(Rock Posters) Zippie Benefit @ I.W.W. Hall, March 31st 1972

A rare poster produced for a rock benefit concert held at Chicago's I.W.W. Hall for the Zippies, the short-lived radical offshoot of the Yippies that emerged as enthusiasm for disruptive pranks and provocative behavior waned with the dawning of the '70s and the gradual enfranchisement of key Yippies. The Zippies zeal for disruption was such that many contemporaries suspected they were a faction of agents provocateur. The poster illustration features a flying eyeball similar to Rick Griffin's design for his famous Bill Graham Jimi Hendrix poster (BG-105). Performers included proto-punks David Peel & the Lower East Side, glam band Teenage Lust, Evil, and Armadillo.