MSC-GHY.1970.08.21 · San Andreas Fault
San Francisco
Robert Savage Group
The Backyard Mamas
Deadly Nightshade
Quicksilver Messenger Service - the last Family Dog on the Great Highway
On Friday, August 21, 1970, the Family Dog on the Great Highway put on its last show out at Ocean Beach: Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Robert Savage Group, the Backyard Mamas, and Deadly Nightshade (bill, catalog, and handbill per classicposters; the piece is FD-700821 in Eric King's reference). The handbill says the thing out loud. San Andreas Fault drew the Family Dog logo half under water and set the last…
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