FD-87 · Jack Hatfield
Catalog Number
FD-87
Series
Family Dog
Venue
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
October 13, 1967
Artists
Nickname
King of Spades
Performers
Buddy Guy
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Blue Cheer
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Blue Cheer
King of Spades
On the weekend of October 13–15, 1967, the Avalon Ballroom hung a poster that behaved like a playing card. Jack Hatfield's design for Family Dog show number eighty-seven — catalogued **FD-87** and known to collectors as **"King of Spades"** — set a lion into the frame of a royal court card, the event particulars arranged around it like the pips and borders of a deck. It is a quieter, more graphic image than the…
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