Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$1,200.00
Starting bid: $1.00
Only the second CGC graded example of this super popular poster to appear in our auction! The Rock Garden produced a small number of legendary posters in the shape of a diamond. This poster 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).
This lavender design original pre-concert first printing poster is featured in The Art of Rock book without the date corrections found on the blue variant issues. In March 2018 a lower 6.5 graded example of this lavender version reached $979 in our auction.
Poster – Grateful Dead at the Rock Garden
Grade – CGC 7.0
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 – 16 ¾ X 16 ¾”
Printing – Original Pre-Concert First Printing OP-1
AOR# 2.212
Artist – Michael Wood
Condition Details – 100% Original with no restoration. Bends and creases crunched top right edge. 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 6:00pm eastern.
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