AOR-2.220 · Frank Melton
San Francisco
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Wildflower
Phoenix
Straight Theater grand opening — Grateful Dead / Big Brother
Neal Cassady's voice, whatever it actually sounded like that night, has been reduced to a fragment — a scrap of tape pressed onto a flexi-disc in the back of a book. That's about the shape of what survives from Sunday, July 23, 1967, when the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company closed out the grand-opening weekend of the Straight Theater on Haight Street. The Straight was a neighborhood project…
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BG-130 — Fillmore West
Opening night of Moby Grape's stand at the Fillmore West, with the Jeff Beck Group and Mint Tattoo beneath them on Lee Conklin's BG-130. Moby Grape in July 1968 were a band already coming apart. Their 1967 debut is one of the best records the San Francisco scene produced — five songwriters, three g…
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BG-183 — Fillmore West
Ten Years After with Ike & Tina Turner and the Flock at the Fillmore West, on the front half of BG-183. It is a bill that only makes sense in 1969. Ten Years After were a British blues-rock band whose Woodstock appearance three weeks later — Alvin Lee playing "I'm Going Home" at impossible speed — …
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