BG-18 · Wes Wilson
San Francisco
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Grass Roots
The Association / Quicksilver Messenger Service / Grass Roots (BG-18)
July 22, 1966 is the hero, and it may be the single poster-richest day of the entire window: two core ballrooms, two iconic posters, one Friday night. At the Fillmore Auditorium, BG-18 - a Wes Wilson poster - carried the Association, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the Grass Roots for a run of July 22-23. That run shifted on the second night, with the Grass Roots giving way to Sopwith Camel on the 23rd, a night…
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FD-17 — Avalon Ballroom
On the summer weekend of July 22 and 23, 1966, the Family Dog hung Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley's "Snake Lady" over the Avalon Ballroom door — poster FD-17, a woman's face wreathed in a coiling serpent, its lettering bending into that swimming, near-illegible Art Nouveau script Chet Helms's dancer…
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By the summer of 1969, the Family Dog on the Great Highway was already living on borrowed time. Chet Helms had reopened the old Edgewater Ballroom at 660 Great Highway that June, planting his psychedelic flag at the literal western edge of the continent, where Ocean Beach fog rolls in off the Pacifi…
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Do you have memories of this show, or an original BG-18 poster? On This Day in Art Rock History celebrates the people who lived through the psychedelic era. Your stories and collections matter to this archive.