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Gregg Allman & Friends Concert Poster GREGG ALLMAN & FRIENDS SY KLOPPS @ THE FILLMORE San Francisco, CA July 17-18, 1998 Designer: Randy Tuten 13″ x 19″ F-334 Original First Printing! The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California. The original owner of The Fillmore property, Emma Gates Butler, hired James W. & Merritt Reid in 1910 to draw plans for an Italianate-style dance hall at the southwest corner of Fillmore & Geary. The Majestic Hall & Majestic Academy of Dancing opened in 1912 on the second & third stories of the building, where the usual fare was Wednesday night socials & masquerade balls. The Fillmore was a dance hall operating under various names & managements - The Get Acquainted Society, Ambassador Dance Hall - through the 1930s, & a roller rink through the 1940s. in 1952, local entrepreneur Charles Sullivan began to book some of the biggest names in black music into The Fillmore. The careers of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Moby Grape, the Butterfield Blues Band, & countless others were launched from The Fillmore stage. The most significant musical talent of the day has appeared there: Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Cream, Howlin' Wolf, Captain Beefheart, Muddy Waters, The Who - well, you get the picture. Or you've heard the stories. If you're lucky, you were there Gregg Allman & Friends Concert Poster 1998 F-334 Fillmore
