FD-19 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
Catalog Number
FD-19
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
August 5, 1966
Artists
Nickname
Dollar Bill
Performers
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Oxford Circle
Bo Diddley
Sons of Adam
Oxford Circle
Bo Diddley
Sons of Adam
Dollar Bill
Friday, August 5, 1966, is the day this chronicle likes best, because on it the scene's defining rivalry played out two rooms and a few blocks apart, each with its own poster. That night the Family Dog opened a weekend at the Avalon Ballroom with Big Brother and the Holding Company — Janis Joplin's band, the Avalon's own — sharing the bill with Oxford Circle, under Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley's FD-19, the poster…
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