This poster by George Hunter and Nathan Terre - from our story 'The Charlatans Do Hippies Guns and LSD: The San Francisco Rock Band Too Wild For the Sixties'

This poster by George Hunter and Nathan Terre, who was the Charlatans’ manager for a short period of time, was created toward the end of the band’s spring 1967 residency at Varni’s Roaring Twenties, an upscale strip joint in North Beach, but it was never used because the band was either fired for not playing a cover of “Winchester Cathedral” or quit when the club owner refused to pay them a union rate—or both.

This poster by George Hunter and Nathan Terre, who was the Charlatans’ manager for a short period of time, was created toward the end of the band’s spring 1967 residency at Varni’s Roaring Twenties, an upscale strip joint in North Beach, but it was never used because the band was either fired for not playing a cover of “Winchester Cathedral” or quit when the club owner refused to pay them a union rate—or both.

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