BG-76 · Bonnie MacLean
San Francisco
Buffalo Springfield
Richie Havens
Muddy Waters / Buffalo Springfield / Richie Havens (opening)
August 1 gives us two very different kinds of history on the same calendar day, two years apart, and the chronicle is better for holding both. The first is a poster and a bill; the second is a picket line. On Tuesday, August 1, 1967, Bill Graham opened a six-night stand at the Fillmore Auditorium with Muddy Waters headlining, Buffalo Springfield second, and Richie Havens opening — Dan Bruhns' Fillmore Lights behind…
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FD 69-0801 — Family Dog on the Great Highway
The night the light artists went on strike. On August 1, 1969 the Light Artists Guild — the operators who ran the liquid projections behind every stage in the city — withdrew their labour at the Family Dog on the Great Highway, over pay and over credit. The light shows were not decoration in these …
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BG-184 — Fillmore West
The Everly Brothers opened a three-night stand at the Fillmore West with the Sons of Champlin, on BG-184. Don and Phil Everly at the Fillmore West in 1969 is one of those bookings that reads as strange now and was entirely deliberate then. Their run of hits — "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie,"…
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