If you've ever checked out the murals on the outside walls of the three Amoeba Music stores (Hollywood, Berkeley, San Francisco), you may have noticed a similarity in styles between all three. That's because the same two artists, Larry Smulian as designer and Brian Blesser as art executor, contributed their art to the outside of all three music stores. "Larry does all our ad art, and Brian did our murals on the front of Berkeley way back when, and the side of Haight street, and the
top of the front of Haight," said Amoeba Music's Marc Weinstein.Note that these artists contributed to the Ivar side of the Hollywood Amoeba (not the Cahuenga side of building -- more on that art and the artist who created it in a later Amoeblog) and that they are not responsible for the graffiti art side of the Haight Street store.
Most of the pics displayed here in this BLOG are from the Haste Street side of the Berkeley Amoeba Music store and are chosen because they are among this blogger's favorites for many reasons, including the historical content's significance -- mainly the fact that they represent the period during the 1960's history of Berkeley's Peoples Park, which is steeped in radical political activism, not to mention that People's Park is directly behind Amoeba Berkeley in the same block bordered by Telegraph & Bowditch and Haste & Dwight.
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The artwork pictured on this page at the Berkeley store are NOT the work of that imposter Larry Smulian (when did he stop using the last name, "Silver"???). The art is by Osha Neuman and a host of others. I'm surprised that Mark W. has never taken the time to check out the credits to the artists painted on the murals. I also agree with the comments of the previous post. Berkeley, Beware of Larry!
A few years back I was in the final stages of working a deal with the City of Berkeley that would of helped hundreds posibly thousands of disabled people with housing problems in Berkeley. Larry Smulian copied my e-mail list and sent out e-mails to every Berkeley politician that I was a drug dealer and I only had children to collect welfare (my family has never collected a dime of public assistance.) His e-mail was three pages long and full of the most vile insults and lies that the only recourse was to kick his sqealing like a pig ass. I love Amoeba and especially Mark W. But how he can continue to support a person that has hurt and ripped off so many people in Berkeley is a question only he can answer but I and my friends will be picketing Amoeba if it continues. Only one (possibly none)of the above pictures was painted by Larry. They are the art of the great Osha Neumann.I have never come across anyone in my very active life as sleasy as SMULIAN AKA SILVER Never. He has made at least 8 people I know homeless they're only crime. Showing Larry kindness and taking them in. Larry is such a monumental slease that I have made a movie about it that will be released this summer. There was no problem finding people to interview. Contact Berkeley Community Media if you would like a copy. God Bless and beware of Larry Smulian.
Larry Smulian (aka) Silver is a leach to the Berkrley community and is responsable for the evection of three Berkeley renters where he was invited to stay (claiming to be homeless. After the true tennets are gone Larry squats the place and gets others to move in charging them RENT!!! Ask Danny McMullan or a host of Telegraph regulars.