FD-29 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
San Francisco
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Electric Train
JOB rolling paper logo
On this night in 1966 — the day after California became the first state to criminalize LSD, the ban having taken effect on October 6 — the Avalon Ballroom pulsed with the energy of a thousand young people determined to dance anyway. Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley created what would become one of the most iconic posters of the entire psychedelic era. They borrowed Alphonse Mucha's JOB cigarette rolling paper…
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MSC-MTX.1966.10.07 — Matrix
While the Avalon and Winterland drew the big crowds on October 7th, something quieter was happening in a hundred-seat beer-and-pizza joint at 3138 Fillmore Street in the Cow Hollow neighborhood. The Matrix was Marty Balin's club — the Jefferson Airplane singer had founded it in August 1965 as a hom…
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BG-30 — Winterland
The same night the Avalon was rocking with FD-29, Winterland was hosting its own landmark show just across town. Bill Graham presented the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead — the billing order the poster itself prints — three bands that between them would define …
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