The Grateful Dead, B.B. King, and Bob Dylan Lead Heritage's Concert Posters Auction

The Rolling Stones 1965, Charlotte, NC
Heritage Auctions' July 11–12 Concert Posters sale will feature posters for psychedelic art fans as well as followers of acts like The Doors, Otis Redding, Fleetwood Mac, and The Rolling Stones.
"With most vintage concert posters, my estimate is that 99 percent of them were torn down and thrown away after the show," said Pete Howard, Heritage's Director of Concert Posters. "The exception came with the advent of psychedelic concert posters in the Bay Area in the 1960s which started to be saved in numbers shortly after starting to appear."
As well as Grateful Dead posters including a first printing of Skeleton & Roses, Wes Wilson-signed designs, and the first-poster to declare the band's name (for their January 4 and 5, 1966 dates at the tiny Matrix club in San Francisco), other highlights include:
* an original rare cardboard poster designed by Alton Kelley and Ami Magill advertising A Tribute to Dr. Strange, the first dance concert of the San Francisco psychedelic era held at Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco on October 16, 1965, with a lineup including Jefferson Airplane with Signe Anderson, the Great Society with Grace Slick, the Charlatans, and the Oakland band The Marbles
* the November 6, 1965 San Francisco concert poster for A Tribute to Ming the Merciless advertising Frank Zappa, and the Charlatans
* an original cardboard window card for B.B. King as 'The Blues Boy' on an early concert poster from 1954 at the Meadow Acres Ballroom in Topeka, Kansas
* a Jumbo Globe cardboard window card for The Rolling Stones, The Vibrations and Patti and the Blue Belles performing at the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1965.
* a 1962 window card advertising 'The Traveling Hootenanny' playing at Town Hall in New York featuring Bob Dylan, Ian and Sylvia, John Lee Hooker, Judy Collins, Lynn Gold and Sandy Bull. This is the first concert poster known to feature Dylan's name.