Grateful Dead 1978 Santa Barbara, CA Concert Poster Graded 8.0 (AOR-4.113). ...

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Grateful Dead 1978 Santa Barbara, CA Concert Poster Graded 8.0 (AOR-4.113). An original silver, red & black concert poster advertising the Grateful Dead playing at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Stadium on Sunday afternoon, June 4, 1978. This Bill Graham co-production was called "A Day in the Sun with The Grateful Dead." And then it adds "Plus Special Guests," who turned out to be Warren Zevon - whose "Werewolves of London" the band loved covering - and guitarist extraordinaire Elvin Bishop.

Poster measures 17 1/2" x 21" and was graded 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.369 (illus.).

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