Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Loading Zone
Strike Benefit
February 5, 1967
Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco

By the mid-1960s, Viet Nam was a topic guaranteed to split any gathering into two diametrically opposed camps, and small movements grew into large protest marches, strikes, or sit-ins. This concert held several months before the Summer of Love featured several of Bill Graham’s favorite San Francisco bands and contributed money and awareness towards local antiwar efforts. Although not attributed to any particular artist, this colorful piece demonstrates the nascent break-out lettering that would soon become the swirling psychedelic style that defined much of the artwork from the period. This poster is also of different dimensions, at 20 inches long and 12 and a half inches wide, skinnier than most other posters that would follow its example.

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