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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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July 14
Concert poster

Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
Date
July 14, 1966
Nickname
A Pleasure Dome
Performers
Hindustani Jazz Sextet
Grateful Dead
Big Brother and the Holding Company

A Pleasure Dome

On Thursday, July 14, 1966, the Fillmore Auditorium hosted an evening booked under someone else's name. "A Pleasure Dome," per jerrybase, was presented by the San Francisco Calliope Company -- the presenter of record on both period lists, though the night sits in the Bill Graham Foundation's own archive -- and its bill, confirmed in the same order by chickenonaunicycle and the Bill Graham Foundation's archive, is…

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