August 12 — On This Day in Art Rock History

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‹August 12›

BG-23 · Wes Wilson, Herb Greene

Catalog Number

BG-23

Series

Bill Graham

Venue

Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco

Date

August 12, 1966

Artists

Herb Greene
Wes Wilson

Nickname

Jefferson Airplane / Grateful Dead

Performers

Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead

Jefferson Airplane / Grateful Dead

On Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13, 1966, Jefferson Airplane headlined the Fillmore Auditorium and the Grateful Dead opened for them. That sentence is the whole story, and it is worth sitting with, because both halves of it sound wrong to a modern ear. The Dead were the second act — Bill Graham's poster puts the Airplane on top, and every archive that catalogs BG-23 lists them that way. And the Airplane on…

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