BG-80 · Jim Blashfield
San Francisco
Electric Flag
Gary Burton
Cream / Electric Flag / Gary Burton (opening)
Cream's stay at the Fillmore Auditorium in the late summer of 1967 was long enough to need two posters. The first, Bonnie MacLean's BG-79, carried the opening run — a bill the Fillmore listings record as the Butterfield Blues Band, Cream and the Southside Sound System, closing on August 27. Cream were the visiting attraction, but on that sheet Paul Butterfield's band was billed above them. The second poster was Jim…
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BG-134 — Fillmore West
Thursday, August 29, 1968 closed the Steppenwolf bracket at the Fillmore West — Steppenwolf, the Staple Singers and Santana, the last of the BG-134 front half. The Grateful Dead took the same poster the following night with an entirely different bill. Santana closing this bracket is the detail that…
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FD-135 — Avalon Ballroom
Thursday, August 29, 1968 opened the Youngbloods with It's a Beautiful Day and Initial Shock at the Avalon, on Roger Weil's FD-135. The poster is the reason this otherwise ordinary weekend is worth stopping on. Weil drew a masked, feather-crowned figure riding a lizard, flanked by two branching spr…
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BG-189 — Fillmore West
Friday, August 29, 1969 opened the back half of BG-189 at the Fillmore West: Spirit with Savoy Brown and Womb, under David Singer's photomontage. Two figures of Michelangelo's David stand on a lunar surface against a black sky — not one statue but two, the second small and receding across the grey.…
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The Grateful Dead opened two nights at the Family Dog on the Great Highway with the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody and the Rubber Duck Company. The New Riders at this point were essentially a Grateful Dead side project — Jerry Garcia playing pedal steel in a country band with John Da…
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