Young Rascals / Charles Lloyd Quartet / Hair (closing night)
BG-78 · Jim Blashfield
San Francisco
Charles Lloyd Quartet
Hair
Saturday, August 19, 1967 was the closing night of the Young Rascals' two-night bracket at the Fillmore Auditorium, with the Charles Lloyd Quartet and the cast of *Hair*.
Neither Chuck Berry nor Count Basie played this night, though both names are printed on the poster hanging over it. Blashfield's BG-78 advertises a seven-night span and three separate headline engagements: Berry through the 17th, the Rascals on the 18th and 19th, Basie's orchestra on the 20th and 21st.
What ties the week together is the act in the middle of every single card. Charles Lloyd's quartet — Lloyd on tenor and flute, Keith Jarrett on piano, Cecil McBee on bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums — played all seven nights while three different headliners rotated above them. That is an unusual booking by any standard, and it says something about where Lloyd sat in 1967: *Forest Flower*, recorded live at Monterey the year before, had sold to an audience that modern jazz had not reached in years, and Graham could put him in front of a rock crowd for a week without anyone complaining.
Jarrett was twenty-two that August. DeJohnette was twenty-four. Both would spend the following decades among the most significant musicians in jazz, and in the summer of 1967 they were the house band at a psychedelic ballroom on Geary Street.
Research Sources
Sourced at the human gate 2026-08-12 from classicposters.com, which the run could not reach headless. Added to break a five-day BG-133 repeat: the week was showing one poster as hero on 5 of 7 days while real, distinct posters for these nights existed and went unused. The 2026-08-10 run report itself flagged BG-78 and FD-76 as 'candidate anchors' for 1967 and then did not take them. BG-78 (Jim Blashfield's first in the Graham series) covers Fillmore Auditorium Aug 15-21 1967 — a seven-night run. Central image is four out-of-round shapes holding the lead acts' names. Steve Miller Blues Band and Hair also appeared. Per classicposters BG-78.
Verification Notes
CORRECTED + DEEPENED 2026-09-03 (enrichment pass 1). The page said 'Chuck Berry and Count Basie's orchestra sharing a card' — neither played this night. COAU Fillmore Auditorium listings (Hannan/Arnold) for 19 August 1967: 'Young Rascals, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Hair'. Nickname, narrative and event_musicians corrected.
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