BG-130 · Lee Conklin
San Francisco
The Herd
James Cotton Blues Band
Charles Lloyd Quartet / The Herd / James Cotton Blues Band
On July 26, the San Francisco ballroom scene offers two strong nights a year apart, and they sit oddly well together: a night in 1968 when Bill Graham put a jazz quartet at the top of a rock bill, and a night in 1967 when the Yardbirds — now steered by Jimmy Page — worked through the middle of a week's stand. Start with 1968. It was a Friday, and the room was Fillmore West. The poster is BG-130, drawn by Lee…
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Cow Palace
The Rolling Stones played the Cow Palace in Daly City, just over the San Francisco line, on their fifth American tour. The Cow Palace is not a ballroom and this is not a Family Dog or Bill Graham night — it is a 14,000-seat livestock and exhibition arena that hosted rodeos, boxing and political con…
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BG-75 — Fillmore Auditorium
Night two of the Yardbirds at the Fillmore Auditorium, with the James Cotton Blues Band and Richie Havens. The Yardbirds by mid-1967 were on their third and last great guitarist. Clapton had gone in 1965, Beck in 1966; Jimmy Page was now playing lead, and within a year the band would dissolve and h…
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