1965–Grateful Dead-Can You Pass The Acid Test? Reprint Concert Poster-SIGNED KESEY BABS WALKER & 4 OTHER PRANKSTERS! PAE Graded Excellent “75”

closed on Friday, April 5, 2019

Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$450.00
Starting bid: $1.00

This poster is signed by Ken Kesey Chuck Kesey Ken Babbs George Walker “Hassler” (Photographer Ron Bevirt) “The Anonymous Prankster” (Linda Breen) and Mike Hagen!


Beginning in the fall of 1965 Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters held a series of LSD fueled multi media happenings featuring the music of the Grateful Dead and chronicled in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool Aid Acid Tests. These HISTORIC events provided the initial spark that led to a full scale counter-culture revolution that transformed our world forever!


Original posters of this legendary issue can command as much as $25 000. This blue reprint poster here was made by Key-Z Productions in 1992. This example is SIGNED by 7 Pranksters: Ken Kesey Chuck Kesey Ken Babbs George Walker “Hassler” (Photographer Ron Bevirt) “The Anonymous Prankster” (Linda Breen) and cameraman Mike Hagen!


Poster – Can You Pass The Acid Test?

Grade – PAE Excellent 75

Bands/Bill – Grateful Dead The Merry Pranksters The Fugs Neal Cassady Allen Ginsberg

Venue –Muir Beach

City – California

Date – 1965

Dimensions - 17 7/8” x 22 7/8”

Printing – Post Concert 1992 Blue Reprint Key-Z Productions

Artist – Paul Foster

Series/Promoter - The Merry Pranksters

AOR #2.4

Condition Details – Clean with no tears or pinholes. 100% Original with no restoration. Heavy creases. View the detailed high res photo of this lot. Click on the thumbnail photo to see an enlarged photo. Click a second time on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the enlarged photo. A super high res image with every millimeter will now be clearly displayed. For a personalized eyewitness examination call 410-464-6180 11:00 am to 6:00pm eastern.

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