Cool Rock Music Memorabilia at Wolfgang's VaultThe live music experience reached a new level of interaction with the arrival of the modern rock concert. In the 1960s, performers, artists and promoters shaped a synergy with audiences that was unprecedented.
Wolfgang was Bill Graham, the man whose genius for bringing performer and audience together shaped the rock concert as we have come to know it. Born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin in 1931, he escaped Nazi Germany to grow up in a foster home in the Bronx and anglicized his name at the age of 18. Bill Graham, who would come to be known as the midwife of the modern rock concert, was smart and forward-thinking, an opportunist and a listener, fair and ferociously demanding, and he remembered his roots: in the 1980s he opened a small San Francisco club and named it Wolfgang's.
Graham's creative vision led him to commission true works of art to promote his shows and, fortunately for the modern collector, his entrepreneurial instincts led him to overprint and preserve the exceptional art, photography and recordings that came from these shows. For over 30 years, his company accumulated and stored this material in newly minted condition. Until Wolfgang's Vault, if you could even find a Bill Graham Presents poster, it was frequently in less than mint condition because it was torn from walls or telephone poles as a concert souvenir.
The vast majority of material in Wolfgang's Vault comes from the exquisitely preserved, original archives of Bill Graham Presents...Beginning with the seminal concerts of the mid-1960s and continuing through today, [the Vault has] assembled a superb collection that is being cared for in state-of-the-art facilities.
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