Auction Name: 2026 April 10 Concert Posters Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 26150

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/7475*26150

Grateful Dead 1966 Suisun City, CA Pioneer Ballroom Concert Poster Graded 9.4 (AOR-2.184). An original first-printing concert poster for the Grateful Dead and the 13 Experience playing at the Pioneer Ballroom in Suisun City, CA, about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, on Friday and Saturday nights, September 23 & 24, 1966. No poster artist is credited on this fun, charismatic piece, printed in magenta and black on yellow paper.

Dead collectors love homespun concert posters like this, especially from small towns in the band's first full year of 1966. They often have odd little quirks uniquely their own, and this poster is no exception. For example, instead of the usual "from San Francisco" that many posters stated, this one says "from S.F. Morgue." Wow! Measures 14 1/8" x 20" and was graded to 9.4 Near Mint by CGC (the Certified Guaranty Company). Not only is that a great grade, it is one of only two specimens of this yellow version (OP-2) that CGC has ever graded. And this is the very first yellow one that HA has ever auctioned, and it's also the color shown in The Art of Rock. COA from Heritage Auctions.

Literature: See Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, p.186 (illus.).

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