"Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. That was the sixties....
No. It wasn't that either. It was just '66 and early '67. That's all there was....."
Showing posts with label Psychedelic Ilustrations. Show all posts
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Here's some more articles, fashion features, ads and great psychedelic comics from Valentine Magazine.
I love that shirt! (1970)
Front and back covers of issue from January 1970.
Teenage suedehead talking about his love life..(click to enlarge)
He was the dishiest bloke around....
From the fashion section
Article in which girls talk about their jobs. The girl in the photo apparently worked in Blaises nightclub, which was a regular hangout of Brian Jones, Ossie Clark and many other Swinging London celebs. Shame that in the article she doesn't say anything even remotely interesting.
How to beat the big freeze?....By putting on mini skirt and going without a coat, f course (January 1970)
Back cover of May 1970 issue
Maxi dress and feathercut..
Scanned from Valentine Magazine, Issues from (week ending) January 10th 1970, April 18 1970 , April 25 1970, May 16th 1970, March 13th 1971.
Recently, I got a few issues of Valentine - a magazine for teenagers from late 1960's/early 1970's. Like every teen magazine, Valentine was full of silly love stories, features on fashion and articles about teen idols. But the distinctive feature of Valentine were their 'comic serials'. Normally I am not a fan of comics, but these have a great, psychedelic vibe to them and pretty well recreate fashions of the era. They were created by illustrators Tony Baldwin, Valerie Witton and Chris White. Here I want to show some of the best bits.
The girl in the comic above slightly resembles Anna Karina..
'Obligatory' acne lotion ad
'Obligatory' horoscope..
'Obligatory' fashion feature on midi skirt (It's 1971, after all..)
More fashion...
Kipper tie..
Bell sleeves..
Back cover of January 1971 issue
(Scanned from Valentine magazine, issues 23 Jan 1971 and 27 Feb 1971)
Today, fanzines are something of a 'dying breed'. In pre-internet days however, every hip scene had one (at least one). Some time ago, I found in second-hand music shop a few issues of the fanzine called Freakbeat. It was a fanzine of London 60's Garage/Psych revival scene from late 80's/early 90's. The issues I got - number 4,5, 6,7 and 8 are from years 1988-1993. As it often happens with fanzines, Freakbeat was not published in any regular intervals of time. The editor-in-chief was a man called Lophophora Williamsii (not a real name, I assume). Most of the articles were written under pseudonyms. In the layout there was a generous use of Op-Art and psychedelic patterns, which is great, but it can also be annoying , as it makes reading quite difficult.
Although Freakbeat was writing primarly about original 1960's Freakbeat (Mod meets LSD, for those who don't know) bands, the fanzine was devoting a lot of space to contemporary 60's Garage/Psych revival bands such as The Bevis Frond, The Chemistry Set, The Magic Mushroom Band, Plasticland and Oziric Tentacles.
Cover of Issue 4
Above and below: Feature about The Dukes of Stratosphear (click on the photo to enlarge)
Not many people know, that The Dukes of Stratosphear was actually a semi-secret side project of post-punk/new wave hitmakers XTC. Their 1985 EP, 25 O' Clock was 60's garage revival's finest hour. It is hard to believe that the brilliant title song was not recorded in 1960's, it sounds so authentic!
Feature about The Smoke - British pop-psych band famous for their 1967 hit 'My Friend Jack' (click on the photo to enlarge)
Review of the parts 9 and 10 of Pepples Compilations (click on the photo to enlarge).
Cover of Issue 6
Article about John 'Twink' Adler - one-time member of Tomorrow, The Pretty Things and Pink Fairies.
Article about The Chemistry Set (click on the photo to enlarge).
Ad for Pepples Compilations
Cover of Issue 7
Issue 7, page 1 (click on the photo to enlarge).
The new dawn of ???
Back cover of issue 7.
Ad for poster-printing company.
Interview with Krautrock legends Amon Duul II (click on the photo to enlarge).
Feature about Greek Psych revivalists Purple Overdose (click on the photo to enlarge).
Article about early incarnation of The Flaming Lips - who will become an indie senseation of late 90's/early 2000's (click on the photo to enlarge).
