San Francisco
The Fillmore West opens
On July 5, 1968, Bill Graham opened the Fillmore West with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Ten Years After, and a third act advertised as "Truth," in the former Carousel Ballroom at the corner of Market and South Van Ness. It was the birth of the room that would define the San Francisco concert experience for the next three years -- Graham's flagship, the West Coast counterpart to his Fillmore East in New York. The…
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Hollywood Bowl
The Doors played the Hollywood Bowl on July 5, 1968 — one of the best-documented concerts of their career, filmed and released. The Bowl is a natural amphitheatre in Bolton Canyon that has been Los Angeles's outdoor concert home since 1922, and its banded concentric shell, in the form Lloyd Wright …
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On July 5, 1969, the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, London before a crowd estimated between a quarter- and a half-million -- with King Crimson, Family, and others beneath them. It was Mick Taylor's public debut with the band, and it became a memorial: Brian Jones, the Stones' fou…
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