Here is an authentic THE WHO ticket from Thursday February 22, 1968 at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, BG-108.
The other acts were The Cannonball Adderley and The Vagrants. The ticket measures roughly 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" and is in excellent condition. Only very slight wear to the corners and edges and age related yellowing.
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This was from the period in the late 60's and 70's when Bill Graham owned and operated the Fillmore and Winterland venues in SF. He decided to have his own promotional posters designed to promote the concerts. First, he would choose an artist to draw and print a poster customized for each individual show. The tickets were just a reduced facsimile of the posters and then typically color-coded to indicate
multiple night engagements. Back then, the Fillmore West and Winterland were rather special venues that constantly held extended engagements by the then current and popular performers. Just about every well known band played there except for a few more established bands like The Beatles and Rolling Stones. This was probably due to being located in SF, which became the focal point for psychedelic music and counterculture in general. San
Francisco was the ultimate city for rock concerts and Bill was both a promoter and owner of the venues where they could play. So that he could reconcile
sales each night, patrons purchased tickets at the venue box office and
handed them right back over at the door, thus most ending up in the archive
in EX or NM- condition. Today the original Fillmore in SF still operates with Live Nation having been leasing it and it is also expanding the Fillmore 'brand' by naming other venues it owns or leases around the country in cities such as Miami, Phili, Denver, Detroit, DC & NYC.
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