Cheap thrills
From a poster for Big Foot, by Jim Carrico.
Back in the roll-your-own ‘60s, who knew that someday the frighteningly psychedelic rock posters of that era would be considered objets d’art? Perhaps a few forward-looking folks did, but many post-hippie aesthetes traded up to, oh, David Lance Goines prints around the same time they replaced the VW Microbus with a new Volvo, and the trippy old posters went into the circular file. While San Francisco produced some of the better-known poster artists—Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, the team of Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso and others—Sacramento was no slouch. For evidence, check out the exhibit of Jim Carrico posters this Saturday, Nov. 11 at the Sacramento Rock and Radio Museum, 907 20th St. Carrico’s entire oeuvre of poster art will be on display at the museum, which will be open 7-10 p.m. Carrico will also be on hand, and certain items will be offered for sale.
