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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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Cream / Electric Flag / Gary Burton (night 2)

BG-80 · August 30, 1967
BG-80

BG-80 · Jim Blashfield

Catalog Number
BG-80
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
Date
August 30, 1967
Poster Artists
Nickname
Cream / Electric Flag / Gary Burton (night 2)
Performers
Cream
Electric Flag
Gary Burton

Wednesday, August 30, 1967 was night two of Cream, the Electric Flag and Gary Burton at the Fillmore Auditorium, on Jim Blashfield's BG-80.

The poster is the strangest thing Blashfield made for Graham, and classicposters calls it probably his most interesting. Its central image is a man's face and upper body; he appears to be holding a large hand-puppet of a bird. The band names run across the top in what collectors call the Roller alphabet — one of the constructed display faces that circulated among the poster artists, passed hand to hand and reused, the way a workshop shares a tool. It was printed on white index stock at roughly 14 by 21 inches, and a second printing exists with a yellow border.

Blashfield had drawn BG-78 two weeks earlier, his first in the series, and would go on from posters to animation and win awards for it.

The run itself is the reason Cream mattered in America. The Fillmore listings attach the same note to every date: Michael Erlewine's Prime Movers replaced the Electric Flag for one of these shows, and which night is not recorded. It could have been this one. This chronicle carries the substitution as the sources do — real, and undated.

Verification Notes

ANTAGONIST-CHECKED. COAU Fillmore Auditorium, 30 August 1967, same wording as the rest of the run. Night 2. Secondary (was the draft's hero; reassigned). Prime Movers hedge applies -- night unrecorded. COAU Fillmore Auditorium listings (Hannan/Arnold), 30 August 1967: 'Cream, Electric Flag, Gary Burton Lights: DBFL, Michael Erlewine's Prime Movers replace The Electric Flag for one of these shows.' Night 2 of the BG-80 run. Substitution night genuinely unrecorded — NOT pinned. DEEPENED 2026-09-03 (pass 3). Bill per COAU Fillmore Auditorium listings (Hannan/Arnold), 30 August 1967: 'Cream, Electric Flag, Gary Burton Lights: DBFL, Michael Erlewine's Prime Movers replace The Electric Flag for one of these shows.' Night 2 of the BG-80 run. The bird hand-puppet image, the Roller alphabet lettering, the 'probably Blashfield's most interesting poster' assessment, stock, dimensions and the yellow-bordered second printing from classicposters.com product page (browser session 2026-09-03). The Prime Movers night remains genuinely unrecorded and is NOT pinned.

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