Grateful Dead New York City 80 - 1st

Grateful Dead New York City 80 - 1st. ART BY Barsotti, Peter AND Larkins, Dennis. 21.5 X 27.5. Radio City Music Hall - New York City, NY. The following was taken from facebook responses from the Grateful Dead ticket manager (1983 - 1986) on a pic of the Radio City Music Hall poster on Oct 24, 2014. The original 1st printing run for the Radio City poster was 3,000. 500 were sent to NYC before the law suit from Radio City Music Hall stopped the rest from being distributed. Those 2,500 were kept in the basement of the Grateful Dead Productions at 5th and Lincoln in San Rafael. The settlement of the suit was that all of the remaining 2,500 were to be destroyed. The archivist for GDP verified that they were, in fact, destroyed. They were not! A few weeks after I started working at GDP, the archivist asked me to help move some boxes into a new storage facility. There were five boxes each containing 500 copies of the Radio City Poster. The archivist told me that she just couldn't destroy them, but told the band that she had. She allowed me to keep three of them. Concerning The Warfield Posters, those are actually rarer than Radio City because almost all of the known copies were sitting next to Bill Graham's desk when his office was firebombed...I know because I was in his office a few days before the firebombing and saw them. Bill gave me one. This response below was a private message response from Steven to me (Bill M/macc5) on this same day asking for permission to post this info in the expressobeans listing for the poster. In thinking about what I posted, I may have misstated the number of the 1st (and only official) printing. I am pretty sure I moved five boxes of 500 in each box, but it could have been three. I know that one box was shipped to Rock Scully in NYC which is how those got out. I did the moving in June or July of 1983. Steven Marcus. Manager of Grateful Dead Ticket Sales (GDTS). 1983-1996.

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