The Doors, Love & Canned Heat Pasadena Civic Auditorium Concert Poster
Pasadena, California, June 2, 1967 — 16 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches
 
A vibrant and unusually scarce psychedelic concert poster advertising a 1967 performance featuring The Doors, Love with Arthur Lee, Canned Heat, and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Designed by artist Gary Weisser, the poster is executed in striking fluorescent pink, orange, and white, its wildly distorted lettering and pulsating composition embodying the visual language of the emerging San Francisco and Los Angeles psychedelic poster movement.
 
Issued during the formative early period of The Doors and at the height of the Southern California counterculture scene, the poster remains particularly notable for its rarity, with comparatively few examples having surfaced publicly. Although The Doors ultimately canceled and were replaced by the Fifth Dimension, the design survives as an exceptional and visually arresting document of the psychedelic concert era.
 
Condition: Restored near mint; professional conservation to minor edge and corner wear, with repairs to small tears, pinholes, and creasing.