Original1960Rock Poster CHANCE ITS 1ST PRINTING OR SECOND FAMILY DOG ZIG ZAG MAN

This Poster is one of the most iconic and celebrated concert posters of the 1960s… the famous FD14 “Zig-Zag Man” which advertises a pair of concerts by Big Brother and The Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service that took place at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California on June 24-25, 1966. This show is the first performance of Big Brother that would showcase their new lead singer, Janis Joplin. This poster, along with the FD26 and the BG105 is universally considered one of the most iconic poster images of the 1960s. The poster represents the very first time that the legendary poster artists Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley worked together at Mouse Studios. When Mouse and Kelley decided to use this design, it is apparent that they knew that it constituted copyright infringement; they included the quotation at the bottom of the poster: “What you don’t know about copying and duplicating won’t hurt you.” Apparently, the Zig-Zag folks saw this poster as great free advertising and never bothered Mouse and Kelley. The popularity of this poster is so extreme that it was immediately put up on walls everywhere in the Haight. It was reprinted right away and was also the first poster to be counterfeited. It is next to impossible to find an undamaged original print of this poster.