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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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Grateful Dead (BG-133, Dead leg night 2)

BG-133 · August 21, 1968
BG-133

BG-133 · Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin

Catalog Number
BG-133
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore West
San Francisco
Date
August 21, 1968
Poster Artists
Nickname
Grateful Dead (BG-133, Dead leg night 2)
Performers
Grateful Dead
Kaleidoscope
Albert Collins

Thursday, August 21, 1968 was the middle night of the Grateful Dead's BG-133 bracket at Fillmore West - the Dead, Kaleidoscope, and Albert Collins again, under Griffin and Kelley's double-sized sheet (per billgrahamfoundation and wolfgangs; the night corroborated on dead.net, setlist.fm, and a circulating soundboard). It is the best-documented of the three: the Aug 21 performance was later given an official release as a vinyl bonus with the deluxe Grateful Dead Origins book, preserving a set that ran through Cryptical/The Other One, Dark Star, St. Stephen > The Eleven, and a Turn On Your Lovelight to close. The poster around it was already legend-in-the-making - a top-tier Bill Graham card, the first double-sized one in the series.

Verification Notes

Antagonist (2026-08-17 headless run): corroborated via check-claims on vetted tiers + adversarial live reads (wolfgangs/gdao/dead.net/setlist.fm/billgrahamfoundation/COAU-latest + Corry Arnold blogs). Aug 21 officially released (Grateful Dead Origins vinyl bonus). Griffin & Kelley.

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