Los Angeles
Brian Wilson's last stand at the Bowl
On July 3, 1965, the Beach Boys headlined a twelve-act "Summer Spectacular" at the Hollywood Bowl — the Byrds, the Kinks, Sonny & Cher, the Righteous Brothers, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, the Sir Douglas Quintet, Dino Desi & Billy, Ian Whitcomb, Donna Loren and the Liverpool Five beneath them, some fifteen thousand in the seats of the Bolton Canyon amphitheatre. It was the band's first hometown show in nearly a…
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BG-14 — Fillmore Auditorium
The Independence Ball was Bill Graham's three-night stand over July 1-3, 1966, and its poster -- BG-14, by Wes Wilson, in the early formative run that was teaching San Francisco what a rock poster could be -- is one of the few early Fillmore images never reprinted. July 3 belonged to the Grateful De…
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On July 3, 1968, Country Joe and the Fish opened a two-night stand at the Electric Theater on North Clark Street in Chicago -- the psychedelic ballroom soon renamed the Kinetic Playground. Berkeley's leading rock export, carrying "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag," played the city seven weeks befor…
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