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SAN FRANCISCO · THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA · 1960s

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June 24
FD-14

FD-14 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
Catalog Number
FD-14
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco
Date
June 24, 1966
Artists
Alton Kelley
Stanley Mouse
Nickname
Zig-Zag Man
Performers
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Quicksilver Messenger Service

Zig-Zag Man

By the high summer of 1966 the Avalon Ballroom had become the Family Dog's church of sound and light, and on the weekend of June 24th and 25th, Chet Helms hung a poster on the city that would outlive almost everything it advertised. The bill was Big Brother and the Holding Company — fronted by a Texas transplant named Janis Joplin, then only weeks into her tenure with the band — with Quicksilver Messenger Service in…

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BG-13

BG-13 — Fillmore Auditorium

Bill Graham · 1966 · Wes Wilson
The Mothers of Invention

In June 1966, Bill Graham did something he almost never did at the Fillmore: he put a comedian at the top of the bill. BG-13, the thirteenth poster in his numbered series, advertised "Lenny Bruce and the Mothers" across two nights — Friday and Saturday, June 24 and 25, 1966. Wes Wilson built the des…

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