Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$1,440.00
Starting bid: $10.00
The Rock Garden produced a small number of legendary posters printed in the shape of a diamond. This specimen is for a week long run of shows in spring 1967 featuring The Grateful Dead, Charles Lloyd Quartet, and Mystery Trend. It was designed by Michael Wood of Pyxis Studios.
In a radio interview with Garcia and Lesh broadcast in April 1967 on KMPX-FM in San Francisco, Charles Lloyd is discussed as being particularly inspiring to the Dead and especially Jerry, as Lloyd was playing an early form of "fusion" music and was one of the first jazz crossover artists to play at rock shows. Garcia even said in the interview that he wanted the Dead to work with Lloyd on a future project after having such a good experience playing together at the Rock Garden weeks earlier (these shows).
The super-rare blue variant you see here is hundreds of times rarer than the lavender design featured in The Art of Rock, and both are original, pre-concert, first-printings. The only difference is the date corrections in black marker in the lower corner on all of the blue variant posters. None of the blue pre-concert first printings had the correct dates listed, so they were all corrected by hand.
Condition Details: Creasing, handling, edgewear, toning.
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: AOR-2.212 Poster
--GRADE: EXCELLENT 75
--PERFORMERS: Grateful Dead, Charles Lloyd Quartet, The Mystery Trend
--VENUE: The Rock Garden
--CITY: San Francisco
--DATE: 03/28/1967
--SIZE: 16.75 x 16.75"
--PRINTING: OP-1; Original Pre-Concert First Printing Poster
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