BG-125 · Lee Conklin
Catalog Number
BG-125
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
June 19, 1968
Artists
Nickname
1968 Summer Series
Performers
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Chambers Brothers
Sly and the Family Stone
Chambers Brothers
Sly and the Family Stone
1968 Summer Series
Wednesday, June 19, 1968 fell inside one of the most stacked weeks Bill Graham ever booked into the Fillmore Auditorium: the six-night run of June 18-23 advertised on BG-125, the Lee Conklin poster whose intertwined, anatomical lettering (Conklin's signature trompe-l'oeil style, where letters resolve into bodies and faces) is one of the canonical images of the era's late phase. The poster advertised the whole week,…
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