Auction Name: 2026 April 10 Concert Posters Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 26146

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/7475*26146

The Doors 1968 Northern Calif. Folk-Rock Festival Concert Poster Graded 9.9 Mint (AOR-2.341). An original first-printing concert poster for a two-day festival at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose, CA on Saturday & Sunday, May 18 & 19, 1968. A highly popular poster due to its dominant image of Jim Morrison as the centerpiece, although you have to wonder what the other bands thought of that. Among those other acts were Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick and the Animals with Eric Burdon. Also, and not surprisingly, the Grateful Dead played on Saturday as well, probably added too late to make the poster. Measures 14" x 21 ¾" and was graded a glorious 9.9 Mint by CGC (the Certified Guaranty Company). COA from Heritage Auctions.

Literature: See Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, p.232 (illus.).

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