Grateful Dead 1966 Trips Festival 196? Longshoremen’s Hall San Concert Poster

This reproduction of the Grateful Dead 1966 Trips Festival 196? Longshoremen’s Hall San Concert Poster uses a white, gray, and light gray palette in a vertical design.

About The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead posters and album art, from skeletons and roses to dancing bears, are central to psychedelic design. Grateful Dead fans, known as Deadheads, followed the band from city to city for decades. Poster artists such as Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse and Rick Griffin defined the San Francisco psychedelic style. The Grateful Dead formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965 and became famous for long, improvised live shows. It was designed to promote a 1966 concert. Many 1960s concert posters were designed to be hung in shop windows around town in the days before the show.

Styling this Grateful Dead concert poster

This 1966 poster for Grateful Dead brings a slice of 1960s music history to the wall. Its tall format suits narrow walls, hallways and the space beside a doorway, with 18×24″ a versatile middle size. A black or antique-gold frame suits this Grateful Dead concert poster well and keeps the focus on the image.

At a glance

• Type: Grateful Dead concert poster
• Band: The Grateful Dead
• Year: 1966
• Style: Vintage concert posters
• Orientation: portrait
• Collections: Grateful Dead Posters, Vintage Concert Posters