BG-105 Jimi Hendrix Experience "Flying Eyeball" First-Print Poster by Rick Griffin (AOR)...

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BG-105 Jimi Hendrix Experience "Flying Eyeball" First-Print Poster by Rick Griffin (AOR) An original, before-the-concert first-printing poster of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and Albert King at San Francisco's famed Fillmore and Winterland ballrooms on the first four days of February 1968, known in the hobby as BG-105.

This is it, the poster everyone wants a first printing of. One of the true masterpieces of S.F. psychedelic rock art, done by Rick Griffin in the winter of 1967-68. Very much printed before the shows to sell tickets, unlike the second printing which shows the number "10" before the word "tickets" down in the lower left corner. It's the telltale sign that everyone in the hobby knows.

Poster measures 14 x 21 1/2" and grades to Very Good Minus condition. Graded VG- due to loss of red color at the edges in upper left and upper right areas. There's also a large, significant surface crease starting at the "eyeball's right elbow" and continuing down between the "A" and "L" in "Albert" and then through "Fillmore" to the poster's edge. It doesn't break color and is not that visible when viewed straight-on (see picture). One pinhole each in the top two corners, and a bit of toning to this poster as well, but not fading... it is still deep red. COA from Heritage Auctions.

Literature: See Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, p.125 (illus.).

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