FD-77 · Bob Fried
San Francisco
Bo Diddley
Bukka White
Salvation Army Banned
Big Brother & the Holding Company / Bo Diddley (FD-77)
On Thursday, August 24, 1967, the Avalon opened FD-77 - Bob Fried's "War and Peace" poster - with Big Brother & the Holding Company at the top: Janis Joplin, two months after Monterey Pop had made her a star, playing her home room. Beneath her the bill reached back through the blues that made her: Bo Diddley, the Chess-records architect of the beat that bears his name, and Bukka White, the Mississippi Delta…
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BG-79 — Fillmore Auditorium
Thursday, August 24, 1967 was night three of Cream's first Fillmore residency, with the Butterfield Blues Band and Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Sound System — and the Fillmore listings bill them in that order, Butterfield above Cream, for every night of this run. Cream take the top of the card on…
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BG-133 — Fillmore West
Saturday, August 24, 1968 continued the Quicksilver leg of BG-133 at the Fillmore West — Quicksilver Messenger Service with Spooky Tooth and Cold Blood. BG-133 is the most physically unusual sheet in this chronicle and its pages have not said so. It is a Rick Griffin design, with Alton Kelley, and …
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FD-134 — Avalon Ballroom
Saturday, August 24, 1968 was Spirit's second Avalon night under FD-134, over the Sir Douglas Quintet and Notes From the Underground. Spirit were a Los Angeles band and an unusually strange one. Their drummer, Ed Cassidy, was a shaven-headed former jazz player two decades older than the rest of the…
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