BG-189 · David Singer
San Francisco
Savoy Brown
Womb
Spirit / Savoy Brown / Womb (closing)
David Singer's poster for the last week of August 1969 puts Michelangelo's David on the surface of the moon. The statue stands in the foreground in its familiar contrapposto, and behind it, small and receding across the grey regolith, a second figure walks away under a black sky. Six weeks earlier Apollo 11 had landed. Singer, who by 1969 had become Bill Graham's most-used designer and who worked in photomontage…
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FD-135 — Avalon Ballroom
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BG-134 — Fillmore West
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