Poster Section

Nearly every one of these posters have been copied from this website, a fan website, to David LaFlamme's website....The webmaster there never even asked me about it and only decided to credit this website when I spoke up about it....And what were people saying about Napster?

Here's one of the most famous posters of IABD from Hawaii in 1969...The concert never actually happened, but it's still a great poster....

Great poster of It's A Beautiful Day and Aum, Waikiki Bandshell, 1969

Greateful Dead and IABD in Chicago, 1970

This poster by Lee Conklin is from Aug 26th-Aug 28th, 1968 with Ray Anderson's Holy See Light Shows

Poster: Albert King and It's A Beautiful Day, May 8-11, 1969

It's A Beautiful Day headlines for Ike and Tina Turner and Alice Cooper at the Fillmore West, October 30th-November 1st, 1969. Bonnie Maclean Graham is the artist

Poster of the Byrds/It's A Beautiful Day from 1971

Poster of IABD and Lydia Pense And Cold Blood,1998

another handbill

Alot of people don't know this, but Hal Wagenet was in a group that played in San Francisco before It's A Beautiful Day...I recently found a poster, and the name of the band was Indian Head Band

Another poster of Hal Wagenet's Indian Head Band Posters, pre IABD, 1968

And A third Indian Head Band poster from Hawaii, 1968

Poster from Carousel Ballroom, July 14th, 1968

A rare concert series poster from Bill Graham Presents. this poster is from a series of concerts involving at least six different groups in the summer of 1968(Aug-13th,1968-Aug25th-1968, before It's A Beautiful Day released their first album)

Another Family Dog poster from 1968

As you can see by the below photograph that Ray Anderson took, he was the head cheese in "The Holy See" light shows(first use of liquid audio-circa 1968) that is listed in the above poster

Here's a spooky copy of a black and white photo taken by Ray Anderson at a concert at the Fillmore in 69...He took the photo by pure chance as he was actually running the Holy See light show displayed above and behind the band...


And here's a poster of Moby Grape and It's A Beautiful Day at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, 1968...

One from the Avalon in 69 done by R. Crumb

A promo poster from 1968

The semi-infamous "Pink Pepperland Poster" from 1969

The even more infamous "Abba Zabba" poster from 1969, Fillmore West, IABD headlines over Deep Purple

New Years Eve 1968/1969

A very rare handbill from 1969

One of the earliest Family Dog posters known as "It's A Gas"

This poster is June 16th-June 23, 1968

At the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds, 1969 and at the Kinetic Ballroom in Chicago with a huge group of bands, 1969

One of the earliest posters related to IABD known to exist..This is pre IABD, David LaFlamme's Electric Chamber Orkustra with the Charlatans, March 4th, 1966

One of the earliest posters known to include IABD from April, 1968, known as the "Rorschach Test" and one of my favorites from a few months later

New Years Eve, 1969/1970

Yet another rare Family Dog poster from 1968...Well, heck, most of them are rare, aren't they?

Poster from the "Tribal Stomp", Berkeley in 1978 when the band called itself It WAS A Beautiful Day

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