Storm Fingers

While full of fingers and thumbs, Conklin called this poster The Storm and you can see the lettering for the bands blowing like red rags in the wind, caught in the finger-branches. The information one needs to attend the concerts is spread all over the poster and delivered in different ways. In one instance, the Fillmore is written out in finger-letters at the top of the poster and the word “West” is draped and hanging on to those fingers as if almost an afterthought. (It was an afterthought – it was just a month before that Bill Graham had shuttered the Fillmore and took over the Carousel Ballroom, naming it the Fillmore West).