FD-78
FD-78 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
San Francisco
Mother Earth
Bukka White
The Avalon closed its own weekend the same night, on Mouse and Kelley's FD-78 — the "Angel" sheet, a winged figure inside a spiral ribbon of hand-lettering, printed hot orange on blue.
Sunday, September 3, 1967 was the last of three nights for the Miller Blues Band, Mother Earth and Bukka White. The bill is the one this chronicle told from its opening on September 1, and its third act remains the reason to look twice: Bukka White, born in Mississippi around 1909, who had recorded for Vocalion in 1930 and for the Library of Congress at Parchman Farm in 1939, closing out a psychedelic ballroom weekend in 1967 beneath two bands whose members had not been born when he made his first records.
Verification Notes
COAU FD index: 'September 1-3, 1967 / Avalon Ballroom / Steve Miller Band, Mother Earth, Bukka White / FD-78'. Closing night. Poster reads 'MILLER BLUES BAND'; linked to canonical 'Steve Miller Blues Band' to match the artifact.
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