Provo was a Dutch countercultural movement that was mainly active in Amsterdam in the mid-1960s. Evolved from Robert Jasper Grootveld’s anti-smoking happenings in the Dutch capital and the anti-nuclear and anarchist movement (in the persons of Roel van Duyn and Rob Stolk), Provo was founded in 1965. Only…
Coda was a Canadian jazz magazine founded in 1958 by British-born publisher and record producer John Norris. the frequency of publication varied from monthly to bi-monthly and the circulation was about 3,000. Norris was editor from 1958 to 1976 when he was succeeded by the magazine’s art director Bill Smith. In 2000…
American artist Rick Griffin originally produced his comic Tales from the Tube as an insert for Surfer Magazine in 1972. An expanded 32-page version of the comic was published separately by The Print Mill, Berkeley the following year. Apart from Griffin’s own work it contained contributions by S. Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb, Bill Ogden and other…
American musician Bill Orcutt (1962) began playing the guitar as a teenager. Together with his then wife Adris Hoyos he formed the influential and deconstructionist Miami band Harry Pussy, who recorded three albums…
This 1968 user’s guide for smokers of marihuana and hashish was Jules Deelder‘s first published book. Written under the telling moniker of Julian The Joint and illustrated by his friend and partner-in-crime Rob Peters (Youssouph Ben Houpla), this handsome guide leads the reader through an ABC…