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Auction Name: 2025 November 7 Concert Posters Signature® Auction
Lot Number: 26013
Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/7421*26013
FD-7 Big Brother, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder "Euphoria" Avalon Ballroom OP-1 Poster Signed by Wes Wilson. First-printing San Francisco concert poster for The Daily Flash, The Rising Sons (with Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal), Big Brother & The Holding Company (without Janis Joplin yet) and the Charlatans playing at the Avalon Ballroom on Friday and Saturday nights, May 6 & 7, 1966. Designed by Wes Wilson and known as FD-7 in the Family Dog numbered series, this poster has been signed by the late Mr. Wilson down in the lower right corner.
This is the OP-1 version of the poster that was printed in straight B&W. Like FD-1 before it, some members of the Family Dog took it upon themselves to hand-color portions of the poster before posting them up. We have no way of saying for sure that was the case here, but it certainly has the feel of that. Once poster collecting became even a semi-serious hobby decades ago, nobody in their right mind would've dared coloring in one of these, the general thinking goes.
How scarce is this poster? No less than Eric King, author of the poster guide which everyone uses, has stated that it's the #1 rarest poster in the entire run of Bill Graham and Family Dog posters... that's right, rarer even than the first 2-3 posters in each series. Poster artist Wilson once told sources that a total of 250 posters were printed. How many could still exist today? The most enlightened sources in the hobby put that figure at probably a couple dozen. The winner of this poster is going to be one lucky collector indeed. Measures 14" x 20" and grades to repaired Very Good Plus condition. From the David Swartz Concert Poster Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.
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