Rare, original, 36 x 24 inch psychedelic rock poster copyrighted 1969 of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR). Really cool piece with a sort of electric pink color. Comes in vintage poster frame which is scratched / scuffed. Not examined out of framing.
CCR was a San Francisco Bay Area band. Per wiki-pedia: CCR's musical style encompassed swamp rock, country rock, roots rock, rockabilly, rock and roll, blues, Southern rock, blues rock, hard rock, psychedelic rock, rhythm and blues, acid rock, blue-eyed soul, folk rock, New Orleans rhythm and blues, and space rock.
Estate fresh poster came in the plastic ‘poster frame’ it’s in. I can tell it wasn’t always in this, though. I see stains, holes losses, etc., indicating it was used for it’s intended purpose (to put on a wall, unframed).
This poster has the signs of age I want to see, and I guarantee it’s an original, not one of the reproductions found today on the various internet sites.
As far as I can tell, the company that produced this poster was inactive as of sometime in 1971. I read that they formed in 1968. They were advertising this and other posters by 1969 and were still selling them in 1970. I posted some photos above of their old ads I found online, for your reference.
The posters were all 36 x 24” and priced at 1.50 each. The company had released 28 different posters by March, 1970 by acts like Jimi Hendrix, CCR and The Doors. By the end (1971), apparently they’d released 41 different posters. Around 15 of them look psychedelic to me, and I think this CCR poster was their most psychedelic image. Not many of these survive today. As of 9/2022, no other originals of this are on eBay.
Leisure Sight & Sound / The Visual Thing stopped producing posters in 1971. Their main guy, Hendrix, had died in 1970, and (probably their second main guy) Jim Morrison died in July of 1971. CCR started to break up around that time, too.
I really don’t know when the posters started to be reproduced, but I saw 2 different examples online that look like this poster at first, but they’re not it -- the imagery is somehow reversed or inverted (the man standing is on the right instead of the left, etc.).
One of those is actually in National Museum of American History. It seems they acquired it in 1996, so that repro version was likely from the 1990’s. The repro being sold as of 2022 has the imagery correct. And, unless it was a typo their part, Heritage Auction apparently sold a huge 40 x 30 inch ‘version’ of this poster. I wasn’t aware that the company made posters that size, so I’m suspicious of that.
Posters available from the company (Leisure Sight & Sound (LSS) / The Visual Thing, a Division of GHG Enterprises, “(Another) Goldstein-Gold Happening”, Jerry Goldstein, Steve Gold, head of LSS Larry Sikora, etc.) in 1969 were marketed in Billboard in August of 1969, which was when Woodstock happened. CCR played at Woodstock, right after the Grateful Dead.
LSS / The Visual Thing offered a way to get a cool, big poster of your favorite Woodstock-era concert musician(s). The guy behind it all was the right guy: Jerry Goldstein. He was a Californian, was in The Strangeloves, and ended up producing all the WAR albums.
For CCR, Goldstein’s company also published the group’s 1969 Tour Program book. CCR, Hendrix and others had made a deal with them, so all the material was what the artists themselves wanted, and everybody knew each other personally.