Clipping from the Village Voice, December 1969 - The Electric Circus Presents: Dr. Timothy Leary
The Electric Circus (formerly the Dom) was THE venue of the hip heads of the Lower East Side during the mid to late 1960s.
Lots of 60’s rock bands played there. Andy Warhol staged his Exploding Plastic Inevitable there. The Velvet Underground was, for a time, the house band.
Tim headlined three nights there in December 1969.
The joint rolling imagery of this ad tied in with Tim being sent to prison four months later for possession of two marijuana roaches. He was given ten years for that, but escaped inside of six months.
From the archives of Michael Horowitz.
