BG-182 · David Singer
Catalog Number
BG-182
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore West
San Francisco
San Francisco
Date
July 17, 1969
Artists
Nickname
B.B. King / Elvin Bishop Group / Albert Collins (BG-182 first leg)
Performers
B.B. King
Elvin Bishop Group
Albert Collins
Elvin Bishop Group
Albert Collins
B.B. King / Elvin Bishop Group / Albert Collins (BG-182 first leg)
On a Thursday night in the third week of July 1969, three generations of the blues shared one stage at Bill Graham's Fillmore West, the converted Carousel Ballroom at Market and Van Ness where a decade of American music was being quietly rewired. The poster, David Singer's BG-182, hung a lightning storm over a kneeling desert figure; it advertised a six-night run, but this first leg belonged to a single lineage of…
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