BG-129 · Lee Conklin
San Francisco
Richie Havens
Illinois Speed Press
Big Brother and the Holding Company / Richie Havens / Illinois Speed Press (opening)
On the evening of Tuesday, July 16, 1968, the marquee at 10 South Van Ness Avenue read Fillmore West, though the hall was still learning its own name. Bill Graham had only weeks earlier moved his operation from the aging Fillmore Auditorium on Geary into the former Carousel Ballroom, and the room's inaugural weeks were still shaking out. This night opened a three-evening run — July 16 through 18 — sharing a single…
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FD-71 — Avalon Ballroom
On the closing Sunday of a four-night stand—July 13 through 16, 1967—the Charlatans headline the Avalon Ballroom, and there is a quiet symmetry in it that only hindsight makes visible. Two years earlier, in June 1965, these same men had detonated something in the desert: a six-week residency at the …
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MSC-LSH.1969.07.16 — Longshoreman's Hall
On a Wednesday night in the middle of July 1969, the Grateful Dead turned up at Longshoreman's Hall to help the Hells Angels bury one of their own. The handbill was pure Angel: hand-lettered, blunt, a "Party in Honor of Gino Heinicke (1946-1969)," one dollar per head, no minors. Heinicke was a "Fris…
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