BG-93 The Doors, Procol Harum 1967 Fillmore / Winterland Concert Poster Graded 9.8. ...

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BG-93 The Doors, Procol Harum 1967 Fillmore / Winterland Concert Poster Graded 9.8. First-and-only printing San Francisco concert poster for L.A.'s Doors, England's Procol Harum and S.F.'s Mt. Rushmore playing at both the Fillmore Auditorium and Winterland on Thursday thru Saturday nights, November 16-18, 1967. Jim Blashfield's design features some of the deepest, richest colors of any BG poster from this era. Known as BG-93 in the Bill Graham numbered series, this poster was graded a lovely 9.8 Near Mint/Mint by CGC (the Certified Guaranty Company). Measures 14" x 20 1/4". From the David Swartz Concert Poster Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: The Doors could not have been stronger commercially at this moment. Would you believe two of the top five albums in the nation right now? Their new LP Strange Days was #3 on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart, and their first album The Doors was right behind it at #4. "People Are Strange" was still in the national Top 40, and this month "Love Me Two Times" was released. Meanwhile, Procol Harum was touring behind their ever-popular big hit from that summer, "A Whiter Shade of Pale."

Opening act Mount Rushmore was a San Francisco band of the late 60's that played typical blues-rock with psychedelic touches. The five-piece had formed in a Victorian house in Haight-Ashbury in early 1967, and did a lot of gigging in the Summer of Love as support for the biggest bands. They released a single in '68, a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Stone Free" on Dot Records, but the group never gained a foothold commercially and eventually splintered.

Poster-designer Blashfield was mostly known as a multi-media artist and made his name by creating MTV-era music videos for Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and others.


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