BG-132 · Lee Conklin
San Francisco
Blood Sweat and Tears
Gypsy Wizard Band
Eric Burdon & the Animals / Blood Sweat & Tears / Gypsy Wizard Band (close)
August 11, 1968 was a Sunday, and it closed out six nights at the Fillmore West on a single poster — one of Lee Conklin's hand drawings, the motif he returned to again and again, with fingers and palms folding into landscape. The sheet is BG-132, and part of what makes it worth looking at is how much work one image was asked to do. The run was really two runs. The Chambers Brothers headlined August 6th, 7th and 8th,…
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