Grateful Dead, Janis/Big Brother 1967 Avalon Ballroom Krishna Benefit Handbill Graded 8.0 (AOR-2.18). ...

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Grateful Dead, Janis/Big Brother 1967 Avalon Ballroom Krishna Benefit Handbill Graded 8.0 (AOR-2.18). An original first-printing San Francisco concert flyer for a Krishna Consciousness event held at the Avalon Ballroom on Sunday evening, January 29, 1967. Participants in this "Mantra-Rock Dance" included the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Moby Grape and legendary beat poet Allen Ginsberg. This was a benefit show to fund the just-opened Rada Krishna Temple in the Haight.

This handbill, a first-ever Heritage offering, measures 8 ½" x 11" and has been graded to 8.0 Very Fine by CGC (the Certified Guaranty Company). From the Tim Backstrom Grateful Dead Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.

Literature: See Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock - Posters from Presley to Punk, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, p.107 (illus.).

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