Steppenwolf / Siegel-Schwall / Santana (closing)
FD-132 · Billy Glover
San Francisco
Siegel-Schwall Band
Santana
Sunday, August 11, 1968 closed Steppenwolf, Siegel-Schwall and Santana at the Avalon, ending the FD-132 run on Billy Glover's "Aurora" sheet.
Siegel-Schwall were the other Chicago band — Corky Siegel on harmonica and piano, Jim Schwall on guitar — working the same territory as Paul Butterfield's group and remembered a fraction as well. They played the ballroom circuit steadily for years and turn up on dozens of these posters, which is its own kind of career.
Above them, Steppenwolf had "Born to Be Wild" in the charts and were weeks from having it welded permanently to a motorcycle film. Below them, Santana were third-billed and unrecorded — their second appearance in this position within a fortnight in these pages, and sixteen days from opening the front half of BG-134 at the Fillmore West, on the poster whose lion became their first album cover.
A note this chronicle repeats because the numbering invites it: FD-132 (Family Dog, Avalon) and BG-132 (Bill Graham, Fillmore West) are different posters in different series running the same week. They should never be merged.
Verification Notes
ANTAGONIST-CHECKED. 1968-08-11=Sunday, closing night of Steppenwolf / Siegel-Schwall / Santana at the Avalon, FD-132 (Glover 'Aurora'). Same early-Santana engagement heroed on 08-09. Secondary. FD-132 (Family Dog) != BG-132 (Bill Graham) -- do not merge. COAU Family Dog index (Hannan/Arnold): FD-132 run, August 9-11 1968. Closing night. DEEPENED 2026-09-03 (pass 3). Bill per COAU Family Dog index (Hannan/Arnold): 'August 9-11, 1968 / Avalon Ballroom / Steppenwolf, Siegal Schwall, Santana / FD-132'. Closing night. The FD-132 vs BG-132 distinction is restated because both ran that week.
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