BG-22 · Wes Wilson
San Francisco
Sit-Ins
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs / Sit-Ins
August 10, 1966 was a Wednesday, and it gave Wes Wilson one of his odder Fillmore commissions: a poster, BG-22, for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs — the Tex-Mex novelty-rock outfit behind "Wooly Bully" and "Li'l Red Riding Hood" — at the Fillmore Auditorium. The support act, per the poster's own phrasing preserved by SFMOMA and FAMSF, was the Sit-Ins; the FAMSF record credits Wilson as designer and the West Coast…
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FD-75 — Avalon Ballroom
Moby Grape opened at the Avalon with Canned Heat and Vanilla Fudge, on Victor Moscoso's FD-75. The Family Dog listings carry an unusual detail for this run: Mad River sat in using Moby Grape's equipment. That kind of note is exactly what makes the venue lists worth more than the posters — a poster …
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BG-77 — Fillmore Auditorium
The Electric Flag with the Steve Miller Blues Band and the Southside Sound System at the Fillmore Auditorium, on BG-77. The Electric Flag were Mike Bloomfield's band, formed after he left the Butterfield Blues Band, and built explicitly to fuse blues, soul and horns — "An American Music Band," as t…
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BG-185 — Fillmore West
Closing night of Junior Walker & the All Stars at the Fillmore West with Lee Michaels and Tony Joe White — the back half of BG-185. Junior Walker was a Motown act, and a genuinely unusual one: an instrumentalist, a tenor saxophonist whose "Shotgun" and "(I'm a) Road Runner" were built on his playin…
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