The Kaleidoscope — Canned Heat and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Ciro’s, Sunset Strip, Hollywood — May 12–13, 1967
Diameter: 18½ inches
 
A striking psychedelic concert poster announcing performances at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip on May 12–13, 1967, presented under the banner of the Kaleidoscope concert series. Printed in vivid fluorescent green on yellow stock, the circular composition features a hallucinatory central design with radiating, undulating typography characteristic of the emerging visual language of the West Coast psychedelic movement.
 
The bill for these evenings included Canned Heat, whose electrified interpretation of Delta blues would soon make the group one of the defining acts of the late-1960s festival circuit, alongside The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Bandand the Los Angeles psychedelic group The New Age. Such multi-band programs were typical of the Kaleidoscope happenings organized along the Sunset Strip, where promoters staged experimental concerts blending rock music, psychedelic imagery, and multimedia performance. 
 
During the spring of 1967, the Kaleidoscope concerts temporarily occupied the famed nightclub Ciro’s, a venue that had earlier hosted major Hollywood entertainers and by the mid-1960s had become a focal point of the Los Angeles rock scene. In the weeks surrounding this engagement, the stage likewise featured emerging acts such as The Doors, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, and other groups central to the rapidly evolving countercultural music movement. 
Posters of this series—produced in bold day-glo colors and printed in unusual circular format—have become among the most recognizable artifacts of the 1967 Summer of Love era, documenting the moment when the Sunset Strip briefly rivaled San Francisco as a center of psychedelic music and poster design.
 
Original first printing.
 
Condition: Excellent.