FD 69-0801
San Francisco
Albert Collins
Ballet Afro-Haiti
Grateful Dead / Albert Collins / Ballet Afro-Haiti
Sunday, August 3, 1969, is one of those nights the Grateful Dead's own archive keeps circling back to, and it earns August 3 as its own even though it was the second of a two-night weekend. The setting was the Family Dog on the Great Highway — Chet Helms's last venture, the reopened Edgewater Ballroom at 660 Great Highway, at the fog-bound western edge of the city where the surf is loud enough to hear between sets.…
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BG-76 — Fillmore Auditorium
Night three of Muddy Waters at the Fillmore Auditorium, with Buffalo Springfield and Richie Havens, on BG-76. The bill order is the story. Muddy Waters — McKinley Morganfield, fifty-four, the man who electrified the Delta blues in Chicago and whose band had been the finishing school for half of tha…
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FD-74 — Avalon Ballroom
The Charles Lloyd Quartet opened at the Avalon with the West Coast Natural Gas Company, on FD-74. Lloyd's quartet at this point was Keith Jarrett on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums — three musicians who would each become major figures in jazz over the following decade, playi…
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BG-184 — Fillmore West
Sunday, August 3, 1969 closed the Everly Brothers' three-night stand at the Fillmore West, with the Sons of Champlin beneath them on BG-184. Three nights in the loudest room in San Francisco for two men and a pair of acoustic guitars, singing the close-harmony singing they had worked out as teenage…
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