Quicksilver Messenger Service (BG-133, final panel)
BG-133 · Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin
San Francisco
Spooky Tooth
Cold Blood
Sunday, August 25, 1968 closed the Quicksilver leg of BG-133 at the Fillmore West, with Spooky Tooth and Cold Blood — and closed the whole poster.
BG-133 is the most physically unusual sheet in this chronicle. Rick Griffin designed it with Alton Kelley, and it was the first in a series of double-sized posters Graham used for longer runs: roughly 22 by 28 inches on uncoated index stock, against the 14 by 21 of nearly everything else. Its own catalogue title gives the span as two separate weeks — 8/13-18 and 8/20-25 — carrying four headline legs across eleven nights: the Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver.
This is the last panel of a two-week sheet, and it explains a defect this chronicle had to fix: BG-133 reaches across eleven days here, and at one point headlined five of seven days in a single published window before the one-poster-one-hero rule caught it. The poster was built to cover more ground than any before it, and the day pages inherited that reach.
Spooky Tooth, second-billed, were a British band with Gary Wright and Mike Harrison on their first American tour. Cold Blood, third, were an Oakland soul band fronted by Lydia Pense.
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). Final BG-133 night (whole Aug 13-25 marathon closes). Griffin & Kelley. DEEPENED 2026-09-03 (pass 5). Bill per COAU Fillmore West listings (Hannan/Arnold), 25 August 1968: 'Quicksilver, Spooky Tooth, Cold Blood Lights: Holy See'. Closing night of the BG-133 Quicksilver leg and of the whole double-sized two-week sheet. Griffin/Kelley, 22x28 uncoated index, 8/13-18 & 8/20-25 span from classicposters.com product page (browser session 2026-09-03).
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