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Lightning Hopkins
Concert poster from 1966
for a performance at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
The poster, designed by Wes Wilson, features a photograph of a young, beardless Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. The event featured The Grateful Dead, blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, and The Loading Zone. The concerts took place on October 21st and 22nd, 1966. Original posters and reprints are available for sale from various sellers.
The poster is often identified as BG-32 from the Bill Graham series of concert posters. The photograph of Jerry Garcia was taken by Herb Greene and is from his 1966 Baker Street photo sessions. Greene's dining room, with its iconic wall of hieroglyphics, was the background for many photos of San Francisco musicians from that era, including the cover of Jefferson Airplane's album Surrealistic Pillow.
Lightning Hopkins