Country Joe and the Fish T-Shirt

[Becky Lindroos]

Psychedelic art poster designer Warren Dayton pioneered several political, protest, and pop-culture art printed large and in color on T-shirts featuring images of Cesar Chavez, political cartoons, and other cultural icons in an article in the Los Angeles Times magazine in late 1969 (ironically, the clothing company quickly cancelled the experimental line, fearing there would not be a market). In the late 1960s Richard Ellman, Robert Tree, Bill Kelly, and Stanley Mouse set up the Monster Company in Mill Valley, California, to produce fine art designs expressly for T-shirts. Monster T-shirts often feature emblems and motifs associated with the Grateful Dead and marijuana culture.[5] Additionally, one of the most popular symbols to emerge from the political turmoil of the 1960s were T-shirts bearing the face of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt

Specifically - Country Joe “tee-shirt”  (1968) 
http://www.well.com/~cjfish/begin.htm

Bek



> On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:43 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As mentioned in Inherent Vice (p. 1).  Would these have existed in
> 1970?  Rock band t-shirts in general?  I was there, but not aware, so
> someone who was, please, let me know.   I suspect so, but ... for a
> friend.  Thanks!
> 
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1
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