On This Day in Art Rock History

The Seed

This is the one that started it all — the first psychedelic concert poster. In the summer of 1965, five young musicians who called themselves the Amazing Charlatans loaded into a refurbished saloon in the old Comstock silver town of Virginia City, Nevada. The Red Dog Saloon was a long way from San Francisco, but what happened there over the next six weeks would echo back across the Sierra and set the entire scene in…