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02/04/2023

If Peanuts’ 60’s countercultural cache was ever in doubt then look no further than two of the finest drummers of the era wearing the same Determined Productions Snoopy sweatshirt

Keith Moon of The Who was photographed wearing the aforementioned sweatshirt in 1967 at the Drake Hotel, NYC, ’67 by Linda McCartney, while Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham was photographed three years later in January of 1970 in Leeds, England by John Rettie

12/11/2022

Winter staples : TSPTR Zuma Pants in soft and durable Portuguese cotton corduroy 🍁

Following the tradition of the classic corduroy surf shorts made famous by Ocean Pacific and Hang Ten, our signature pants are named in honour of Malibu’s Zuma Beach. It was the native Chumash people who first called the area Zuma, roughly translated to mean abundance or plenty. Well loved among generations of surfers for its thumping beach break, Zuma would later play a role as a pop culture catalyst, among the many movies filmed there, the iconic final scene of Planet of the Apes was shot on the beach, Neil Young lived there and named his seminal 1975 album after it and Don Henley wrote the classic ‘The Boys of Summer’ while sitting on it

12/11/2022

While the ‘swinging sixties’ in Britain could be described as an explosion of music, fashion and pop culture, it also marked a period of sexual liberation, the rise of feminism and a cultural undercurrent that rejected social norms. This was illustrated by much of hippie culture as it drew its practitioners toward a kind of nostalgia for the rural world. It’s not surprising then that these conditions would prove ripe for a resurgence of paganism and interest in the occult, especially witchcraft

TIME famously published a cover story in 1972 that controversially declared “Satan Returns!”. Horror mainstay Hammer Film Productions was in its heyday while popular UK kids tv shows like Children of the Stones delved into pagan folklore. At its most impactive, the renewed popularity of the late 1960s and 70s became a major source of cinematic-influence, sparking films like The Wicker Man and The Blood On Satan’s Claw, and even made some witchcraft stars along the way. Alex and Maxine Sanders the best known, but also Eleanor Bone and Cecil Williamson. The work of eminent occultist Aleister Crowley became prevalent and Wicca rode on the countercultural zeitgeist

In 1951 a long-time UK government ban on practicing witchcraft was removed. The movement gained particular momentum when ‘witchploitation’ documentaries started to take over the British media, delving into the habits and rituals of the art of witchcraft, usually with a slightly dark thematic tendency to flirt with the devil, black magic, unsolved murders, unsettling initiations tales and graphic rituals

These films suggested profound insights into the world of the occult, often examining the relationships between the magical operations and the political, religious scenery of Britain at the time. The 1970 witchcraft documentary The Legend Of the Witches was actually advertised as a pornographic film when it first hit the cinemas. However the participants in the film were all real practicing witches, seeking to legitimise their faith, sharing the secrets of hidden magick, rites and rituals, coven initiations, Black Mass and Britains pagan heritage

12/10/2022

In 1970 Donald Cammell sent a telegram to Warner Brothers urging them to release Performance, the film he had co-directed almost two years before

One movie executive’s wife would allegedly “vomit in disgust” at a test screening before the film was made public. Early US reviews described it as “the most disgusting, the most completely worthless film I have seen” and “indescribably sleazy”

Its reputation as a dark thing, a force for chaos, follows it to this day. Dispute, ill fortune, infamy and death would enfold many of those involved. To describe anything as beyond comparison is a bold step but Cammell and Nic Roeg’s movie - which starred Mick Jagger and James Fox - is precisely that

Donald Cammell had been a successful painter, already crossing into the criminal/aristocrat/ artist “Chelsea set” vortex of the late 1960s by the time he turned his attention to film. A social acquaintance of the Rolling Stones, Cammell was able to bring Jagger into the equation

The Stones’ occult dabbling at the time also presaged the project’s aura as being somehow satanic - a notion further enhanced by the fact that Cammell was the godson of legendary occultist Aleister Crowley. The Great Beast’s credo of Do What Thou Wilt certainly figures in Performance with Cammell intent in playing games of mind-f**kery upon the cast

The story is simple enough: Chas (Fox), a London gangster, falls foul of his colleagues and seeks refuge in the house of fading rock legend Turner (Jagger). The two explore each other’s respective trades (violence/ idolatry) and the theme that unites them (performance) before merging into a brutal, abstract unity

It is a fractured, experimental work whose every aspect (cinematography, set, cast, soundtrack, timing) informs its energy. Interestingly it’s soundtrack was composed in a ‘witches cottage’ in Laurel Canyon by Neil Young’s friend Jack Nitzsche

When it was finally released, Performance continued to cast its shadow. James Fox was so traumatised that he abandoned acting for 10 years. Pallenberg and Breton succumbed to he**in and Donald Cammell committed su***de in 1996 by a gun shot to the head

12/10/2022

Reproduction of an original Colorado Mountain Rescue Service sweatshirt graphic from the early 1970s featuring their mascot Snoopy. Also known as ‘Rocky Mountain Rescue’, the all volunteer organisation was founded in 1947, specialising in all weather rescue on mountainous terrain

12/10/2022

“The Manson Family had weird names, they were dirty, and showed little respect for our property. One of them, Tex Watson borrowed a car without asking permission. They ransacked our kitchen. The idea of a Wizard filling my house and studio with bad vibrations freaked me out”

Brian Wilson 1977

12/09/2022

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12/09/2022

Our TSPTR x Japanese neppy denim Zuma pants will be back for Spring 23 🌀

12/07/2022

It feels apt that the tapes began rolling on Homegrown after the music had started, so that the first you hear of it is the middle of a fat bass note in the opening bars and the wobble of an analogue tape machine getting up to speed. It’s as if Neil Young were simply dipping a bucket into the ceaseless river of music that seemed to flow through him in the 70s, the current was so strong he simply couldn’t keep up

12/07/2022

Not only do our heavyweight Peanuts totes make great Christmas gifts, they’re also perfect for transporting all of your day to day essentials

12/06/2022

“There are black magicians who think we are acting as unknown agents of Lucifer and others who think we are Lucifer. Everybody’s Lucifer.”

Keith Richards, 1971

By the summer of 1968 the Rolling Stones had begun flirting heavily with the occult, spending a lot of time in and around Laurel Canyon. While it’s difficult to know how serious the Stones were about the dark arts, it’s a fact that during that time Mick Jagger was involved in two very occult, Aleister Crowley influenced projects, Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising, where Jagger was to play the title role and Donald Cammell’s Performance, alongside self proclaimed black magick practitioner Anita Pallenberg. Jagger had previously flirted with the darker side on the 1967 song Midnight Rambler, a queasy ode to serial killer Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler

On December 6 1969, temporary Canyon residents Jagger and Richards, along with permanent residents Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Flying Burrito Brothers, all gathered at a desolate Californian speedway known as Altamont to stage a free concert. By the time it started Altamont had already been drenched in thousands of free of charge acid tabs courtesy of Owsley Stanley. By the time it was over, four people were dead and another 850 injured, mostly by members of the Hell’s Angels swinging leaded pool cues. The Angels had been hired by the Stones to provide security, which is strange given the fact the reactionary motorcycle club, were known to be openly hostile to hippies and anti war activists

Not long into the Stones set, a young black man named Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by Hell’s Angels right in front of the stage as they played Sympathy For The Devil. In Gimme Shelter (the 1970 documentary film of the event), the band play Under My Thumb as Hunter is shown being murdered, however the film’s editor Charlotte Zwerin later confirmed that the “sequence of events had been edited to fit the structure of the film.” Bizarrely, one of the young cameramen working for the Maysles brothers that day was none other than George Lucas, who would soon begin his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom

12/05/2022

“That strange mixture that’s always been a major part of Hollywood - self-enchantment mingled with the ever-present fear of total disaster (earthquakes, riots, cults, random murders) - lies beneath the physical reality of Hollywood, which sometimes looks too good to be true, as though we must have sold our souls to the devil for all those swimming pools and orange trees and young hopefuls basking in the sun”

Eve Babitz, 1970

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