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Butterfield Blues Band / Santana / Hello People (night 2)

BG-131 · July 31, 1968
BG-131

BG-131 · Lee Conklin

Catalog Number
BG-131
Series
Bill Graham
Venue
Fillmore West
San Francisco
Date
July 31, 1968
Poster Artists
Nickname
Butterfield Blues Band / Santana / Hello People (night 2)
Performers
Butterfield Blues Band
Santana
Hello People

Night two of the Butterfield Blues Band at the Fillmore West, with Santana and Hello People, on BG-131.

Santana here are worth noting for the date: July 1968, still spelled out in the venue lists as a local band, still more than a year from Woodstock and the debut album. They appear repeatedly through these 1968 pages in exactly this position — third or second on someone else's bill — and it is a useful corrective to the way the story is usually told backwards from *Abraxas*.

Paul Butterfield's band had by this point moved well past its Chicago-blues origins into horn arrangements and long-form playing; *The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw* had come out that year.

Verification Notes

ANTAGONIST-CHECKED. 1968-07-31=Wednesday, middle night of the Butterfield leg of BG-131 (same Conklin poster/engagement as the 07-30 hero). Secondary. COAU Fillmore West listings (Hannan/Arnold), 31 July 1968: 'Butterfield Blues Band, Santana, Hello People Lights: Holy See'. Night 2 of the BG-131 front half.

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