FD-135 · Roger Weil
San Francisco
It's a Beautiful Day
Initial Shock
Youngbloods / It's a Beautiful Day / Initial Shock (night 2)
Roger Weil's poster for the Avalon that weekend is a strange, beautiful thing: white on black, drawn in the dense hatched manner of an old engraving, a masked figure crowned in feathers and flanked by two branching sprays of botanical illustration, riding what appears to be a lizard. It reads like a plate torn out of a Victorian natural-history volume and put through a fever. The type at the bottom is plain and…
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BG-80 — Fillmore Auditorium
Wednesday, August 30, 1967 was night two of Cream, the Electric Flag and Gary Burton at the Fillmore Auditorium, on Jim Blashfield's BG-80. The poster is the strangest thing Blashfield made for Graham, and classicposters calls it probably his most interesting. Its central image is a man's face and …
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BG-134 — Fillmore West
The Grateful Dead opened the back half of BG-134 at the Fillmore West, with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Sons of Champlin. The middle of that bill is the remarkable part. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band were New Orleans traditional-jazz musicians, several of them in their seventies, play…
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BG-189 — Fillmore West
Saturday, August 30, 1969 was night two of Spirit, Savoy Brown and Womb at the Fillmore West, on the back half of David Singer's BG-189. Spirit had come a long way in twelve months — this chronicle has them second-billed at the Avalon under FD-134 in August 1968, and here they are headlining a Grah…
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Saturday, August 30, 1969 closed the Grateful Dead's two-night stand 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 effectively a Grateful Dead side project — Jerry Garcia playing pedal st…
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