BG-194 · Greg Irons
Catalog Number
BG-194
Venue
Fillmore West
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
October 2, 1969
Artists
Nickname
the poster that advertised CSNY
Performers
Janis Joplin
Santana
Blues Image
John Sebastian
Santana
Blues Image
John Sebastian
the poster that advertised CSNY
Some posters document a show. This one documents a show that never happened — and that is exactly why it matters. On Thursday, October 2, 1969, the marquee at Bill Graham's Fillmore West read one thing and the stage delivered another, and the gap between the two is one of the better small heartbreaks in the Graham catalog. Two months earlier, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young had walked off the Woodstock stage into…
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