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Grace Slick; Jerry Garcia (Herb Greene,
1966; 1967)
San Francisco: The wall of hieroglyphics behind Slick and Garcia, in
portraits taken a year apart, became a backdrop for many of the San
Francisco performers Greene photographed in the late sixties.
Though it came to be associated with the Matrix nightclub, it was
actually the wall of Green's dining room. He had steamed off the
old wallpaper and found a beautiful patina underneath, with "Happy New
Year" written across it. One day Green's roommate drew the ancient
symbols all over the wall, and, although Greene was furious at the time,
the Egyptian imagery actually suited the psychedelic Haight-Ashbury
scene perfectly.
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