QUARRY-1966-08-25
San Francisco
Harbinger Complex
Peter Wheat and the Breadmen
Just VI
Yardbirds (Bill Quarry teen show)
On Thursday, August 25, 1966, the Yardbirds played the old Carousel Ballroom on Market Street - not the psychedelic Carousel of 1968, but a Bill Quarry "Teens 'N Twenties" teen-dance booking, with the local Harbinger Complex, Peter Wheat and the Breadmen, and Just VI beneath them (bill and promoter per concertarchives, the chickenonaunicycle Carousel list, and the Heritage Auctions poster record). It sits at the…
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BG-79 — Fillmore Auditorium
Friday, August 25, 1967 — night four of the Butterfield Blues Band, Cream and the Southside Sound System at the Fillmore Auditorium, under Bonnie MacLean's BG-79. Charlie Musselwhite, whose band held the bottom of this card every night, deserves more than a line. He had come to Chicago from Memphis…
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BG-133 — Fillmore West
Sunday, August 25, 1968 closed the Quicksilver leg of BG-133 at the Fillmore West, with Spooky Tooth and Cold Blood — and closed the whole poster. BG-133 is the most physically unusual sheet in this chronicle. Rick Griffin designed it with Alton Kelley, and it was the first in a series of double-si…
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FD-134 — Avalon Ballroom
Sunday, August 25, 1968 closed the FD-134 weekend at the Avalon: Spirit over the Sir Douglas Quintet and Notes From the Underground. This is the Avalon's last full year, and the fact colours everything about a routine Sunday closing night. Chet Helms would lose the hall before 1968 was out — a perm…
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