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Posted: 06/02/08 2:11PM ET
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Just read the news... so sorry for your loss Yoss.
Good vibes and best wishes to you and your family. He will always be remembered.
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Posted: 06/02/08 2:31PM ET
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oh man, the reality of this just keeps hitting me and the rest of the family. I have been on the phone for hours with sisters, aunts, grammas, moms etc...many have read this thread and your support is truly therapeutic. we really appreciate it.
there is literally 20 or 30k in unpaid hospital bills (that which insurance will not cover) so there is an acct setup for those who might be interested in helping out. I just sent $300 and hope that anyone who feels the urge might follow suit. anything would be greatly appreciated, I feel funny asking for handouts, but his wife has gone through hell for the last few months and the last thing she needs is to feel isolated or threatened financially.
if the urge/compassion hits:
washington mutual
101 western ave.
petaluma ca.
94952
routing# 32271627
Re: Marguerite Trousdale Kelley
Acct # 3952762942
there will be a benefit held at the fillmore auditorium in s.f. sometime in the not to distant future. I will be sure to let PT and everyone I know who might want to make it when we have more info...I know that there will be some great folks there and should be a good time to celebrate the life, art and humorous wisdom that my father was known and loved for.
thanks everyone, call your family, spread the love.
yossarian, julie and the rest of the kelley family...
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Posted: 06/02/08 2:34PM ET
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Sincere condolences to you and your family. Not sure we ever conversed on PT but I will keep you all in my prayers.
RIP
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Posted: 06/02/08 2:35PM ET
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So sorry, yoss. All my best thoughts are with you and your fam.
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Posted: 06/02/08 2:42PM ET
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Strength to you and your family.
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Posted: 06/02/08 2:48PM ET
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sorry for your loss, yoss.
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Posted: 06/02/08 2:50PM ET
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I'm so sorry Yoss. I love you sooo much, hang in there.
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Posted: 06/02/08 5:00PM ET
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thanks steve, you're the man
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Posted: 06/02/08 5:15PM ET
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Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Don't know you Yoss, but my condolences to your and your family.
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Posted: 06/02/08 5:31PM ET
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Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
~Rabindranath Tagore
wow, thats wonderful, thank you
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Posted: 06/03/08 12:57AM ET
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:pours out some Orange Sunshine for fallen padre:
XoXoX to The Family
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Posted: 06/03/08 1:03AM ET
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My deepest condolences to you and yours, yossarian.
May he rest in peace.
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Posted: 06/03/08 1:09AM ET
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sorry for your loss, yossarian.
FWIW, I linked this thread from metafilter.
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Posted: 06/03/08 1:15AM ET
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My condolences. I lost my father this time last year. I wish that I could tell you that it gets easier, but you will get more used to him not being around. It will hurt when you have experiences where you would normally be with him or speak to him, but you will be okay. Your father was an amazing artist and take with you the knowledge that he lives on in the contributions that he made to this world and in those contributions he will live forever.
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Posted: 06/03/08 1:22AM ET
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sorry for your loss & much strength to you & your family.
his art will continue to live on & inspire so many people...
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Posted: 06/03/08 1:33AM ET
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RIP, best wishes to your family.
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Posted: 06/03/08 12:52PM ET
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from the San Francisco chronicle... some great quotes & stories inside...
Alton Kelley, one of the founding members of the '60s San Francisco rock scene, died Sunday at his home in Petaluma after a long illness. He was 67.
Mr. Kelley will be remembered as the creator (with his artistic partner, Stanley Mouse) of hundreds of classic psychedelic rock posters, such as the famed "skull and roses" poster for a Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom. Mr. Kelley and Mouse created 26 posters for just the first year of the Avalon's operation.
But Mr. Kelley was also one of four people who called themselves the Family Dog and decided to throw the world's first psychedelic dance-concerts at Longshoreman's Hall in September 1965, essentially starting the San Francisco scene. The quartet had just returned to the Bay Area after spending an LSD-drenched summer restoring a silver rush dancehall in Virginia City, Nev., called the Red Dog Saloon.
Mr. Kelley, a motorcycle enthusiast since his New England youth who painted pinstripes on bike gas tanks, designed the flyers advertising the original Family Dog shows, but lacked drafting ability. When he met Stanley Mouse, who had recently relocated from Detroit where he made a name for himself doing hot rod art, Mr. Kelley found the draftsman he needed. The two formed Mouse Studios and cranked out art together, Mr. Kelley's drawing skills eventually improving to the point where left-handed Mr. Kelley would be working on one side of the easel, right-handed Mouse on the other.
"He had the most impeccable taste of anybody I knew," said Mouse, "He would do the layouts, and I would do the drawing."
They worked together steadily for 15 years and on and off thereafter. Their Mouse Studios was located in a converted Lower Haight firehouse where Janis Joplin first rehearsed with Big Brother and the Holding Company. They also opened a store called Pacific Ocean Trading Company (POT Co.), one of the first head shops in Haight-Ashbury. Recently, the two collaborated on the cover to the program for this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction dinner.
Mouse said they could work for hours in silence. "We knew what to do," he said. "We didn't have to talk."
During the heyday of the Avalon Ballroom, the pair would frequent the public library looking for images they could employ in their poster-making; Edward Curtis photographs of American Indians, illustrations from 19th century novels (the skull and roses was adapted from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"), often laughing so loud at what they found the librarians would ask them to leave.
"They thought it was the funniest stuff in town," said Paul Grushkin, author of "The Art Of Rock.
"The twinkle in Kelley's eye - he knew it was all a giggle."
"Stanley and I had no idea what we were doing," Mr. Kelley told The Chronicle last year. "But we went ahead and looked at American Indian stuff, Chinese stuff, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern, Bauhaus, whatever. We were stunned by what we found and what we were able to do. We had free rein to just go graphically crazy. Where before that, all advertising was pretty much just typeset with a photograph of something."
The work of Mr. Kelley and Mouse has come to be recognized as a 20th century American counterpart to the French poster art of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec during the Belle Epoque, although the two psychedelic artists never imagined at the time they were creating anything of enduring value, anything more than another crazy poster for this week's Avalon show.
"We were just having fun making posters," said Mouse. "There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment."
Mr. Kelley continued to make posters all his life, although his artwork in the recent past concentrated on his air-brushed paintings of hot rods and custom cars that was both sold as fine art and reproduced on T-shirts.
He is survived by his wife, Marguerite Trousdale Kelley, and their children: Patty of San Diego, Yosarian of Seattle and China of Sacramento; two grandchildren; and his mother and sister.
Memorial plans are pending.
Contributions can be made to the Washington Mutual Western Street branch in Petaluma for a memorial bench in Sonoma County Park.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:27PM ET
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wow, very cool treesis...oh and thanks for the offer of that handbill, you should keep it, I am not looking to take others finds...thank you so much though!!
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:30PM ET
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pretty cool fuckin dad if you ask me. my dad sells carpet. pretty cool nonetheless but he wasnt starting acid get togethers and painting album covers for the dead.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:30PM ET
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oh, there are going to be new articles in the sf chronicle, la times, washington post etc today..if anyone finds these I beg you to let me know. I will pay for postage and the paper if you are willing to send them my way. a few copies would be grand as I want to make sure my sisters/aunt get copies...
much love, the kelleys
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:33PM ET
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Rest easy knowing his memory will be honored.
"Sleep in the stars
don't you cry,
dry your eyes
on the wind"
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:34PM ET
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There is a small article in USA Today about him.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:44PM ET
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I am so sorry. He lived a great life. One which we can all admire.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:44PM ET
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RIP Alton..So sorry for your loss Yossarian.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:50PM ET
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Sorry for your loss, Yossarian. Your father's artwork and philosophy has inspired many, including myself.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:54PM ET
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I'll be glad to pick up a few copies of the LA Times today Yo - if you can specify how many you want let me know soon, otherwise I'll do that at lunch today. Don't be silly re the Red Lady handbill... its only a handbill, didn't cost much when I got it I think around $20. Honestly I'd rather you have it, to keep and/or to hand down to your children some day. (laughs) with the size of my art collection, 1 print really makes no difference to me, but you having it would make a difference some day - if nothing else to showcase & be proud of your Dad's awesome work. PS -- I reposted the specific bank info at Expressobeans. There's a memorial thread over there & I know there's a few people there who'll want to make a donation.
Here's another memorial I snagged from EBeans, not so many cool stories but its interesting if you didn't know much about your Dad:
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[Petaluma, CA - Sunday, June 1, 2008] Legendary artist Alton Kelley created a graphic style that rocked the world beginning in the psychedelic Sixties. His concert posters, logo designs, LP album covers, and fine art have forevermore defined that time. Kelley, born June 17, 1940, passed away peacefully at home June 1st of complications from a long illness.
He is survived by the true love of his life, Marguerite Trousdale Kelley. He also leaves his mother Annie, sister Kathy, and beloved children Patty, Yossarian, and China, and beautiful grandchildren Life and Lacoda.
Through his mind-expanding creativity and over several decades, Kelley gave rock music new colors, shapes, and themes expressing the optimism and enthusiasm of young people around the globe. His graphics defined youth culture as much as the music itself-in effect his art was a break-through collaboration with musicians and bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. As Joel Selvin, rock critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, put it, “Kelley and Mouse drew the first face on rock music."
Kelley and his life-long collaborator Stanley Mouse are best known for their posters for “San Francisco style" dance-concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium, Winterland arena, the Fillmore West, the Avalon Ballroom, and a host of other Bay Area theaters and amphitheaters. They also created world-renowned posters and album covers for the Grateful Dead, Journey, Steve Miller, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and others.
The two artists historically worked as a team, in their words “riffing off each other's giggle." They joyfully appropriated from historic sources, in one instance re-working an obscure nineteenth-century etching to create their iconic Grateful Dead “skeleton and roses" design. They combined vibrant Sixties color with French poster-making joi de vivre enthusiasm, and their own adapted technique, to generate compelling pieces often issued on a weekly basis, ultimately dazzling millions worldwide. Thus, they changed advertising art forever, as their posters were key examples of what became one of the most important art movements of the latter part of the twentieth century.
When Kelley (a native of Maine) met Mouse (a native of Detroit, MI) in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in late 1965 (the “Haight" was the epicenter of the hippie movement, culminating in the “Summer of Love" in 1967), they instantly recognized they were kindred spirits in what Mouse describes as “one of the juiciest scenes of all time." Their concert posters, commissioned by Fillmore promoter Bill Graham and Graham's rival, the Avalon's Family Dog collective, were eagerly snapped up by bands and fans alike.
In the decades since, Mouse and Kelley's classics have established even greater popularity, rivaling the interest long shown by collectors of French turn-of-the-century Belle Epoque art made famous by Toulouse-Lautrec and others.
"There is one word for Alton Kelley's lifelong contribution, and that is 'iconic.'" said Dell Furano, CEO of Signatures Network. “Kelley's artwork, designs, posters, album covers, tour logos set a standard of inspired creativity that has remained as influential as the great San Francisco Rock Scene of the 60's, '70's and '80's."
In his later years, Kelley joyfully turned to illustrating hot rods and custom cars, as fine art paintings, and for t-shirts and other merchandise.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made at the Washington Mutual Western Street branch in Petaluma, CA for a memorial bench in a Sonoma County Park. A memorial event will be announced shortly.
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:57PM ET
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Yoss, I just cut the article out of the Washington Post.
Should I send it you?
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Posted: 06/03/08 2:59PM ET
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yossarian, when is the funeral?
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