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Concert poster, This is a psychedelic concert poster from 1966
for a performance at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The poster is known as "The Quick and the Dead" and was designed by artist Wes Wilson.
Bands: The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The New Tweedy Brothers.
Venue: The Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California.
Dates: June 10 & 11, 1966.
The central image of a skeleton wearing a cowboy hat and smoking a cigar was adapted by Wilson from an old woodcut by Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada. This poster is historically significant as it is one of the earliest uses of a skeleton to promote the Grateful Dead. |
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