BG-21 · Wes Wilson
San Francisco
Everpresent Fullness
Love / Everpresent Fullness (closing night)
August 6, 1966 was a Saturday, and it was the second and final night of a Fillmore Auditorium weekend that Bill Graham had built around Love — Arthur Lee's band down from Los Angeles, the first rock group signed to Elektra, and one of the very few SoCal acts the San Francisco scene took seriously that summer. Wes Wilson drew the poster, BG-21, and every reachable catalog record (rockposters.com, the Burnside and D.…
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FD-19 — Avalon Ballroom
Bo Diddley with the Sons of Adam at the Avalon — the second night of FD-19, and a different bill from the first. The sheet covers August 5 and 6, 1966, and the two nights are not the same show: Big Brother and the Holding Company played with Oxford Circle on the Friday, Bo Diddley with the Sons of …
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BG-132 — Fillmore West
The Chambers Brothers opened at the Fillmore West with the Charlatans and Queen Lily's Soap, on the front half of BG-132. The Chambers Brothers were four brothers from Mississippi plus a drummer from Brooklyn, playing gospel-rooted soul that had absorbed rock and psychedelia, and "Time Has Come Tod…
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