August 13 — On This Day in Art Rock History

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‹August 13›

FD-21 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse

Catalog Number

FD-21

Series

Family Dog

Venue

Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco

Date

August 13, 1966

Artists

Alton Kelley
Stanley Mouse

Nickname

Earthquake

Performers

Bo Diddley
Big Brother and the Holding Company

Earthquake

Saturday, August 13, 1966 closed a two-night Family Dog weekend at the Avalon Ballroom with Bo Diddley headlining over Big Brother and the Holding Company — Janis Joplin's band, still the Avalon's own local act, a year before Monterey made them national. The poster is FD-21, and collectors call it "Earthquake." Mouse and Kelley built it around a photograph of the Sonoma County Court House after the 1906 quake, the…

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BG-133 — Fillmore West

Bill Graham · 1968 · Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin
The Who · James Cotton Blues Band · Magic Sam

On Tuesday, August 13, 1968, Bill Graham opened one of the most ambitious poster runs the Fillmore West would ever mount — and he opened it with the loudest band in England. BG-133, the double-sized card Alton Kelley and Rick Griffin built for the occasion, did not advertise a weekend. It advertised…

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