Electric Flag / Steve Miller Blues Band / Southside Sound System
BG-77 · Bonnie MacLean
San Francisco
Steve Miller Blues Band
Southside Sound System
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 they billed themselves. Bloomfield was arguably the most admired white blues guitarist in America at that moment and the band lasted barely a year in its original form.
This is the run with a documented complication worth preserving: Moby Grape were billed early in the BG-77 week and were simultaneously headlining the Avalon on FD-75 by the 10th, and the exact night they moved between the two rooms is not settled in the record.
Verification Notes
ANTAGONIST-CHECKED. 1967-08-10=Thursday; the Steve Miller Blues Band was on the BG-77 back-half bill (Aug 10-12) with Electric Flag / Southside Sound System. Aug 10 is the CRUX of the Moby Grape puzzle: Corry Arnold still books Moby Grape at the Fillmore this night even as FD-75 opens them at the Avalon -- an unresolved two-venue overlap, recorded as such, not smoothed. Same MacLean poster as the 08-08 hero. Secondary. COAU Fillmore Auditorium listings (Hannan/Arnold), 10 August 1967. BG-77, Bonnie MacLean. The Moby Grape two-venue overlap on this date is recorded as UNRESOLVED, per Corry Arnold — not smoothed into a clean hand-off.
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