FD-131 · Bob Schnepf, Jerry Wainwright
San Francisco
Holy Modal Rounders
Chrome Syrcus
Pink Floyd / Holy Modal Rounders / Chrome Syrcus (opening)
On Friday, August 2, 1968, Pink Floyd opened a three-night weekend at the Avalon Ballroom. It is a sentence worth sitting with, because it belongs to a very short window. This was Pink Floyd's first American visit, and the band that walked onto the Avalon stage was no longer quite the band that had made "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn": Syd Barrett, the group's singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, had left…
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BG-131 — Fillmore West
Iron Butterfly opened at the Fillmore West with Canned Heat and Initial Shock, on the back half of BG-131. *In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida* had been released in June 1968 and was on its way to becoming one of the best-selling albums of the decade — seventeen minutes of organ, drum solo and mispronounced title …
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FD 69-0801 — Family Dog on the Great Highway
The Grateful Dead played the Family Dog on the Great Highway with Albert Collins and Ballet Afro-Haiti, the night after the light artists' strike had struck the same booking. Albert Collins, second-billed, was the Texas guitarist known as the Iceman for the cold tone he got from a Telecaster tuned …
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BG-184 — Fillmore West
Saturday, August 2, 1969 was night two of the Everly Brothers with the Sons of Champlin at the Fillmore West, on BG-184. Don and Phil had been singing together in public since childhood — on the radio show their father ran in Iowa and Tennessee, where they learned the close two-part harmony that be…
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