FD-27 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
San Francisco
Unquenchable Thirst
Howlin' Wolf
FD-27
FD-27 is one of the more misunderstood sheets in the early Family Dog catalog: a Mouse and Kelley poster of arresting design, printed to advertise a Howlin' Wolf headline at the Avalon with Big Brother & the Holding Company on September 23–24, 1966. The poster is famous among collectors, and a persistent story attached to it holds that the shows were cancelled and never happened. That story is wrong. The primary…
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FD-82 — Family Dog Denver
FD-82 — Family Dog Denver's third dance, the second night of a Friday-Saturday Grateful Dead and Mother Earth bill on September 22-23, 1967, at 1601 West Evans Avenue. The poster is Dennis Nolan's "The Head," a 14 x 20 sheet built around a skull whose teeth spell GRATEFUL DEAD and whose nose forms a…
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