BG-31 · Wes Wilson
Catalog Number
BG-31
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
October 14, 1966
Artists
Nickname
Big Mama
Performers
Butterfield Blues Band
Jefferson Airplane
Big Mama Thornton
Jefferson Airplane
Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama
On Friday, October 14, 1966, the Fillmore Auditorium opened a three-night Bill Graham weekend that would turn out to be a hinge in rock history — though almost nobody in the room could have known it. The poster, Wes Wilson's BG-31 in Graham's numbered series, put the Butterfield Blues Band at the top of the bill, with Jefferson Airplane beneath and Big Mama Thornton third. Yet it was Thornton's face that Wilson made…
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