Stanley "Mouse" Miller said: We [Miller and collaborator Alton Kelley] would go to the San Francisco library and peruse the books on poster art. They had a back room full of books you couldn’t take out with great references. We were just going through that and looking for something. And found this thing and thought, “This says Grateful Dead all over it.” I hate to say this, but Kelley cut it out with a pen knife. I always say that we Xeroxed it, but there weren’t Xerox machines then. I finally found it about two years ago, the actual cut-out piece, and I went, “Oh, my God.” It’s from the book of poems “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The edition was done by an artist called Edmund Sullivan. And the poem that goes with this illustration is fantastic. It’s short and sweet and had to do with wine, women and song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Sullivan

Skull and Roses Album Cover - Grateful Dead Record Cover

Oh, come with old Khayyam. and leave the wise to talk;

one thing is certain, that life flies;

One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;

The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead_(album)

Steal Your Face Logo (~);-}

Designed by Owsley and Bob Thomas

Owsley Said: http://www.thebear.org/GDLogo.html
In 1969 the Dead were renting a warehouse in Novato, California. I was sound man for the band at the time, and lived in Oakland. Bob Thomas, an old friend of mine had just moved from LA to the Bay area and needed a place to stay, and we needed someone to look after the warehouse, which had had a problem with break-ins.
Bob was a superb graphic artist whose work is now familiar to most Deadheads in the form of the Live Dead album cover and the Bear's Choice cover, on which the popular Dancing Bears appeared.
The Dead in those days had to play in a lot of festival style shows where the equipment would all wind up at the back of the stage in a muddle. Since every band used pretty much the same type of gear it all looked alike. We would spend a fair amount of time moving the pieces around so that we could read the name on the boxes. I decided that we needed some sort of marking that we could identify from a distance.
I was in the habit of driving from Oakland to Novato in a little MGTF which had plastic side curtains, which were not very transparent, due to aging of the plastic. One day in the rain, I looked out the side and saw a sign along the freeway which was a circle with a white bar across it, the top of the circle was orange and the bottom blue. I couldn't read the name of the firm, and so was just looking at the shape. A thought occurred to me: if the orange were red and the bar across were a lightning bolt cutting across at an angle, then we would have a very nice, unique and highly identifiable mark to put on the equipment.
At the warehouse I told Bob the idea that I had, and he made a quick sketch. A mutual friend, Ernie Fischbach, who was visiting with Bob, said "Give it to me, I'll show you an easy way to put it on the boxes."
Whereupon he proceeded to cut holes in a couple of pieces of stencil paper. One was a circular hole, about 5 1/2 inches in diameter, and the other was a part of a circle 5 inches in diameter. But it was a half circle with a jagged edge. Then he held the stencil to an amp and sprayed a circle of white paint. Then with one side up, the red half circle went on top of the dried white paint and after wiping off the red and turning the stencil over, the blue was applied. This was the first version, and we put it on to all our gear. It helped make it easier to find our stuff in the crunch. I still have an old toolbox with one of the stencils on it.
A few days later I was talking to Bob and suggested that perhaps the words "Grateful dead" could be placed under the circle, using a style of lettering that would appear to be a skull if you saw it from a distance (I guess I was influenced by too many posters of the time). Any way a few hours later he came down from the loft with the design we know and love.
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The Song "He's Gone," as originally written, referred to the disappearance of Mickey Hart's father, Lenny Hart, who was acting as the band's manager, with a good deal of money.

The first verse has a line... Steal Your Face Right off you Head...

This line was lifted out as the title of the ill-fated album issued under duress. The Song "He's Gone" Does not appear on the Steal Your Face Album... What!

Since the cover of the album featured the logo designed by Stanley Owsley with the grinning skull and lightning bolt inside the circle, that logo has since been identified primarily as the "steal your face" logo, perhaps incorrectly.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gone.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_Your_Face
The album was recorded October 17–20, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom... The Same Concerts were Filmed for The Grateful Dead Movie.

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Back when Newspapers were made using Moveable Type... If a Printer wanted a Bear... this was part of the set of Icons...

or is it part of the Travel Lodge Motel Logo?

https://extrachill.com/2020/11/dancing-grateful-dead-bears-meaning.html

Whether or not you consider yourself a Deadhead, you’ve certainly seen the iconic Grateful Dead “dancing bears” a time or two. Initially designed by artist Bob Thomas to appear on the back cover of the band’s 1973 release, The History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice), the bears have become deeply ingrained in the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, and have taken on layers of symbolic meaning over the years.
Before you understand the full meaning behind the Grateful Dead bears, you have to look at the man who they were designed for: Owsley “Bear” Stanley. In addition to being the band’s sound engineer in the early days, Stanley was also the chemist behind the creation and distribution of a large portion of the LSD that was being consumed in the United States in the 1960s and beyond.
AoxoMoxoA - Rick Griffin

https://www.britannica.com/topic/grateful-dead-folklore
grateful dead, in folktales of many cultures, the spirit of a deceased person who bestows benefits on the one responsible for his burial. In the prototypical story, the protagonist is a traveler who encounters the corpse of a debtor, to whom the honour of proper burial has been denied. After the traveler satisfies the debt, or, in some versions, pays for the burial, he goes on his way. In another version of the story, burial is prescribed for religious reasons but prohibited by civil authorities. It is this version that forms the theme of the apocryphal Book of Tobit in the Old Testament.
The hero is soon joined by another traveler (sometimes in the form of an animal, or, in the story of Tobit, an angel), who helps him in a dramatic way. In some stories the companion saves the hero’s life; in others he helps him gain a prize. In many versions, the companion offers to aid the hero, but only on condition that they divide the prize. Then, as the hero is about to comply, the companion reveals himself as the grateful spirit of the deceased whom the hero helped to bury.
http://linesandcolors.com/2007/10/02/rick-griffin/

As I mentioned in my article about Peter Max, there were several less widely known artists who were actually much more instrumental in the creation of that unique blend of Op, Pop, Surrealism, Dada and Art Nouveau that came to be known as Psychedelic Art in the 1960’s.
Rick Griffin was one of the major contributors to this style, and is considered one of the “big five” along with Alton Kelley, Stanley “Mouse” Miller, Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso.
Wes Wilson - Psychedelic Lettering

Victor Moscoso - Master of Putting Extremely different colors next to each other so the image VIBRATES - especially under Blacklight...

The canvases of the psychedelic artists were concert posters, record album covers and comix (underground comics). Griffin was a standout in all three areas.
Griffin came out of the California surfer culture and created an influential comic strip character called Murphy, whose adventures he chronicled in Surfer magazine.
In Los Angeles he fell in with a group of artists and musicians called the Jook Savages, and was a participant in the legendary Watts Acid Test held by writer and psychedelic pioneer Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
At the time LSD was legal, and the influence of psychedelic (meaning “mind manifesting”) drugs was integral to the explosion of artistic and musical experimentation and creativity that marked the era. (To separate the impact of consciousness altering chemicals on creative individuals from the anti-drug hysteria that followed, see Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception.)

There are a Number of Horrible "Jokes"

Explaining the Meaning of the Ice Cream Kid...

I will not repeat them here...

Not That Funny 50 Years Later.

Europe '72 Triple Live Album... Three LP Records!

Wes Wilson Poster

Mirrors Lighting up the Faces - Bob Seidemann photography

https://www.bobseidemann.com/

This photo was made by having five people

behind the camera hold mirrors pointed at the faces...

Note the Shadows on the Road...

"Little Boxes" type Houses in South San Francisco

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The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gdhome.html

By David Dodd,

1997-98 Research Associate, Music Dept.,

Univ. of Calif. at Santa Cruz

Dark Star Orchestra -
Surfing Bear with a Rick Griffin
Flying Eyeball and Roses...

Ancestral Memory, It's Real by Sonya Sophia EFT

Insight I Gained from a Sonya Sophia

Guided Meditation...

Suppose that the Wisdom/Knowledge of My Ancestors was passed on to me in my DNA...

ABSURD! But Let's just take that as a Possibility... as if we were Doing a Mathematical Proof and that's an Assumption...

I was doing the tap "Ancestral Memory - It's Real" and...

I Had to think of what fear my ancestors worried about... and the fear that was passed on to me in my DNA... Well, My Ancestors Feared Starving to Death in the Winter. We Lived in Holland, Scotland and British Columbia... a Very Valid Fear back then... However...

That's no longer a Valid fear because NOW we have technology to help us... Refrigerators, Central heating systems with a thermostat, grocery stores... ETC...

My ancestral fear manifested itself in Always Eating All The Food on my plate... Hundreds of years ago no one knew if they were going to get their next meal...

I realized that at dinner, it's OK to simply NOT Eat Everything on the Plate... It's Really Likely that We Will Have Food Tomorrow... Don't worry about it! It's even OK to Throw Away Food into the Garbage Can...

The danger of Obesity is a greater threat to me than the Danger of Starvation...

SO... That's a deep insight I Got from a Tapping Session... Thanks! Sonya Sophia...

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I wonder who made That Four Way Windowpane LSD We ate in the early 1970s... It was a brown square of geletin and if I cut it into four pieces, four people could trip... So... maybe 80 Micrograms times 4 = 320 Mics... That's a LOT! I figure it was Owsley or the Brotherhood of Eternal Love out of Laguna Beach... I don't know any other names at that time except SANDOZ... and I'm certain they were not selling SANDOZ to High School Kids... or maybe it was made by some unknown chemist that didn't get arrested and wasn't famous... Just a Guy who said... "Hell, I Can Make That and The Kids Will Buy it!"

often it was of very poor quality and caused body cramps... people said it was strychnine but I don't believe that... usually I cut mine into four pieces and ate one Just too see if it was any good... and then if it WAS good, I realized that I didn't want to take any more so I'd give it away... Grateful Dead at UN Reno 1974 was one of those times... The Wall of Sound was not working properly... or at all... and the concert wasn't really that fun... but exploring downtown Reno that Night was EPIC! Giant Statues of Showgirls outside in Casinos... Blinking Lights!

Relax and Enjoy... Every Grateful Dead Cover Band Has its own flavor... Even the Cover Band that employs Bob Weir and Mickey Hart... and when I go to a public park and play Grateful Dead Songs on my Acoustic Guitar... for free... I'm a Cover Band... I played the Rainbow Gathering In Idaho and Had a Great Time... Me and a Kid Played Uncle John's Band for a Couple of Hours at the "Relaxation Station" - The First Place people pass by from the Parking lot... and you COULD stop and get a Tarot Reading, or Drink Ephedrine Tea... or Just Do Nothing! Many People Had Just Driven 10 hours... so... Sit Down... We will provide all from now on! Hey You Made IT! Relax and Enjoy!

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I'm Glad I took a couple of elective ART classes at Humboldt State University... I was a Computer Science Major and as an alternative to THAT... I Took Acrylic Painting, Black and White Film Photography (darkroom, Chemicals) , Adobe Photoshop and Advertising Layout for Magazines or Book Covers... I'm Glad... We took a Field Trip where we Took Canvas, Easel, Paint and Brushes to The Marina on Humboldt Bay... and that was FUN! I'm also really Glad to meet the Women in those Classes... Organic Earth Mothers...

Many Worlds - my entry for the Ram Dass Logo Contest

Heart Art - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - logo

"Out in the Redwoods" TV Show Logo Contest -
my entry - Rainbow Spiral Diamond and Trees

My Logo for My Own Business
gvan42 - zazzle/gregvan - It's A Visual Mantra
Just Looking at it Causes Peace...

Peace Thru Art Logo

The Eye of the Donut Logo

"Earthsong" Music Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tERVWVZUNyw

Lyrics:

Bm A D G

Planting, planting, planting seeds

D A D

May our garden grow...

Bm A D G

May God bless the earth and rain

D A D

And sprout the seeds I sow

D A D

And sprout the seeds I sow

CHORUS:

G Bm

We've been tilling soil since the dawn of time

A E

The fertile loam of home is nature most divine

G Bm

The lady with the hand upon the plow

A E

is identical, then and now

Weeding, weeding, weeding weeds

feed 'em to the horses

may God bless the new-born foal

and teach it natures forces

Riding, riding, riding steeds

just like long ago

May God bless the hay they eat

and set their eyes aglow

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Six Simple ACTIONS We Can DO To Stop Climate Change.

Removing fossil-fuel subsidies and boosting incentives to move to decentralized energy systems and make clean energy production and storage systems more economically competitive.
Encouraging financial markets to divest of assets linked to fossil fuels, to divert investment towards less-polluting technologies, leaving investors keen to avoid the prospect of holding 'stranded assets' tied to fossil fuels.
Building sustainable cities powered by renewable energy.
Revealing the "moral implications" of fossil fuels.
Disclosing greenhouse gas emissions information.
Strengthening climate education and engagement.

https://www.ecowatch.com/this-is-what-we-can-really-do-about-climate-change-says-new-report-2645041221.html

Rainbow Mickey Mouse ART NOT FOR SALE! at Zazzle Gregvan - We Shall See if this is a Copyright Violation! YES... FORBIDDEN ART... DISNEY OWNS ANYTHING THAT LOOKS LIKE MICKEY MOUSE...I Called it "Three Rainbow Dots ART"

Creepy Symbols hidden in the Dollar Bill's ARTWORK. The Circle and The Triangle, The Lightning Bolt Skull... Makes me wonder... Why aren't there a Lot of Pink Floyd Fans Coloring the Pyramid?

I GREW HEMP George Washington button

Backstory (~);-} The Origin of Grateful Dead Artwork, Logo, Icons - Skull and Roses, Dancing Bears, Steal Your Face, AoxoMoxoA... Mouse, Kelley, Owsley, Bob Thomas, Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscone, Bob Seidemann

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The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.

Suppose that the Wisdom/Knowledge of My Ancestors was passed on to me in my DNA...

ABSURD! But Let's just take that as a Possibility... as if we were Doing a Mathematical Proof and that's an Assumption...

I was doing the tap "Ancestral Memory - It's Real" and...

I Had to think of what fear my ancestors worried about... and the fear that was passed on to me in my DNA... Well, My Ancestors Feared Starving to Death in the Winter. We Lived in Holland, Scotland and British Columbia... a Very Valid Fear back then... However...

That's no longer a Valid fear because NOW we have technology to help us... Refrigerators, Central heating systems with a thermostat, grocery stores... ETC...

My ancestral fear manifested itself in Always Eating All The Food on my plate... Hundreds of years ago no one knew if they were going to get their next meal...

I realized that at dinner, it's OK to simply NOT Eat Everything on the Plate... It's Really Likely that We Will Have Food Tomorrow... Don't worry about it! It's even OK to Throw Away Food into the Garbage Can...

The danger of Obesity is a greater threat to me than the Danger of Starvation...

SO... That's a deep insight I Got from a Tapping Session... Thanks! Sonya Sophia...

My Logo Designs: Many Worlds for Ram Dass, Heart Art for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Rainbow Spiral Diamond in the Forest for "Out in the Redwoods" TV Show...

'Steal Your Smiley Face' Text Art (~);-} emoji - Grateful Dead Logo - Dancing in Arcata to the Absynth Quintet - The Plaza

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