Grateful Dead, Lightning Hopkins, 1966

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This concert merges the lettering of Wes Wilson – where you can easily see the Vienna Secessionist influence – and a photo of a young and beardless Jerry Garcia by Herb Greene. Greene was one of the early photographers of the Haight-Ashbury music scene. If you look closely at the background behind Jerry, you will see some small wall etchings.

This iconic wall of hieroglyphics was used as a background for the Surrealistic Pillow cover photography along with many other famous photos of San Francisco musicians in the late 1960s and it was located in Greene's dining room. As he removed wallpaper from the room, Greene found the phrase "Happy New Year" written on the wall. Before he had a chance to paint over it, his roommate drew the hieroglyphics which originally upset him but went on to be synonymous with the image of San Francisco psychedelic music.

The Yardbirds only featured both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page for a short time. Page started playing guitar with them in late June 1966 (although he had been playing with them as their bass player for a few months before that) and Jeff Beck officially left the band in November of that year. These were some of those historic shows and they followed on the heels of the Yardbirds album known as "Roger the Engineer, #350 on the Rolling Stone Magazine list of top albums of all time.