Auction Name: 2026 April 10 Concert Posters Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 26042

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/7475*26042

Velvet Underground 1969 Boston Tea Party Birthday Concert Poster Signed by Bob Driscoll. An original advertising/concert poster for the Boston Tea Party in Boston, Massachusetts announcing a free birthday party for reaching its second anniversary starring no less than the Velvet Underground. The date was Wednesday, January 22, 1969, and admission was free (we don't know if there was free food as well, but surely not an open bar!). This was still at the club's original location that had only a 550-person maximum capacity, so we're sure there was a long line outside to get in.

Velvets leader Lou Reed has made it quite clear in interviews that the Tea Party was the band's favorite venue in the world to play at, to the point where they were almost the honorary house band. And the audience felt the same. At this point in time the VU had just two albums out, on Verve... their self-titled debut with Nico and White Light/White Heat. But they had finished recording their eponymously titled third album, which would come out in a couple of months.

This specimen has been signed by poster artist Bob Driscoll on the verso. Measures 11" x 17" and grades to Near Mint condition. From the David Swartz Concert Poster Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.

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