Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and The Holding Company - Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, Feb. 1966

One of the true Holy Grails of the psychedelic concert posters by Wes Wilson & Chet Helms... A Tribal Stomp of the first Family Dog concert poster advertising one show from the Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother & The Holding Company on Saturday night, February 19, 1966 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The magical Family Dog #1 is one of those key psychedelic concert posters. "A Tribal Stomp" was designed by the legendary Wes Wilson known as the dean of San Francisco psychedelic poster artists, having designed the first 10 Family Dog posters and 45 of the first 50 Bill Grahams. And FD-1 was the first poster Wes drew for either promoter; his first BG poster would come a month later ("Batman"). Wes also personally printed this poster at his small San Francisco print shop, Contact Printing, in either January or early February 1966, when the psychedelic concert-poster movement was still at ground zero. FD-1 is a perfect representation of the earliest psychedelic poster art, two of San Francisco's most famous bands ever. Janis Joplin was not in BBHC yet; she would join them about five months later. And don't forget, Grace Slick wasn't in the Airplane yet, either. This poster is referred to as "Tribal Stomp" because of the wording found on the American Indian artwork in the center. Wes Wilson did all the drawing and designing, but Chet Helm picked out the photo and theme. This was also the debut of the Dog's Indian-smoking-a-joint logo appearing in the upper left corner. This was only half of it, however; Wilson would flush it out to completeness on the very next poster.