Bill Graham Presents

Bill Graham Presents
Author: Bill Graham
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2004-05-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780306813498

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

The Art of the Fillmore

The Art of the Fillmore
Author: Gayle Lemke
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1560256303

Legendary impresario Bill Graham began in January 1966 to commission posters to promote the concerts he was putting on at San Francisco’s Fillmore auditorium. The poster artists followed the revolutionary mandate of the sixties consciousness, creating vivid, irreverent banners that reflected their own sense of poetics, style, and wit. What resulted were signature juxtapositions of design, lettering, and color that spawned a brand new art form. Their muse was the cosmic synergy that then abounded, fueled in part by LSD. These posters have since come to occupy a place in art history while surviving priceless artifacts of rock archeology. Published in cooperation with Bill Graham Presents, this is an intoxicating compendium of the funkiest posters of the century. Highlighted in this unique, lavishly printed full-color volume are the original numbered and unnumbered series created exclusively for the San Francisco and New York Fillmore dance concerts. The more than 400 hand-drawn posters, handbills, tickets, and photographs feature art by Wes Wilson, Bonnie MacLean, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin, Lee Conklin, Greg Irons, Randy Tuten, David Byrd, David Singer, and Norman Orr.