Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego

My interviews with Merry Prankster Ken Babbs; songwriter Michael Hurley; gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman; CRIME drummer/film producer Henry S. Rosenthal (The Devil & Daniel Johnston); documentary photographer Bill Owens (Suburbia, Altamont 1969): pleasekillme.com/author/grego...

Orange robed monk watering flowerbed as mariachi band plays in adjacent Catholics' yard

Denver Public Library: "Image of the original watercolor by Robert Prowse Jr. (1914) in our art collection made for a Buffalo Bill dime novel. The painting depicts Buffalo Bill in an old house threatening a ghostly figure with his revolver."

Friendly Reminders, a friendly bluegrass band at local farmers market... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

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They gave us the peyote and kratom back!

Oct. 27, 2016: That ultra-cool ghoul, John Zacherle ungone 10 corpse-grinding years now. Like Flies on Herbert West. Brain goo-gooey action from the 1967 "Disc-O-Teen" Halloween dance party with Zacherle hamming it up mighty with Alex Chilton and the Box Tops!

October 27, 2013: Hero Lou Reed...gone 13 transformative years now. 1975: Reed responding to Danny Fields telling him he should go see the band Television at CBGB because "they're the new Velvet Underground". "𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃!"

59-years-ago tonight, "Denver's All-Time Favorite" Lothar and the Hand People play on the same bill as Allmen Joy, a band fresh out of Haight-Ashbury, at the Family Dog Denver. Poster by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley (1967)...

Wheelchair Sports Camp takes on the topic of eugenics in this brand-new video featuring Jello Biafra... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYV5...

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Diego Rivera, Mexican (1886-1957), Gloriosa Victoria, 1954, tempera on canvas, 260 x 450 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

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Going to Eluthera for the rock music, surfing, carnival, pineapple rum, and (why yes) freedom. You can reach me in Gregory Town... Ad in the Quicksilver Times, October 19-29, 1970:

Going to Eluthera for the rock music, surfing, carnival, pineapple rum, and (why yes) freedom. You can reach me in Gregory Town... Ad in the Quicksilver Times, October 19-29, 1970:

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Glen Glenn - One Cup Of Coffee And A Cigarette youtu.be/7okTCYjKFbg Glen Glenn (24 October 1934-18 March 2022)

Nice try, that’s J Mascis

Disappointing voter registration drive... "Don't they know we cast our ballots with bullets?" "Voting is bullshit in Babylon!" "You want Standard Oil or ITT?" (sez the penguin.) From Washington, D.C. underground paper Quicksilver Times, October 19-29, 1970:

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Demonstrative Rainy Day Man... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

"YARGH!" It's a combination Trashman strip by Spain and subscription ad for the East Village Other underground paper. From the East Village Other, October 20, 1970...

"YARGH!" It's a combination Trashman strip by Spain and subscription ad for the East Village Other underground paper. From the East Village Other, October 20, 1970...

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Relatively low-rent psychedelic ad--but it works! The Grateful Dead at Georgetown University ("Complete 3 1/2 Hour Show"), 56 years ago tonight. From the Quicksilver Times, October 19-29, 1970...

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Timothy Leary is Born #botd...

Bobby Seale and Timothy Leary share a birthday today, here's a poster from their combined 1970 party in Golden Gate Park.

Congrats to Denver's Wheelchair Sports Camp getting the opening slot on QOTSA's big 2027 tour.

"Did the Egyptians sing 'Up Against the Pyramid, Pharoah' -- ?" A combined Capitol/Harvest Records ad for albums by Shiva's Headband, If, Quartermass, Bob Seger...and writer/poet Richard Brautigan?! Quicksilver Times, October 1970...

Oct 22, 1991: Underground writer/poet Steven Jesse Bernstein, gone 35 tortured years now. I am secretly an unimportant man. Found this square-folded Steven Jesse Bernstein "Prison" Sub-Pop poster (now going for decent coin) from a box of my old posters, band photos, buttons & other media gunk.

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The world almost always happens

"Easy Rider Is..." pretty damn good according to four writers for the Village Voice (including Robert Christgau), one for Boston's underground newspaper the Rat, and Richard Goldstein of the New York Times. October 1969 ad from Washington, D.C.'s Quicksilver Times...

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"Tommy, can you see me?" The Who performing their rock opera ("complete & unabridged") at the Fillmore East for a week, starting October 20, 1969...

peaceful & weird travels to original merry prankster mike hagen, aka mal function, the head behind the camera on the 1964 bus trip. www.facebook.com/zane.kesey/p...

Italian actress Nicoletta Machiavelli in Rome, in a 2CV, in 1968, holding a Wes Wilson Dead poster? Oh yeah. An image so redolent of its time you'd be forgiven for thinking it was fabricated. But it ain't. 📷 Ron Galella

INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR THE LIQUIDATION OF ART DO NOT LITTER WITH THIS LEAFLET DESTROY IT BEFORE SOMEONE CALLS IT ART. From the East Village Other, October 20, 1970:

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