Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$480.00
Starting bid: $1.00
It is our pleasure to offer the FIRST CGC graded example of this Grateful Dead Handbill to EVER appear at public auction! The Rock Garden produced a small number of legendary posters & handbills printed in the shape of a diamond. This handbill 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 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 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 issues. None of the blue pre-concert first printings had the correct dates listed so they were all corrected by hand.
Handbill – Grateful Dead at the Rock Garden
Grade – CGC 6.5
Bands/Bill – Grateful Dead Charles Lloyd Quartet the Mystery Trend
Venue – The Rock Garden
City – San Francisco CA
Date – 3/28-4/2/67
Dimensions – 5" x 5"
Printing – Original Pre-Concert First Printing Blue Variant
AOR# 2.212
Artist – Michael Wood
Condition Details – 100% Original with no restoration. Ink loss creases tape pull on reverse writing on the back. View the detailed high res photo of this lot. Click on the thumbnail photo to see an enlarged photo. Click a second time on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the enlarged photo. A super high res image with every millimeter will now be clearly displayed. For a personalized eyewitness examination call 410-464-6180 11:00 am to 6:00 pm eastern.
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