FD-67 · Rick Griffin, Herb Greene
Catalog Number
FD-67
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
June 22, 1967
Artists
Nickname
The Charlatans (RLAT)
Performers
The Charlatans
13th Floor Elevators
The Great Society
13th Floor Elevators
The Great Society
The Charlatans (RLAT)
The poster for the Avalon Ballroom's June 22-25, 1967 run is one of Rick Griffin's, with a Herb Greene photograph, and it advertised a meeting that the era's mythology would have loved to see happen: The Charlatans - the band whose 1965 Red Dog Saloon residency in Virginia City, Nevada is AOR's origin point - sharing a bill with Texas's 13th Floor Elevators, the acid-rock outfit whose 'You're Gonna Miss Me' and…
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