promotion business in Vancouver.
Music Features The times they are a-changin' You know it is the eve of legalization of marijuana when I am doing a book signing and poster show at the Green Celling vapour lounge in Victoria.
Music Features Early concerts, posters, and nonconformity As you can see, I took a very conservative point of view for this United Empire Loyalists and Bitter Sweets poster.
Music Notes 1966 concert marked Vancouver's first psychedelic light show Next spring marks the 50th anniversary of both the Georgia Straight and the landmark Human Be-In at Stanley Park.