2 POSTERS - 1968 Barry Goldberg Reunion at The Palace - San Diego BLUES MASTERS

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This auction is for 2 posters.  This poster was printed on 2 different color paper and both are 1st printings. Poster were designed and printed by San Diego poster Artist Don Kay.  Kay has 3 posters featured in the Art of Rock (AOR 3.11, 3.94 & 3.95).  The posters are in mint condition and came direct from the artist personal collection.
In 1965,
San Diego's
first rock 'n' roll nightclub,
the
Palace
, opened across the street from the San Diego
Sports Arena. Bookings ran the gamut from soul to acid rock. For a while, the house band was the
Palace Pages
, which later moved to Los Angeles and changed its name to
Iron Butterfly
.
The Palace posters and
handbills are extremely rare.
Barry Goldberg
is a highly talented and respected musician. Known as a
musician's musician
who is still making new fans to this day. As a teenager in Chicago, Goldberg sat in with
Muddy Waters
,
Otis Rush
, and
Howlin' Wolf
. He played keyboards with the
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
backing
Bob Dylan
during his 1965 newly 'electrified' appearance at the
Newport Folk Festival
. He formed
The Electric Flag
with
Mike Bloomfield
in 1967, and later formed the 'Barry Goldberg Reunion' in 1968.
In 1965, after moving to Chicago to play the blues, Steve Miller and keyboardist Barry Goldberg founded the Goldberg-Miller Blues Band along with bassist Roy Ruby, rhythm guitarist Craymore Stevens, and drummer Maurice McKinley. The band contracted to Epic Records and recorded a single, "The Mother Song", which they performed on Hullabaloo, before Miller left the group to go to San Francisco.
Goldberg's songs (some of which co-written with
Gerry Goffin
) have been recorded by many musicians including
Rod Stewart
,
Gladys Knight
,
Joe Cocker
,
Steve Miller
,
Bobby "Blue" Bland
,
Gram Parsons
and
B. J. Thomas
.
Goldberg's first professional recording session was "Devil with the Blue Dress On"/"
Good Golly Miss Molly
" by
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
. Among the albums he contributed to are
Leonard Cohen
's
Death of a Ladies' Man
,
The Ramones
'
End of the Century
,
The Flying Burrito Brothers
'
The Gilded Palace of Sin
, and
Super Session
which featured
Michael Bloomfield
,
Stephen Stills
, and
Al Kooper
.
Goldberg also co-produced albums by
Percy Sledge
including
Blue Night
(Grammy nominated and WC Handy soul album of the year) as well as
Shining Through the Rain
,
Charlie Musselwhite
,
James Cotton
, The Textones, plus Bob Dylan's version of
Curtis Mayfield
's "
People Get Ready
".
In 1992 he played keyboards with the Carla Olson &
Mick Taylor
band, which resulted in the live CD
Too Hot for Snakes
, featuring the talents of artists like
Ian McLagan
,
Jesse Sublett
and
John "Juke" Logan
.
Charlie Musselwhite
is a Chicago
electric blues
harmonica player and bandleader who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with
Mike Bloomfield
and
Paul Butterfield
. He has often been identified as a "white bluesman".
Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by
Dan Aykroyd
in the 1980 film
The Blues Brothers
.