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The
Mantra-Rock Dance
musical event took place on
January 29
, 1967, at the
Avalon Ballroom
in
San Francisco
and came to be dubbed as the "ultimate high" and the "major spiritual event" of the
hippie
era. It was organized by the early followers of the
Hare Krishna
movement as a promotional and fundraising effort for their first temple on the
West Coast
. One of them, Harvey W. Cohen, created the
Stanley Mouse
inspired promotional poster
(pictured)
. The Mantra-Rock Dance featured the Hare Krishna founder
Bhaktivedanta Swami
, the
countercultural
ideologues
Allen Ginsberg
and
Timothy Leary
, and leading rock groups the
Grateful Dead
,
Moby Grape
, and
Janis Joplin
with
Big Brother and the Holding Company
. The event caused the
Hare Krishna mantra
to be adopted by all levels of the counterculture as a "loose commonality" and a viable alternative to drugs.
Artist: Harvey W. Cohen
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