Ten Years After / Terry Reid (BG-189)
BG-189 · David Singer
San Francisco
Terry Reid
Bar-Kays
On Tuesday, August 26, 1969, Fillmore West opened David Singer's BG-189 - and it opened with a band nine days off the Woodstock stage. Ten Years After, whose Alvin Lee had electrified the festival crowd with "I'm Going Home," headlined over Terry Reid - the English singer who'd famously turned down Jimmy Page's new band to stay solo - and the Memphis soul of the Bar-Kays, with the Little Princess #109 and Brotherhood of Light shows (catalog, artist David Singer, and the light shows per the David Singer collection on gdao and wolfgangs' BG-189 page; the Woodstock tie-in per setlist.fm). BG-189 was a split-week poster carrying six acts: the Ten Years After / Reid / Bar-Kays bill on the early nights (the 26th among them, confirmed on the Bill Graham Foundation's Aug-27 page), and Spirit / Savoy Brown / Womb on the later ones. The whole card is one Singer sheet; the per-night split rests on the poster's own division and the Foundation's date pages, and the Tuesday-the-26th assignment to the TYA leg is stated on that basis.
Verification Notes
Antagonist (2026-08-17 headless run): corroborated via check-claims on vetted tiers + adversarial live reads (wolfgangs/gdao/dead.net/setlist.fm/billgrahamfoundation/COAU-latest + Corry Arnold blogs). BG-189 split-week 6-act poster, David Singer; TYA/Reid/Bar-Kays leg incl. Aug 26 per billgrahamfoundation Aug-27 page + gdao 389762. TYA 9 days off Woodstock.
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