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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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July 19
FD-128

FD-128 · Paul Kagan

Catalog Number
FD-128
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco
Date
July 19, 1968
Artists
Nickname
Tim Buckley / The Velvet Underground / Allmen Joy (FD-128 'In A Woodpile', opening)
Performers
Tim Buckley
The Velvet Underground
Allmen Joy

Tim Buckley / The Velvet Underground / Allmen Joy (FD-128 'In A Woodpile', opening)

The hero of July 19 is a 1968 Friday at the Avalon Ballroom and one of the more art-historically loaded bills of the window: the opening night of FD-128, "In A Woodpile," a Paul Kagan poster, for a run of July 19-21. The bill read Tim Buckley, the Velvet Underground, and Allmen Joy. The Velvet Underground here needs care in the framing, because the easy move is the wrong one. This was the John Cale-era band, well…

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