BG-75 · Bonnie MacLean
San Francisco
James Cotton Blues Band
Richie Havens
The Yardbirds / James Cotton / Richie Havens (opening)
On July 25, 1967 — a Tuesday — the marquee at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco read The Yardbirds, James Cotton Blues Band, and Richie Havens. It was opening night of a six-night stand, and the poster for it, BG-75, has outlived nearly everything else about the week. Bonnie MacLean drew it: a woman's face framed by a great fan of peacock feathers, and it remains one of the most collected images in…
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Thursday, July 25, 1968 continued the Moby Grape, Jeff Beck Group and Mint Tattoo bill at the Fillmore West, under Lee Conklin's BG-130. The middle of this card is where the future was. The Jeff Beck Group were on their first American tour — Beck on guitar, Rod Stewart singing, Ronnie Wood on bass …
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BG-183 — Fillmore West
The back half of BG-183 opened: the Steve Miller Blues Band with Albert King and Mountain. Albert King is the one to stop on. His *Born Under a Bad Sign* had come out the previous year on Stax, cut with Booker T. and the MGs, and it turned a Mississippi-born left-handed guitarist who played a right…
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