FD-25 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
San Francisco
The Great Society
FD-25
On Saturday, September 10, 1966, the Family Dog's FD-25 poster closed its two-night stand at the Avalon Ballroom: Quicksilver Messenger Service over the Great Society — Grace Slick's band, still a year or so before she carried "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" over to the Jefferson Airplane. This was night two of the Friday–Saturday run the Dog dated September 9–10, and the poster is one of the era's quiet…
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Matrix
A residency night, and that is the honest limit of what can be said about it. The Blues Project -- the New York band built around Danny Kalb, Al Kooper and Steve Katz -- were working a long stand at the Matrix, the small club on Fillmore Street, running September 7 through 15, 1966. September 10 fal…
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FD-80 — Avalon Ballroom
The last of three nights. FD-80 -- the card the Family Dog nicknamed the "Tea Party," drawn by Greg Irons -- covered a September 8 to 10, 1967 run at the Avalon Ballroom, and Sunday the 10th closed it out. The printed bill carried Southside Sound System, the Phoenix and Freedom Highway, and it is wo…
Read about this poster →Fillmore West
A ticketed date with no art, which is its own kind of entry. On Wednesday, September 10, 1969, the Incredible String Band -- Robin Williamson and Mike Heron's Scottish outfit, a year on from "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" -- played a midweek one-off at Fillmore West, the night before Bill Graham…
Read about this poster →Family Dog on the Great Highway
Out at the ocean end of the city, the Family Dog on the Great Highway was running one of its themed midweek evenings: a Latin Rock night with Kwane and the Kwanditos and Los Flamencos de la Santa Lucia, on Wednesday, September 10, 1969 (per rockarchaeology101). Chet Helms's Great Highway hall worked…
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