AOR-2.325 · Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse
Catalog Number
AOR-2.325
Series
Art of Rock
Venue
Mt. Tamalpais Outdoor Theater
Marin County
Marin County
Date
October 8, 1966
Artists
Nickname
Poo Peace Handbill
Performers
Bola Sete
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Grateful Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Grateful Dead
Poo Peace Handbill
The poster promised Joan Baez. She did not play. On Saturday, October 8, 1966, an afternoon benefit filled the Mountain Theater on Mount Tamalpais — the stone amphitheater built into the Marin hillside by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, looking out over the Bay from two thousand feet up. The cause was the congressional campaign of Phil Drath, an antiwar candidate running as a write-in. The committee's…
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