The Yardbirds, May 1968, Fillmore Auditorium
Artwork by Lee Conklin

Just how much acid does it actually take to produce something like the image seen above? Deep into the psychedelic age, poster artist Lee Conklin took the notion of visual hallucination to a whole new level with his twisted, writhing images of figures, faces, and hands morphing into… what is that thing, anyway? Commissioned specially by Bill Graham to create poster art for the Fillmore shows, Conklin’s style is one of the most distinctive to emerge from the ’60s art scene. This concert poster for the Yardbirds is especially notable, as it promotes one of the last appearances by the famed group before Jimmy Page led them into the New Yardbirds, who then, of course, became Led Zeppelin.

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