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Grateful Dead Poster Sold at Auction
The Grateful Dead was formed during the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Founding members included Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron McKernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. The band had a three decade career until Garcia’s death in 1995 and released 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1989. Seven of their studio albums were certified gold in the United States and four were platinum or double platinum.
We sold a poster for the 1973 rock festival “Summer Jam” that featured the Grateful Dead for $1,903. This one day concert once held a Guinness Book record for drawing the largest crowd to a music festival. It’s believed that approximately 600,000 people attended “Summer Jam”, more than the 400,000 that attended the legendary Woodstock of 1969. Please see poster details below:
Watkins Glen “Summer Jam” Concert Poster — Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead & The Band — First Printing
Original and scarce first printing of the “Summer Jam” Concert poster, which took place 28 July 1973 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in New York. Poster measures 16.25″ x 22.5″ with colorful, psychedelic nymph-like imagery, including the iconic Grateful Dead skull and roses insignia. Reads in part: “…The Grateful Dead plus friends & surprises. Saturday, July 28 from 12 noon on / Tickets: $10 includes parking & camping…” With “Scoop Printing Co.” printed at lower right, indicating it as a first printing. Near fine. Sold for $1,903.
The following are some additional concert posters we have sold:
Rare Led Zeppelin Poster Measuring 12″ x 19″ for Their Show on 1 May 1969 in Irvine, California
Led Zeppelin concert poster for their 1 May 1969 show at University of California Irvine’s Crawford Hall. Psychedelic poster designed by Chris Boulton is rare in this size of 12″ x 19″, with handbills more often seen at auction. It would also be their last concert poster without the appearance of a dirigible, the first showing of which occurred the next night in a poster for their show in Pasadena, and then started to appear in all their promotional materials. Poster on glossy paper measures 12″ x 19″. A few pinholes, light creasing, edgewear along margins, and a peace sign stamped to lower right corner. Some mounting remnants to verso. Overall very good condition, one of the most desirable Led Zeppelin posters. Sold for $5,825.
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Very Rare Doors Poster From a 1967 Performance at the Kaleidoscope Club in Hollywood
Original circular hand-pulled silkscreen poster, promoting a three day performance by the up-and-coming band The Doors, at the Kaleidoscope Club in Hollywood on 21-23 April 1967. A series of 20 posters were issued by Kaleidoscope in 1967, one for each concert that year. This dayglo fluorescent poster is considered to be the most rare in the Kaleidoscope series because of the type of ink used by artist John Douglas Kline in production. Posters in this series are almost non-existent because they were issued for promotion only, and the silkscreens used to produce the posters were burned in a fire. The Kaleidoscope was a psychedelic rock venue run by the management of the band Canned Heat. It was only open for roughly six months in 1967, with many memorable bands performing in that brief time. The venue was housed at the Earl Carroll Theater, which was then located at 6230 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and featured two concentrically rotating stages at the center of the venue. For The Doors performance, the show was moved to a club called Ciros, at 8433 W. Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, (which is now the Comedy Store) since the original location of the club at the Earl Carroll Theatre had yet to be finalized. Circular poster depicts a silhouette of the faces of The Doors, with the band names in psychedelic 60’s font, and is printed in bright shades in a color combination meant to play tricks on the eye, as if looking through a psychedelic kaleidoscope. Previously owned by Alan Brackett, the original bass player in the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, who played with The Doors at this venue, along with The UFO. Poster measures 18.75″ in diameter, with some pinholes around the edge and very minor creasing. Near fine condition. Sold for $3,936.
Charles Schulz original hand-drawing of Snoopy, signed by Schulz. Illustration of Snoopy in a ranger’s hat and backpack was used for a poster to promote the ”Open Nature” concert on 27 April 1999, with members of the Grateful Dead playing. Drawing is accompanied by the concert poster, signed by Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and by Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar. Illustration of Snoopy is complemented by a nature scene of mountains and trees, drawn by Brooks Anderson, and signed ”Brooks ’99”. Lot also includes a laminated pass to the event, also showing the illustration of Snoopy. Schulz illustration measures 8” x 10” inside of black frame measuring 12.5” x 14.5”. Poster measures 13” x 19.5” inside of gold frame measuring 17.5” x 22”. Near fine. Sold for $3,933.
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