hankin-charlatans - from our story 'The Charlatans Do Hippies Guns and LSD: The San Francisco Rock Band Too Wild For the Sixties'

The night after their last show at the Red Dog, the Charlatans played their first gig in San Francisco, opening for Larry Hankin of a comedy group called The Committee. The “Don Sturdy” who’s listed at the top of the poster is better known by his real name, Howard Hesseman—he hired Mike Wilhelm for his first paying gig in San Francisco at the Coffee Gallery in 1963.

The night after their last show at the Red Dog, the Charlatans played their first gig in San Francisco, opening for Larry Hankin of a comedy group called The Committee. The “Don Sturdy” who’s listed at the top of the poster is better known by his real name, Howard Hesseman—he hired Mike Wilhelm for his first paying gig in San Francisco at the Coffee Gallery in 1963.

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