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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Shelton, J.
 - Bands
- Shiva's Headband
- T. Thelonious Troll
- Storm
- Edition Details
| Year: | 1970 | | Class: | Poster | | Status: | Official | | Released: | 10/16/70 |
- EB Awards
- Nominate Now
- Venues
- Univ. of Texas Main Mall - Austin, TX
- Event
- October 16, 1970
- Comments
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This flyer advertises a show on the south mall at the University of Texas at Austin featuring Shiva's Headband, T. Thelonious Troll, and Storm. It was a joint production of Armadillo Productions (from the Armadillo World Headquarters) and the Student Association/Union Entertainment Committee. It features a photograph of two side-by-side billboards, one for conservative, two-time governor of Texas Preston Smith and psychedelic rock band Shiva's Headband.
Jeff Nightbyrd wrote in the Texas Observer: "Perhaps the picture that best sums up the cultural revolution of the period isn’t even of a musician. [Burton] Wilson had the perceptiveness to record two side-by-side billboards near where Guadalupe now runs into Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. On one side is a photo of Preston Smith, the chrome-dome conservative Democrat running for Governor, with the slogan “Working for Texas.†On the other is an ad for the psychedelic band Shiva’s Headband, featuring a woolly headed hippie rising out of a moonscape with armadillos and third-eye Masonic pyramids. The artist might as well have added the slogan of head-shop icon Oat Willie, who also ran for Governor at that time—'Onward Through the Fog.'"
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