BG-190
BG-190 · David Singer
San Francisco
Sea Train
Yusef Lateef
Sunday, September 7, 1969 closed Santana's four-night Fillmore West stand with Sea Train and Yusef Lateef, ending the run on David Singer's BG-190.
The poster deserves a closer look than this chronicle has given it. It is a smaller collage than Singer usually made, leaving much more room for the band's name than his other sheets do — and the image is more specific than a glance suggests. A hand is gently placing a crystal sphere into the grass. Inside the sphere sits a child. Superimposed on the front of it is the silhouette of a horse. It was printed on slick, glossy-coated index stock at roughly 13⅞ by 22 inches, and the postcard carried a calendar of Bill Graham events on the back.
A double postcard was also run, pairing BG-190 with BG-189 — Singer's Michelangelo-on-the-moon sheet from the week before — across about seven by nine inches, with a bulk rate permit and some copies addressed and mailed to the Fillmore's list. The two posters were made and distributed as a pair, which is worth knowing when you look at them side by side: a Renaissance statue on the lunar surface one week, a child in a glass sphere being set down in grass the next. Six weeks after Apollo 11, Singer was making images about looking at worlds from outside them.
For Santana, the closing night ended the run that opened Graham's 1969 fall season — a year and a month after they had been third-billed at this same hall under Lee Conklin's lion.
Verification Notes
COAU Fillmore West, 07 September 1969. CLOSING night of the Sep 4-7 BG-190 run. DEEPENED 2026-09-03 (pass 2). Bill per COAU Fillmore West listings (Hannan/Arnold), 7 September 1969. CORRECTS this chronicle's own description of the image: earlier pages called it 'a disc of earth'/'a disc of turf'. Per classicposters.com product page (browser session 2026-09-03) it is a crystal sphere containing a seated child with a horse silhouette superimposed, being placed in grass. Stock, dimensions and the BG-189/190 double postcard from the same source.
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