FIRST ANNUAL ROCK & ROLL REVIVAL - DETROIT POSTER. FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF MARK ARMINSKI. DETROIT, MICHIGAN STATE FAIRGROUNDS MAY 30-31, 1969. This was one of Michigan's biggest festival shows at the time with over 35 bands treading the boards over two days. The rock scene in Detroit orbited around the famous Grande Ballroom, home to the MC and The Stooges as well as the James Gang, Ted's Amboy Dukes and many more. Chuck Berry was the notional headliner but everyone had come to see MC5. It was Grand Funk's first show after forming out of a band called Pack. Gary Grimshaw's beautiful poster advertising the event was really striking, evolving out of and influenced by the west coast tradition of Kelly & Mouse and Rick Griffin. Brownsville Station, Caste, Chuck Berry, David Peel and The Lower East Side, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Dutch Elm, Grand Funk Railroad, Johnny Winter, Lyman Woodard, MC5, Plain Brown Wrapper, Savage Grace, Sky, SRC, Sun Ra, Teegarden and Van Winkle, The Amboy Dukes, The Frost, The Gold Brothers, The James Gang, The New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, The Rationals, The Red, White and Blues Band, The Stooges, The Third Power, The Up, Train, Wilson Mower, Pursuit, The Bonzo Dog Band. Poster is in fair condition, with creases, folds, pinholes, staining. We won't mix words - this poster has seen better days - but - you won't find another for a long time... being pretty rare. 17 x 22.

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