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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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August 28
BG-134

BG-134 · Lee Conklin
Catalog Number
BG-134
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore West
San Francisco
Date
August 28, 1968
Artists
Lee Conklin
Nickname
Steppenwolf / Staple Singers / Santana (night 2)
Performers
Steppenwolf
Staple Singers
Santana

Steppenwolf / Staple Singers / Santana (night 2)

By the last week of August 1968, Bill Graham's San Francisco operation was running out of the second Fillmore West, and the poster for the week was Lee Conklin's — BG-134, a dense pen-and-ink tangle of interlocking bodies that resolves, if you let your eye settle, into the head of a lion. Graham generally preferred color for his advertising; this drawing was strong enough that it went to press essentially as Conklin…

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Also on August 28

BG-189

BG-189 — Fillmore West

Bill Graham · 1969 · David Singer
Ten Years After · Terry Reid · Bar-Kays

Thursday, August 28, 1969 closed the Ten Years After bracket at the Fillmore West — the front half of David Singer's BG-189, with Terry Reid and the Bar-Kays — before Spirit took the poster's back half the following night. Singer's image is worth describing properly: two figures of Michelangelo's D…

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