FD-24 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
San Francisco
13th Floor Elevators
Tree House
Of all the Family Dog posters, FD-24 may be the most purely beautiful — Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley's "Tree House," a bird's clawed foot rising out of the ground on a tangle of vine and root to cradle an airborne cabin. It announced the 13th Floor Elevators and the Sir Douglas Quintet at the Avalon Ballroom, September 2 and 3, 1966. Friday, September 2 was opening night — and it was also the week the Elevators…
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BG-26 — Fillmore Auditorium
Jefferson Airplane with the PH Factor Jug Band and Andrew Staples at the Fillmore Auditorium, on Wes Wilson's BG-26. The Airplane in September 1966 were between singers and about to become famous. Signe Anderson had left after the birth of her daughter; Grace Slick had joined from the Great Society…
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FD-78 — Avalon Ballroom
Saturday, September 2, 1967 was night two of the Miller Blues Band with Mother Earth and Bukka White at the Avalon, on Mouse and Kelley's "Angel" — FD-78, printed hot orange on flat blue, a winged figure inside a spiral ribbon of hand-lettering. The headliner's name is a small lesson in how unsettl…
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BG-80 — Fillmore Auditorium
Saturday, September 2, 1967 was night five of Cream, the Electric Flag and Gary Burton at the Fillmore Auditorium — one night from the end of the BG-80 stand, which closed on the 3rd. Across town the same evening the Avalon was running its own weekend on Mouse and Kelley's "Angel" sheet, with the M…
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