BG-136 · Rick Griffin
San Francisco
Santana
Chicago Transit Authority
BG-136
On Thursday, September 12, 1968, Bill Graham's BG-136 opened at Fillmore West, and the bill reads now like an accidental group portrait of a scene at its hinge: Big Brother and the Holding Company headlining, Santana beneath them, and Chicago Transit Authority at the bottom — three futures diverging on one Rick Griffin poster, September 12–14, with lights by Holy See (bill, dates, and credits per wolfgangs, famsf,…
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Night two of four. Friday, September 12, 1969 continued the BG-191 stand at Fillmore West -- Steve Miller Band over the James Cotton Blues Band and Keef Hartley, Randy Tuten's poster carrying the September 11 to 14 dates, with the Thursday opener as the anchor night (per wolfgangs and rockposters). …
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